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New York Times, Saturday, March 6, 2004

Author:
Ed Early
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : They may be taken before drawing
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1.5431%
Ed Early

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 4 Grid has supersymmetry. This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Early. Saturday freshness: 82%
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© 2004, The New York Times3/6/4 ( No. 19,842 )
Across
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Physician Golgi, for whom Golgi bodies are named : CAMILLO
8
Reader holder : BOOKBAG
15
Evangeline, e.g. : ACADIAN
16
Pen : ENCLOSE
17
"Separate Tables" playwright : TERENCERATTIGAN
19
Muster : ARRAY
20
ConAgra Foods brand : PAM
21
Black Panthers co-founder : SEALE
22
Half of a cartoon duo : LOIS
23
Writer who coined the word "robot" : CAPEK
25
Lundi ___ : GRAS
26
Al Jolson's real first name : ASA
27
Italian colony, 1890-1941 : ERITREA
29
Numerical prefix : TRI
30
Undoer : NEGATOR
32
Barely runs? : STREAKS
34
One overseas : EINS
35
"Shake a leg!" : CMON
36
Stability enhancer : BALLAST
39
One may live on it : THEEDGE
42
Student inside ivied walls : ELI
43
Was in no way happy : SEETHED
45
Old Egyptian title : BEY
46
Bad: Prefix : CACO
48
Deceives, slangily : SNOWS
49
Wind instrument : VANE
50
Low life? : AMEBA
52
Code word : DAH
53
They may be taken before drawing : PACES
54
It's set in a castle near Seville : LENOZZEDIFIGARO
57
Not as distinct : MISTIER
58
Like some heads : TITULAR
59
They often come in twos : SNEEZES
60
Actress Taylor of the silents : ESTELLE
Down
1
Dali, by birth : CATALAN
2
Needle-shaped : ACEROSE
3
Union authorization : MARRIAGELICENSE
4
"Any ___?" : IDEAS
5
Wrinkled : LINY
6
Supérieur, e.g. : LAC
7
Hand holding : ONEPAIR
8
Obviously happy people : BEAMERS
9
Where Stratford and Cambridge are: Abbr. : ONT
10
Fall times: Abbr. : OCTS
11
___ light : KLIEG
12
Couple in old pictures : BOGARTANDBACALL
13
One way to be happy : ASALARK
14
Opening : GENESIS
18
Caught up : RAPT
23
Contradicts : CROSSES
24
Two-masters : KETCHES
27
Old liquid heaters : ETNAS
28
Holding one's piece : ARMED
31
Bother : AIL
33
Many a hirer: Abbr. : EOE
36
Stops the progress of : BECALMS
37
W.W. II battle site, with "El" : ALAMEIN
38
Chicken servings : TENDERS
39
"The Ill-Made Knight" novelist : THWHITE
40
Campaign manager? : GENERAL
41
Dump : EYESORE
44
Horse : herd :: ___ : knot : TOAD
47
Deposed Ugandan leader : OBOTE
49
Fuzzy : VAGUE
51
Longtime adviser to Saddam Hussein : AZIZ
53
Longtime British Tory P.M. : PITT
55
Sleep unit? : ZEE
56
Hi-___ : FIS

Answer summary:
5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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