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Jim Page
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New York Times, Thursday, September 19, 1974

10-Down : One of forty

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jim Page has 84 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 70 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,168
Across
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Stirs : ADOS
5
Marquand's sleuth : MOTO
9
Clean the deck : SWAB
13
Large cat : PUMA
14
Kind of lung or horse : IRON
15
Skyline sight : SPIRE
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Do a job at the U. N. : TRANSLATE
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___-tonk : HONKY
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Expecting the worst : ONTENTERHOOKS
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Suit to ___ : ATEE
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Plant beard : AWN
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Linemen: Abbr. : RGS
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U. S. draft org. : SSS
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Vestment : ALB
28
Relative of eterne : EER
31
Skill, in Italy : ARTE
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Disparage : BELITTLE
35
Prominent Ukrainian : LEONIDIBREZHNEV
39
Fuel source : PEATMOSS
40
Place for a trough : EAVE
41
Elevations: Abbr. : HTS
42
Wheat or corn ___ : PIT
43
Merle Miller subject: Abbr. : HST
46
Salt, in Paris : SEL
47
Storage place : BIN
48
Full of miseries : ACHY
50
Like J.F.K. and Khrushchev in 1962 : ATLOGGERHEADS
56
Louisiana sight : BAYOU
57
Kind of feature : REDEEMING
59
Peter et al. : ARNOS
60
Ottoman standard : ALEM
61
Silkworm : ERIA
62
Kind of organ : REED
63
Breckinridge : MYRA
64
Aerialists' safeguards : NETS
Down
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Inclined : APT
2
Spanish peso : DURO
3
Arabian area : OMAN
4
"Nobody shoots at ___ ... " (Smith) : SANTA
5
A. A. et al. : MILNES
6
Spouts forth : ORATES
7
Lug : TOTE
8
Distinctive person : ONER
9
Golf club : SPOON
10
One of forty : WINK
11
Refuges : ARKS
12
Tunisian ruler : BEY
15
Movies, theater, etc. : SHOWBIZ
17
Tennis divisions : SETS
20
Prussian city : HALLE
23
Edwards or Nader : RALPH
24
Play the hostess : GREET
25
Promenades : STOAS
27
Chalice cover : AER
28
Heating vessels : ETNAS
29
French student : ELEVE
30
Make merry : REVEL
32
Doorway: Abbr. : ENT
33
Gun pellets : BBS
34
Article : THE
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Profane : IMPIOUS
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Activist's concern : DOING
38
One involved: Suffix : IST
43
More callous : HARDER
44
Outllne : SCHEMA
45
Biblical pronoun : THEE
47
Worm or bath : BLOOD
49
Mandarin's residence : YAMEN
50
Swiss river : AARE
51
River to the North Sea : TYNE
52
Metric weight : GRAM
53
Slippery : EELY
54
Kind of straits : DIRE
55
Excited state : SNIT
56
Ballet-practice aid : BAR
58
Fuel : GAS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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