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New York Times, Thursday, December 29, 2016

Author:
Kevan Choset
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters
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Kevan Choset

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Choset. Grid flow: 19.7 Thursday freshness: 24%
Kevan Choset notes:
This puzzle's been through several iterations over a few years and started when I was randomly on Prince Charles's Wiki page. (Many of ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Who knew Prince CHARLES had so many titles? The PRINCE OF WALES, yes, but how cool to be the DUKE OF CORNWALL. And the EARL OF … ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times12/29/16 ( No. 24,523 )
Across
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Many a SpaceX worker: Abbr. : ENGR
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Small drum : TABOR
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Yearning : ITCH
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See 16-Across : POLO
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"Send me" : ILLGO
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With 14-Across, "Meet the Parents" co-star : TERI
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Climate change subj. : ECOL
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Being in the dark, maybe, and others : FEARS
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"Goes" : SAYS
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One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters : EARLOFCHESTER
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Foreign title of address : SRI
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Club : BAT
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Unloaded on : SOLDTO
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Another title for this puzzle's subject : BARONOFRENFREW
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180 : UEY
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Narrow estuaries : RIAS
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Material in the game Minecraft : ORE
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Broccoli ___ : RABE
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Jazz with rapid chord changes : BOP
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Turntable speeds, briefly : RPMS
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Crimson rival : ELI
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___ Ziegler, Richard Schiff's Emmy-winning role on "The West Wing" : TOBY
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Colonel's chain : KFC
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Another title for this puzzle's subject : DUKEOFCORNWALL
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1998 Masters champion Mark : OMEARA
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The last "Back to the Future" : III
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___-en-Provence : AIX
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Another title for this puzzle's subject : PRINCEOFWALES
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A is the best one : PLAN
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Gladden : ELATE
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Burkina ___ (African land) : FASO
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English poet laureate Nahum : TATE
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Many a techno concert attendee : RAVER
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Baseball's Felipe : ALOU
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Adderall target, briefly : ADHD
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Copycats : APERS
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Many a one-star Yelp review : RANT
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Relatives of sabers : EPEES
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Like some extreme diets : NOCARB
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Stepmom of Mitchell and Claire on "Modern Family" : GLORIA
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Sushi plate item : ROLL
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Younger Trump daughter : TIFFANY
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One of the Furies : ALECTO
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Boring : BLAH
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Grendel in "Beowulf," e.g. : OGRE
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Antarctic waters : ROSSSEA
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The "ipso" in ipso facto : ITSELF
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Common pendant shape : TEARDROP
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Show happiness or sadness, say : CRY
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Word on a towel : HIS
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High wind : OBOE
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A lot : TONS
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Semester, e.g. : TERM
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Has a mortgage, say : OWES
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Regret : RUE
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Often-swirled food, informally : FROYO
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Halloween decoration letters : RIP
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Control+Y on a PC or Command+Y on a Mac : REDO
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Many a college interviewer, in brief : ALUM
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One may run through a park : BIKEPATH
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"Sherlock" airer : BBC
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Record label for Miley Cyrus and Pitbull : RCA
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Doughnuts, in topology : TORI
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Tied to a particular time : OFANERA
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Certain assailants : KNIFERS
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Qualifier in texts : FWIW
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Made : EARNED
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Disturber of the peace : RIOTER
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Fingers-in-ears sounds : LALALA
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Rests atop : LIESON
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Deletes : XSOUT
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Show one's appreciation, in a way : CLAP
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Wasp's nest site : EAVE
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In the distance : AFAR
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Educ. supporter : PTA
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Little guy : LAD

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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