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New York Times, Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Author:
Bruce Haight
Editor:
Will Shortz
With 44-Across, Valentine's Day gift ... or a hint to the shaded squares
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Bruce Haight

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 81, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Haight. Tuesday freshness: 47%
Bruce Haight notes:
I remember deciding to try to find some kind of boxed thing to do a puzzle on. No new ideas were popping up on the XWord Info list, so ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
BOXED / ROSES, represented as R O S E in a 2x2 set of squares. That felt thin by itself, so I'm glad Bruce tossed in a ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times2/13/18 ( No. 24,934 )
Across
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Unwanted email : SPAM
5
Series of courses? : MEALS
10
"Buenos días!" : HOLA
14
Actress Polo : TERI
15
Top Trappist, maybe : ABBOT
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14-time M.L.B. All-Star, to fans : AROD
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Beginning, datewise : ASOF
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"Yes, that's my opinion" : IBELIEVESO
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Like skim milk : NONFAT
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Takes to the station house : ARRESTS
23
Wolf (down) : SNARF
26
One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit "Cheap Thrills" : SIA
27
The "O" of NATO: Abbr. : ORG
30
Physics Nobelist Bohr : NIELS
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Big rift : CHASM
36
Intrinsically : PERSE
38
Lived like a single guy : BATCHEDIT
40
The "E" of Q.E.D. : ERAT
41
With 44-Across, Valentine's Day gift ... or a hint to the shaded squares : BOXED
42
Regarding : ASTO
43
The Eternal City : ROME
44
See 41-Across : ROSES
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Knocks : RAPS
46
Old school : ALMAMATER
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North Africa's ___ Mountains : ATLAS
49
On the down-low : SLYLY
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Looks to be : SEEMS
52
When to expect someone, for short : ETA
53
Airer of "The Bachelor" and "The Catch" : ABC
55
Stonehenge priest : DRUID
57
Dakota tribe that attacked "The Revenant" trappers : ARIKARA
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Enthusiastic : RARING
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Get fouled up, idiomatically : GOSIDEWAYS
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Manual reader : USER
69
Father of Phobos : ARES
70
Snicker sound : TEHEE
71
"Encore!" : MORE
72
Some hard drinks : RYES
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Does some post-shooting film work : EDITS
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Reason for a school closing : SNOW
Down
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Baseball's Musial : STAN
2
100 centavos : PESO
3
Elvis's middle name : ARON
4
Irks : MIFFS
5
Tiki bar drink : MAITAI
6
Flow out : EBB
7
Fiver : ABE
8
The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho" : LOLA
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Excites : STIRS
10
Try some Valentine's Day candy? : HAVEAHEART
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Shipments to smelteries : ORES
12
Heading on a poster with a picture of a dog : LOST
13
Hubbubs : ADOS
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Philosopher Fromm : ERICH
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Fashion's Klein : ANNE
24
PC start-overs : REBOOTS
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Big source of omega-3 fatty acids : FLAXSEED
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Schedule at the Met : OPERAS
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Keep going in Yahtzee : REROLL
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One of 22 for U2 : GRAMMY
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Pilot : STEERER
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Commercial success? : ADSALE
34
Poker advice for Sajak? : SITPAT
35
Greek peak, briefly : MTOSSA
37
Try some Valentine's Day candy, sneakily? : STEALAKISS
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Investments with fixed rates, for short : CDS
41
Item under a blouse : BRA
47
"Oops, sorry!" : MYBAD
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Locale of both the 2018 and 2020 Olympics : ASIA
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Bags for guys : MURSES
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Home of King Minos : CRETE
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Bongos, e.g. : DRUMS
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Lab medium : AGAR
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Actor Calhoun : RORY
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"Hmm ..." : ISEE
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Bedazzled : AWED
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Has the stage : ISON
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Famed "fiddler" : NERO
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Sprouted : GREW
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Sushi fish : AHI
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"Nevertheless ..." : YET

Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle.

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