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New York Times, Saturday, April 12, 2003

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Across : Farm cart
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 35 Missing: {HJKQXYZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 54 for Mr. Wolfe. Saturday freshness: 78%
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© 2003, The New York Times4/12/3 ( No. 19,513 )
Across
1
Handle : WIELD
6
Bell curve figure : MEAN
10
Farm cart : WAIN
14
___ time : INDUE
15
"I" problem : ARROGANCE
17
Stretch : STINT
18
Like some laws : DRACONIAN
19
Became less, with "out" : PETERED
21
To a person : BARNONE
22
Go around : ROTATE
23
Moves over a little, maybe : INDENTS
24
Storied invader : MARTIAN
25
Bothers : ADOS
26
24-Across and others : ALIENS
27
Straight through : NONSTOP
31
Through : VIA
32
Some cells : OVA
33
Get out of the wreckage : SALVAGE
38
Campania's capital : NAPLES
41
Not supporting, slangily : AGIN
42
Tea party participants : POURERS
43
Supermarket employees : PRICERS
46
Rehems, maybe : ALTERS
47
Continental, e.g. : LINCOLN
48
"You missed it" : TOOLATE
50
Connect (with) : AFFILIATE
52
Deadening device : MUTER
53
Relatively rawboned : SLENDERER
54
Embrace : ADOPT
55
Kind of technicality? : MERE
56
Dates : SEES
57
Not at all windy : TERSE
Down
1
Thin lock : WISP
2
Start of a list of examples : INTERALIA
3
Slanted column : EDITORIAL
4
First quarter appearance : LUNETTE
5
Get out, in a way : DETRAIN
6
Not just ruffle : MADDEN
7
Go off : ERR
8
The Black Stallion, e.g. : ARABIAN
9
"Impossible" : NOCANDO
10
Loss of color : WANNESS
11
It's involved in electrolysis : ANION
12
"Impossible" : ICANT
13
Bogotá babies : NENES
16
"Harold and Maude" co-star : GORDON
20
Terminal info : ETAS
24
N.B.A. team, briefly : MAVS
28
No bigot : TOLERATOR
29
Goes beyond : OVERSTEPS
30
Go by : PASS
34
Flu forestaller : VACCINE
35
Ancient : AGEOLD
36
Some pinup subjects : GIRLIES
37
Catch : ENSNARE
38
Plea, briefly : NOLO
39
Bygone eatery : AUTOMAT
40
One of Chopin's 26 : PRELUDE
42
Lord's Prayer recitations : PATERS
43
Lymph liquid : PLASM
44
Biathlete's burden : RIFLE
45
Extrapolate : INFER
49
"Directoire" artist : ERTE
51
Resting place on a field : TEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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