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New York Times, Saturday, July 7, 2018

Author:
Ryan McCarty
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
48-Across : Internet in-jokes that have gone viral, in modern lingo
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Ryan McCarty

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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QVXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. McCarty. Grid flow: 90.4 Saturday freshness: 93%
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© 2018, The New York Times7/7/18 ( No. 25,078 )
Across
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Loud, as a radio : ABLARE
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What stars do : TWINKLE
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Repeatedly hit : BEATON
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Some petroleum : SHALEOIL
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Play out, as events : UNFOLD
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"I wanna hear everything" : TALKTOME
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Pioneer in steam engines : JAMESWATT
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Complete coverage? : SKIN
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Early people who used a base-20 numerical system : MAYAS
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Sorrowful cries : AYS
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Rapper ___ Rhymes : BUSTA
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What closes on Sundays? : AMEN
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Cut : SCISSOR
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Fun bit of trivia : LITTLEKNOWNFACT
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___ Tech (former for-profit school) : ITT
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Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Raisman : ALY
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"Children of the Albatross" author : NIN
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Vietnamese soup : PHO
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Doesn't snap : KEEPSITTOGETHER
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Billies : HEGOATS
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Packing ___ : HEAT
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They may have stained-glass windows : APSES
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Playbill bit : BIO
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Police line? : PERPS
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Cut : SAWN
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Internet in-jokes that have gone viral, in modern lingo : DANKMEMES
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Individual's unique use of language : IDIOLECT
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How dishes are usually sold : ASASET
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Martial arts holds that are hard to escape : ARMLOCKS
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President Bartlet on "The West Wing" : JOSIAH
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One waiting for the captain? : MESSBOY
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Invites out for : ASKSTO
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___-Bakr, longtime adviser to Muhammad : ABU
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Any member of Saul's tribe, in the Bible : BENJAMITE
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Close friend of Hamilton, in "Hamilton" : LAFAYETTE
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Fighter of Ferocious Flea in 1960s cartoons : ATOMANT
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Hamilton and 3-Down, in "Hamilton" : ROLES
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Quashes : ENDS
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"Absolutely unacceptable!" : THATSSONOTOK
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Cartoonist Kelly : WALT
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Breed : ILK
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Travel from site to site? : NETSURF
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Screwballs : KOOKS
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Calculus calculation : LIMIT
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Multi-time W.N.B.A. All-Star ___ Delle Donne : ELENA
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Be a homebody : STAYIN
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Mary Jane : WACKYTOBACKY
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Zayn formerly of One Direction : MALIK
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"___ chance!" : BONNE
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Bud inducted into Cooperstown in 2017 : SELIG
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Belts : SWIGS
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Performs some light surgery? : LASES
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Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as "opossum" to "possum" : APHERESIS
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Spot in the third balcony, say : CHEAPSEAT
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Trespassing and defamation : TORTS
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Chemical compounds in so-called hospital smell : PHENOLS
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Poisons : TAINTS
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1994 Jim Carrey comedy : THEMASK
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2007 #1 Alicia Keys album : ASIAM
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Man of the cloth : PADRE
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Moves at a crawl? : SWIMS
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Mexican bread : PESOS
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Art ___ : DECO
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Goya subject : MAJA
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Alley-oop starter : LOB
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Tennyson's "You Ask Me, Why, ___ Ill at Ease" : THO

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8 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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