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New York Times, Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Author:
Nancy S. Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Does some tailoring
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Nancy S. Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQWXZ} This is puzzle # 56 for Ms. Ross. Wednesday freshness: 38%
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© 2004, The New York Times2/25/4 ( No. 19,832 )
Across
1
5-Across handle : HAFT
5
Sharp weapon, slangily : SHIV
9
Rope fiber : SISAL
14
Mozart composition : ARIA
15
Animal with a scut : HARE
16
Shiraz native : IRANI
17
Start of a message on a Lincoln Center T-shirt : BEETHOVEN
19
Honor, in academe : LAUDE
20
See 13-Down : INSTATE
21
Wedding reception ritual : TOAST
23
Clan emblems : TOTEMS
24
T-men, e.g. : FEDS
25
Cathedral city : ELY
28
Great balls of fire : STARS
29
"The Immoralist" author : GIDE
30
Liberate : FREE
31
Walked over : TROD
33
Butchers' offerings : TBONES
35
Message, part 2 : MADEOVERTURES
39
Doings of Hercules : LABORS
40
Table section : LEAF
41
Cross to bear : ONUS
42
Mother of Horus : ISIS
44
1938 Physics Nobelist : FERMI
49
Sword conqueror : PEN
50
Aware of : ONTO
51
Word processing command : SAVEAS
52
___ Lama : DALAI
54
Babar's queen : CELESTE
55
Spiral-horned antelope : ELAND
57
End of the message : TOLEONORE
59
Tubular pasta : PENNE
60
Jam-pack : CRAM
61
Morlocks' victims in "The Time Machine" : ELOI
62
Fragrant oil : ATTAR
63
Does some tailoring : HEMS
64
Can blemish : DENT
Down
1
Things to kick : HABITS
2
"Am too!" rejoinder : ARENOT
3
Cinco de Mayo event : FIESTA
4
Tear to shreds : TATTER
5
Round at a bar, maybe : SHOTS
6
Keep : HAVE
7
Tick off : IRE
8
Discharged, as gases : VENTED
9
Eliot's Marner : SILAS
10
S. & L. offerings : IRAS
11
Sweet wine : SAUTERNE
12
What's more : AND
13
With 20-Across, receive a posthumous honor : LIE
18
Cage-wheel runner : HAMSTER
22
One-named singer : ODETTA
24
Opera that inspired the T-shirt slogan : FIDELIO
26
Popular jeans : LEES
27
Sycophant's word : YES
29
Statehouse V.I.P. : GOV
30
Pro : FOR
32
Soprano in "The Barber of Seville" : ROSINA
34
Stymie : BUFFALO
35
What a groom may groom : MANE
36
Plentiful : ABUNDANT
37
John ___ Passos : DOS
38
Realtor's abbr. : RES
39
Prune : LOP
43
Zigzag, e.g. : STITCH
45
Smoothed out : EVENED
46
Fix, as a pump : RESOLE
47
Women's prison figure : MATRON
48
"Looky there!" : ISEEIT
50
Grayer, maybe : OLDER
51
Appears to be : SEEMS
53
"___ Karenina" : ANNA
54
Secretive sort : CLAM
55
Rater of m.p.g. : EPA
56
Court cry : LET
58
Bonanza find : ORE

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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