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New York Times, Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Author:
Bruce Haight
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Contraction sung twice in the first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
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Bruce Haight

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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 50 for Mr. Haight. Grid flow: 21.6 Tuesday freshness: 90%
Bruce Haight notes:
I remember considering a puzzle about redundant phrases a couple years ago and being disappointed when it turned out the theme had ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times7/9/19 ( No. 25,445 )
Across
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So far : ASYET
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Jazz style : BEBOP
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Not an exact amount: Abbr. : EST
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Note from a 6-Down that might give you jitters : SEEME
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Plains tribe : OTOES
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To the ___ degree : NTH
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Experience, redundantly : PASTHISTORY
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Opus ___ : DEI
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Prefix with tourism : ECO
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Come after : ENSUE
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"Victory is mine!" : IWIN
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Like some telephones and tires : CORDED
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Snitch, redundantly : RATFINK
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Novelist Morrison : TONI
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Dark force, in Chinese philosophy : YIN
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Hoi polloi, with "the" : MASSES
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Smidgen : SKOSH
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"The Highwayman" poet : NOYES
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Angsty music genre : EMO
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Moolah, redundantly : CASHMONEY
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Automated producer of spam : BOT
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5/8/1945 : VEDAY
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Popeye's creator E. C. ___ : SEGAR
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Spaced out mentally : INAFOG
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Track relentlessly : DOG
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Singer India.___ : ARIE
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Hack, redundantly : TAXICAB
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F equivalent : ESHARP
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"Anybody ___?" : ELSE
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Folgers alternative : YUBAN
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A/C meas. : BTU
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Word in brackets after a mistake : SIC
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Cottontail, redundantly : BUNNYRABBIT
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Get ___ on (ace) : ANA
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Can't be found at the office : ISOUT
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One of 10 in bowling : FRAME
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Pro ___ : TEM
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Self-description after a major lifestyle change : NEWME
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Exhorted : URGED
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Different sides to observe : ASPECTS
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Ship's galley worker : SEACOOK
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"Give me a simple answer!" : YESORNO
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911 responder, for short : EMT
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Giggle : TEHEE
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Head honcho : BOSS
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Question to a backstabber : ETTU
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Rude person in the bleachers : BOOER
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Contraction sung twice in the first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner" : OER
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College subj. that covers Freud : PSY
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How train cars are linked : ENDWISE
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Feminist Gloria : STEINEM
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"Really?" : THINKSO
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___ 500 : INDY
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Hypotheticals : IFS
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The "D" of D.J. : DISC
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"You got that right!" : AMEN
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Shocks, in a way : TASES
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How many TV shows are viewed nowadays : INHD
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Wanderer : NOMAD
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Pandemonium : HAVOC
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Quickly change one's mind back and forth : YOYO
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Video game giant : SEGA
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"You got that right!" : YEAH
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Goes for, as when bobbing for apples : BITESAT
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Like laundry being dried outdoors : ONALINE
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Subject of an I.R.S. consumer warning : TAXSCAM
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Potpourri : GRABBAG
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Broadcast slot : AIRTIME
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Said (to be) : REPUTED
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Shakespearean cry before "What, are you mad?" : FIE
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One of 10 in a ten-speed : GEAR
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At this point : BYNOW
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Problem that has ballooned : SNAFU
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E pluribus ___ : UNUM
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Memory unit : BYTE
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Recycling container : BIN
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Not let go to waste : USE
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"I'm f-f-freezing!" : BRR

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