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New York Times, Sunday, February 5, 2017

Author:
Sam Trabucco
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do?
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Rows: 21, Columns: 20 Words: 131, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Trabucco. Sunday freshness: 92%
Sam Trabucco notes:
I wrote this as an, uh, coping mechanism after certain late 2016 events. It's so important for kids to have role models they can see themselves in, and celebrating women who reach ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Sam helps BREAK THE GLASS CEILING today, six women cracking into their respective fields. The circled letters contain types of GLASS — it's not a PINT that's a 16-ounce container, ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times2/5/17 ( No. 24,561 )
Across
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16-ounce container : POINT
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Material commonly used during cathedral construction : STRAINED
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Primitive timer : STAND
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Pinnacles : ACMES
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Sidney Poitier's 1980 autobiography : THISLIFE
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Moretz of "Carrie" : CHLOE
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Performs, biblically : DOETH
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When soap operas first flourished : RADIOERA
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They're measured by pluviometers : RAINS
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Geneticist's study : DNA
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Rage : IRE
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Sheena who sang "U Got the Look" with Prince : EASTON
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"No worries" : ITSOK
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It helps you achieve balance : INNEREAR
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Highlighter shades : NEONS
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%: Abbr. : PCT
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Reply to "No offense" : NONETAKEN
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Aid after a computer crash, say : ITHELP
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Get : GROK
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Mark : DENOTE
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Mosaic pieces : TESSERAE
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Question after a photo finish : DIDIWIN
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"How's it hangin'?" : SUP
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Click "Going" on a Facebook event, e.g. : RSVP
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2013 best seller by Sheryl Sandberg : LEANIN
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Pennsylvania vacation locale, with "the" : POCONOS
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Pokey's pal on TV : GUMBY
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Spanish she-bear : OSA
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Running a bit behind : LATISH
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Part of a stock exchange? : MOO
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Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? : BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING
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Heavy weight : TON
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"Same with me" : IAGREE
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Move hastily : HIE
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Also-ran in 2000 : NADER
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Gray squirrel, in slang : TREERAT
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Send elsewhere for the night, as a roommate, in modern lingo : SEXILE
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Easy-to-carry telescope : SPAY
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Cubs' home : DEN
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Less safe for a plane landing, in a way : FOGGIER
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Change from black-and-white : COLORIZE
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Classical musician with a Presidential Medal of Freedom : YOYOMA
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Pub vessel : ABLE
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Permeates : IMBUES
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Behind : POSTERIOR
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Fix, as an election : RIG
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Cab destination? : WINCE
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Geometric toy whose sides change depending on how it's folded : FLEXAGON
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Drop a bit : SLIDE
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Arthurian princess : ISEULT
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Poetic preposition : ERE
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Scrape (out) : EKE
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Go online : LOGIN
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Remove fat from, as a soup : DEGREASE
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Caramel candies from Hershey : ROLOS
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Opposite of standing : ADHOC
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Getting ready to swing : TEEINGUP
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Lake catch : TROUT
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White who is the oldest person ever to host "S.N.L." : BETTY
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Participate in deciding : HAVEASAY
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Took care of : SAWTO
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Superfluous part of an essay : PADDING
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*One who 64-Acrossed for Supreme Court justices ... : OCONNOR
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Emphatic refusal : IMEANNO
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After deductions : NET
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Gift shop item : TSHIRT
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Hurriedly showed oneself out? : STREAKED
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"J to ___ L-O!" (Jennifer Lopez album) : THA
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*... for astronauts : RIDE
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Like over four billion people : ASIAN
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"Victory is yours" : ILOSE
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Mexican president Enrique Peña ___ : NIETO
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Zac of "Neighbors" : EFRON
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Professors answer to them : DEANS
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Reading material for a Hollywood agent : SCRIPTS
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*... for British prime ministers : THATCHER
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Most-wanted invitees : ALISTERS
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Texting while driving, e.g. : NONO
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Anchor's place : DESK
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Enter, as data : READIN
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Cousin of "OMG!" : EEK
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Guido who painted "Massacre of the Innocents" : RENI
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Today : NOW
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"Hmm, guess so" : ISPOSE
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Loo, for short : LAV
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___ rally : PEP
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What boats shouldn't do : TIP
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___ Gay (W.W. II plane) : ENOLA
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Best Foreign Film of 2005 set in South Africa : TSOTSI
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Kennedy who was the mother of Maria Shriver : EUNICE
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Aid for the handy, informally : DIYKIT
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Letters of "pride" : LGBT
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Alternative to a pound : EURO
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Emphatic agreement : AMEN
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Org. with a travel ban? : NBA
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Bills, e.g. : CASH
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Hit record? : SHINER
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"Yi-i-ikes!" : OHGEEZ
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Pacific : SERENE
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Ending with teen : AGER
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Certain conservative skirt : MIDI
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Hillary Clinton in 1969 or Bill Clinton in 1970 : ONEL
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Monster : OGRE
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Fictional spacecraft created by the Time Lords : TARDIS
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Like lettuce : LEAFY
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West Coast air hub : LAX
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Overly : TOO
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Two-___ (smallish car) : SEATER
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___-fi : SCI
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Yapping dog, for short : POM
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*... for secretaries of state : ALBRIGHT
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"Don't be so dumb!" : YOUIDIOT
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Rip off, informally : GYP
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Clown (around) : GOOF
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[Yawn] : IMSLEEPY
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Rule by governing board : REGENCY
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Altar constellation : ARA
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*... for Best Directors : BIGELOW
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Ranger's station : LOOKOUT
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Che Guevara's real first name : ERNESTO
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Puts forward, as effort : EXERTS
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Factor in area calculation : WIDTH
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"___ little silhouetto of a man" (Queen lyric) : ISEEA
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Desert NE of the Sinai Peninsula : NEGEV
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*... for Nobel laureates : CURIE
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1941 chart-topper "Maria ___" : ELENA
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Slice for a hearty appetite : SLAB
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Miner's strike : LODE
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Catches off base : TAGS
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Apologia pro vita ___ : SUA
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60 minuti : ORA

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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