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Jim Page
Jim Page

New York Times, Wednesday, July 16, 1986

6-Down : Three of a scale

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,399
Across
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Stick, in a way : IMPALE
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Mountain lions : PUMAS
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"___ dreadful note": Shak. : ADEEDOF
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Ventilates : AERATES
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Symbol of colonial solidity : ROCKOFGIBRALTAR
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New Orleans trumpeter : ALHIRT
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Tooth and ___ : NAIL
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Completion for lemon or orange : ADE
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New England cape : ANN
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N.Y. site for Tut exhibition : MET
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Orinoco y Guadalquivir : RIOS
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Gin-brandy cocktail : SINGAPORESLING
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Scrap : ORT
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Ingest : EAT
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Nothing : NIL
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Faucet fittings or users : WASHERS
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Kind of kitchen or car : PULLMAN
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Rep. : AGT
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Landon : ALF
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Exist : ARE
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Old Mediterranean order : KNIGHTSOFMALTA
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Happy : GLAD
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Play part : ACT
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Panay people : ATI
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Tune : AIR
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Friend of Pompey : CATO
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Produced genetic offshoots : CLONED
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Strange-disappearance zone : BERMUDATRIANGLE
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Self-centered personality traits : EGOISMS
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Erythrocyte : REDCELL
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Barters : SWAPS
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Disdainful expressions : SNEERS
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Object of adoration : IDOL
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Naughty ones from Nice : MECHANTS
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A tasty type of duck : PEKING
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"To point a moral, or ___ tale": S. Johnson : ADORNA
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Upstairs storage space : LOFT
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Three of a scale : EFG
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Elf : PERI
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Soviet river : URAL
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___ de mer : MAL
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Reach : ATTAIN
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Old salt : SEADOG
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Parseghian : ARA
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Ease : ABATE
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Messrs., in Málaga : SRES
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Not active : INERT
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Extinct New Zealand birds : MOAS
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Brook : RILL
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Boar's mate : SOW
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A Gershwin : IRA
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Present home of the America's Cup : PERTH
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A smokeless tobacco : SNUFF
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Abner of cartoons : LIL
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Charles of "Hill Street Blues" : HAID
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Word with nog : EGG
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Evil scheme : PLOT
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Shirk : MALINGER
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Guggenheim display : ART
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Teachers' org. : NEA
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Neckwear item : ASCOT
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Movie lights : KLIEGS
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Small-minded : NARROW
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Informal goodbyes : TATAS
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Parisian patient : MALADE
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This instant : ATONCE
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Actor-comic Kaplan : GABE
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Point : CUSP
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Senior U.S.N. men : ADMS
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Diez x diez, sometimes : CIEN
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House additions : ELLS
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Artist ___ Sarto : DEL
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Farrow of films : MIA
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L.I. and Penn Central : RRS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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