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New York Times, Friday, June 4, 2004

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Across : "Blitzkrieg Bop" group, with "the"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
534/11/20004/28/20075
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179312111
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5221680%
Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 24 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 33 for Ms. Blackard. Friday freshness: 88%
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© 2004, The New York Times6/4/4 ( No. 19,932 )
Across
1
"Blitzkrieg Bop" group, with "the" : RAMONES
8
Carrier's carrier : MAILBAG
15
Chapter : EPISODE
16
Old-time actress Taylor : ESTELLE
17
Be docile : DONTROCKTHEBOAT
19
Hit too high, say, with "out" : FLIED
20
Diamond status : ONEON
21
Logos and such: Abbr. : TMS
22
Bats : LOCO
23
Hägar the Horrible's dog : SNERT
24
Wool gatherer? : LOOM
25
Mehmet ___, builder of Istanbul's Blue Mosque : AGA
26
Tests the waters, in a way : WADES
27
Dutch treat : GOUDA
28
They've been known to cause a stink : GYMSHOES
30
Praised loudly : TOUTED
31
Super bosses? : LANDLORDS
33
Drink since 1961 : SPRITE
36
Wall Street workers : ANALYSTS
40
Rodgers and Hart's "___ Love" : THATS
41
How golf's Gary Player was named? : APTLY
42
Make tracks : HIE
43
Knock-down-drag-outs : ROWS
44
Letter opener? : ALPHA
45
Northumberland river : TYNE
46
N.Y.C. subway : IND
47
German boulevard : ALLEE
48
It's rolled in a bar : SUSHI
49
"Calm down!" : KEEPYOURSHIRTON
52
Sent with a click : EMAILED
53
St. Louis's ___ Airport : LAMBERT
54
Legal paper : RELEASE
55
Definitive answer : YESORNO
Down
1
Danger sign : REDFLAG
2
Quarrel stopper, maybe : APOLOGY
3
TV news tool : MINICAM
4
Prefix with plastic : OSTEO
5
L'Étoile du ___, Minnesota's motto : NORD
6
___ Period, depicted in "The Last Samurai" : EDO
7
Like some motions : SECONDED
8
They may be running along a street : METERS
9
Comparatively warm : ASHOT
10
L.A.-to-Jacksonville route : ITEN
11
Syr. neighbor : LEB
12
Obscure : BLOTOUT
13
See 50-Down : ALAMODE
14
Blows one's stack : GETSMAD
18
Good one : KNEESLAPPER
23
Lyon's river : SAONE
24
Punk : LOUSY
26
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "___ Your Name" : WHATS
27
Pietistic : GODLY
29
Snakes' eyes : SLITS
30
Skipping notes : TRALA
32
Behind one's back : ONTHESLY
33
This won't work : STRIKER
34
"Call!" : PHONEME
35
Instance of unfairness : RAWDEAL
37
Pettifogger : SHYSTER
38
Small potatoes player : TINHORN
39
X-ray, for example : SEEINTO
41
Refer : ALLUDE
44
Fugard's "A Lesson From ___" : ALOES
45
Supercharger : TURBO
47
"The Shelters of Stone" heroine : AYLA
48
Saxophonist Zoot : SIMS
50
With 13-Down, a diner order : PIE
51
"O Tibbie, I ___ seen the day": Burns : HAE

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

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