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New York Times, Saturday, February 21, 2004

Author:
Brendan Quigley and Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
38-Down : Melodic
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabblePGramFresh
531.631471%
Brendan Emmett Quigley
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2297/11/199911/4/20182
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
741241679512
RebusCircleScrabbleFresh
981.5480%
Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 31 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 75 for Mr. Quigley. This is puzzle # 59 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 85%
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© 2004, The New York Times2/21/4 ( No. 19,828 )
Across
1
Assembly area : AGORA
6
Clinton's secretary of health and human services : SHALALA
13
Study : BONEUP
15
Developmental site : PHOTOLAB
16
Start of a carol : ADESTE
17
Water : IRRIGATE
18
Saint usually depicted carrying the infant Jesus : SIMEON
19
TV control : TINT
20
French resort Villefranche-sur-___ : MER
21
Big name in women's wear : EVANPICONE
23
Smooth : SAND
24
Like some missiles : ANTITANK
25
Betting game : MONTE
26
Longevity : LEGS
27
Gang : CIRCLE
28
"Nice!" : GOODONE
32
Prima ballerina who married an ambassador : FONTEYN
33
Noted TV war correspondent : ARNETT
34
"Hi-___, Hi-Lo" (1953 hit) : LILI
35
Some bays : MARES
36
Persevere and succeed : FINDAWAY
40
Verb with vous : ETES
41
Having columns set into a wall : PILASTERED
43
Hang loosely : LOP
44
Charles Anderson ___, owner and editor of the New York Sun, 1868-97 : DANA
45
Sexually attractive : NUBILE
46
Like sage or allspice : AROMATIC
48
Interstice : AREOLA
49
1920's communication fad : WIRELESS
50
Figure : PERSON
51
Drunken : SOTTISH
52
Bamboozles and how : SNOWS
Down
1
Lower : ABASE
2
Lady of Coventry : GODIVA
3
Kind of band : ONEMAN
4
Forwarded : RESENT
5
Ones who'd never think of flying? : AUTOPILOTS
6
Head doctor : SHRINK
7
Star of the 1957 Broadway musical "Jamaica" : HORNE
8
Going ___ : ATIT
9
Account : LOG
10
___ Creek, N.C., site of a 1771 colonial battle : ALAMANCE
11
In a dormant form : LATENTLY
12
North Sea oil industry center : ABERDEEN
14
Hair shirt wearer : PENITENT
15
Climbers' spikes : PITONS
22
Zoo keeper? : CAGE
23
Work with mail : SORT
25
Dollhouse collector's collection : MINIATURES
27
Fall phenomenon : COLDSNAP
28
They name the seasons : GAMELAWS
29
Handel work : ORATORIO
30
Awaiting punishment, say : ONREPORT
31
Scrabble 2-pointers : DEES
32
Purveyor of luxury tableware Michael C. ___ : FINA
34
Flowers in a Whitman verse : LILACS
36
Surface coating : FINISH
37
Noted Viennese composer : WEBERN
38
Melodic : ARIOSO
39
Gutless : YELLOW
41
Crowns : PATES
42
___ list : DEANS
44
"Anthropomorphic Bread" painter, 1932 : DALI
47
Satisfied : MET

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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