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New York Times, Friday, February 28, 2003

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Down : Ceaseless
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2548/27/19928/13/20102
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611.571,613877%
Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 27 Missing: {FQZ} This is puzzle # 172 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 75%
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© 2003, The New York Times2/28/3 ( No. 19,470 )
Across
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Drifter? : SNOW
5
Answering device? : OUIJABOARD
15
___ winds (herald of warm and muggy weather) : KONA
16
Love poem of 1849 : ANNABELLEE
17
Start of something small? : ITTY
18
Guns N' Roses music : HEAVYMETAL
19
"No ___!" : PROB
20
Foolish : UNWISE
21
Motor add-on : OLA
22
Relative of the custard apple : PAPAW
24
Place-to-sign indicators : DOTS
25
French president before De Gaulle : COTY
26
"All My Children" vixen : ERICA
27
Controversial agcy. since 1862 : IRS
28
It may be seen by a bank : CANOE
29
Swab : DECKHAND
31
Don't believe it : CANARD
32
Anna May of "Shanghai Express" : WONG
33
Pigeonhole : SORT
34
Outcome : UPSHOT
37
Do a charade : ACTITOUT
41
They're just below heads : NAPES
42
War stat. : MIA
43
Transported : BORNE
44
Be metrical : SCAN
45
Whoop : YELL
46
Grudge : SPITE
47
Walt Frazier, for the Knicks : TEN
48
Prime-time time : NINEPM
50
Threaded fastener : TNUT
51
Where Merlin is imprisoned in "Idylls of the King" : OLDOAKTREE
53
Give an edge : HONE
54
Phone line : PLEASEHOLD
55
Hot server : ACER
56
Extraordinary perception : SIXTHSENSE
57
Stone's throw : TOSS
Down
1
Vamoosed : SKIPPED
2
Medium, maybe : NOTRARE
3
Germane : ONTOPIC
4
In the past : WAYBACKWHEN
5
Island known as "The Gathering Place" : OAHU
6
Ceaseless : UNENDING
7
Briefly : INAWORD
8
New York's ___ Center : JAVITS
9
Tartarus, in Greek myth : ABYSS
10
"Let It ___ " (Everly Brothers hit) : BEME
11
Encouraging word : OLE
12
Penn State campus site : ALTOONA
13
One with lots to sell : REALTOR
14
Flight board message : DELAYED
23
Cries at a Wild West show : WAHOOS
25
"Got me beat" : CANTTOPTHAT
28
38-Down area natives : CARIBS
30
Social worker : ANT
31
Bunk : COT
33
Surgical tray array : SCALPELS
34
Opens, as a bottle : UNSTOPS
35
Eugenio ___ (Pope Pius XII) : PACELLI
36
Gym wear : SPANDEX
37
Banking aid? : AILERON
38
River to the Atlantic : ORINOCO
39
Makes a string flat, maybe : UNTUNES
40
Wobbles : TEETERS
42
Crème flavorer : MENTHE
45
"Holy cow!" : YIKES
48
"The Bronx? No thonx" writer : NASH
49
Ancient dweller in modern Azerbaijan : MEDE
52
Kind of bran : OAT

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

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