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New York Times, Saturday, February 26, 2005

Author:
Jim Page
Editor:
Will Shortz
50-Across : One going out
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Jim Page

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQXZ} This is puzzle # 137 for Mr. Page. Saturday freshness: 23%
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© 2005, The New York Times2/26/5 ( No. 20,199 )
Across
1
It can be ear-piercing : STUD
5
Command to go : SCAT
9
Trainee : CADET
14
N.B.A. star Kukoc : TONI
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One foot : IAMB
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It may be stuck in a bar : OLIVE
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Company whose cars don't use gasoline : OTIS
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PX users : NCOS
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Organism bodies : SOMAS
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Snack item : NACHOCHIP
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Tearful : MOIST
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"___ Es el Amor" (Spanish song hit) : ESO
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Relative of -let : ULE
25
One easily moved : SOFTIE
26
Sheets : STRATA
28
Nursery output : WAH
30
Beluga delicacy : ROE
31
Food items introduced to the United States by Samuel Thomas circa 1880 : ENGLISHMUFFINS
35
Pellet shooter : AIRPISTOL
36
It has 659 members : HOUSEOFCOMMONS
41
Auto features, briefly : ACS
42
Book end? : ISH
43
"No, you're not" retort : YESIAM
45
Better waterproof : RESEAL
48
Former White House inits. : RMN
49
Gulager of "McQ," 1974 : CLU
50
One going out : DATER
51
Iron : SMOOTHOUT
54
Page of un calendario : ENERO
55
Outdoor feast : LUAU
56
Is Spanish? : ESTA
57
Follower of a duck, pig or cow : EIEIO
58
"Who ___?" : ISNT
59
Tout's antithesis : RIEN
60
"Days of Our Lives" setting : SALEM
61
Coordinate : MESH
62
"Oliver!" composer Lionel ___ : BART
Down
1
Cameos, e.g. : STONES
2
Way of seasoning : TOTASTE
3
Lion's combatant for the crown, in "Through the Looking-Glass" : UNICORN
4
Good-looker : DISH
5
Company with a brontosaur logo : SINCLAIROIL
6
Stockpile : CACHE
7
Parisian possessive : AMOI
8
One sip, maybe: Abbr. : TBSP
9
George Jetson's boss : COSMO
10
Cool : ALOOF
11
Film composer Tiomkin : DIMITRI
12
Dodge : EVASION
13
Final participants : TESTEES
21
Extend : OUTLIE
25
"Well, whaddya know!" : SHUTMYMOUTH
27
Bygone dignitaries : AGAS
28
Any-way link : WHICH
29
"I know not why I ___ sad": Shak. : AMSO
32
Concerns of some bathers: Abbr. : SPFS
33
Fire up : FOMENT
34
Showman Ziegfeld and others : FLOS
36
Fast-food chain : HARDEES
37
Orwellian setting : OCEANIA
38
Corp. headquartered in Pittsburgh : USSTEEL
39
Mediterranean capital : NICOSIA
40
9-Across, at times : SALUTER
44
Like some genes : MUTANT
46
Chilling : EERIE
47
"Get ___!" : AROOM
48
Some horses : ROANS
51
Poor : SLIM
52
Guiding genius : MUSE
53
Cicely, e.g. : HERB

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

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