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New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 2003

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
40-Across : Did a gliding dance step
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 23 for Ms. Blackard. Saturday freshness: 94%
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© 2003, The New York Times6/7/3 ( No. 19,569 )
Across
1
"Jurassic Park" actress Richards : ARIANA
7
Digs : POTSHOTS
15
Football Hall-of-Famer called the "Intellectual Assassin" : RONMIX
16
Rushed : INAHURRY
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Not too few : ENOUGH
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Not at all dull : COLORFUL
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Possible result of pitching : NAUSEA
20
Intensely engaged : KNEEDEEP
21
Back at sea : ASTERN
22
Advance : LEND
23
Old Silk Road city in Kyrgyzstan : OSH
24
Breadbasket of sorts, with "the" : MIDWEST
26
Catalog : MAKEALIST
29
Antigen disabler : TCELL
34
Winter wear : FLANNEL
35
Some anodynes : OPIATES
37
Real estate section info : RENTS
38
Heartthrob : DREAMBOAT
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Did a gliding dance step : CHASSED
41
___-Caps (Nestlé brand) : SNO
44
One of the Trask brothers : ARON
45
Geological formations : STRATA
49
Sortie signal : AIRALERT
51
Trusty delivery person? : BAILOR
52
One may set a precedent : TESTCASE
53
Show a different side of : OBVERT
54
Summer cooler : ICEWATER
55
Chemical salt : OLEATE
56
It may count : NEATNESS
57
Heart : KERNEL
Down
1
Fan setting : ARENA
2
Novelist Jaffe and others : RONAS
3
Words on a double door : INOUT
4
Beer and skittles : AMUSEMENT
5
Residents of Yorubaland : NIGERIANS
6
One with a sharp head? : AXHANDLE
7
Some spears : PICKLES
8
Alert : ONONESTOES
9
It may be scouted out : TALENT
10
Did a smith's work : SHOED
11
Western scene painter Peter : HURD
12
Monteverdi opera : ORFEO
13
Brings into line : TRUES
14
Supernatural being inhabiting the air : SYLPH
25
Ones not broken : WILDHORSES
26
Producer: Abbr. : MFR
27
Cream ___ : ALE
28
Part of the 24-Across: Abbr. : KAN
29
Reading reading : TIMETABLE
30
So-called boulevard cowboy : CABDRIVER
31
Overlord's area: Abbr. : ETO
32
"So might I, standing on this pleasant ___": Wordsworth : LEA
33
Omaha beach craft: Abbr. : LST
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It may show appreciation : PASSBOOK
39
Ones on soapboxes : RANTERS
40
Found : CREATE
41
Substituted : SATIN
42
Heiress, perhaps : NIECE
43
By land ___ : ORSEA
44
Old highway name : ALCAN
46
"... ___ and hungry look": Shak. : ALEAN
47
Calorie-dense dessert : TORTE
48
Russian cooperative : ARTEL
50
Elementary abbr. : ATWT

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

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