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New York Times, Saturday, January 31, 2004

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : Strategic Iraqi port just across the Kuwaiti border
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10811/23/20014/6/202415
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1412393697
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
321.591,28194%
Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JKZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 93%
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© 2004, The New York Times1/31/4 ( No. 19,807 )
Across
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Strategic Iraqi port just across the Kuwaiti border : UMMQASR
8
Old green coats? : PATINAS
15
Paste : TROUNCE
16
Home to Dyess A.F.B. : ABILENE
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Before : AHEADOF
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Lagged : RANLATE
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Fits : HYSTERIAS
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Like articles and blood : TYPED
22
Steady devotion : ADHERENCE
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1960's chess master : TAL
24
Starts to resemble : NEARS
25
Fouls up : ERRS
27
Map point : SITE
28
Like ink, in France : NOIRE
30
Where we live : ABODES
32
Scholars : SAVANTS
35
Some bargains : TWOFERS
36
Disinclined : AVERSE
37
Decalogue word : SHALT
38
Exact : VERY
39
Still : MUTE
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Go from here to there : SEGUE
45
Fat letters : EMS
46
PET scan particles : POSITRONS
48
Northern forests : TAIGA
51
Loses focus : SPACESOUT
52
When coins came into general use : IRONAGE
54
Get the last bit of suds out : RERINSE
55
Tower of faith : MINARET
56
Less subdued : GAUDIER
57
Parade times : EASTERS
58
Disburses : EXPENDS
Down
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Jazz enthusiast? : UTAHAN
2
Personification of humanity's dark side : MRHYDE
3
Title TV character played by Brandy Norwood : MOESHA
4
Pertaining to the present period in earth history : QUATERNARY
5
"Father Knows Best" family : ANDERSONS
6
Harshly criticize : SCORE
7
Employees in the sugar industry : REFINERS
8
Grammarian, at times : PARSER
9
Org. that the Indiana Pacers once belonged to : ABA
10
Moonroof feature : TINT
11
Not well : ILLY
12
First or third quarter phenomenon : NEAPTIDE
13
Animal with no teeth : ANTEATER
14
Like some melons : SEEDLESS
20
Decent plot : ACRE
26
"I thought I ___ ..." : SAWA
27
What a tough guy may not show much : SOFTERSIDE
29
Pair : ITEM
31
Support, redundantly : BOLSTERUP
32
Do a hurry-up job : SAVETIME
33
Common wedding song : AVEMARIA
34
Competing narratives : VERSIONS
35
Sad Sack's tormentor, in comics : THESARGE
37
Cry from a tickled person : STOP
40
Bouts of gastritis : UPSETS
42
"Don't stay out here" : GOONIN
43
Available : UNUSED
44
Ethyl acetate and others : ESTERS
47
Mountaineering aid : ICEAX
49
Small distraction : GNAT
50
Europe's Gorge of the ___ : AARE
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E.U. language : GER

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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