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STONERS' FILM FESTIVAL

New York Times, Sunday, June 2, 2019

Author:
Erik Agard
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Erik Agard

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 39 for Mr. Agard. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Sunday freshness: 49%
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© 2019, The New York Times6/2/19 ( No. 25,408 )
Across
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Up in the air : ALOFT
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Memo abbr. : ATTN
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How many network sitcoms are rated : TVPG
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Floats : WAFTS
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World capital once behind the Iron Curtain : SOFIA
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Bubble tea flavor : TARO
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One who might get a parade : HERO
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Singer Goulding : ELLIE
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Stoner movies? : PUFFPIECES
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Fired : AXED
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Pioneer who lent his name to six U.S. counties : BOONE
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Île de la ___ : CITE
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At some point : LATERON
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Components of stoner movies? : POTSHOTS
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Flooring wood : ASH
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Furniture wood : ELM
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Rubberneck : GAWK
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Certain Franciscan : FRIAR
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Salsa variety : VERDE
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Chief Ouray and others : UTES
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Came down to earth : ALIT
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Farrow with a Golden Globe : MIA
43
Tension in a stoner movie? : HIGHDRAMA
46
Stoner movie that flops at the box office? : SMOKEBOMB
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Youngest Jetson : ELROY
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Wheat ___ : GERM
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"___ a dream ..." : IHAVE
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Rock's Brickell : EDIE
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Ancient Greek land that hosted the Olympics : ELIS
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___ Calrissian, "Star Wars" role : LANDO
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Game's end : MATE
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Blood flow aid : STENT
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Set a good example, perhaps : LED
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Half of doce : SEIS
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Having two beats per measure, in music : DUPLE
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Gives what for : SCOLDS
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Ending of a stoner movie? : JOINTRESOLUTION
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Honeydew relative : CASABA
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Smooths : EASES
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Peewee : RUNT
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The Horned Frogs of the Big 12 Conf. : TCU
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Animal wearing red pajamas in a children's book : LLAMA
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Make a jumper, say : KNIT
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Broadcasts : EMITS
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Piece on a1 : ROOK
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Inter ___ : ALIA
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Singer Chesney : KENNY
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Two tablets, maybe : DOSE
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Dog, for some : GUIDE
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With 84-Across, like an audience during a stoner movie? : ROLLINGIN
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See 82-Across : THEAISLES
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After-hours convenience : ATM
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___ track (attack song) : DISS
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Style to pick? : AFRO
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Splits lickety-split : FLEES
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Top-tier : ALIST
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Bottom-heavy fruit : PEAR
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Part of V.S.O.P. : OLD
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Initials hidden in "jetway," appropriately : TWA
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Bad actor in a stoner movie? : BAKEDHAM
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Certain Mexican-American : CHICANA
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Lit ___ : CRIT
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Like ornithologists' studies : AVIAN
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TV host with the autobiography "Born a Crime" : NOAH
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Be behind the camera for a blockbuster stoner movie? : DIRECTHITS
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Very, in slang : MONDO
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Hella cool : DOPE
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James in both the Blues and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame : ETTA
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Certain godchild : NIECE
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Midlife crisis feeling : ANGST
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Big acronym in education : STEM
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No longer gray, say : DYED
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Woman's nickname that elides "Na" : TASHA
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Adoption org. : ASPCA
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Site of an annual May race : LOUISVILLE
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Unfindable, so to speak : OFFTHEGRID
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Piccolo relative : FIFE
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Dance specialty : TAP
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Squad bringing more than their B game? : ATEAM
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Careful word choice, maybe : TACT
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Fencing along a sidewalk : TREEGUARD
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Samin ___, best-selling cookbook author : NOSRAT
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Terse email reply : THANKS
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Give a hard time : VEX
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Kitchen work before cooking : PREP
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Cupid, e.g. : GODOFLOVE
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Line on many a business card : WEBSITE
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HI goodbye : ALOHA
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Item taken out of its packaging before it's sold : FLOORMODEL
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Window option : TINT
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Notices : SEES
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In worse health : ILLER
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Be short : OWE
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Kiddie ride : TRIKE
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Swirl : EDDY
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Density symbols : RHOS
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Bush : AMATEURISH
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"That bothers me" : IMIND
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Lends a hand with contraband? : ABETS
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Command to a dog : HEEL
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"Encore!" : AGAIN
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Davis Cup competition : MENSTENNIS
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"___ we?" : SHALL
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Back : BETON
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Quality feigned by a humblebrag : MODESTY
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Overstayed, e.g. : IMPOSED
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Film heroine who says "Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, flyboy" : LEIA
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Orkney resident : SCOT
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Buckwheat noodles : SOBA
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Deploy : USE
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Repentance subjects : SINS
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Dissident/writer Khashoggi : JAMAL
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Big nonprofit that operates the Department of Defense Safe Helpline : RAINN
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One being taught a lesson : TUTEE
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Maryland's ___ Barton Parkway : CLARA
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Set apart : ALLOT
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The cutting of one's jib? : SAILMAKING
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Travel kit contents : TOILETRIES
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Shift from one dialect to another, depending on the social context : CODESWITCH
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Strummed instruments, for short : UKES
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Fratty feats : KEGSTANDS
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Center of the U.S. auto industry : MOTORCITY
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Underhanded plan : RUSE
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Jewish snack : KNISH
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___ the lily : GILD
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Indignant denial : IDIDNOT
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Big name in insurance : AFLAC
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Tough H.S. science class : APCHEM
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Scornful syllable : FEH
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Subjected to a hostile takeover : RAIDED
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Tips for journalists : LEADS
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First post-B.C. year : ONEAD
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Befuddled : ATSEA
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Rival of Ole Miss : BAMA
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Bard of ___ : AVON
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Not worth hashing out : MOOT
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Museo contents : ARTE
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Kind of seeds in health foods : CHIA
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Siamang or orangutan : APE
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Cause of a blowup, in brief : TNT

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11 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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