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New York Times, Friday, October 30, 2020

Author:
Trenton Charlson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
48-Across : Spoils
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Trenton Charlson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {CQW} This is puzzle # 26 for Mr. Charlson. Friday freshness: 54%
Trenton Charlson notes:
This puzzle started with JASON FOX, for reasons both Scrabbly and sentimental. Foxtrot is a favorite newspaper comic of mine, and ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Ah, Trenton and your love for rare letters, I got you figured out! Copies, in a way? Say no more, it has to be XEROXES! Heat-resistant ... read more
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© 2020, The New York Times10/30/20 ( No. 25,924 )
Across
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Jesus, Mary or Joseph : NAZARENE
9
Some Eastern dignitaries : RAJAHS
15
Occasion for grilling : ORALEXAM
16
Something worn for protection : AMULET
17
Own : DOMINATE
18
"Philosophy in the Bedroom" writer, 1795 : DESADE
19
"There's the ___" : RUB
20
Way to get around in Chicago : ELTRAIN
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Schedule abbr. : TBA
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On deck, say : ASEA
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Scientist who was friends with Mark Twain : TESLA
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Consider : DEEM
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Half of Italy : MEZZO
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Floats are often made with them : ROOTBEERS
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___ Games, second-largest multisport event after the Olympics : ASIAN
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Contemptuous, in a way : SNEERING
33
Welcome offering : LEI
35
Portraitist's request : SIT
36
[Ho-o-o boy, here we go again ...] : DEEPSIGH
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Heat-resistant glass : SILEX
45
Midwest city in the title of a 1942 Glenn Miller #1 hit : KALAMAZOO
46
Margaret ___, artist known for painting subjects with big eyes : KEANE
47
Those in favor : AYES
48
Spoils : BOOTY
50
Word with search or witness : STAR
51
Open-house org. : PTA
52
Acts like a quidnunc : MEDDLES
54
Kind of rock : EMO
55
Support above a doorway : LINTEL
57
10-year-old boy of comics with glasses and blond hair : JASONFOX
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Unprincipled : AMORAL
60
Words said with a wave : OVERHERE
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Writer who served as a senator in Chile : NERUDA
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Like wild accusations : BASELESS
Down
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Rhyming descriptor for Obama : NODRAMA
2
Turns on : AROUSES
3
River through Victoria Falls : ZAMBEZI
4
Krieger of the U.S. women's soccer team : ALI
5
French name meaning "born again" : RENE
6
Apotheosize : EXALT
7
Shoots the breeze : NATTERS
8
Liberal arts college in Boston : EMERSON
9
Sends off : RADIATES
10
Last word of the New Testament : AMEN
11
Dip for a French dip : JUS
12
Youth support group : ALATEEN
13
Comedian Mitch who said "I haven't slept for 10 days, because that would be too long" : HEDBERG
14
Decreases, in a way? : STEAMS
21
After-shave additive : ALOE
24
Plants whose name derives from the Greek for "dry" : AZALEAS
26
Members of a pantheon : DEITIES
28
Two bells, nautically : ONEPM
30
Allegro : BRISK
34
Actress Rossellini of "Blue Velvet" : ISABELLA
36
When it's light : DAYTIME
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___ Smeal, three-term president of NOW : ELEANOR
38
Polo alternative : IZOD
39
"Bravo!" : GOODJOB
40
Flow down a mountain : HOTLAVA
42
Fine example? : LATEFEE
43
Charms : ENAMORS
44
Copies, in a way : XEROXES
45
Competitor of Peterson's and Princeton Review : KAPLAN
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Y Y Y Y, on a form : YESES
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Renaissance Faire quaff : MEAD
53
Cross : SORE
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1989 one-man show : TRU
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Devils' advocate?: Abbr. : NHL

Answer summary:
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