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New York Times, Monday, October 20, 2003

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Service for the Kennedys?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
10212/9/19793/19/20242
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
673172130
CircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
91.61331220%
Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FQ} This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Lempel. Monday freshness: 70%
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© 2003, The New York Times10/20/3 ( No. 19,704 )
Across
1
Treaties : PACTS
6
Mushroomed : GREW
10
Union concerns : JOBS
14
Where enfants learn : ECOLE
15
Govern : RULE
16
Aid and ___ : ABET
17
Al Capone's gang, once? : CHICAGOILL
19
Pepsi-___ : COLA
20
Boxer Norton who once defeated Ali : KEN
21
Writer Uris : LEON
22
Probable : LIKELY
24
Where Anna met the king : SIAM
25
Brings in altogether : GROSSES
26
Shooting star : METEOR
29
Take care of : SEETO
30
Bee-related : APIAN
31
Inhabitant of ancient Palestine : CANAANITE
35
It's usually due on the first of the month : RENT
36
Budged : MOVED
37
Prenoon period, in poetry : MORN
38
First person to fly a plane : TESTPILOT
40
Having prongs : TINED
41
Less strict : LAXER
42
See 3-Down : TOSSES
43
Realms : SPHERES
46
Bugler's call : TAPS
47
Tooted one's own horn : CROWED
48
Watch's sound : TICK
49
Stun : ZAP
52
Civil rights figure ___ Parks : ROSA
53
Service for the Kennedys? : BOSTONMASS
56
Soldiers and carpenters, e.g. : ANTS
57
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
58
Pig sounds : OINKS
59
Netting : MESH
60
"Pretty Woman" star Richard : GERE
61
Lovers' rendezvous : TRYST
Down
1
Quantity of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked : PECK
2
Flu symptom : ACHE
3
With 42-Across, starts of pro football games : COIN
4
Dr. Mom's remedy, for short : TLC
5
Flippered animal of the Pacific : SEALION
6
Horse handler : GROOM
7
Wreckage : RUIN
8
Building wing : ELL
9
Up on literature : WELLREAD
10
Young Eudora Welty? : JACKSONMISS
11
Clarinet cousins : OBOES
12
Girl who has a ball : BELLE
13
Sticks around : STAYS
18
Paraphernalia : GEAR
23
Smidgen : IOTA
24
Microsoft workers' laundry? : SEATTLEWASH
25
French playwright Jean : GENET
26
Trading center : MART
27
Sporting blade : EPEE
28
Cookie containers : TINS
29
Relish : SAVOR
31
Nat and Natalie : COLES
32
Atoms that have gained or lost electrons : IONS
33
Ring bearer : TREE
34
Terminals : ENDS
36
Diverse assortment : MIXEDBAG
39
Reduce, as expenses : PARE
40
Tuft of hair on the head : TOPKNOT
42
Cinco de Mayo dish : TACO
43
Vamoose : SCRAM
44
Lying face downward : PRONE
45
Party givers : HOSTS
46
Sir or madam : TITLE
48
Russia's Nicholas I, e.g. : TSAR
49
Madcap : ZANY
50
Inquires : ASKS
51
"Hey, you!" : PSST
54
Miner's load : ORE
55
Fallen space station : MIR

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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