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New York Times, Saturday, June 19, 2004

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Spent
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 80 for Mr. Quigley. Saturday freshness: 29%
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C
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H
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G
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W
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W
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M
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D
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© 2004, The New York Times6/19/4 ( No. 19,947 )
Across
1
Dainty piece of delicate workmanship : BIJOU
6
"A truer measure of man's ability" sloganeer, once : SEIKO
11
It has a variety of schedules: Abbr. : IRS
14
Nursery supplies : LOAMS
15
Nut source : HAZEL
16
Struggle : VIE
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Dispirit : UNMAN
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Not currently : ATONETIME
20
Occupational ending : IER
21
Site of some famous hangings : PRADO
22
Consideration : HEED
23
Humanities degs. : MAS
24
Canadian capital? : CEE
25
"Angie Baby" singer, 1974 : REDDY
26
"The point being ...?" : AND
27
Biker's bike, colloquially : HAWG
29
Suffix with two : FER
30
Line from a classic tongue twister : ISAWESAUHESAWME
36
Lenape orator who inspired Pontiac : DELAWAREPROPHET
37
Anticipates an imminent disaster, maybe : SAYSONESPRAYERS
38
Ten follower : HUT
39
Long haul : TREK
40
"___ Time transfigured me": Yeats : ERE
41
Owner of a famous thumb : EBERT
44
Ricky Nelson's "___ Late" : ITS
45
Solution, on an Rx : LIQ
46
Big benefit, say : GALA
47
They're impulsive : AXONS
50
"Friends" actress, familiarly : JEN
51
Vaunt : BRAGABOUT
53
Spent : JADED
55
Richard Gere title role of 2000 : DRT
56
North Sea tributary : MEUSE
57
Dispatch boat : AVISO
58
Emolument : FEE
59
Composer Warlock : PETER
60
Stately home : MANSE
Down
1
Italian color : BLU
2
View from Calabria : IONIANSEA
3
"Medical Center" star : JAMESDALY
4
Taliban mullah : OMAR
5
Salts are in it: Abbr. : USN
6
It's free for a limited time : SHAREWARE
7
David George Gordon's "The ___-Bug Cookbook" : EATA
8
Polo competitor : IZOD
9
Match game? : KENO
10
Paul Bunyan's blacksmith : OLE
11
Like some walls : IVIED
12
Put a winter coat on? : RIMED
13
Poorly kept : SEEDY
19
Doctor's order : THERAPY
21
Field worker : PEASANT
23
Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing in "The Mikado" : MAIDS
24
Excoriate : CHEWOUT
25
Marinates more : RESOAKS
28
Hospitality target : GUEST
29
Hare hunters : FERRETS
31
Sink item : WASHRAG
32
LaserJet 2100, e.g. : HPPRINTER
33
Brought by dolly : WHEELEDIN
34
Jocosity : MERRINESS
35
Court citation abbr. : ETSEQ
41
Staff lines? : EGBDF
42
Dance studio feature : BARRE
43
Really turn on : ELATE
47
Answer to the folk riddle "Worker in yellow clothes" : ABEE
48
Strike : XOUT
49
English river to the Wash : OUSE
50
Mud : JAVA
52
Increase, with "up" : AMP
53
Fix : JAM
54
Unknown name : DOE

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

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