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New York Times, Friday, September 7, 2018

Author:
Josh Knapp
Editor:
Will Shortz
London burial place of John Donne and Horatio Nelson
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Josh Knapp

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FXZ} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Knapp. Friday freshness: 81%
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© 2018, The New York Times9/7/18 ( No. 25,140 )
Across
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LP, e.g. : DISC
5
Stories with many chapters : SAGAS
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Instagram and others : APPS
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Getting paid, say : ONTHECLOCK
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Trouble with a tap : DRIP
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Part of a Central American grove : PAPAYATREE
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Field mouse : VOLE
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Beam shooter : PHASER
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Mel in Cooperstown : OTT
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___ dixit (unproven assertion) : IPSE
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Jerks : LOUTS
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It takes time to sink in : QUICKSAND
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___ Decor (magazine) : ELLE
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Demand from a school bully : LUNCHMONEY
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Hi or lo follower : RES
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Spit out : SAID
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More minimalist, say : BARER
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Series of rounds : BOUT
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Place to fish from : DORY
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"___ the Sheep" ("Wallace and Gromit" spinoff) : SHAUN
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Potential drain obstruction : ROOT
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Fate worse than a ticket : TOW
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What goes after the wrong type? : SPELLCHECK
40
Fall Out Boy's "Sugar, ___ Goin Down" : WERE
41
Pipe sellers : HEADSHOPS
42
Brad's gal in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" : JANET
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Tombstone figure : EARP
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Cheap beer option, for short : PBR
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Country : RUSTIC
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Hotel/casino on the Vegas Strip : ARIA
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Foul : ABOMINABLE
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Go on a tweetstorm, say : VENT
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Aquanaut's chamber : DIVINGBELL
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Leg up : EDGE
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Word with skirt or strip : STEAK
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Pastoral verse : IDYL
Down
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Eponymous Austrian physicist who studied waves : DOPPLER
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Owing money : INAHOLE
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London burial place of John Donne and Horatio Nelson : STPAULS
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"As ___ as unsunn'd snow": Shak. : CHASTE
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Mark of a villain, maybe : SCAR
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Not mainstream, informally : ALT
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One of a series of attempts : GOROUND
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Vinegary : ACETIC
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Resource for an artist to draw on? : SKETCHBOOK
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Like some boards : ADVISORY
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Balloonist's tankful : PROPANE
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Tall, slender, footed glass : PILSNER
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No-wait : SPEEDY
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What a colon might denote : EYES
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Drop : QUIT
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Store name with a big red initial : KMART
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What shuttles leave from : LAUNCHPADS
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What the Egyptian deity Ammit devoured : SOULS
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Chrome dome, so to speak : BALDPATE
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Google ___ : DOCS
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Like some fish and olives : SPEARED
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Court procedure : HEARING
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Dress down : REPROVE
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Comfy safari digs : TENTBED
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Stewart's onetime TV sparring partner : OREILLY
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Battery type : WETCELL
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Bundle up : SHEAVE
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Fictional figure whose name means "hole dweller" : HOBBIT
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Hot green stuff : WASABI
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Psychologist who coined the word "synchronicity" : JUNG
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Venue for broomball : RINK
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AWOL, so to speak : MIA

Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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