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New York Times, Saturday, October 11, 2003

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
43-Across : Discovery of Sir James Chadwick
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQXYZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 58 for Mr. Wolfe. Saturday freshness: 60%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/11/3 ( No. 19,695 )
Across
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Alcott's Little Women, e.g. : FOURSOME
9
Legal opener : PARA
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Juice dispenser : BARKEEPER
14
Engendered : SIRED
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Neither here nor there, say : INBETWEEN
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Work in the kitchen, in a way : KNEAD
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It may take a bow : OBI
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Doesn't own : RENTS
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Digs, so to speak : ABODE
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Strong suits : METIERS
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Political leader originally surnamed Dzhugashvili : STALIN
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Daughter of Juan Carlos I : ELENA
24
Kind of security : HOMELAND
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Stand on an airplane, maybe : STRETCHONESLEGS
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Display aid : EASEL
30
Something planned : PREMEDITATEDACT
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They don't follow suit : RENEGERS
41
Silk pattern : MOIRE
42
Occasion for rolling out the red carpet : OSCARS
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Discovery of Sir James Chadwick : NEUTRON
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Cradle contents : PHONE
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Walk like a cat : PROWL
48
___ Teques, Venezuela : LOS
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Hit upon the solution : HADIT
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Pedal, perhaps : RIDEABIKE
52
Modern pentathletes' needs : EPEES
53
Hints : OVERTONES
54
Harper of Hollywood : TESS
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Like some curtains : TASSELED
Down
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Radiator adjunct : FANBELT
2
Many a heavenly body : ORBITER
3
It has strings attached : UKE
4
Pull back : RETREAT
5
Valjean's hideout : SEWER
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Jimmies : OPENS
7
A runner may enter one : MEET
8
Shore soarers : ERNS
9
It uses flippers : PINBALL
10
Anatomical interstices : AREOLAE
11
Gauge datum : READING
12
Summer figures? : ADDENDS
13
Some complex communities : BIOMES
14
Gliders : SKATES
21
Like Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 : INE
22
Refine : SMELT
24
Legions : HOSTS
25
Service status : ONEA
27
Hands over : CEDES
28
It may be pulled back : HAIR
30
Mohammed, with "the" : PROPHET
31
Morph : RESHAPE
32
Makes secret, in a way : ENCODES
33
Malefactors : MEANIES
34
Some waders : EGRETS
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Be like : EMULATE
36
Music symbol : DOT
37
One with a fleet fleet : AIRLINE
38
Thieving : CROOKED
39
Present and the like : TENSES
43
Computers on a network : NODES
44
Some painted vessels : EWERS
46
Meth., e.g. : PROT
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___ Ridge (racehorse) : RIVA
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Land in S.A. : BOL

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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