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New York Times, Friday, January 16, 2004

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Down : Henhouse threat
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 190 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 98%
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© 2004, The New York Times1/16/4 ( No. 19,792 )
Across
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Isn't nice to : SNAPSAT
8
Reception amenity : WINEBAR
15
Rumless daiquiri : LIMEADE
16
Author of "Miracle Mongers and Their Methods" : HOUDINI
17
Cooler : ICECUBE
18
Take the blame for : OWNUPTO
19
It's seen offshore in France : MER
20
One of the family : KINSMAN
22
Kit and caboodle : LOT
23
Make one : JOIN
25
Opposite of sluggish : ZIPPY
26
Tennis star Mandlikova : HANA
27
Middle ear bone : INCUS
29
Bob and shag : DOS
30
Photo finish? : GENIC
31
Butcher's hanger : MEATHOOK
33
Shoot : FIREAT
34
Lulu in "Lulu," e.g. : TITLEROLE
36
Not one-track : STEREO
39
When to get revenge, proverbially : NEXTTIME
43
Many an e-mailer : AOLER
44
Army E-3 : PFC
45
Proctor-___ (small appliance maker) : SILEX
46
Santa Maria Maggiore locale : ROME
47
Nesters : BROOD
49
End notes : CODA
50
Big Ten powerhouse, for short : OSU
51
Portion of an editor's mail : QUERIES
53
London's Old ___ : VIC
54
Like some trials : NONJURY
56
"Soup's on!" : LETSEAT
58
Superhuman : GODLIKE
59
Learned : ERUDITE
60
Dropped off : SNOOZED
61
Charged : DEBITED
Down
1
Lock-picking tool : SLIMJIM
2
"Attaboy!" : NICEONE
3
Song with the lyric "My heart with rapture thrills" : AMERICA
4
Wrestler's rippler : PEC
5
___ Centre, Minn. (Sinclair Lewis's birthplace) : SAUK
6
Mad Ave. profession : ADBIZ
7
YM cover subject : TEENIDOL
8
Kayos : WHOMPS
9
Rodgers & Hammerstein's "All I Owe ___" : IOWAY
10
Ex-Senator from Georgia : NUNN
11
Internet address ender : EDU
12
Red Baron's transport : BIPLANE
13
Willa Cather heroine : ANTONIA
14
What gets read to rabble-rousers : RIOTACT
21
Reserved : SPOKENFOR
24
Hazel, for one : NUTTREE
26
Doctrine doubter : HERETIC
28
Less forward : SHIER
30
Fancy embellishments : GILTS
32
Ear: Prefix : OTO
33
Henhouse threat : FOX
35
Opposite of charged : RECOILED
36
Some beachwear : SARONGS
37
Prematurely : TOOSOON
38
Madrid daily : ELMUNDO
40
"Wonderful!" : ILOVEIT
41
Help settle : MEDIATE
42
Took by force : EXACTED
44
Victimized, with "upon" : PREYED
47
"A Vindication of Natural Society" writer, 1756 : BURKE
48
Tractor handle? : DEERE
51
Memory jogger : QUIZ
52
Check mate? : STUB
55
Best-selling album of 2001 : JLO
57
Military inits. : SDI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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