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New York Times, Saturday, November 20, 2004

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Robert H. Wolfe

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 30 Missing: {GJQXZ} This is puzzle # 64 for Mr. Wolfe. Saturday freshness: 61%
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© 2004, The New York Times11/20/4 ( No. 20,101 )
Across
1
1982 Elmore Leonard novel set in south Florida : CATCHASER
10
It may be calculated : RISK
14
Big fans : ADULATORS
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Two points : COLON
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Lacking the spunk : NOTUPTOIT
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Hunting holler : HALLO
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Mountain demarcation : TREELINE
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A VW : PASSAT
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Farm machine : SEEDER
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It has a lead part : PEWTER
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Component of a healthy ego : SELFRESPECT
26
Friends abroad : AMIES
30
Like some wills : IRON
31
Certain court hearing : OYER
32
River through Yakutsk : LENA
33
Feeds, in the pen : SLOPS
34
Character : ROLE
35
Uses a bobbin : TATS
36
Bring up : CITE
37
Lurker : SKULK
38
Epitome of simplicity : ONETWOTHREE
41
Ring at the door? : WREATH
42
Dark suit : SPADES
47
Golf goofs : SHANKS
48
Least important : LITTLEST
50
Part of São Paulo : TILDE
51
Possess ample reason to go to court : HAVEACASE
52
Not natural : ALIEN
53
Not give up after failing : STARTANEW
54
Pessimist : BEAR
55
Reason to take Xanax : TENSENESS
Down
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Bevels : CANTS
2
Really go for : ADORE
3
Stravinsky, to Rimsky-Korsakov : TUTEE
4
Like a crossword : CLUED
5
Poor : HAPLESS
6
Habit : ATTIRE
7
Sometime today, say : SOON
8
Behrend College locale : ERIE
9
U leaders? : RST
10
Chinese entree : ROASTPORK
11
Parting words : ILLSEEYOU
12
Optoelectric device : SOLARCELL
13
It may stop a saw : KNOT
15
Provincial plugs : CHAWS
19
Metal beaters : PEENS
21
Right : PROPER
23
First lady of Jewish folklore : LILITH
24
Head : FROTH
25
Go far afield : TREK
26
Middle part : ALTO
27
At the same time : MEANWHILE
28
Lead-in to an example : INTERALIA
29
Cockney, e.g. : EASTENDER
33
English variety : SCOTS
37
Divided, anatomically : SEPTATE
39
Kindle : WAKEN
40
Banana oils, e.g. : ESTERS
43
Way up north, once : ALCAN
44
Early American diplomat : DEANE
45
Steering challenges : ESSES
46
Suffers in heat and humidity : STEWS
47
Crack : STAB
48
Behind : LATE
49
"A Life for the Tsar" hero Susanin : IVAN
51
V.P. for just two months : HST

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

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