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New York Times, Friday, January 3, 2020

Author:
Will Treece
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
32-Across : "One" is its final number
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Treece. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Friday freshness: 22%
Will Treece notes:
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Jim Horne notes:

One might say the "One" clue is one singular sensation.

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© 2020, The New York Times1/3/20 ( No. 25,623 )
Across
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Point : AIM
4
Shakespeare character who introduced the phrase "primrose path" : OPHELIA
11
Word with rights or sights : GUN
14
Economic lose-lose : STAGFLATION
16
Cell stuff : RNA
17
Raw fish dish : TUNATARTARE
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In the back : AFT
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Syllabus section : UNIT
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Go for a few rounds : SPAR
21
2013 Literature Nobelist : MUNRO
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Service group? : TEASET
25
Mark on the foreheads of Hindu women : BINDI
26
Screen-minimizing key : ESC
27
Saltine alternative : RITZCRACKER
32
"One" is its final number : ACHORUSLINE
33
Riboflavin, alternatively : BTWO
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"v," upturned : CARET
38
Swirl : EDDY
39
"No way!" : THATSUNREAL
42
Lead-in to some important articles? : WETHEPEOPLE
43
Bees make it : HUM
46
Believes : FEELS
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Antigone's sister : ISMENE
49
"Casablanca" co-star : LORRE
50
Cover : COAT
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Bavaria's locale : ALPS
54
Baseball or basketball, but not football : ORB
55
Signs in the 2002 sci-fi film "Signs" : CROPCIRCLES
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Crackerjack : ACE
59
Retaliate : TAKEREVENGE
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Did catering for : FED
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Cassandra, for one : SEERESS
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Employer of Wonder Woman in old comics: Abbr. : OSS
Down
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Sharp : ASTUTE
2
Program that started as SoundJam : ITUNES
3
Nut : MANIAC
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___-repeated : OFT
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Disposable party supply : PLASTICCUPS
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Belabor, with "on" : HARP
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"___ Is Betta Than Evvah!" (1976 album) : ETTA
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Yarn spinner : LIAR
9
Poster finish? : IOR
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Weaknesses : ANEMIAS
11
IV vis-à-vis II, e.g. : GRANDKID
12
Cut off online : UNFRIEND
13
Kind of alphabet : NATO
15
Heaters : GATS
22
Cave man? : UNCLE
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Period of time : ERA
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Savage acts : BRUTALITIES
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Leader of an olden clan : THANE
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Hero of film and literature who rode the horse Tornado : ZORRO
30
Inch : CREEP
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Occupant of the Zarzuela Palace : REY
33
Start of a texter's aside : BTW
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Something a Jedi uses : THEFORCE
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Article of furniture first used for medical purposes : WATERBED
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Unlisted : OTHER
40
Picks : SELECTS
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Beginning of many French stories : LES
43
Adamant refusal : HELLNO
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Removes, as from a currency control : UNPEGS
45
Things toddlers make : MESSES
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Hand-held weapon : MACE
49
Idle : LOAF
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Jack and ___ (bar order) : COKE
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Abbr. next to a star : OPER
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A lot of farmland : ACRE
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Actress Issa : RAE
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Certain trailers : RVS

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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