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New York Times, Saturday, April 6, 2019

Author:
Ned White
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Across : Enamored of, informally
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Ned White

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. White. Saturday freshness: 25%
Ned White notes:
SNUFFLEUPAGUS was the "seed" entry, originally in the top stack where it just wouldn't work, so down to the bottom stack it went, and ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Quick! How many of you out there can say the name of Big Bird's wooly friend? I thought so! And doubly quick, how many of you can ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times4/6/19 ( No. 25,351 )
Across
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"Pretty good thinking ..." : NOTABADIDEA
12
"Any chance of success, though?" : BUTWILLITWORK
14
"Things don't always go the way you want" : WINSOMELOSESOME
16
Cry made while holding one's nose : UGH
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Employment form info, for short : SSN
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Bill of the Planetary Society : NYE
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Egypt was once part of it: Abbr. : UAR
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Flue problem : SOOT
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Tumult : DIN
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Port north of Kuwait City : BASRA
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Word with bird or board : SNOW
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Big dos : FETES
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Calls to reserve? : LETS
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Masthead section : EDITORS
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Gliding ballet move : CHASSE
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Enamored of, informally : NUTSABOUT
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Suddenly awaken : SNAPTO
39
Dumpster fire : HOTMESS
42
Squat : NADA
43
Save money : STINT
45
Ricotta sources : EWES
47
Unawares : ABACK
49
Had something : ATE
50
"You've got the wrong person" : NOTI
51
CD attachment? : ROM
52
Subject of the 1977 best-selling memoir "A Rumor of War," for short : NAM
54
Blockage letters : SPF
57
"___ Day Will Come" (1963 #1 hit) : OUR
58
Renaissance artist who's famous for his "Coronation of the Virgin" : FRAFILIPPOLIPPI
62
Woolly "Sesame Street" character whose first name is Aloysius : SNUFFLEUPAGUS
63
Prop in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" : TREASUREMAP
Down
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What one may be in the habit for? : NUNHOOD
2
What regular-season soccer games lack, for short : OTS
3
Jeffersons : TWOS
4
Focuses : AIMS
5
Equipment for mixologists : BLENDERS
6
Word with "first of" or "best of" : ALL
7
1979 platinum album with the hit "I'll Never Love This Way Again" : DIONNE
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Minute, informally : ITSY
9
Hardly Joe Cool : DWEEB
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Titaness with a home on the edge of Oceanus : EOS
11
Stirs : AROUSES
12
Earthquake that everyone's been waiting for : BIGONE
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Popular big box stores : KMARTS
14
Get cold feet, with "out" : WUSS
15
Eliminate : ERASE
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Pair of things sold together, in commercialese : TWINPAC
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Baseball announcer's cry : ITSAHIT
25
Adolescents' support group : ALATEEN
27
Pix : FOTOS
28
Charmin alternative : SCOTT
31
When repeated, express disapproval : TUT
33
Well-tuned engine output : HUM
35
Unwanted growth often related to arthritis : BONESPUR
36
Gobble (down) : SNARF
37
Jim of 1960s TV : NABORS
38
Rigid : ADAMANT
40
Quickly grab : SWOOPUP
41
Party preps : SETUPS
44
Many Sri Lankans : TAMILS
46
Modern answer source : SIRI
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One of a kitchen set : KNIFE
53
Bravo preceder : ALFA
55
Innocent, perhaps : POPE
56
Deception, informally : FLAM
59
Trim option : FUR
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Little: Fr. : PEU
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Supermarket chain since 1926 : IGA

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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