Author: | Paula Gamache |
Editor: | Will Shortz |
1 M | 2 A | 3 S | 4 H | 5 E | 6 S | 7 B | 8 A | 9 C | 10 K | 11 S | 12 T | 13 A | 14 B | 15 A | 16 P | 17 E | 18 R | 19 S |
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20 C | R | E | O | L | E | 21 A | R | I | S | T | I | D | E | 22 R | E | B | E | L |
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23 F | O | R | G | O | C | 24 O | L | D | T | U | R | K | E | Y | 25 C | R | O | C | I |
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26 L | O | R | G | N | E | T | T | E | 27 A | T | E | 28 S | A | I | L | O | N |
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29 Y | M | A | 30 D | O | O | N | 31 E | 32 S | F | O | R | 33 B | I | D | D | I | N | G |
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34 E | 35 L | E | E | 36 R | E | E | K | 37 E | L | I | O | |||||||||
38 A | 39 B | 40 I | D | E | 41 C | 42 A | S | T | 43 A | L | L | A | T | 44 S | 45 E | 46 A |
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47 F | O | R | G | I | 48 V | 49 E | U | S | T | H | 50 I | 51 S | D | A | Y | 52 E | N | C |
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53 O | B | O | E | 54 I | M | P | S | 55 N | A | R | Y | 56 B | 57 U | T | T | E |
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58 G | O | N | D | 59 O | L | A | 60 E | 61 L | U | D | E | 62 P | A | T | D | R | Y |
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63 F | O | R | A | G | 64 E | 65 A | P | P | R | O | P | 66 R | I | A | T | E | ||||
67 A | 68 L | E | U | T | S | 69 C | H | O | S | E | 70 E | L | L | E | S | 71 S | 72 E |
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73 M | I | N | T | S | 74 B | L | O | C | 75 I | 76 O | N | A | 77 R | I | P | S |
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78 P | V | C | 79 P | L | A | Y | H | 80 A | 81 R | D | T | O | F | 82 O | R | G | E | T |
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83 S | E | E | 84 D | 85 C | O | A | T | 86 T | O | O | T | 87 M | O | N | D | O |
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88 E | R | I | N | 89 C | 90 F | O | S | 91 P | 92 S | S | T | |||||||||
93 G | 94 R | 95 I | N | A | N | D | 96 F | O | R | B | E | 97 A | 98 R | I | T | 99 E | 100 L | 101 F |
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102 L | E | V | I | T | T | 103 L | A | E | 104 N | E | A | R | 105 F | 106 A | T | A | L |
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107 A | M | A | Z | E | 108 C | A | R | R | 109 I | 110 E | S | A | F | O | R | T | U | N | E |
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111 D | I | N | E | R | 112 A | S | S | E | R | T | E | D | 113 P | E | E | D | E | E |
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114 S | T | A | N | S | 115 T | H | E | S | S | A | L | Y | 116 S | T | E | E | D | S |
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1. Reduces to pulp : MASHES 7. Betray, in a way : BACKSTAB 15. They're unoriginal : APERS 20. Haitian ___ : CREOLE 21. Haiti's first democratically elected president : ARISTIDE 22. Iconoclast : REBEL 23. Skip Thanksgiving leftovers? : FORGOCOLDTURKEY 25. Early spring bloomers : CROCI 26. Operagoer's accessory : LORGNETTE 27. Broke bread : ATE 28. Longfellow's words before "O Ship of State!" : SAILON 29. Singer Sumac : YMA 30. Say "No," "Never" and "Uh-uh"? : DOONESFORBIDDING 34. Mrs. Robert ___ (Mary Custis) : ELEE 36. Make a big stink : REEK 37. Chacon of the 1960s Mets : ELIO 38. Put up with : ABIDE 41. One may be original : CAST 43. Hopelessly lost : ALLATSEA 47. Plea for immediate absolution? : FORGIVEUSTHISDAY 52. Abbr. on a cover letter : ENC 53. Wind in front of a stage : OBOE 54. Kin of fairies : IMPS 55. Not : NARY 56. Crested ___, Colo. : BUTTE 58. Chairlift alternative : GONDOLA 60. Shake : ELUDE 62. Blot with a paper towel, maybe : PATDRY 63. Like food that's acceptable to cattle? : FORAGEAPPROPRIATE 67. Inuit relatives : ALEUTS 69. Checked, say : CHOSE 70. Italian sportswear name : ELLESSE 73. They come with turndown service : MINTS 74. Soviet ___ : BLOC 75. Burial site of early Scottish kings : IONA 77. Rents : RIPS 78. Pipe material, for short : PVC 79. Memorable theatrical performance? : PLAYHARDTOFORGET 83. Shell, e.g. : SEEDCOAT 86. Warning from a driver : TOOT 87. Extremely, in 1970s slang : MONDO 88. Joyce's land : ERIN 89. Bottom-line bigwigs, in brief : CFOS 91. Head-turning sound : PSST 93. Abstain happily? : GRINANDFORBEARIT 99. Fairy : ELF 102. Steven who co-wrote "Freakonomics" : LEVITT 103. New Guinea port : LAE 104. Life-threatening : NEARFATAL 107. Blow away : AMAZE 108. Is well-endowed? : CARRIESAFORTUNE 111. One giving an order : DINER 112. Declared : ASSERTED 113. Dammed river in North Carolina : PEEDEE 114. Maurice of Nixon's cabinet : STANS 115. Region conquered by Philip II of Macedon : THESSALY 116. Mounts : STEEDS |
1. "Back to the Future" family name : MCFLY 2. "Get ___!" : AROOM 3. California missions founder Junípero ___ : SERRA 4. Scottish poet James known as "The Ettrick Shepherd" : HOGG 5. Southern university that shares its name with a biblical judge : ELON 6. Form a splinter group : SECEDE 7. Sled dog with a statue in New York's Central Park : BALTO 8. Elizabeth in the cosmetics department : ARDEN 9. Abbr. following op. and loc. : CIT 10. The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. : KSU 11. Attack from the air : STRAFE 12. 2010 chart-topper for Ke$ha : TIKTOK 13. Like ___ in the headlights : ADEER 14. Old Ottoman governor : BEY 15. Rural setting, in poetry : ARCADIA 16. Green gemstone : PERIDOT 17. Place in a Carlo Levi memoir : EBOLI 18. Scout's mission : RECON 19. David's weapon : SLING 24. Western tribe : OTOE 28. Preposterous : SILLY 31. Once, a long time ago : ERST 32. "Family Guy" creator MacFarlane : SETH 33. Ignore, imperatively : BELAY 34. Barely beat : EDGEDOUT 35. Oahu offering : LEI 38. In ___ (confused) : AFOG 39. Mr. Burns's teddy bear on "The Simpsons" : BOBO 40. Typical cemetery enclosure : IRONFENCE 41. Driver's target : CUP 42. Balloonhead : ASS 43. Seller of space or time, for short : ADREP 44. Showy craft? : SETDESIGN 45. ___'acte : ENTR 46. ___-deucy : ACEY 48. Tennis's 1977 U.S. Open champ : VILAS 49. Salon, e.g., informally : EMAG 50. Accustom : INURE 51. ___-masochism : SADO 56. False deity : BAAL 57. Baloney and then some : UTTERROT 59. Dinner scraps : ORTS 60. Memorable time : EPOCH 61. Vintage platters : LPS 62. Kebab go-with : PILAF 64. Bravura : ECLAT 65. Cry to a mate : AHOY 66. City east of the Sierra Nevada : RENO 67. Concert stack : AMPS 68. Unexploded : LIVE 71. Made haste : SPED 72. "___ dignus" (Latin motto) : ESTO 74. Sans pizazz : BLAND 75. Chapel line : IDO 76. Giant of old : OTT 79. Gist : POINT 80. Basic first step : ATOB 81. Mateus ___ : ROSE 82. Chant syllables : OMS 84. Bear vis-à-vis the woods, e.g. : DENIZEN 85. Fails miserably : CRATERS 89. Like a hair shirt : COARSE 90. Bordeaux brothers : FRERES 91. La Môme ___ (The Little Sparrow) : PIAF 92. Sharpening devices : STROPS 93. Sword lilies, for short : GLADS 94. Send, as a check : REMIT 95. Trump who wrote "The Best Is Yet to Come" : IVANA 96. Instant : FLASH 97. Lensman Adams : ANSEL 98. Good to go : READY 99. Dexterity exercise : ETUDE 100. Like an Interstate : LANED 101. Jumps bail, say : FLEES 105. Say "What to do? What to do?," e.g. : FRET 106. To ___ (precisely) : ATEE 108. Siamese, e.g. : CAT 109. Filing org. : IRS 110. H : ETA |
Answer summary: 8 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.
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