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REPRESENT!

New York Times, Sunday, December 2, 2018

Author:
Paul Coulter
Editor:
Will Shortz
126-Across : Less crazy
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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 82 Missing: {QX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Coulter. Sunday freshness: 3%
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© 2018, The New York Times12/2/18 ( No. 25,226 )
Across
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Tennis judge's cry : FAULT
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Locks in a barn? : MANE
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Icon leading to checkout : CART
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Traveled in trunks? : SWAM
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Large green moths : LUNAS
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Dateless, say : ALONE
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It's frequently in Italian : ARIA
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Greek ally in the "Iliad" : HERA
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13579 AZ : ODDSANDENDS
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Hash houses : BEANERIES
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Country on the Red Sea : ERITREA
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Home sick? : OUT
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Brackish coastal habitat : SALTMARSH
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Citrus drink : ADE
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Egyptian god of the universe : AMENRA
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It often comes before the fall : TRIP
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Summer clock setting: Abbr. : DST
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Large large skip skip : TOOBIGTOIGNORE
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Victoria's Secret item : BRA
46
Sandra Denton, in hip-hop's "Whatta Man" trio : PEPA
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A miner concern? : ORE
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Opening in a battlement : CRENEL
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Some transitional movie shots : FADEINS
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Sporting a feathery crest : TUFTED
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First name on the Supreme Court : ELENA
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AT hot dog hot dog RA : FRANKSINATRA
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Tags : IDS
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The Lions or Tigers, on scoreboards : DET
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Many a fête d'anniversaire attendee : AMIE
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Writer Wiesel : ELIE
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Invincibility power-up in Mario games : STAR
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Blow away : AWE
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Wound + dis : ADDINSULTTOINJURY
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"___ Vickers," Sinclair Lewis novel : ANN
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Doesn't keep : ROTS
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Perch for a pie : SILL
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Comment on a blog : POST
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Dad ___ : BOD
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After all deductions : NET
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P P
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B B : PARALLELBARS
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Big name in watches : OMEGA
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Creator of a draft : BREWER
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All you can eat : EDIBLES
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Masters : MAVENS
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Six-foot runner? : ANT
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Cut, as a log : SAWN
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Scratch (out) : EKE
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Per spire : BREAKINGASWEAT
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Farrokh Bulsara ___ Freddie Mercury : AKA
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___ Caovilla, Italian shoe designer : RENE
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Part of a buck : ANTLER
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End of the British alphabet : ZED
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Something studied in toponymy : PLACENAME
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Altar avowal : IDO
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Creator of the detective Adam Dalgliesh : PDJAMES
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Fiery peppers : HABANEROS
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YEARN
DO : LONGOVERDUE
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Currier's partner : IVES
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Something to take lying down : REST
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Grassy expanse : SWARD
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Certain reunion attendee : NIECE
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It's better than never, they say : LATE
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Spanish title: Abbr. : SRTA
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Pivot around an axis : SLUE
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Less crazy : SANER
Down
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White sheet : FLOE
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Broadway's McDonald : AUDRA
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Reversed : UNDID
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Kept on going : LASTED
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Evictor of the Jews in "Fiddler on the Roof" : TSAR
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Palindromic title : MADAM
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Pint glass fill : ALE
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"That's all wrong!" : NONONO
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Off-road motorcycle race : ENDURO
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Street fleet : CABS
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What a Mercator projection map notably distorts : AREA
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___ Bridge (Venice landmark) : RIALTO
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Like some yoga : TANTRIC
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Explosion fragments : SHRAPNEL
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Small dam : WEIR
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Trojan ally in the "Iliad" : ARES
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Moonshine maker's need : MASH
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Cornerstone abbr. : ESTAB
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Puts in order : NEATENS
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Political refugees : EMIGRES
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Announcement over a plane's P.A. : ETA
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Like cleats : SPIKED
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Minute amount : IOTA
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Test for a college sr. : GRE
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"Father ___" (bygone British sitcom) : TED
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Store event that people may stand in line for : ONEDAYSALE
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Freshen : RENEW
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Give a major lift : ELATE
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Soul sister, say : BFF
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___ avis : RARA
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Garden parties? : ADAMANDEVE
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Telepathy term : PSI
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Children's author Blyton : ENID
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Anklebone : TALUS
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Abbr. that rhymes with "bill," appropriately : UTIL
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Woodworking tool : FRETSAW
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Catbird seat? : NEST
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"At Seventeen" singer Janis ___ : IAN
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He wore #6 for the Sixers : DRJ
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Like some clean energy : SOLAR
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Ones place : TILL
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Boiling blood : IRE
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"Ask ___ ..." : NOT
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Flag : TIRE
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Satellite connection : UPLINK
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Eldest Stark son on "Game of Thrones" : ROBB
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Manhattan Project creation : ABOMB
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Baseball's Garciaparra : NOMAR
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Long haul : TREK
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Durable yellow cotton cloth : NANKEEN
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Darlings : PETS
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Grassy expanse : LEA
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Boy king in Shakespeare's "Richard III" : EDWARDV
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Atlanta-to-Miami dir. : SSE
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Transmission part : GEARCASE
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Groceries holder : BAG
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Genetic info carrier : RNA
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What all people are, per the Bible : SINNERS
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Cardinal letters : STL
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"___, My God, to Thee" (hymn) : NEARER
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Sings the blues : WAILS
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Funds : ENDOWS
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Discordant : ATONAL
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Hank who voices Moe and Chief Wiggum : AZARIA
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Lyric poem : EPODE
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German port in Lower Saxony : EMDEN
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Two in the hand : DEUCE
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Knight who co-founded Nike : PHIL
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What obsidian forms from : LAVA
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Partner of aid : ABET
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Lion's share : MOST
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"Cómo ___ usted?" : ESTA
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Norwegian P.M. Stoltenberg : JENS
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Sibyl : SEER
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"Despicable Me" supervillain : GRU

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

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