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SILENT FINALES

New York Times, Sunday, November 25, 2018

Author:
Joon Pahk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Nail polish brand with the colors Teal the Cows Come Home and Berry Fairy Fun
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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. pahk.
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SILENT FINALES … or SILENT FINAL ES? A-ha! I loved UNCALLED FORE (from "uncalled for") as what a golfer might forget to say. And SEMI PROSE (from "semi-pros") made me chuckle. At first, I ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times11/25/18 ( No. 25,219 )
Across
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Late Queen of Soul : ARETHA
7
Places for bears or villains : LAIRS
12
What a recipe may be written on : NOTECARD
20
Puts up : RAISES
21
Veep under Nixon : AGNEW
22
Formal defense : APOLOGIA
23
Photo caption for the winning team's M.V.P. being carried off the field? : ASTARISBORNE
25
Get an F in physics? : MISSPELL
26
Bert of "The Wizard of Oz" : LAHR
27
Powerful swell : SURGE
28
In the style of : ALA
30
First-generation Japanese-American : ISSEI
31
Houdini feat : ESCAPE
33
Rey, to Luke, in "The Last Jedi" : PROTEGEE
36
Place for a stud to go : EAR
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What you're effectively saying when you sign a waiver? : BYEALLRIGHTS
41
Longtime athlete on the U.S. Davis Cup team : ASHE
45
Line through one's teeth? : FLOSS
47
Torment : AGONY
48
Full of subtlety : NUANCED
50
Capital of Albania : TIRANE
52
Atlas or Titan, for short : ICBM
53
Street through the middle of town : MAINDRAG
54
Energy secretary Chu under Obama : STEVEN
55
___ neutrality : NET
56
Actress Long : NIA
58
Extended diatribe : TIRADE
59
Moon race? : EWOKS
61
Router attachments : MODEMS
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It's just below 0: Abbr. : OPER
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Medieval poets : BARDS
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Piece of writing that's half in verse? : SEMIPROSE
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Some paid rides, informally : UBERS
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First leg of an itinerary : ATOB
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Avenging spirits in Greek myth : FURIES
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Bad thing to hit with a hammer : THUMB
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"Casey at the Bat" poet Ernest : THAYER
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Wee bit : TAD
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"I'm f-f-freezing!" : BRR
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Coined money : SPECIE
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Aids for determining pregnancy, e.g. : TESTKITS
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Pizazz : BRIO
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Fellini's "La ___" : STRADA
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Inducing forgetfulness : LETHEAN
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Outlook alternative : GMAIL
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Dollar signs without the bars : ESSES
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Word after who or how : ELSE
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Dropping the baton in a relay race, e.g.? : RUNNINGLAPSE
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Bit of ink : TAT
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Optimum : BESTCASE
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Senator Feinstein : DIANNE
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Blues legend Waters : ETHEL
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"___ complicated" : ITS
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Area near the shore : SHELF
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Publicans' servings : ALES
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Area near the shore : SHALLOWS
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Warning not given on a golf course? : UNCALLEDFORE
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Something on the rise today : SEALEVEL
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Actress Belafonte : SHARI
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Start to inhabit : SETTLE
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Baja California city : ENSENADA
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"The Zoo Story" playwright : ALBEE
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Movie trailer, e.g. : TEASER
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Name of what was once the world's second-largest saltwater lake : ARAL
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Tabula ___ : RASA
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"Hematite, magnetite -- take your pick"? : EITHERORE
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Line that ended with Nicholas II : TSARS
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"___ Grace" (title of address) : HER
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"To quote myself ..." : ASISAY
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Los Angeles neighborhood next to Beverly Grove : LABREA
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Wide-eyed : AGOG
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Memo starter : INRE
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Half of a cartoon duo : REN
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Make official? : SWEARIN
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Super Bowl III M.V.P. : NAMATH
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Nail polish brand with the colors Teal the Cows Come Home and Berry Fairy Fun : OPI
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Talking-___ (reprimands) : TOS
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Big female role on HBO's "Westworld" : ELSIE
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Two things you might find in Sherwood Forest? : COPSEANDROBBERS
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As long as one can remember : AGES
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Work (up) : RILE
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"The Hallucinogenic Toreador" painter : DALI
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Apartment building V.I.P. : SUPE
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Mentally sluggish : LOGY
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Producer of "60 Minutes" : CBSNEWS
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Seniors' big night out : PROM
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European stratovolcano : ETNA
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Astronauts' wear : GSUITS
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Young newts : EFTS
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Came down : ALIT
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Spike : LACE
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Human Rights Campaign inits. : LGBT
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Minor altercation : SCRAPE
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Soccer shot resulting from a corner kick, often : HEADER
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Lawn tools : EDGERS
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Like Tara, several times in "Gone With the Wind"? : SAVEDBYTHEBELLE
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Singer DiFranco : ANI
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Multi-time music collaborator with Bowie : ENO
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Some magazine perfume ads : INSERTS
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Conductor : MAESTRO
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Country on the Arctic Circle: Abbr. : NOR
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"Yes for me" : IDO
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The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. : KSU
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Brit. legislators : MPS
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[Shrug] : MEH
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Forcibly oppose : BATTLE
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Following close behind : ATHEEL
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Some celebrity charity events : ROASTS
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Shirking work, maybe, for short : MIA
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"The Hurt Locker" menace, briefly : IED
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Scads of : UMPTEEN
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Club known for 66-Down : FRIARS
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Enterprise starter : USS
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Barely make (out) : EKE
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Two-masted vessel : BRIG
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Small stream : RILL
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Places for specific social classes to park? : CASTELOTS
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"Any ___?" : IDEA
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Heading in the right direction? : EAST
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Fastener with a flange : TNUT
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Bête noire : BANE
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Small bother : GNAT
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Pageant whose 1986 runner-up was Halle Berry : MISSUSA
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Procedural spinoff starring LL Cool J : NCISLA
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Antarctic penguin : ADELIE
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Person who's hard to take : PILL
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Most conservative : SAFEST
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Page of a movie script? : ELLEN
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1994 tripartite treaty : NAFTA
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De bene ___ (legal phrase) : ESSE
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In those days : THEN
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Tommy of tennis : HAAS
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Temporary cover : SCAB
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Hopper : HARE
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Writer ___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
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Tiresias, in "Oedipus Rex" : SEER
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Some gametes : OVA
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Join : WED
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Capitals' org. : NHL
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Ruby of "A Raisin in the Sun" : DEE

Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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