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Sam Ezersky
Sam Ezersky

NY Times, Sun, Feb 25, 2018 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 29, Across Lite, PDF
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© 2018, The New York Times
Across
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Past relatives of 10-Across : ANCESTORS
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Mopey maid's remark : IMSAD
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SALSA SALSA : DOUBLEDIP
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Maori woman : MOIRA
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How every slob talks : VERBOSELY
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Like Uncle C's wife : ANTSY
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One-act preceder : INT
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Lees, alternatively : ELSE
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S down : SLOWER
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Turned insane : STAB
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Attack, as part of a boat : ASSAIL
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Baller's windup : INA
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Scary-sounding city : ERIE
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Caused to be drunk : SAUCED
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Trinidad and Tobago, initially : TAT
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Boy in Candy Land : DYLAN
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Help coin the name of a card game : PINOCHLE
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Mode of presentation : DEMO
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European said to condescend : DANE
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Words wished on winter tramways : STAYWARM
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What Moscow and Glasgow both do : ENDOW
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"Ben-___" (all-female remake of an Oscar-winning film) : HER
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Range said to follow the "B" era : SIERRA
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Exhaust from part of a car : TIRE
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___ economics (electrical savings) : OHM
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Far from filled : ILLFED
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Bites back : SPIN
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WR = TTT : WRISTS
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Swindler's admission : ICON
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Polish airline's fate : LOT
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What a slowpoke hates : HASTE
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Like a certain lax debtor type : EXTRABOLD
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Time in a cellphone a minute after 12:59 : ONEAM
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Performer in an iron metal cage : LIONTAMER
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G W G : WINGS
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Comment about writing essays, to one skilled at them : ITSSOEASY
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Said "I'd save 500 dollars, if I were you" : ADVISED
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Result of a sweepstakes disqualification : NOENTRY
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Dog wagger : CURTAIL
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Cyberspace gun pellet : EBB
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Sole fruit : SLOE
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Steals electric cars : TESLAS
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A Texas city has this name, as does one in Ukraine : ODESSA
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Fills with aggravation plus ire : RILESUP
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Agent in Shaw's "Pygmalion" : SPY
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Cry upon finishing a medallion : IMALLDONE
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It stands for a single 6666 on a phone : MONO
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Accompany this wit : SITWITH
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Depot near Las Vegas : ARSENAL
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Price a hotel has ready at the front desk : DAYRATE
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Place to get anise in Italy : SIENA
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Seasides, by the sound of it : BEADY
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Drug making a return in medications : ACID
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Reporters often witness 'em : NEWSITEMS
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Pri_ _ u_i_ _ : CENTS
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Sends to boys, reportedly : MAILS
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Shoreless inner city of Russia : OREL
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Give a tutorial on who's who : SHOWHOW
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Citizen of the Iran capital : TEHRANI
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Fred who remains big in comedy : ARMISEN
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Nickname for an ex-I.T. firm worker : MRFIXIT
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Award for one old map : DIPLOMA
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This team must win, or I lose a bet : ORIOLES
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What a trendy well-head did, sadly : WENTDRY
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Sector with ends switched : RECTOS
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_ _ds dec_ _atio_ _ : ADORNS
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'S a playground game : STAG
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Group with a ton of peacekeeping forces : NATO
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Kind of citation : ELI
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Bea, to Abe, in modern lingo : BAE
Answer summary: 10 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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