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New York Times, Thursday, June 17, 2004

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : Comparatively compliant
TotalDebutLatest
833/6/19834/7/2012
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RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
711.454362379%
Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 63 for Mr. Wolfe. Thursday freshness: 36%
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© 2004, The New York Times6/17/4 ( No. 19,945 )
Across
1
Cry from the block : SOLD
5
Welcoming : WARM
9
Dust bits : MOTES
14
"If I ___ ..." : EVER
15
Et ___ : ALIA
16
See 29-Down : TOOTH
17
Pay back : REVENGEON
19
Main male : ALPHA
20
Provoke : ARISEOUTOF
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Biblical shepherd : ABEL
23
Already off : SENT
24
Be indisposed : FEELILL
26
Blocks : DETERS
29
Of an atrioventricular valve : MITRAL
30
Phil who sang "I Ain't Marching Anymore" : OCHS
31
Sensitive things : SORES
32
Court call : LET
35
Noted guerrilla : CHE
36
Scram ... or a hint to solving 17-, 20-, 50- and 57-Across and 11- and 28-Down : GETLOST
38
Words of promise : IDO
39
Light source : SOL
40
"... ___ and hungry look": Shak. : ALEAN
41
Nabokov novel : PNIN
42
Comparatively compliant : EASIER
44
Composer Prokofiev : SERGEI
46
Spot to order a spot : TEASHOP
48
Farm unit : ACRE
49
Goals : ENDS
50
"Understand?" : THEMESSAGE
55
Go around : AVOID
57
Be a hindrance : INONESWAY
58
Pointer mover : MOUSE
59
Symbol of Apollo : LYRE
60
Percolate slowly : OOZE
61
Substitute (for) : SITIN
62
Rowers' muscles, for short : LATS
63
Cub or Red, briefly : NLER
Down
1
Clinic fluids : SERA
2
In charge of : OVER
3
Forebear of one of Israel's 12 Tribes : LEVI
4
Shifts : DRESSES
5
46-Across vehicles : WAGONS
6
Unalaska inhabitant : ALEUT
7
Run amok : RIOT
8
1980 Andrzej Wajda film in which Lech Walesa appears : MANOFIRON
9
Inits. on N.Y.C. buses : MTA
10
"Verrry sexy!" : OOLALA
11
Star : TOPBILLING
12
Waters of jazz : ETHEL
13
Are going to : SHALL
18
Not e'en once : NEER
21
Dos : FETES
25
Originally, once : ERST
26
Shot orderers : DOCS
27
Parrot : ECHO
28
Move it : THELEADOUT
29
Large 16-Across : MOLAR
31
Marathoner's challenge : STEEPHILL
33
Actress McClurg : EDIE
34
Novelist Morrison : TONI
36
Bad cut : GASH
37
"Middlemarch" author : ELIOT
41
Not call it quits : PRESSON
43
Umbrian town : ASSISI
44
Things between cuts : SCENES
45
European tongue : ERSE
46
Heat and Lightning : TEAMS
47
Short concluding stanza : ENVOI
48
Lifeless, old-style : AMORT
51
"The Memory of Trees" Grammy winner : ENYA
52
Truant, in a way : AWOL
53
It may be steely : GAZE
54
Viewer : EYER
56
Habitable hole : DEN

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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