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Christopher Page
Christopher Page

New York Times, Wednesday, December 23, 1987

Author:
Christopher Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { F H J Q U X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Christopher Page has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,924
Across
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Economize : SCRIMP
7
LL. B.'s org. : ABA
10
A hardy cabbage : KALE
14
Gun-crew member : LOADER
15
Colloid : GEL
16
"Terrible" tsar : IVAN
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Famous San Francisco mayor : ALIOTO
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Dockers' org. : ILA
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Fluff : LINT
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The Iron Duke : WELLINGTON
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Tatter's product : LACE
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Threshing residue : STRAW
24
Tall cap : MITER
25
Discordant deity : ERIS
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Meal or cake starter : OAT
30
Rules of faith : TENETS
31
Vermicelli, e.g. : PASTA
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"You ___ to Me," 1952 song : BELONG
35
Licentious : IMMORAL
37
Love or jealousy : EMOTION
41
A creed : NICENE
43
Viking : NORSE
44
Obituary news : DEMISE
47
Sea monster : ORC
49
"___-ce pas?" : NEST
50
"Goodnight" girl : IRENE
51
Concepts or conceits : IDEAS
53
Rope steadying a gaff : VANG
54
London train terminal : PADDINGTON
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"The wolf ___ the door" : ISAT
60
Carmel follower : ITE
61
Mexican shawl : SERAPE
62
Art ___ : DECO
63
Miss the mark : ERR
64
Bird seen at Dover : SEAMEW
65
Earl of Avon : EDEN
66
John ___ Passos : DOS
67
Naturalist Seton : ERNEST
Down
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See 2 Down : SLAW
2
Side dish, with 1 Down : COLE
3
Complain vociferously : RAIL
4
Golden calf : IDOL
5
Athena's mother : METIS
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P.D.Q. : PRONTO
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Roil : AGITATE
8
In the hull : BELOW
9
An Alda : ALAN
10
Vt. ski resort : KILLINGTON
11
Fly : AVIATE
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Surgical knife : LANCET
13
Signs up for a contest : ENTERS
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Betty of old movies : GRABLE
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Diplomat V.K. Krishna ___ : MENON
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Prefix with center : EPI
26
Pastoral butter : RAM
27
Doctrinal suffix : ISM
28
Conn. sailing center : STONINGTON
30
___ Thumb : TOM
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Mount an insurrection : ARISE
34
Looked lecherously : LEERED
36
Top pitcher : ACE
38
Wrath : IRE
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Bill Donovan's org. : OSS
40
Not gross : NET
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Yes men of a sort : NODDERS
44
Watershed : DIVIDE
45
Expunged : ERASED
46
Dennis of comics : MENACE
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Chest, in Caen : CAISSE
51
Medical: Comb. form : IATRO
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Curl the lip : SNEER
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Like Hamelin's piper : PIED
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Madrid's ___ Via : GRAN
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Feral's opposite : TAME
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Flings wide, poetically : OPES
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Eft : NEWT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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