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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 flow: 20.2 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
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Colloid : GEL
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"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
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Tall cap : MITER
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Discordant deity : ERIS
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Meal or cake starter : OAT
30
Rules of faith : TENETS
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Vermicelli, e.g. : PASTA
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"You ___ to Me," 1952 song : BELONG
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Licentious : IMMORAL
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Love or jealousy : EMOTION
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A creed : NICENE
43
Viking : NORSE
44
Obituary news : DEMISE
47
Sea monster : ORC
49
"___-ce pas?" : NEST
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"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
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Art ___ : DECO
63
Miss the mark : ERR
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Bird seen at Dover : SEAMEW
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Earl of Avon : EDEN
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John ___ Passos : DOS
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Naturalist Seton : ERNEST
Down
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See 2 Down : SLAW
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Side dish, with 1 Down : COLE
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Complain vociferously : RAIL
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Golden calf : IDOL
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Athena's mother : METIS
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P.D.Q. : PRONTO
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Roil : AGITATE
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In the hull : BELOW
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An Alda : ALAN
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Vt. ski resort : KILLINGTON
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Fly : AVIATE
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Surgical knife : LANCET
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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
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Pastoral butter : RAM
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Doctrinal suffix : ISM
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Conn. sailing center : STONINGTON
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___ Thumb : TOM
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Mount an insurrection : ARISE
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Looked lecherously : LEERED
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Top pitcher : ACE
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Wrath : IRE
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Bill Donovan's org. : OSS
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Not gross : NET
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Yes men of a sort : NODDERS
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Watershed : DIVIDE
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Expunged : ERASED
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Dennis of comics : MENACE
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Chest, in Caen : CAISSE
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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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