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New York Times, Saturday, August 25, 2018

Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Whence the line "Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess - so she strikes our eyes!"
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {XZ} This is puzzle # 27 for Mr. Ezersky.
Sam Ezersky notes:
NO SIR. IMS. PRELIM. ASAP. SAND PILE. WIN. The clues for these answers are all Will's; I can't take any credit for them outside of ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
That SE corner is brilliant. RADIO WAVE cleverly disguised as an [Air traveler?] + I CALLED IT! = OH HELL YES! Something fun about ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times8/25/18 ( No. 25,127 )
Across
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Tex-Mex morsel : PINTOBEAN
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"Ooh-la-la!" : ILIKE
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Pop group with the 1993 #2 hit "All That She Wants" : ACEOFBASE
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Polite rejection : NOSIR
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Tough crowd? : GOONSQUAD
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Artifacts, to archaeologists : FINDS
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Program-closing command on a PC : ENDNOW
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Gripes : PLAINTS
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Mountain home : AERIE
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Equatorial Guinea joined it in 2017 : OPEC
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Lay the groundwork? : SOD
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This blows! : TNT
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Common classroom adornment : WALLMAP
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Acts all-powerful : PLAYSGOD
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Detective in "The French Connection" : DOYLE
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Lamb, by another name : ELIA
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Scissors : SNIPS
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Big name in cookware : TFAL
41
___ business : RISKY
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Maritime graphic : SEACHART
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Ration : METEOUT
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Material in translation : RNA
49
Some chats, briefly : IMS
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Behind : TUSH
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First chairman of the E.E.O.C., familiarly : FDRJR
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Wager : LAYABET
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Heat : PRELIM
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Group in feminist writing : WOMYN
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Air traveler? : RADIOWAVE
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Whence the line "Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess - so she strikes our eyes!" : ILIAD
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"Told you!" : ICALLEDIT
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___-Poo, son of the Mikado : NANKI
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"Abso-freakin'-lutely!" : OHHELLYES
Down
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One running for the Senate? : PAGE
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Supercelebrity : ICON
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Yoko Ono, artistically, in the 1960s : NEODADAIST
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Equivalent of a megagram : TONNE
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In a way : OFSORTS
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Sweet-and-spicy sports bar snack : BBQWINGS
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Theme of Cirque du Soleil's "O," appropriately : EAU
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"Hurry!" : ASAP
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Renowned pirate captain during the Golden Age of Piracy : NEDLOW
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First, second and third place : INFIELD
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Primitive attire : LOINCLOTH
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"Who ___?" : ISNT
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Department store section : KIDS
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Where victims of arrests are taken, for short : ERS
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Mental health org. : APA
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Historic town in Berkshire : ETON
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Certain bank deposit : SPERM
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Basic skateboarding trick : OLLIE
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Classic musical with the song "A Hymn to Him" : MYFAIRLADY
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Freak out : ALARM
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Hides : PELTS
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Talk, talk, talk : YAKETYYAK
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"Yo mama" joke, e.g. : DIS
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Ideal, in teenspeak : PERF
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Contents of a playground box : SANDPILE
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We : YOUANDI
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Coiner of the words "chortle" and "frabjous" : CARROLL
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Modern connection inits. : USB
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Home of Vegas's World Series of Poker : THERIO
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Turquoise or aquamarine : JEWEL
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Bugs Bunny's girlfriend : LOLA
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Exiled ruler of 1979 : AMIN
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Auto dial : TACH
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Good name for a landscaper? : IVIE
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___-Willets Point (subway station in Queens, N.Y.) : METS
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The "1" in 1-9 : WIN
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- : DAH

Answer summary: 8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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