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New York Times, Friday, January 26, 2018

Author:
Caleb Madison
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
18-Across : Mexican sandwich
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Caleb Madison

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 33 for Mr. Madison. Friday freshness: 79%
Jeff Chen notes:
WORD VOMIT! Man, do I know a ton of people with this issue … and COVER BAND, with its fantastically innocent clue: [Act without ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times1/26/18 ( No. 24,916 )
Across
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Source of embarrassment for some public officials : WIKILEAKS
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Skedaddled : SPLIT
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How buzzkills end things : ONADOWNER
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Golfer's collection : IRONS
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Numismatist's collection : RARECOINS
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Mexican sandwich : TORTA
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___ sample : DNA
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One-named singer with the 2007 #1 hit "Don't Matter" : AKON
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Building block makeup : CINDER
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Essential : VITAL
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First U.S. team to win the N.H.L. Stanley Cup (1928) : NYRANGERS
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Diner order that gets filled? : OMELET
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Life instinct, in psychology : EROS
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Reverses course : MAKESAUTURN
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Ceiling : CAP
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"___ said ..." : ITIS
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Write a think piece, say : OPINE
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Drifter : HOBO
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___ Mosby, main role on "How I Met Your Mother" : TED
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Some polygamous figures : SISTERWIVES
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Niche form of architecture? : APSE
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Many workers in Japan's Lake Hamana : EELERS
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Sharp-looking footwear? : STILETTOS
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"The Yankee Years" memoirist : TORRE
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Home of the first known pizza parlor : NAPLES
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Certainty : LOCK
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Some undergrad degs. : BAS
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Not just in one's head, say : ALOUD
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Kamehameha Day observers : HAWAIIANS
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Little buddy : KIDDO
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From that point on : EVERSINCE
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Simplifies : EASES
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Cozy curl-up spots : FIRESIDES
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Verbal outpouring, in slang : WORDVOMIT
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Dead : INANIMATE
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Sobriquet for filmdom's Daniel LaRusso, with "The" : KARATEKID
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Common suffix for 7-Downs : IDE
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Areas : LOCALES
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Ursine sci-fi creature : EWOK
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Atom with an electronic imbalance : ANION
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G in jazz : KENNY
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Students with 300 and 400 classes: Abbr. : SRS
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Audit, as a class : SITINON
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Sticking points : PRONGS
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One-named singer with the 2013 #1 hit "Royals" : LORDE
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Bury : INTER
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Bulgaria's Simeon I and Simeon II : TSARS
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Actress Tia of "Wayne's World" : CARRERE
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They have hops : ALES
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Get back together : REUNE
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Ones who know the way? : TAOISTS
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Underdog victory : UPSET
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"Blue" or "bearded" bird : TIT
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Act without originality : COVERBAND
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Deviation : ABERRANCE
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Has hold of : POSSESSES
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Stud poker variation, informally : HILO
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Skimpy swimwear : SPEEDOS
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Sloppy planting job? : WETKISS
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Refer (to) : ALLUDE
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Backstabber : SNAKE
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___ al Ghul (Batman foe) : TALIA
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Devices that introduced the click wheel : IPODS
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Norwegian king until 1000 : OLAVI
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One spreading seed : SOWER
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Something that people wish you would take when you leave : CARE
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Noted mansion man, for short : HEF
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Jr.'s son : III

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5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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