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New York Times, Sunday, November 26, 2017

Author:
Jeff Chen
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Jeff Chen

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 74 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 77 for Mr. Chen. Sunday freshness: 51%
Jeff Chen notes:
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© 2017, The New York Times11/26/17 ( No. 24,855 )
Across
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Per : APIECE
7
Per ___ : DIEM
11
Feature on the back of some pajamas : FLAP
15
Conversation interrupter in a car, at times : GPS
18
Cured salmon : GRAVLAX
19
Jazzy Anita : ODAY
20
Top-shelf : AONE
21
Go bad : ROT
22
Lists about a port on the Black Sea : ROYALTASTERS
24
Guaranteed to succeed : CANTLOSE
26
Auspice : OMEN
27
Referring to this clue within this clue, e.g. : META
28
Neighborhoods surrounded by crime : THEFAREAST
30
1970s-'90s chess champion : KARPOV
33
Fill-in : TEMP
35
___ Store : APP
36
Laura of "ER" : INNES
37
Provide cover for, say : ABET
39
Fad dance move of 2015 : DAB
40
Blue-green hue : TEAL
42
Style of Radio City Music Hall, informally : DECO
43
Metal pin stuck in parts of sinks : DRIVETRAINS
47
Figure skater Sonja : HENIE
49
Shout after seeing Godzilla : RUN
50
Motorsports vehicle : RALLYCAR
51
___ ammoniac : SAL
52
Good times : BLASTS
54
Capital of the world's happiest country, per a 2017 U.N. survey : OSLO
55
QB's cry : HUT
56
Unpleasant : ICKY
58
The dark side : YIN
59
One of the principal deities in Hinduism : SHIVA
61
Sliding item on a car : MOONROOF
64
Carne ___ (taco option) : ASADA
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___ Dimas, Calif. : SAN
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Flourishes around monsoon events : BRAINSURGEONS
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Sample-collecting org. : EPA
73
Lush : DIPSO
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React to a haymaker : SEESTARS
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Slack-jawed : AGAPE
78
Pot note : IOU
79
Heaters : GATS
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Major investors in start-up cos. : VCS
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Its filling contained lard until 1997 : OREO
83
Dangerous vipers : ADDERS
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Ka-boom! : BAM
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1972 #1 hit with the lyric "No one's ever gonna keep me down again" : IAMWOMAN
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Regret : RUE
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Ranger's wear : BERET
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Fear among underground workers : MINDREADERS
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It goes downhill : SLED
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First name in 1950s comedy : DESI
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Actor John of the "Harold & Kumar" films : CHO
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Nordstrom competitor : SAKS
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Shades of tan : ECRUS
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"Pimp My Ride" network : MTV
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Curry of the N.B.A. : SETH
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Moves, as a plant : REPOTS
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Coming up in vetoes : NIXONTAPES
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Got 100 on : ACED
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"I'll get this done" : ONIT
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Licorice-flavored extract : ANISEOIL
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Crew found inside again and again : THROWINGRICE
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Spy novelist Deighton : LEN
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Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
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Kook : YOYO
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"Fawlty Towers" or "The Vicar of Dibley" : BRITCOM
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Need a lift? : SAG
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Looking up : ROSY
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And others, for short : ETAL
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Gets fresh with : SASSES
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Nose of a wine : AROMA
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Single-___ (like a certain health care system) : PAYER
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Does his name ring a bell? : IVANPAVLOV
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Pipe joint : ELL
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"Cool" sort : CAT
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Reason to pull an all-nighter : EXAM
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Partner of a crossed "t" : DOTTEDI
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Creative sort : IDEAMAN
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Something pressed against a conch : EAR
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Game predecessor of Riven : MYST
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Certain spa treatment : FACEPEEL
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Baker's container : LOAFPAN
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The "I" of "The King and I" : ANNA
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___ dish : PETRI
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Bad puns : GROANERS
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Song with verses by four or more rappers : POSSECUT
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Mounties' hats : STETSONS
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Understand : GROK
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"Go" preceder : SET
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Give for a while : LEND
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Hindu exercise system : HATHAYOGA
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"Do as I say!" : OBEY
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Climbing plant in the pea family : VETCH
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Broadcaster of many Ken Burns documentaries : PBS
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Something to work through with a therapist : TRAUMA
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Benghazi native : LIBYAN
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Waste : DROSS
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Actress Phylicia of "Creed" : RASHAD
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"Fighting" collegiate team : ILLINI
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Stella ___ (beer) : ARTOIS
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Another name for Dido : ELISSA
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Hybrid activewear : SKORTS
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Santa ___ winds : ANA
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Tailor's measure : INSEAM
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See 74-Down : CRUST
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Take in : ABSORB
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Blood type of a "universal donor" : ONEGATIVE
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Ardent : FERVID
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"Oh heavens!" : DEARME
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Take off an invisibility cloak : APPEAR
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Lit a fire under : ROUSED
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Annual event viewed live by hundreds of millions of people, with "the" : OSCARS
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Big stretches : AEONS
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With 57-Down, something filling fills : PIE
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Graceful losers, e.g. : GOODSPORTS
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Besmirch : SMEAR
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Magazine places : ARSENALS
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Don Quixote's unseen beloved : DULCINEA
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Sign with an antlered pictogram : DEERXING
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Award won by "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" : BESTPLAY
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Speedboat follower : WAKE
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Continues : REMAINS
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Hosts, for short : MCS
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Words of empathy : IHEARYA
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"You shouldn't've done that" : NOTCOOL
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The Blues Brothers and others : DUOS
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Emulate Snidely Whiplash : SNEER
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Hack down : HEW
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Chilled : ONICE
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Costa Ricans, in slang : TICOS
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Modern education acronym : STEM
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Brouhaha : TODO
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Lid irritant : STYE
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"I call that!" : DIBS
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Very in : HOT
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Second Amendment org. : NRA
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U.S.O. audience : GIS

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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