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New York Times, Saturday, October 28, 2023

Author:
Ryan McCarty
Editor:
Will Shortz
Oratorio highlight in A-B-A form
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Ryan McCarty

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 32 Missing: {GJQ} This is puzzle # 26 for Mr. McCarty. Saturday freshness: 86%
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© 2023, The New York Times10/28/23 ( No. 27,017 )
Across
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Had kids on a farm? : LAMBED
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Product whose main ingredient is canola oil : PAM
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Scan in neuroscience research, in brief : FMRI
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Oratorio highlight in A-B-A form : ARIADACAPO
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Word like "cafe" or "bazaar" : LOAN
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Alien : NONCITIZEN
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Marginally : ABIT
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Confit ingredient : DUCKFAT
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Declines : SAYSNO
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Words of warning in the grocery aisle : USEBY
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Stretchers go on top of them : MATS
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"___-Raq" (2015 Spike Lee film) : CHI
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Paddington Bear's place of origin, before arriving in England : PERU
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Head covering? : TOILETSEAT
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Certain onslaught on social media : TWITTERRANT
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First base? : STARTERHOME
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Athlete prone to nerves, in slang : CHOKEARTIST
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Philosopher and activist who wrote "Race Matters" : CORNELWEST
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Be host to : HAVE
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Comedian Eldjárn with the Netflix special "Pardon My Icelandic" : ARI
40
___ of poetry, beverage in Norse mythology that turns its drinker into an all-knowing scholar : MEAD
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Cause for alarm : PERIL
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-saur subjects? : TREXES
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Passed off as genuine : FOISTED
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Chopper : BIKE
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Galaxy, e.g. : SMARTPHONE
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Place with a tree of immortality in the Quran : EDEN
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They signal a delivery : LABORPAINS
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Nonsensical movement : DADA
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"May I help you?" : YES
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Tries for : AIMSAT
Down
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Ultimately arrive (at) : LANDUP
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Get going : AROUSE
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Tool used in meat pie preparation : MINCER
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Left arrow, often : BACKBUTTON
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Instruct : EDIFY
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What may be collected in trials : DATA
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Opposite of guerra : PAZ
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Subject for conservationist Dian Fossey : APE
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Sockeroo : MONSTERHIT
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Tongue-lash : FLAY
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Complete pandemonium : MOBSCENE
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Bit of attire that often has strings : RAINHAT
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All over something : INTOIT
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Loc. ___ (footnote abbr.) : CIT
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M.L.B. team with a mascot named Orbit : ASTROS
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Cut corners, perhaps? : MITERED
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Gives a heads-up : ALERTS
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Without getting beat : TIRELESSLY
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Home of a parliament on Parliament Hill : OTTAWA
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Singer on the 1960s hits "Wooly Bully" and "Li'l Red Riding Hood" : SAMTHESHAM
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Napper's request : WAKEME
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Said "A mouse!," say : SHRIEKED
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Bull session? : CORRIDA
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Himalayan resting place : CATBED
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Name on a Belgian brew : ARTOIS
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Where the composers Schubert, Berg, Schönberg and Webern were all born : VIENNA
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First in line, usually : ELDEST
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Superstrong redhead of kid-lit : PIPPI
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Princess with an L.G.B.T.Q. cult following : XENA
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To's opposite : FRO
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Por ___ parte (moreover, in Spanish) : OTRA
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Jemison in the National Women's Hall of Fame : MAE
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Twists are good for them : ABS

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

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