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New York Times, Saturday, March 3, 2001

Author:
Fraser Simpson
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Across : Husbandry
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Fraser Simpson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JVX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Simpson. Saturday freshness: 11%
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© 2001, The New York Times3/3/1 ( No. 18,743 )
Across
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Picnic dish : BEANSALAD
10
Rook : BILK
14
A pocket radio might have one : AABATTERY
15
Onetime White House resident : MAMIE
16
Whip up : STIMULATE
17
Jim Croce's "I Got ___" : ANAME
18
Presidential inits. : HST
19
It might need to be picked up : PACE
20
One shooting from the mouth? : DRAGON
21
Sieve, essentially : MESH
22
Takeout option : CHINESE
23
Husbandry : THRIFT
26
Kofi Annan's home : GHANA
27
Thrilling : HEADY
28
One of a pair by Debussy : ARABESQUE
32
Jejune : ARID
33
Shrovetide dish : BLINI
34
"I'm happy" in Siamese? : PURR
35
Health : WELLBEING
37
True : ALIGN
38
Moved very carefully : EASED
39
Goldfish, at carnivals : PRIZES
40
Get set? : THICKEN
43
Rifle part : BUTT
44
"... heaven hath pleas'd it so, / To punish me ..." speaker : HAMLET
45
Go bad, in a way : MOLD
46
Ancient symbol of sovereignty : ASP
49
Open : UNBAR
50
Torment : PERSECUTE
52
Fearful : MOUSY
53
727 and others : AREACODES
54
They have shells : PIES
55
Commando target : TERRORIST
Down
1
Blowout : BASH
2
Chow : EATS
3
Some : ABIT
4
Vet's memory, maybe : NAM
5
Floor : STUPEFY
6
Exultant cry : ATLAST
7
Percolate : LEACH
8
Museo offering : ARTE
9
Turn green, maybe : DYE
10
Dessert not for the calorie-conscious : BANANASPLIT
11
Something to uphold : IMAGE
12
Park Avenue sights : LIMOS
13
City on the Ashuelot : KEENE
15
Not terrestrial, perhaps : MARINE
20
Abu ___ : DHABI
21
Like most of suburbia : MIDDLECLASS
22
Common name in Taipei : CHANG
23
Detente : THAW
24
Accounted for, in a way : HERE
25
Marsh resident : RAIL
26
Rat race : GRIND
28
Not terrestrial, perhaps : ALIEN
29
Kind of kid : QUIZ
30
Egg : URGE
31
Shore scavengers : ERNS
33
Surrounded (by) : BESET
36
Napoleon locale : BAKERY
37
Paul Poiret style : ARTDECO
39
Radio wave producer : PULSAR
40
Stethoscope sound : THUMP
41
4-Down locale : HANOI
42
Charge, as with feeling : IMBUE
43
Orchardist's woe : BORER
45
A ___ technicality : MERE
46
Quattro maker : AUDI
47
Some Fr. nuns : STES
48
43-Down, e.g. : PEST
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Like some answers : PAT
51
Heart, in prescriptions : COR

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