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New York Times, Saturday, October 11, 2003

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
55-Across : Like some curtains
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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: 61%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/11/3 ( No. 19,695 )
Across
1
Alcott's Little Women, e.g. : FOURSOME
9
Legal opener : PARA
13
Juice dispenser : BARKEEPER
14
Engendered : SIRED
15
Neither here nor there, say : INBETWEEN
16
Work in the kitchen, in a way : KNEAD
17
It may take a bow : OBI
18
Doesn't own : RENTS
19
Digs, so to speak : ABODE
20
Strong suits : METIERS
22
Political leader originally surnamed Dzhugashvili : STALIN
23
Daughter of Juan Carlos I : ELENA
24
Kind of security : HOMELAND
26
Stand on an airplane, maybe : STRETCHONESLEGS
29
Display aid : EASEL
30
Something planned : PREMEDITATEDACT
40
They don't follow suit : RENEGERS
41
Silk pattern : MOIRE
42
Occasion for rolling out the red carpet : OSCARS
43
Discovery of Sir James Chadwick : NEUTRON
45
Cradle contents : PHONE
46
Walk like a cat : PROWL
48
___ Teques, Venezuela : LOS
49
Hit upon the solution : HADIT
50
Pedal, perhaps : RIDEABIKE
52
Modern pentathletes' needs : EPEES
53
Hints : OVERTONES
54
Harper of Hollywood : TESS
55
Like some curtains : TASSELED
Down
1
Radiator adjunct : FANBELT
2
Many a heavenly body : ORBITER
3
It has strings attached : UKE
4
Pull back : RETREAT
5
Valjean's hideout : SEWER
6
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
35
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
47
___ Ridge (racehorse) : RIVA
51
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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