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New York Times, Saturday, November 1, 2003

Author:
Bob Peoples
Editor:
Will Shortz
54-Across : Pair for the court
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Bob Peoples

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 27 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Peoples. Saturday freshness: 77%
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© 2003, The New York Times11/1/3 ( No. 19,716 )
Across
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Gorges : CHASMS
7
Liquid offering at a "bar" : SALADOIL
15
Kind of valve : AORTIC
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Be a segue for : LEADINTO
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Asian clue collector : MRMOTO
18
Indefinite yes : IGUESSSO
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Online newsgroup system : USENET
20
Occult characters? : CEES
21
Churned-out prose : PAP
22
Keep away : STEERCLEAR
24
Straining aid : MESH
25
Game ender, perhaps : HORN
26
Unfeminine : MACHO
27
Karat measure : FINENESS
32
Underling : MENIAL
33
Counterparts : ANALOGS
34
Fore-play? : PREGAME
35
Piano piece : STRING
36
Does up differently : RESTYLES
37
Pang : THROE
38
Natural rustler : LEAF
39
Dancing stimulus : BEAT
40
Got really upset : HADKITTENS
46
Invoice fig. : AMT
47
Chauffeur's order : HOME
48
Hot : EROTIC
49
Stored : LAIDAWAY
51
___ Beach, Calif. : LAGUNA
52
Firecracker : LIVEWIRE
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King topper : DIADEM
54
Pair for the court : SNEAKERS
55
Doesn't look good? : SNEERS
Down
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"The Fall" novelist : CAMUS
2
Physicist ___ Störmer : HORST
3
Foch's force : ARMEE
4
Something may be written in it : STONE
5
Top of the Catholic Church? : MITER
6
Sausage-wrapped British breakfast dish : SCOTCHEGG
7
Kitchen gadgets : SLICERS
8
___ Islands, which include the Cyclades : AEGEAN
9
Gumbel's "Today" successor : LAUER
10
They're usually fruit-flavored : ADES
11
Bash a bit : DIS
12
Reduced : ONSPECIAL
13
"Terrible pity" : ITSASHAME
14
Escape mechanisms? : LOOPHOLES
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Surety concern : LOSS
24
In sorry shape : MANGY
26
Track event : MEET
27
Bullets, so to speak : FASTBALLS
28
By and large : INTHEMAIN
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Account : NARRATIVE
30
"The Sacred Wood" writer, 1920 : ELIOT
31
How many symphonies Chopin wrote : NONE
32
Great American Cookies rival : MRSFIELDS
34
Busiest : PEAK
36
Fly-by-nights? : REDEYES
38
Tracy's "Tortilla Flat" co-star : LAMARR
40
Dorough of the Backstreet Boys : HOWIE
41
Traffic stopper, sometimes : TRAIN
42
Senate wear : TOGAE
43
One may be full of scales : ETUDE
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Eighty-___ (early Oklahoma homesteader) : NINER
45
Cons : SCAMS
47
Good watcher : HAWK
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It may make a bust: Abbr. : DEA

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4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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