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New York Times, Friday, December 20, 2019

Author:
Zhouqin Burnikel
Editor:
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25-Down : "Let me in!"
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 73, Blocks: 34Missing: {JQWX}
Jeff Chen notes:
Friday is often my favorite day of the NYT crossword week, since Fridays can be chock full of clever, gettable, wordplay clues. They also tend ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times12/20/19 ( No. 25,609 )
Across
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Event for which participants may take the floor : SITIN
6
Pestered persistently : RODE
10
Hindu love god : KAMA
14
Grand Prix site : MONACO
15
Boost at the gym : ENERGYBAR
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Bugs : ANNOYS
18
Actress whose full name can be made from the letters of DO RE MI : DEMIMOORE
19
Alternative to white : RYE
20
___ Jahan, leader who commissioned the Taj Mahal : SHAH
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This might be a bust : STATUE
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Part of a dash : CARSTEREO
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Hoots : RIOTS
27
Treatment that reduces wrinkles : LASERPEEL
29
Boomsticks? : TNT
31
Largest steel producer in the U.S. : NUCOR
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Kind of football played indoors : ARENA
35
Greek "Mother of the Gods" : RHEA
36
Inedible kind of orange : OSAGE
37
Look after : MIND
38
Hardly try anymore : COAST
39
Column in a baseball box score : RUNS
40
Sportscaster Jim : NANTZ
41
50 Cent's "___ Control" : OUTTA
42
Johnson's predecessor as British P.M. : MAY
43
Some ranch cattle : LONGHORNS
45
"X-Men" film spinoff starring Hugh Jackman : LOGAN
47
Congressional campaign : SENATEBID
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University near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains : FURMAN
53
"Whip It" band : DEVO
54
1/2 vis-à-vis 1/3, say : EVE
55
In direct competition : MANOAMANO
57
Home of the South by Southwest festival : AUSTIN
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Big canned soup brand : PROGRESSO
60
Irritates, with "on" : GRATES
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Tricks : GETS
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Critic's award : STAR
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Best Play and others : ESPYS
Down
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"Crime and Punishment" heroine : SONYA
2
Private : INNER
3
This is the way : TAO
4
Hostile look : ICYSTARE
5
Snacks : NOSHES
6
Nervous witnesses in mystery novels, often : REDHERRINGS
7
"Blastoff!" preceder : ONE
8
Left side, informally : DEMS
9
Country with hundreds of islands in the Red Sea : ERITREA
10
Former world capital whose name means "capital city" : KYOTO
11
"Ah, yes, I'd been meaning to tell you ..." : ABOUTTHAT
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Total mess : MARESNEST
13
What "r" might signify : ARE
14
Singer Anthony : MARC
16
Online service introduced in 2004 : GMAIL
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Frequent subject of headlines in The Onion : AREAMAN
24
Difficult journeys : SLOGS
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"Let me in!" : OPENTHEDOOR
28
Site for some celebratory dances : ENDZONE
30
Bye line? : TATA
31
Nothing special, with "the" : NORM
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Nothing special, with "the" : USUALFARE
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"Really, now? Really!?" : CANYOUNOT
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Electrify : ROUSE
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Features on topographic maps : CONTOURS
40
Walk-ons, often : NONAMES
43
Kendrick of rap : LAMAR
44
Absolutely destroy : RAVAGE
46
Pirates' potables : GROGS
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1970s first lady : BETTY
49
Elite eight : IVIES
50
Homes in the woods : DENS
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Early illustrator of Uncle Sam : NAST
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No. that's converted for electric cars : MPG
56
Org. that shares its HQ with Cyber Command : NSA
58
Drain : SAP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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