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New York Times, Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Author:
Bruce Greig
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
18-Across : Relating to element #76
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Bruce Greig

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Greig. Tuesday freshness: 91%
Bruce Greig notes:
Finally! After five (or six?) submissions, I got Will's blessing. After just one, relatively straightforward, set of edits, it was ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Debut! Nice and consistent theme, phrases in the form of (animal + movement). I loved CHICKEN RUN, by the maker of "Wallace and ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times3/6/18 ( No. 24,955 )
Across
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French clerics : ABBES
6
Resource in the Mesabi Range : ORE
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Lacking any tread : BALD
13
Florida's Key ___ : LARGO
14
Fruit center : PIT
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Official state sport of Wyoming : RODEO
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Forced walk with arms pinned behind the back : FROGMARCH
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Relating to element #76 : OSMIC
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Something "lost" in the highest-grossing movie of 1981 : ARK
20
Precalculator calculators : ABACI
21
Grace under pressure : POISE
22
"Hogwash!" : LIES
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Hit 2000 animated film set on a farm : CHICKENRUN
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Specialties : FORTES
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State with conviction : ASSERT
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Test, as 6-Across : ASSAY
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Seriously injure : MAIM
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___ Moines, Iowa : DES
34
Core-strengthening exercise performed on all fours : BEARCRAWL
38
Death on the Nile cause, perhaps : ASP
41
Commend : CITE
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Swine : BOARS
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Muss, as the hair : TOUSLE
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Young raptor : EAGLET
50
Old ragtime dance : TURKEYTROT
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Cockney greeting : ELLO
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Courtyards : ATRIA
56
Trickled : OOZED
58
Bit of a draft? : SIP
59
Fire department V.I.P. : CHIEF
60
Straight-kneed military movement : GOOSESTEP
62
Any of eight English kings : HENRY
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"Barbara ___" (Beach Boys hit) : ANN
64
Hunger for : CRAVE
65
Physics units : ERGS
66
"Get it?" : SEE
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Propelled a boat : OARED
Down
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Cattle or horse feed : ALFALFA
2
New York's Spanish Harlem and others : BARRIOS
3
Employees at Re/Max and Coldwell Banker : BROKERS
4
Bad thing to have on one's face : EGG
5
"Brave New World" drug : SOMA
6
Who said "I'm black. I don't feel burdened by it .... It's part of who I am. It does not define me" : OPRAH
7
Christina who played Wednesday Addams : RICCI
8
Honesty and hard work, e.g. : ETHIC
9
Particles in quantum mechanics : BOSONS
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Looked up to : ADMIRED
11
Sports & ___ (Trivial Pursuit category) : LEISURE
12
Museum guides : DOCENTS
15
Borders of boxing rings : ROPES
17
Some kindergarten instruction : ABCS
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Attack as Hamlet did Polonius : STAB
25
___ Sutra : KAMA
27
Hurricane's center : EYE
30
Noninvasive diagnostic procedure, for short : MRI
31
One of two in "Waiting for Godot" : ACT
32
Ill temper : IRE
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___-deucey (card game) : ACEY
36
Org. awarding titles to Mike Tyson and Tyson Fury : WBA
37
Balcony section : LOGE
38
Embassy worker ... or something that worker might carry : ATTACHE
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Wind that typically brings warmer air : SOUTHER
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Operating smoothly, as an engine : PURRING
43
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, for a record 19 times : ALLSTAR
44
Take over for : RELIEVE
45
Clogged (up) : STOPPED
47
Super G competitors : SKIERS
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Like lettuce, spinach and kale : LEAFY
49
French summers : ETES
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Coverage of senators in ancient Rome? : TOGAS
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Onetime news exec Arledge : ROONE
53
O3 : OZONE
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Art ___ : DECO
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Mme., in Madrid : SRA

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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