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New York Times, Saturday, February 22, 2003

Author:
Dana Motley
Editor:
Will Shortz
39-Down : Heroic poems
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Dana Motley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 18 for Ms. Motley. Saturday freshness: 9%
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© 2003, The New York Times2/22/3 ( No. 19,464 )
Across
1
See 59-Across : ALECS
6
Kachina performer : HOPI
10
In very short order : ASAP
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Corday killed him : MARAT
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"___ in Berlin" (1960 jazz album) : ELLA
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Luncheon follower : ETTE
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Popular snack chip : FRITO
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Produce a faint image of : ADUMBRATE
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Stir up trouble : MAKEWAVES
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Picture with a posse, perhaps : OATER
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Natural boundary : RIVER
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Holders of blessed bread : PATENS
25
Scammed : TAKENIN
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Part of some Muslim households : HAREM
29
Extensive variety : SMORGASBORD
31
Asian waist product? : OBI
34
Old Testament book : AMOS
35
They may leave a stain : TEARS
36
Uintah and Ouray Reservation inhabitants : UTES
37
Early '50s soldier : ROK
38
American competitor : CONTINENTAL
40
Set off : APART
42
State follower, sometimes : ZIPCODE
43
Some steak preparers : CUBERS
45
"Fiddler on the Roof" star : TOPOL
46
Routine : USUAL
47
They may be shifted in transit : TENSPEEDS
51
Banks' go-between : FERRYBOAT
53
Name on a compact : ESTEE
54
Roll and bind : FURL
55
___ Dartle, woman in "David Copperfield" : ROSA
56
One may be picky : EATER
57
Exercise options? : SPAS
58
First-year Harvard law student : ONEL
59
With 1-Across, pseudo-wits : SMART
Down
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Like some tuners : AMFM
2
Superman's mother : LARA
3
Nobelist poet ___ Axel Karlfeldt : ERIK
4
Wedding expenses : CATERERS
5
Doing warehouse work : STOWING
6
Providential : HEAVENSENT
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Like a big brother : OLDER
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Furthermore : PLUS
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Existential declaration : IAM
10
Make fizzy : AERATE
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"Eureka" or "Excelsior" : STATEMOTTO
12
When some take a coffee break : ATTEN
13
Looks : PEERS
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Cooperative people? : BOARD
21
Air-conditioned people? : AVIATORS
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Soup flavorers : PARSNIPS
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Michael, for one : TSAR
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Contents of some barrels : AMMO
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Bird whose cry sounds like laughter : KOOKABURRA
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Flat : HORIZONTAL
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Swing : BAT
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Primitive monetary unit : BEAD
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Cuba's ___ of Youth : ISLE
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July 4 parade figure : UNCLESAM
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Simon of pop : CARLY
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Heroic poems : EPOPEES
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Some divers' booty : PEARLS
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Shirt pair : CUFFS
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Deplete : USEUP
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Make frizzy : TEASE
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Rocky or Bullwinkle : TOON
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"___ Kett" : ETTA
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Buck, say : DEER
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Rockefeller Center muralist : SERT
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Dude : BRO

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

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