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"S-Q'S ME!"

New York Times, Sunday, November 12, 2017

Author:
Ed Sessa
Editor:
Will Shortz
96-Across : Buccaneer's quaff
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Edward Sessa

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JXZ} This is puzzle # 36 for Mr. Sessa. Sunday freshness: 73%
Jeff Chen notes:
Funny, punny title, S-Q'S ME describing the concept perfectly. Basic sound changes don't do a lot for me in general since we've seen so many of them, but there's something entertaining ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times11/12/17 ( No. 24,841 )
Across
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Philbin's onetime morning co-host : GIFFORD
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Equality-promoting org. : ACLU
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Those who believe everything has a spirit : ANIMISTS
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Off base : INERROR
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Small songbird : WREN
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Patronized a restaurant : DINEDOUT
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Prodigality? : SQUANDERLUST
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Emmy-winning actor on "The West Wing" : ALANALDA
26
Spinny pool shot : MASSE
27
Direct (toward) : ORIENT
29
Part of many German names : VON
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"Ready?" response : IMSET
33
Hog seller? : SQUEALERDEALER
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Chefs' hats : TOQUES
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Corp. budget item : RANDD
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1969 self-titled jazz album : ELLA
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Salad alternative : SOUP
43
Trouble maker : HASBRO
46
Depend (on) : RELY
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Letters of warning on internet sites : NSFW
52
Radiologist's tool, for short : MRI
53
Cigar City, so-called on account of a former major industry : TAMPA
54
A part of Life? : OAT
55
Irritate : PIQUE
56
Suffix with market : EER
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Mr. Magoo biopic? : SQUINTERSTALE
62
Actress Thurman : UMA
63
N.Y.C. subway letters : MTA
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High school sweethearts : STEADIES
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"___ said ..." : EASIER
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Birthplace of Emily Dickinson : AMHERST
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Sloppy sort : PIG
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Roadblock : IMPASSE
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Canadian coin, informally : LOONIE
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Like rebate coupons, typically : MAILEDIN
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"How cool!" : OOH
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Actor Kilmer : VAL
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Cuckoo or dodo? : SQUIRRELYBIRD
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Locale for a flock : LEA
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Nonreactive : INERT
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Abbr. in a military title : RET
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Dark times, informally : NITES
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Trickster : IMP
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Mariner's org. : NASA
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Small : MINI
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Resembling down : FLOSSY
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General ___ chicken : TSOS
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Buccaneer's quaff : GROG
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Was on a crowded bus, say : STOOD
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Soprano Renata : SCOTTO
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Prepares cube steak? : SQUARESTHEBEEF
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Altar sites : APSES
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A/C stat : BTU
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Gay who wrote "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" : TALESE
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"I ___ talking to you!" : WASNT
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The "E" of E.D. : ERECTILE
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All-day gripe sessions? : SQUAWKATHONS
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Like a rope in tug of war : TAUTENED
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Northern Iraqi : KURD
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Alter ego on "The Simpsons" : ELBARTO
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Tightwads' opposites : SPENDERS
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Hungers : YENS
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Questionable : SKETCHY
Down
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Ones in a mess, informally : GIS
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Question: Abbr. : INQ
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Pot-au-___ (French stew) : FEU
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Basis of the plot of "Gone Girl" : FRAMEUP
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Like Corinthian columns : ORNATE
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Bacilli shapes : RODS
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Habiliments : DRESS
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Cobbler's tool : AWL
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Vineyard designation : CRU
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___ Cayes (Haitian port) : LES
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Not related? : UNTOLD
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Gilbert who wrote "Love and Death on Long Island" : ADAIR
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Rosetta Stone discovery site : NILEDELTA
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In a senseless way : INANELY
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Deranged, in slang : MENTAL
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Polish movie named Best Foreign Language Film of 2014 : IDA
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Work out : SOLVE
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Henry VII's house : TUDOR
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Lee who co-created the Avengers : STAN
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Not an elective: Abbr. : REQ
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Flower colored by Aphrodite's blood, in myth : REDROSE
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"You know who this is" : ITSME
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"A Visit From St. Nicholas" poet : MOORE
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Ways out of embarrassing situations? : SQUIRMHOLES
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Polished : URBANE
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It may have a ring to it : EAR
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Enero a diciembre : ANO
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Civil rights activist Guinier : LANI
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Laker legend with a size 22 sneaker, informally : SHAQ
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Something absolutely necessary : AMUST
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Fast-paced two-player card game : SPIT
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Munchies, say : EATS
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Enumerations of things to be sat on? : SQUISHLISTS
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Is plenty angry : FUMES
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Song words before "the World" and "the Champions" : WEARE
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Like pre-1917 Russia : TSARIST
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Green shells : PEAPODS
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Animal with a flexible snout : TAPIR
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Early title for Julius Caesar : EDILE
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Brightest star in Orion : RIGEL
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Apollo 11's Eagle, for short : LEM
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What Lionel Messi wears : TEN
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Brazil's ___ Bernardo do Campo : SAO
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Choreographer Ailey : ALVIN
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2016 film set in Polynesia : MOANA
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Et ___ (footnote abbr.) : SEQ
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Document certifiers, for short : INITS
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Countenance : MIEN
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Sorting category on iTunes : ARTISTS
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Vacuum tube component : DYNODE
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Cousin of a spoonbill : IBIS
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Alleged psychic exposed by the Amazing Randi : URIGELLER
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Co-authors Margret and H. A. : REYS
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Theatricalize : EMOTE
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Lhasa ___ (dogs) : APSOS
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"Old World Style" pasta sauce brand : RAGU
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Glacial deposit : MORAINE
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Opposition : FOE
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Easy question : LOB
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"I dare you to do better!" : TOPTHAT
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Snitched on, with "out" : RATTED
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Lucy's place, in a Beatles song : THESKY
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"Impossible!" : CANTBE
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Leash, e.g. : STRAP
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Line (up) : QUEUE
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Ones on the outsides of brackets : SEEDS
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"Yuck!" : EWW
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Forgeries : FAKES
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Pot growers? : BETS
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Kind of vaccine : SALK
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Cardboard container: Abbr. : CTN
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"___ pasa?" : QUE
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Decorative garden item : URN
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Source of much of Google's income : ADS
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Fictional creature made from heat and slime : ORC
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Unspecified degree : NTH
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___ milk : SOY

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

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