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PORTMANFAUX

New York Times, Sunday, November 18, 2018

Author:
Byron Walden and Joel Fagliano
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
69-Across : Strong bond
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Joel Fagliano

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 130, Blocks: 74 Missing: {FZ} This is puzzle # 92 for Mr. Walden. This is puzzle # 62 for Mr. Fagliano. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Grid flow: 48.1 Sunday freshness: 89%
Constructor notes:
Byron: It's always a blast constructing with Joel. It's like playing HORSE with Michael Jordan. "Wow, that's amazing. Wait, what, I have to match that?!" We probably could have made our ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
False portmanteaus is on my (extremely) long list of theme concepts, but I never could quite figure it out. I even had SKORT along with SKI RESORT, but I couldn't come up with a clever way ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times11/18/18 ( No. 25,212 )
Across
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Era of ignorance : DARKAGES
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Elevators in an office building? : HEELS
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Houston squad, casually : STROS
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Eaglelike : AQUILINE
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Mississippi River bottom feeder : MUDCAT
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"Wouldn't that be nice!" : IWISH
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Satchel for a homicide detective? : MURDERCASEMURSE
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Joe of "GoodFellas" : PESCI
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Something found at the top of many a Google search page : PAIDAD
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Manufactured : MADE
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Baking soda has many of these : USES
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Tush : REAR
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Danny Ocean's ex-wife in "Ocean's Eleven" : TESS
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Unseasonal wear on a winter vacation? : SKIRESORTSKORT
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Map : CHART
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Parisian waters : EAUX
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Jewish mourning period : SHIVA
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Zoom, e.g. : LENS
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Baseball stats sometimes called 39-Down : RBIS
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Jerk : SPASM
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Static : INERT
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Swiss canton that was home to William Tell : URI
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Variety of stud poker, familiarly : HILO
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Berry with two diacritics in its name : ACAI
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"Get ___!" : AGRIP
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Late-morning meal for a TV family? : BRADYBUNCHBRUNCH
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Dorm overseers, for short : RAS
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Sports event with two diacritics in its name : EPEE
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Cry after "Company" : HALT
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Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" : ERASMUS
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One way to buy mustard cheaply? : GREYPOUPONGROUPON
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Like the number i, mathematically : NONREAL
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Burns writing : POEM
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Strong bond : GLUE
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A pillar of Islam : HAJ
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Emails such as "Click this link to become an Apollo astronaut"? : SPACEPROGRAMSPAM
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Erie Canal city : UTICA
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___ Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat : EVAN
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"Darling, won't you ___ my worried mind" ("Layla" lyric) : EASE
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Peter's chief of staff on "The Good Wife" : ELI
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Down-on-their-luck sorts : HOBOS
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Hit the hide off the baseball : RIPIT
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Beauts : GEMS
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Backgrounds in theater : SETS
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Tempur-Pedic rival : SERTA
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Seawater compound : NACL
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Neophytes : TYROS
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Collection of Yule-centric posts? : BURNINGLOGBLOG
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Boxing venue : RING
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Nagy of Hungarian history : IMRE
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Wooded valley : DELL
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Bird on Walden Pond in "Walden" : LOON
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Like services covered by a health insurer : INAREA
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Drops : OMITS
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Utensil for eating some cured meat? : SALTEDPORKSPORK
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Link with : TIETO
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Brainpower : SMARTS
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See to it : MAKESURE
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When a happy hour might start : ATSIX
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Haven : OASIS
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Seizure cause : EPILEPSY
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Deaden acoustically : DAMP
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Blue shade : AQUA
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Kingdom in "The Prisoner of Zenda" : RURITANIA
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Leg-pullers : KIDDERS
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Div. for the Red 106-Down : ALEAST
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Secures with a band : GIRDS
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S.A.S.E., e.g.: Abbr. : ENC
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They require stitches : SEAMS
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What the rotator cuff rotates : HUMERUS
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School extension? : EDU
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Neutral shades : ECRUS
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Word from the Latin for "noose" : LASSO
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One caught by a 12-Down : STEER
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Nurse : SIP
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Can-can dancing? : TWERKING
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Formula for slope in math : RISEOVERRUN
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Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize : OSCARARIAS
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Stuffed ___ : SHIRT
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Clay and oil, for artists : MEDIA
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"For heaven ___" : SAKES
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Some ways on Waze: Abbr. : STS
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Split personality? : EXPARTNER
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Branch of Islam : SHIA
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Appurtenance for a cartoon Neanderthal : CLUB
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Mannheim mister : HERR
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Delmonico steak cuts : RIBEYES
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Document listing technical specifications : BLUEPAPER
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TV network with a science-y name : ION
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Prefix with puncture : ACU
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More sensible : SANER
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One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust : MICROGRAM
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Festoons with Charmin, for short : TPS
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Charged up : HYPER
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Laura of "Big Little Lies" : DERN
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Confucian philosopher ___ Hsi : CHU
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Really trendy : HAPPENING
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Hit just beyond the infield : BLOOP
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Hightail it, saltily : HAULASS
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Ocean froth : SPUME
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"The Simpsons" bar : MOES
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Asian fruits used in Western alternative medicine : GOJIBERRIES
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Norwegian king near the end of the first millennium : OLAVI
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Non-___ (food label) : GMO
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Western powwow held every year or so : NATOSUMMIT
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"Come again?" : HUH
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Limit : CAP
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"Fancy that!" : GEE
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People like you : PEERGROUP
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Orfeo in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice," e.g. : ALTO
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Not catch : MISS
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Crescent-shaped Italian pastries : CORNETTI
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Piedmont wine town : ASTI
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Alternatives to gelcaps : TABLETS
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Semiliquid stuff : GLOOP
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Neural junction : SYNAPSE
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So-so filler? : AND
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Lunkheads : CLODS
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Holiday glitter : TINSEL
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Flora and fauna : BIOTA
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Plaster for painting : GESSO
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Animal used to guard sheep and goats : LLAMA
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Spanish crockery : OLLAS
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Munchkin : GNOME
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"___-Tikki-Tavi" : RIKKI
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Misreckons : ERRS
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"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ___": Churchill : AKEY
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See 5-Down : SOX
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Numerical prefix : TRI
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Much Top 40 music now : RAP

Answer summary:
16 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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