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NY Times, Fri, Jan 16, 2004

Author: Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 26, Avg Word Len: 5.69, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 352 (avg 1.77)
Open squares: 92, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 86.1, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 182 of 245 for Mr. Nosowsky — solos: 243, collaborations: 2, Sundays: 29

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© 2004, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Isn't nice to : SNAPSAT
8. Reception amenity : WINEBAR
15. Rumless daiquiri : LIMEADE
16. Author of "Miracle Mongers and Their Methods" : HOUDINI
17. Cooler : ICECUBE
18. Take the blame for : OWNUPTO
19. It's seen offshore in France : MER
20. One of the family : KINSMAN
22. Kit and caboodle : LOT
23. Make one : JOIN
25. Opposite of sluggish : ZIPPY
26. Tennis star Mandlikova : HANA
27. Middle ear bone : INCUS
29. Bob and shag : DOS
30. Photo finish? : GENIC
31. Butcher's hanger : MEATHOOK
33. Shoot : FIREAT
34. Lulu in "Lulu," e.g. : TITLEROLE
36. Not one-track : STEREO
39. When to get revenge, proverbially : NEXTTIME
43. Many an e-mailer : AOLER
44. Army E-3 : PFC
45. Proctor-___ (small appliance maker) : SILEX
46. Santa Maria Maggiore locale : ROME
47. Nesters : BROOD
49. End notes : CODA
50. Big Ten powerhouse, for short : OSU
51. Portion of an editor's mail : QUERIES
53. London's Old ___ : VIC
54. Like some trials : NONJURY
56. "Soup's on!" : LETSEAT
58. Superhuman : GODLIKE
59. Learned : ERUDITE
60. Dropped off : SNOOZED
61. Charged : DEBITED
 1. Lock-picking tool : SLIMJIM
2. "Attaboy!" : NICEONE
3. Song with the lyric "My heart with rapture thrills" : AMERICA
4. Wrestler's rippler : PEC
5. ___ Centre, Minn. (Sinclair Lewis's birthplace) : SAUK
6. Mad Ave. profession : ADBIZ
7. YM cover subject : TEENIDOL
8. Kayos : WHOMPS
9. Rodgers & Hammerstein's "All I Owe ___" : IOWAY
10. Ex-Senator from Georgia : NUNN
11. Internet address ender : EDU
12. Red Baron's transport : BIPLANE
13. Willa Cather heroine : ANTONIA
14. What gets read to rabble-rousers : RIOTACT
21. Reserved : SPOKENFOR
24. Hazel, for one : NUTTREE
26. Doctrine doubter : HERETIC
28. Less forward : SHIER
30. Fancy embellishments : GILTS
32. Ear: Prefix : OTO
33. Henhouse threat : FOX
35. Opposite of charged : RECOILED
36. Some beachwear : SARONGS
37. Prematurely : TOOSOON
38. Madrid daily : ELMUNDO
40. "Wonderful!" : ILOVEIT
41. Help settle : MEDIATE
42. Took by force : EXACTED
44. Victimized, with "upon" : PREYED
47. "A Vindication of Natural Society" writer, 1756 : BURKE
48. Tractor handle? : DEERE
51. Memory jogger : QUIZ
52. Check mate? : STUB
55. Best-selling album of 2001 : JLO
57. Military inits. : SDI
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