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New York Times, Saturday, May 7, 2016

Author:
Kyle Mahowald
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
30-Across : "Hmm"
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Kyle Mahowald

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JKXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Mahowald. Grid flow: 46.8 Saturday freshness: 40%
Jeff Chen notes:
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© 2016, The New York Times5/7/16 ( No. 24,287 )
Across
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Small, slim daggers : PONIARDS
9
Apple variety : MACPRO
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Single from Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." : IMONFIRE
16
Major protest : UPROAR
17
Many a Harpo Marx joke : SIGHTGAG
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Extremely fast? : STARVE
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Dip ___ in : ATOE
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Get the lead out? : SMELT
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"Poor little" one in Coleridge's "To a Young Ass" : FOAL
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Automatic, for one : ARM
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Like Egypt : ARAB
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Jerks : TUGS
27
They're followed on message boards : THREADS
30
"Hmm" : LETSSEE
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Writer who gave his name to an annual award : OHENRY
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Many vacationers bring them home : TANS
34
Question before a personal update : WHATSNEWWITHYOU
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Something depicted for goodness' sake? : HALO
41
With 48-Across, enters stealthily : CREEPS
42
One-knee plea : MARRYME
46
Entertains at bedtime : READSTO
47
Color of McCartney's "Sgt. Pepper" uniform : AQUA
48
See 41-Across : INTO
50
Belt line? : POW
51
Sharp's opposite : DUMB
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Sharp's handful : CARDS
54
Captain of fiction : NEMO
57
Like corduroy : RIBBED
59
Cheese choice : AMERICAN
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As a replacement : INLIEU
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Simplest sort of deal : CASHSALE
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Insistent retort : DOESSO
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A good cure for it is sleep, per W. C. Fields : INSOMNIA
Down
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Where Fermi studied : PISA
2
Cut out : OMIT
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Place to be avoided : NOGOAREA
4
Not learned : INHERENT
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Like a boat's cockpit, usually : AFT
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Drilling sites : RIGS
7
Plays with emotions? : DRAMAS
8
Rocker with the 1976 album "Live Bullet" : SEGER
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"I wish *I* had that" : MUSTBENICE
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On point : APT
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Common use for pipe cleaners : CRAFTS
12
Like tea bags : POROUS
13
Plunder : RAVAGE
14
Words that may elicit a worried gulp : ORELSE
21
Show title shown on a license plate : LALAW
24
Like much of the Everglades : MARSHY
27
Way up at a ski resort : TOW
28
Primary loser to J.F.K. in 1960 : HHH
29
Longtime nickname in comics : DYNAMICDUO
31
Certain sandal : TSTRAP
33
First word of Frost's "The Road Not Taken" : TWO
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"Neapolitan Novels" author Ferrante : ELENA
36
Pleasure principle : HEDONISM
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Frequent chant in 2008 : YESWECAN
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Go for it, with "in" : OPT
39
Grp. doing private shows? : USO
42
Home of the soccer team that FIFA named the Club of the Century : MADRID
43
Mother-or-son Philippine president : AQUINO
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Bit of gang warfare : RUMBLE
45
Some wedding parties : RABBIS
46
Hall-of-Fame N.B.A. player known as "The Worm" : RODMAN
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One of the singing Braxton sisters : TRACI
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Mtg. : SESS
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Where Bambara is widely spoken : MALI
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Fit for service : ONEA
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Experts in power: Abbr. : EES
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Symbol of charge density : RHO

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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