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DOUBLE SIXES

New York Times, Sunday, November 10, 2019

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JXZ} This is puzzle # 116 for Mr. Gordon. Grid flow: 31.8 Sunday freshness: 24%
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© 2019, The New York Times11/10/19 ( No. 25,569 )
Across
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"Hooked on Classics" company : KTEL
5
Christina of "Monster" : RICCI
10
Skins, so to speak : DRUMS
15
Silent : MUM
18
Last Supper item : GRAIL
20
Case study in many business ethics classes : ENRON
21
Call on : VISIT
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"The Simpsons" character who holds a Ph.D. in computer science : APU
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Low singers, short on money, draw idly? : BASSIINNEEDDOODLE
26
Place for a beer pump : KEG
27
Reaches a climax : PEAKS
28
High-class person? : SENIOR
29
Served in a certain cream sauce : ALAKING
31
Fleet runner: Abbr. : ADM
32
Boston's Liberty Tree, e.g. : ELM
34
Tennis player with a record 377 cumulative weeks ranked No. 1 : GRAF
36
First-rate : DANDY
37
Works as an accountant for a Swedish aerospace company? : DOESSAABBOOKKEEPING
44
"Pearly Shells" singer : DONHO
45
Like a llano : GRASSY
46
Put a stop to : SURCEASE
49
Mlle., across the Pyrénées : SRTA
50
Tangle : SNARL
51
Airy areas of hotels : ATRIA
52
Urban intersectors: Abbr. : STS
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People who share an apartment with a Jordanian royal? : QUEENNOORROOMMATES
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Rival of Havoline : STP
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Pec pic, say : TAT
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1980s auto imports based on the Fiat : YUGOS
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Turkish coin : LIRA
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Speed skater who won five golds at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics : HEIDEN
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Not doff : LEAVEON
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Politico Liz : CHENEY
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Unusual : RARE
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Pocahontas's husband John : ROLFE
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50,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Iowa for which Ronald Reagan was once a sportscaster : WHO
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Sends to the canvas, for short : KOS
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Designer Mizrahi shouts like a cowboy in a nonchalant way? : ISAACCOOLLYYEEHAWS
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Citi Field player : MET
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Listens attentively : HARKS
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Man's name that becomes another man's name when a "C" is put in front : ALVIN
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Life ___ (timesaving trick) : HACK
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Events for special customers : PRESALES
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Smooth and lustrous : SILKEN
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Asian metropolis of 28+ million : DELHI
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Headline after an adolescent at a pool competition is made fun of? : SWIMMEETTEENNEEDLED
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Mughal emperor of India known as "the Great" : AKBAR
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Nephew of Cain : ENOS
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Feminine side : YIN
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Bit : TAD
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Meteorological phenomenon : MOONBOW
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Mourning person, perhaps : SOBBER
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Like triangles governed by the Pythagorean theorem : RIGHT
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Stir : ADO
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Matriculated students appear to be timid? : ENROLLEESSEEMMEEK
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Couldn't stand? : SAT
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John who invented a steel plow : DEERE
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Poles, e.g. : SLAVS
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California mission founder Junípero : SERRA
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What's up? : SKY
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More logical : SANER
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Brownish gray : TAUPE
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Fit together like matryoshka dolls : NEST
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Yuri Andropov headed it for 15 years, in brief : KGB
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Opening in the theater, maybe : TRAPDOOR
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Legal grant to cross over someone else's land : EASEMENT
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___ Genova, author of "Still Alice" : LISA
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Rapper MC ___, formerly of N.W.A : REN
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Travel guide listings : INNS
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One of the 11 official languages of Canada's Northwest Territories : CREE
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Either brother who co-wrote "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" : COEN
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Plants that yield a blue dye : INDIGOS
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Antonín who composed "Carnival Overture" : DVORAK
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Host of the Olympics where golf returned after a 112-year hiatus : RIO
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National School Lunch Program org. : USDA
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Pepper dispenser : MILL
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Cinematographic innovation of the 1970s : STEADICAM
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Raising Cain : MAKINGASTINK
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Overturn : UPEND
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Unpleasantly humid : MUGGY
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Thus : LIKESO
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Mallorca o Menorca, por ejemplo : ISLA
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Socially awkward : DORKY
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Hearst-like film character : KANE
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Interjects : ADDS
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It's more attractive the closer you are to it : MAGNET
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Adorn : FESTOON
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N.B.A. nickname until 2011 : SHAQ
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Something white rice lacks : BRAN
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Hay there! : BARN
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Where the Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced : OSLO
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Money for a grand tour : EUROS
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Stiffly formal : PRIM
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Like binaural audio : STEREO
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Parts of college applications : ESSAYS
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Bean on the silver screen : SEAN
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Ship of mythology : ARGO
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Pac-12 player : UTE
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Cry of dismay : OYVEY
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Bemoan : RUE
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Hoppy drink : ALE
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Food item often prepared with lemon and garlic : SHRIMP
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Promo : TEASER
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Snack food brand that sounds like buried treasure : PIRATESBOOTY
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It may be a deal breaker: Abbr. : DEA
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Gander : LOOKSEE
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Some pipe joints : ELLS
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New York Titans' org. of old : AFL
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Jackie of "Rush Hour" : CHAN
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Question that isn't a "wh-" question : HOW
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Ned who composed "Air Music" : ROREM
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Sound heard at Churchill Downs : WHINNY
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Alternatives to sleeper sofas : CHAIRBEDS
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Quiet : CALM
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The Collegiate School, today : YALE
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Actress Sommer : ELKE
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50-50 : EVEN
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Molt : SHED
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Not out to lunch : ALLTHERE
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Crib users : CHEATERS
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Captain played twice in film by Charles Laughton : KIDD
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Equine : horse :: cygnine : ___ : SWAN
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Pub perch : STOOL
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"That's what you should do" : ITSBEST
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Jeans : DENIMS
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Playwright Eve : ENSLER
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Land on the Celtic Sea : EIRE
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Run up : AMASS
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Company that's had its moments : KODAK
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Draft classification : ONEA
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Small songbird : WREN
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Composer Bartók : BELA
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Biblical birthright seller : ESAU
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Send one's regrets, say : RSVP
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F.B.I. guys : GMEN
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Underground band : ORE
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Direction from Belg. to Bulg. : ESE
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"Krazy ___" : KAT

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

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