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New York Times, Friday, July 2, 2004

Author:
Sherry O. Blackard
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Down : Curse
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
534/11/20004/28/20075
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179312111
ScrabDebutFresh
1.5221680%
Sherry O. Blackard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 35 for Ms. Blackard. Friday freshness: 90%
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© 2004, The New York Times7/2/4 ( No. 19,960 )
Across
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Many a Standardbred : TROTTER
8
Aid in raising cane? : MACHETE
15
San Remo setting : RIVIERA
16
One who's trying : ESSAYER
17
Member of NATO : ICELAND
18
Hard at it : SLAVING
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Like some checks: Abbr. : CERT
20
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical setting : SIAM
22
Inner: Prefix : ENTO
23
___-El (Superman's birth name) : KAL
24
It may interfere with delivery : STAGEFRIGHT
27
10 marks, once : KRONE
29
Tank top : TURRET
30
"Just because" : NOREASON
32
City where Mark Twain is buried : ELMIRA
36
Foundation, often : ENDOWER
37
People known to have germs? : IDEAMEN
38
Noted Hollywood exec : EISNER
39
Refuse to change : STANDPAT
40
Imposts : LEVIES
42
In headlinese, say : TERSE
43
Minor expenses : INCIDENTALS
47
Spanish pronoun : ESA
48
Baseball's Drabek : DOUG
49
Man who's taken vows : LAMA
50
Cottontail's tail : SCUT
51
RCA rival : TOSHIBA
54
Catch : ENSNARE
56
Target of a flick : ASHTRAY
57
Moped : SCOOTER
58
They send up jets : GEYSERS
59
Things fault-finders study : SEABEDS
Down
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It may require joint checking : TRICKKNEE
2
Popular side : RICEARONI
3
Rulers' rulers : OVERLORDS
4
The earth is on one : TILT
5
Kind of service : TEA
6
Novelist Jünger : ERNST
7
Fireplace alternative : RADIATOR
8
Austrian physician whose work laid the foundation for hypnosis : MESMER
9
Digital communication?: Abbr. : ASL
10
11-member grp. : CSA
11
Be on easy street : HAVEITMADE
12
Checking out : EYING
13
Kappa's position : TENTH
14
Cereal killer : ERGOT
21
Pull ___ on : AGUN
24
Jelly plant : SEAWEED
25
"Band of Gold" singer Payne : FREDA
26
Lets up : RELENTS
28
Broadway sights : NEONLIGHTS
31
Assist : SERVE
33
Curse : IMPRECATE
34
No longer worried : REASSURED
35
Hill predators : ANTEATERS
37
Statement made with a tsk, tsk : ITSAMESS
39
___ record : SETA
41
Cloisonné clusters : INLAYS
43
Label : IDTAG
44
Wild West justice : NOOSE
45
Hardly hard : CUSHY
46
Cavalry soldier : LANCE
50
Judgment passer, perhaps : SNOB
52
Boiling blood : IRE
53
Tender place? : BAR
55
"___ wise guy, eh?" : SOA

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

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