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New York Times, Thursday, April 8, 2004

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : Shrews
TotalDebutLatest
2197/31/19952/23/2016
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {KQXZ} This is puzzle # 122 for Ms. Gorski. Thursday freshness: 95%
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© 2004, The New York Times4/8/4 ( No. 19,875 )
Across
1
Alphabetical trio : EFG
4
Advance, slangily : SPOT
8
Bush and others : LAURAS
14
Warranty regis. info : SERIALNO
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Full-scale : ALLOUT
17
Start of a resolution by comedian Steven Wright : PLANTOBE
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"___ never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves": Rousseau : NATURE
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Unmoved : INSITU
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Cleaning agent : JANITOR
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Respond to : ACTON
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507, on a slab : DVII
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Little more than : MERE
25
Uncle Jorge, e.g. : TIO
26
Comment by the work-weary : TGIF
27
Law office employees, informally : PARAS
28
More quaggy : MARSHIER
31
2000 Richard Gere title role : DRT
32
Middle of the resolution : SPONTANEOUS
35
Joule fraction : ERG
36
Piece maker : GUNSMITH
39
Pasty-faced : ASHEN
42
___ River, N.J. : TOMS
43
Traffic-stopping org.? : DEA
44
Plenty mad, with "off" : TEED
45
Speaker's name? : BOSE
46
Hex : SPELL
48
Losing it? : ONADIET
50
Esteem : REPUTE
52
___ income : MEDIAN
53
End of the resolution : TOMORROW
55
The big chill : ICEAGE
56
Al Franken, for one : HUMORIST
57
Grammy winner Santana : CARLOS
58
River of Flanders : YSER
59
Good things to rack up: Abbr. : PTS
Down
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Uncanny ability : ESP
2
Woman's name from Latin for "happiness" : FELICIA
3
Benefactors : GRANTORS
4
Ballet slipper material : SATIN
5
Novel idea : PLOT
6
Spending according to plan : ONBUDGET
7
Big digit : TOE
8
Polynesian porch : LANAI
9
The first "A" of A. A. Milne : ALAN
10
Action just before a war : ULTIMATUM
11
Carpenter's tool : ROUTER
12
Show of lights : AURORA
13
Cordwood measures : STERES
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Not ___ many words : INSO
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Sandwich maker's brand : JIF
21
Impersonal banker : ATM
23
Shrews : VIRAGOS
26
Wind chimes sound : TING
27
Old hands : PROS
29
Call in a hurry : SPEEDDIAL
30
Honker : HORN
31
Retreats : DENS
33
Umpteen : NUMEROUS
34
Off-itinerary jaunt : SIDETRIP
37
Bony fish : TELEOST
38
"2001" processor : HAL
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Like the modern age : ATOMIC
40
New York's ___ Lake : SENECA
41
Tumble : HEADER
42
One in a stroller : TOT
45
Elaine of "Seinfeld" : BENES
46
Trail left by an animal : SPOOR
47
Sound from a Burmese : PURR
49
Othello foe : IAGO
51
One-named supermodel : EMME
53
Prayer possessive : THY
54
Scale amts. : WTS

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4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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