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New York Times, Friday, November 21, 2003

Author:
David Ainslie Macleod
Editor:
Will Shortz
58-Across : Early Syrian
TotalDebutLatest
79/7/19998/5/2005
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.533256%
David Ainslie Macleod

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQVWZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Macleod. Friday freshness: 89%
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© 2003, The New York Times11/21/3 ( No. 19,736 )
Across
1
Farm machine : COMBINE
8
Music genre : CALYPSO
15
Property recipient : ALIENEE
16
One of the Titans : OCEANUS
17
Stuff on a bat : PINETAR
18
Farm units : BUSHELS
19
Top-level worker? : ROOFER
20
Didn't remove neatly : TOREOUT
21
Altair or Sirius : ASTAR
22
Ward on a set : SELA
23
Katz of "Hocus Pocus" : OMRI
25
Bar hurdles, briefly : LSATS
27
"Let me repeat ..." : ISAID
28
Skilled enough : UPTOTHETASK
33
Course accessory : TEE
34
Encl. to an editor : SAE
35
Dweller along the Sea of Galilee : ISRAELI
36
"Love ___ Ball" (1963 comedy) : ISA
37
Bug-eyed ones, for short? : ETS
38
Goes against : CONTRADICTS
40
Polite word in Potsdam : BITTE
42
British rocker Hitchcock : ROBYN
43
"Eeew!" : YECH
44
X's : CHIS
46
Legal, in a way : OFAGE
50
Way to the nave : NARTHEX
52
With 57-Across, story in the offing? : MURDER
53
Response to a knock, perhaps : ITSOPEN
54
Xerox competitor : MINOLTA
55
Not so rosy : BLEAKER
56
Whom Shelley wept for : ADONAIS
57
See 52-Across : MYSTERY
58
Early Syrian : HITTITE
Down
1
Three-time Best Director : CAPRA
2
Gallimaufries : OLIOS
3
Seat of Ward County, N.D. : MINOT
4
Hybrid on the range : BEEFALO
5
Space between : INTERSTICE
6
Almost here : NEAR
7
Kin of -ist : EER
8
Some programs are written in it : COBOL
9
Legend maker : ACURA
10
Suffix with Congo : LESE
11
Boors : YAHOOS
12
Kind of drill : PNEUMATIC
13
Superlatively sexy : SULTRIEST
14
Hush-hush W.W. II agcy. : OSS
20
Willful woman? : TESTATRIX
22
Like some warnings : STERN
24
Bits of ingenuity : IDEAS
26
Mock phrase of insight : AHSO
27
"It's true!" : IKIDYOUNOT
28
Start of an expiration notice : USEBY
29
One way to wait : PATIENTLY
30
Precedent setters : TESTCASES
31
Houston hockey team : AEROS
32
Concrete section : SLAB
39
First : INFRONT
41
It may need clearing : THROAT
44
Holiday ___ : CHEER
45
Any of the three Lancaster kings : HENRY
47
He lost to Dwight twice : ADLAI
48
"See?" : GETIT
49
Make blank : ERASE
51
Part of some rtes. : TPKE
52
South of France : MIDI
53
It acquired Lotus in 1995 : IBM
54
Start of a Chinese game : MAH

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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