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New York Times, Friday, February 21, 2003

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
15-Across : Predisposed
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2297/11/199911/4/20182
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741241679512
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
981.541,84280%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQUX} This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Berry. Friday freshness: 73%
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© 2003, The New York Times2/21/3 ( No. 19,463 )
Across
1
General assembly? : TOPBRASS
9
What leaky pens leave : GLOBS
14
Visited overnight : STAYEDAT
15
Predisposed : LIABLE
16
"Is that so?" : OHREALLY
17
Shakespearean character in a "most extracting frenzy" : OLIVIA
18
Monarch capturer : NET
19
Hard rock band? : DIAMONDRING
21
Very smooth : GLIB
23
Cloth on certain tables : BAIZE
24
Opposite of peace : ADO
25
It might help you get up : ALARM
27
Tom's cries : MEOWS
29
___ Hughes, former British poet laureate : TED
30
Performed a cadenza, e.g. : SOLOED
32
Bamboozles : SNOOKERS
34
"Our Town" family name : WEBB
36
Poet ___ Wheeler Wilcox : ELLA
37
Place for a brush : PAINTCAN
41
Some forensic evidence : FIBERS
45
Theory : ISM
46
Kind of collector : SOLAR
48
Stupid : DOPEY
49
Crankcase additive : STP
50
"Stand and Deliver" star, 1987 : OLMOS
52
Certain pens : BICS
53
Like an air-filled lifeboat : COLLAPSIBLE
57
Mind the baby : SIT
58
Black-and-orange bird : ORIOLE
59
Early motion picture projector : BIOSCOPE
61
1980's South African president ___ Botha : PIETER
62
Working together : INTANDEM
63
Brewers' kilns : OASTS
64
Lack of color : ASHINESS
Down
1
Also-ran for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination : TSONGAS
2
Play set mostly in Cyprus : OTHELLO
3
Incomplete : PARTIAL
4
Departure announcement : BYE
5
Interpret : READ
6
Improvised : ADLIB
7
Low bow : SALAAM
8
Blocks : STYMIES
9
Put a coat on : GILD
10
Hideaway : LAIR
11
Render unnecessary : OBVIATE
12
Bridle attachment : BLINDER
13
Proteus and Nereus : SEAGODS
15
Independent sort : LONEWOLF
20
Thunderstorm residue : OZONE
22
Fry a bit : BROWN
26
Comes together : MEETS
28
Dependable : SOLID
31
Legendary criminal played by Treat Williams in a 1981 movie : DBCOOPER
33
One stuck in the kitchen : KABOB
35
Dances : BALLS
37
Early 80's "S.N.L." comic : PISCOPO
38
Residential section of Queens : ASTORIA
39
Suggests : IMPLIES
40
Windhoek is its capital : NAMIBIA
42
Installment : EPISODE
43
File box contents, maybe : RECIPES
44
Some analysts' concerns : SYSTEMS
47
Spring signalers : ROBINS
51
Big-toed animal : SLOTH
54
Former Senate majority leader : LOTT
55
Porters : ALES
56
Actor Morales : ESAI
60
"This is ___" : CNN

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

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