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New York Times, Friday, September 26, 2003

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Across : Former Likud leader
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
436/23/200211/29/20203
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1413521521
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
361.5223969%
Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 28 Missing: {FJWXZ} This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Berlin. Friday freshness: 73%
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© 2003, The New York Times9/26/3 ( No. 19,680 )
Across
1
Enumeration follower : ETCETERA
9
Former Likud leader : SHAMIR
15
Very scared person, perhaps : QUAVERER
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Rioters' quieters : POLICE
17
No provincial : URBANITE
18
Like many a library book : LOANED
19
First name in 1858 debates : ABE
20
Geog. feature : STR
21
Wickiup, for one : HUT
22
Diamond expert : UMP
23
Some tales : LORE
25
Choirs may use them : RISERS
27
1960-61 world chess champ : TAL
28
Judging : DEEMING
30
Reggae's ___-Mouse : EEKA
31
Girl of Oz : SHEILA
34
"Little" ones from afar : GREENMEN
36
Pitches : CANTS
37
One preceder? : ANY
38
It may be blank : STARE
39
She worked for Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" : RICHARDS
41
Business center: Abbr. : MAINST
42
Heal-___ (mint family members) : ALLS
43
Delete : EDITOUT
45
Name on a Chinese menu : TSO
46
In distress : PAINED
47
Candied dish : YAMS
51
Price abbr. : CTS
52
Readers of the Book of Moroni: Abbr. : LDS
53
Britain's ___ Act of 1773 : TEA
55
Came across : MET
56
Put up : HOUSED
58
Don't see other people, perhaps : GOSTEADY
60
Wrap : ENROBE
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Stealthily : ONTIPTOE
62
Like some grapes : SEEDED
63
Ones charging reading fees? : PSYCHICS
Down
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Match : EQUAL
2
Feature of some muscle cars : TURBO
3
Pole tossed in competition : CABER
4
Actress Bartok : EVA
5
Till stack : TENS
6
Land on the Red Sea : ERITREA
7
Cut again : RETRIM
8
Subsist : ARE
9
Spare no expense : SPLURGE
10
Bad audience response : HOOTS
11
Taking after : ALA
12
Revolutionary hero : MINUTEMAN
13
Amana amenities : ICEMAKERS
14
2000 film about a mission to Mars : REDPLANET
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Unit named for a physicist : HENRY
24
Classicist Hamilton and others : EDITHS
26
Records one's arrival : SIGNSIN
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Lohengrin's love : ELSA
30
Thing : ENTITY
31
Mars : SCRATCHES
32
Something that comes down hard? : HAILSTONE
33
Pen, say : ENCLOSURE
35
His twin tricked him : ESAU
37
Start of an African capital : ADDIS
40
Checked the figures, maybe : READDED
41
Unwillingness to crow : MODESTY
44
Jackson Hole is near them : TETONS
46
Newbie, of sorts : PLEBE
48
Cremona artisan : AMATI
49
Red Bordeaux : MEDOC
50
They may appear on lids : STYES
54
Suffix with symptom : ATIC
57
Ground cover : SOD
58
Elephant grp. : GOP
59
N.T. book : EPH

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

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