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New York Times, Saturday, February 8, 2003

Author:
Patrick Berry
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Down : Centers of learning in the Dark Ages
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Patrick Berry

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 31 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 42 for Mr. Berry. Saturday freshness: 37%
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© 2003, The New York Times2/8/3 ( No. 19,450 )
Across
1
Goldsmith and others : ARTISANS
9
Half of a 70's-80's pop duo : OATES
14
Affect : BEARUPON
15
Widespread dissatisfaction : UNREST
16
Percentage interest on a C.D., e.g. : BANKRATE
17
Almost until : NEARTO
18
1978 cult film directed by David Lynch : ERASERHEAD
20
Derby projection : BRIM
21
Good laugh : YUK
22
Spanish constructions : TORRES
24
Org. with a caduceus logo : AMA
25
Hydros : England :: ___ : U.S. : SPAS
27
Lens used for close-ups : MACRO
28
Fund-raising grp. : PAC
29
Alongside : TOGETHERWITH
33
Pitched, say : RESINY
36
Answers (for) : ATONES
37
Kind of affair : EXTRAMARITAL
41
Slushy seller on "The Simpsons" : APU
42
Christmas visitor, maybe : INLAW
43
It's hard-hitting : FIST
47
Free : RID
48
Expressions with colons : RATIOS
50
Casual denial : NAH
51
Picker-upper? : MAID
53
"Wings on My Feet" autobiographer : SONJAHENIE
56
Woodwinds member : OBOIST
58
Frequent collaborator with Miles Davis : GILEVANS
59
Conspicuous consumption? : SLURPS
60
Entree whose ingredients may vary greatly : OMELETTE
61
Out of humor : TESTY
62
It encourages mold growth : DAMPNESS
Down
1
Centers of learning in the Dark Ages : ABBEYS
2
Show angry excitement : REARUP
3
Tomoyuki ___, producer of "Godzilla" : TANAKA
4
Exasperates : IRKS
5
"That'd be fine" : SURE
6
Disjointly : APART
7
Away : NOTHOME
8
Receive disdainfully : SNEERAT
9
What I might mean? : ONE
10
___ League : ARAB
11
Diamondback reptile : TERRAPIN
12
Repairman's offering : ESTIMATE
13
Food processors : STOMACHS
15
Have too little : UNDEREAT
19
Mosque entranceway : ARCH
23
Rather, slangily : SORTA
26
Bustle : STIR
30
Walking ___ : ONAIR
31
They're flexible : GYMNASTS
32
Grimm villain : WOLF
33
Like peanut gallery seats : REARMOST
34
Not beyond redemption : EXPIABLE
35
Painstaking : STUDIOUS
38
High man : ALTO
39
Tlaloc, to the Aztecs : RAINGOD
40
Where "Uncommon valor was a common virtue": Nimitz : IWOJIMA
44
Natural : INNATE
45
Big Easy team : SAINTS
46
Important papers : THESES
49
New England town name that means "peace" in Hebrew : SALEM
52
Skinny : DIRT
54
It's sometimes called for : HELP
55
Square : EVEN
57
One with a cover : SPY

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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