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New York Times, Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Author:
David Levinson Wilk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Moves like a buoy in the ocean ... or a hint to the shaded parts of this puzzle?
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David Levinson Wilk

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Wilk. Grid flow: 24.1 Tuesday freshness: 66%
David Levinson Wilk notes:
This puzzle runs *just* in time. After two more weeks, I would have been 0-for-2015. Many thanks to Will & Co. And if you're a person ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
BOBS UP AND DOWN = a fun revealer, with famous BOBs going up, down, up and then down through theme answers. Bob DYLAN hiding in ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times12/15/15 ( No. 24,143 )
Across
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Something a software developer develops : APP
4
Perp pursuer : COP
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Bully's response : SAYSME
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___ Majesty : HER
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Monomaniacal mariner : AHAB
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Hullabaloo : CLAMOR
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Item on a chairlift : SKI
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"Ain't happening" : NOGO
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They may be involved in close shaves : RAZORS
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How a lot of Generation X's music was released : ONCD
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Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies" : EBSEN
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"... ___ lack thereof" : ORA
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Lures : DECOYS
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Gets the picture : SEES
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Palindromic bird : TIT
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Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play : OTELLO
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Grecian subject of a Keats poem : URN
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At the home of : CHEZ
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They often line up near WRs on a football field : TES
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Open-mouthed : AGAPE
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Slime : GOO
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Invites to one's home : HASIN
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Sprinted : RAN
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Two cents, so to speak : INPUT
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Neurotic condition, for short : OCD
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Completely : INALL
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Spanish "that" : ESA
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Not for sure : IFFY
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Hallucination producer : LSD
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Absolutely ate up : ADORED
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Just-made : NEW
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Dandelion, e.g. : WEED
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"O" follower : CANADA
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MouthHealthy.org grp. : ADA
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Capital on the Red River : HANOI
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1990s Senate majority leader Trent : LOTT
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"The Jazz Singer" star : JOLSON
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"The Greatest Generation" subj. : WWII
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Punch line? : OOF
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Iris part : AREOLE
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Child's punishment, maybe : NOTV
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Diamond stat : RBI
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Like sailing ships : MASTED
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Amal Clooney ___ Alamuddin : NEE
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___ ed : SEX
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Tonsil-checking sounds : AHS
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Twinings product in an orange box : PEKOETEA
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Elton John's dedicatee for "Candle in the Wind 1997" : PRINCESSOFWALES
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Classic board game with a Peppermint Forest : CANDYLAND
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"Well, whaddya know!" : OHO
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Web ___ : PAGE
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One at a multiplex : SCREEN
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Mathematician Turing and others : ALANS
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Nickname on the 1960s-'80s Red Sox : YAZ
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Don Juan types : SMOOTHOPERATORS
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"Tuesdays With ___" (Mitch Albom best seller) : MORRIE
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Fake : ERSATZ
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Moves like a buoy in the ocean ... or a hint to the shaded parts of this puzzle? : BOBSUPANDDOWN
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Rank above maj. : COL
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2014 Jennifer Lawrence/Bradley Cooper film : SERENA
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"The lady ___ protest too much" : DOTH
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Soak, in dialect : SOG
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Dupe : CON
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Out of bed : ARISEN
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1980 one-woman comedy produced by Lorne Michaels : GILDALIVE
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Frigid : ICY
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Was : USEDTOBE
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"There, look what I did!" : TADA
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Fond du ___, Wis. : LAC
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Stuck : INAJAM
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Hat for Frank Sinatra : FEDORA
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Didn't stand up straight : LEANED
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Singer Yoko : ONO
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Complete : WHOLE
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"Victory is mine!" : IWON
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Drunkard : SOT
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Suffix with Manhattan or Brooklyn : ITE
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Repair : FIX

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

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