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New York Times, Sunday, April 17, 2016

Author:
Howard Barkin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 Missing: {Z} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Barkin. Sunday freshness: 72%
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© 2016, The New York Times4/17/16 ( No. 24,267 )
Across
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Kind of chip : NACHO
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Novelist Tillie who wrote "Tell Me a Riddle" : OLSEN
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1950s sci-fi terror, with "the" : BLOB
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Pro baller-turned-commentator for N.B.A. on TNT : SHAQ
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Upper reaches : ETHER
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Last method of death in Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" : NOOSE
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Letter sign-off : LOVE
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Modern movement inits. : LGBT
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*1978 movie in which Kevin Bacon made his film debut : ANIMALHOUSE
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Minicar, say : ONESEATER
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Makeup for a "Wizard of Oz" character? : TIN
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Cooperate (with) : LIAISE
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Didn't exist : WERENT
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Sufficient, in brief : ENUF
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*Having it made : ONEASYSTREET
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Deg. in the boardroom : MBA
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Fails to brake in time for, maybe : REARENDS
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"I see what you did there!" : OHO
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Comments from a crossword kibitzer : ANSWERS
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It's sold by the yard : ALE
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If all else fails : ATWORST
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Actor Morales : ESAI
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*Progress preventer : STUMBLINGBLOCK
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Some Vegas attractions : FIGHTS
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Prophet whose name means "deliverance" : HOSEA
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Southern Italian port : BARI
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Lock combination? : HAIRDO
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Helmeted deity : ARES
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Cravings : DESIRES
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Sing loudly : BELTOUT
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Non-___ (modern food label) : GMO
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*1990s-2000s HBO hit : SEXANDTHECITY
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A, in Amiens : UNE
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Feeling : SENSATE
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"Chilean" fish : SEABASS
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Typewriter type : PICA
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Family symbols : CRESTS
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Mexican sauce : MOLE
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"Natural" way to serve a roast : AUJUS
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"Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette," e.g. : RENOIR
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*Laos or Vietnam : COMMUNISTSTATE
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Start to -matic : IDIO
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"Oh jeez, don't look at me" : IMAMESS
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Sue Grafton's "___ for Ricochet" : RIS
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Result of overexposure? : SUNBURN
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Where phone nos. might be stored : PDA
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Burst through, as a barrier : BREACHED
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Prefix meaning 118-Across : ECO
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*Sobriquet for ardent Boston fans : REDSOXNATION
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Tetra- plus two : HEXA
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Superficially repair : TAPEUP
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Things always kept on hand? : DIGITS
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Quick jump in the pool : DIP
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Like some photography : TIMELAPSE
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*Popular app that can view any of the places named at the ends of the answers to the starred clues : GOOGLEEARTH
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Tippy-top : APEX
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Disturbance : STIR
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Bach composition : FUGUE
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See 100-Across : GREEN
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Shock to the system : JOLT
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"___-Team" : THEA
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Blackjack option : STAND
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"Duck Dynasty" network : AANDE
Down
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More likely to win a handwriting award : NEATER
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When many start the workday : ATNINE
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Achebe who wrote "Things Fall Apart" : CHINUA
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Designer line? : HEM
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Like some medication : ORAL
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Available : ONHAND
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Sarges' superiors : LOOIES
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March composer : SOUSA
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Curves seen in sports car ads : ESSES
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Formerly : NEE
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Instrument in a metalworker's union? : BLOWTORCH
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Soloist? : LONER
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Lose control at the buffet : OVEREAT
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Appear : BESEEN
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Blind part : SLAT
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Elev. : HGT
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Prez on a penny : ABE
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15 mins. of an N.F.L. game : QTR
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Rich Richie : LIONEL
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Tolkien creatures : ENTS
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Purchase at an optometrist's : FRAMES
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Cry of pain : YOWL
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"Vamoose!" : SHOO
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Work well together : MESH
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Seasoned pork sausage, informally : BRAT
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"No warranty" : ASIS
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Third-largest island in Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia : ELBA
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"___ the Beat" (1982 Go-Go's hit) : WEGOT
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Broadly smiling : AGRIN
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Gang in "Grease" with an automotive name : TBIRDS
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Reggae precursor : SKA
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Fetches : SHAGS
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See 112-Down : TORME
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Deliver to, as a pickup line : USEON
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Agile mountain climbers : IBEXES
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Explorer's grp. : NASA
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Guitar bars : FRETS
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One way to sit by : IDLY
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Storklike waders : IBISES
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Dissuade : DETER
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La saison chaude : ETE
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P.I., in old slang : SHAMUS
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Board displaying the alphabet : OUIJA
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Like some DVD-exclusive releases : UNCUT
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Mess with, as hair or siblings : TEASE
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What covers parts of 80-Down? : SARI
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Poetic shades : EBONS
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L.A. locale : CALI
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Cartoon Great Dane, informally : SCOOB
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Coup d'état : PUTSCH
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Cable channel whose first initial stands for its founder : TCM
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Drama that can go on for years : SOAPOPERA
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See 68-Down : ASIA
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Order in the court : RISE
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Cabinet dept. : EDUC
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El ___ : NINO
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The year 2510 : MMDX
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Average : MEAN
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Thirty, en français : TRENTE
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Thorough : INDEPTH
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River past Orsk : URAL
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Meal : REPAST
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Mogul : BIGGUN
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Churned : ROILED
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Star of Hitchcock's "The Birds" : HEDREN
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Egressed : EXITED
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Nymph turned into a laurel tree, in Greek myth : DAPHNE
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"Calvin and Hobbes" girl : SUSIE
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Tennis situation after deuce : ADOUT
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Border county of New York or Pennsylvania : TIOGA
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"omg" or "lol," say : TEXT
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Phantasy Star maker : SEGA
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Indian mausoleum opening? : TAJ
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N.Y.S.E. debut : IPO
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With 49-Down, singer with the autobiography "It Wasn't All Velvet" : MEL
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Guys' dates, informally : GFS
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___ Pacis (Roman monument) : ARA

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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