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New York Times, Friday, April 30, 2004

Author:
Kevin Hagen
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Down : Insignificant one
TotalDebutLatest
43/29/20024/30/2004
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0000040
ScrabDebutFresh
1.482766%
Kevin Hagen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Hagen. Friday freshness: 44%
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© 2004, The New York Times4/30/4 ( No. 19,897 )
Across
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___ bit : NOTA
5
Brought off : DID
8
Scream inducer : SPIDER
14
One way to be wounded : INACTION
16
Certain battery : AACELL
17
Founder of the last Japanese shogunate : TOKUGAWA
18
Deciphers : BREAKS
19
Image receiver : RETINA
20
Finest examples : PEARLS
21
Base line? : SAFE
22
Contract specs : TERMS
23
Car since 1949 : SAAB
25
Facility : EASE
26
Disposed (of) : RID
29
Hungarian-born mathematician Paul : ERDOS
31
Books about the Mounties, e.g. : CANADIANA
33
Feature of many banks : DRIVETHRUWINDOW
35
Cared : GAVEAHOOT
36
"The Quiet American" star, 2002 : CAINE
37
Check out : EYE
38
Tries to win : WOOS
39
Homer Simpson's hangout : MOES
40
Lush : SOUSE
41
Abyssinian greeting : MEOW
43
Surface : EMERGE
45
Not at all curious : NORMAL
47
Want : DEARTH
48
Like the Crusades : MEDIEVAL
50
In order : ARIGHT
51
"Them" : THEENEMY
52
___ worth : MONEYS
53
Bro's partner : SIS
54
Dosage abbr. : TSPS
Down
1
Small criticism, slangily : NIT
2
___ around : ONOR
3
Plummets : TAKESADIVE
4
Better than : ACUTABOVE
5
Lane with lines : DIANE
6
Skunk River locale : IOWA
7
Kind of test : DNA
8
Handheld cutter : SABERSAW
9
One seeking signs of life? : PARAMEDIC
10
Anti-___ (airport equipment) : ICERS
11
Question or answer in "___?" ... "___!" : DEAL
12
Forest rangers : ELKS
13
"Weir of Hermiston" author, in brief : RLS
15
Exclamation around a water cooler : TGIF
20
Insignificant one : PEANUT
22
Yellowish pink : TEAROSE
23
Umbrella plant, e.g. : SEDGE
24
Marshal : ARRAY
26
Program carriers : RADIOWAVES
27
Combined : INONE
28
1925 Nobel Peace Prize winner : DAWES
30
Shipshape? : SEAWORTHY
31
Go for : CHOOSE
32
Shortly : INAMOMENT
34
They may be gathered : THOUGHTS
40
Like some suits : SERGE
41
Statistical figures : MODES
42
View from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame : ERIE
43
Architect Saarinen : EERO
44
Cardinal : MAIN
45
Beverage brand : NEHI
46
Light : LAMP
47
Coolidge or Roosevelt : DAM
48
Chain parts: Abbr. : MTS
49
River at Ghent : LYS

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

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