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MIRROR REFLECTION

New York Times, Sunday, December 18, 2016

Author:
Derrick Niederman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
129-Across : Certain blade
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Derrick Niederman

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 144, Blocks: 85 Missing: {JQ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Niederman. Sunday freshness: 68%
Derrick Niederman notes:
The roots of this puzzle date back to the late 1970s, when I was a graduate student in mathematics. I was part of a conversation that included a question from the department chairman, a ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
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© 2016, The New York Times12/18/16 ( No. 24,512 )
Across
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One of the blanks in the cereal slogan "___ are for ___" : TRIX
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Tinker, for one, in olden days : SHORTSTOP
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Certain blade : ROTOR
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Spread dirt, in a way : RUMOR
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Legendary Egyptian queen : NEFERTITI
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Run off : ELOPE
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Stick together : UNITE
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Liberal arts college in the Keystone State : LAFAYETTE
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Like many a lot : PAVED
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Hood lead-in : MOTHER
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Caterpillar product : PUPA
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Dud : LOSER
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Historical period : ERA
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One of Frank's wives : AVA
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Member of the cat family : FELINE
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Father, familiarly : REV
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Japanese auto make : NISSAN
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Court concern : NET
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Big Australian export : TIN
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One of five on a starfish : RAY
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Set of clubs in a bag : IRONS
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These could amount to fortunes : READINGS
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Dead follower : SEA
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Where to find grooms : ALTARS
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Vingt-___ (multiple de trois) : SEPT
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This does not fly : TWA
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Anagram of the letters O-N-D : NOD
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State with part of I-81: Abbr. : TENN
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What you might call a dog : SPOT
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Instrument for an angel : HARP
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Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, e.g. : TRIO
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Something you can do with flies : SHOO
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First name of an Oscar-nominated actress of 1957 : LANA
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Time in ads : DATE
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Square ___ : INCH
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Animal in an Aesop fable : OWL
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White House sight : ROSEGARDEN
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White House sight : OVALOFFICE
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Animal in an Aesop fable : ASS
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Square ___ : DEAL
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Time in ads : NITE
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First name of an Oscar-nominated actress of 1957 : ELSA
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Something you can do with flies : SHAG
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Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, e.g. : MAGI
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Instrument for an angel : LYRE
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What you might call a dog : MUTT
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State with part of I-81: Abbr. : PENN
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Anagram of the letters O-N-D : DON
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This does not fly : EMU
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Vingt-___ (multiple de trois) : ETUN
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Where to find grooms : STABLE
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Dead follower : EYE
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These could amount to fortunes : SPLURGES
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Set of clubs in a bag : WOODS
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One of five on a starfish : ARM
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Big Australian export : RUM
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Court concern : LAW
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Japanese auto make : DATSUN
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Father, familiarly : POP
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Member of the cat family : OCELOT
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One of Frank's wives : MIA
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Historical period : AGE
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Dud : LEMON
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Caterpillar product : PLOW
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Hood lead-in : RIDING
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Like many a lot : ZONED
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Liberal arts college in the Keystone State : DICKINSON
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Stick together : PASTE
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Run off : ERODE
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Legendary Egyptian queen : CLEOPATRA
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Spread dirt, in a way : INTER
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Certain blade : RAZOR
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Tinker, for one, in olden days : ITINERANT
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One of the blanks in the cereal slogan "___ are for ___" : KIDS
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Harry or Bess in the White House : TRUMAN
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What many Oscar speeches do : RUNOVER
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Ape : IMITATE
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Home star of Cthulhu, in fantasy tales : XOTH
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1975 TV debut, briefly : SNL
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Like a more-than-full spoonful : HEAPING
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Barrels ___ : OFFUN
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Grim sort? : REAPER
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"___ Little Tenderness" : TRYA
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Bus. card abbr. : STE
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Boxer's reward : TITLE
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Old German ruler nicknamed "the Short" : OTTOVI
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Facefuls in slapstick : PIES
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Publish anew : REPRINT
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Suffix with schnozz : OLA
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Slithy ones : TOVES
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The Marx Brothers spent a night at one : OPERA
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V-shaped fortification : REDAN
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Skin diving locale : REEF
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Fix, as a pool cue : RETIP
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Carbon compound : ENOL
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Something to brush off a jacket : LINT
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Ingredient in an old-fashioned : RYE
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Exams required for some prep schools : SSATS
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"Stat!" : ASAP
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Part of a plant embryo that develops into a root : RADICLE
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Together : ASONE
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Remove a label from : DETAG
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One runs through the middle of Kansas City : STATELINE
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Like Norton software : ANTIVIRUS
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Raise again, as a flag : REHOIST
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Vehicle used for grooming ski trails : SNOWCAT
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Small songbird : WREN
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Very busy : ORNATE
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Florida State athlete, for short : NOLE
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Walks in rain boots, say : SLOSHES
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En ___ (chess maneuver) : PASSANT
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Tried : HADAGO
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"What's this?!" : OHO
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Feared : DREADED
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Blacksmith's tool : RASP
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Nav. rank : ADM
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Ending with syn- or ant- : ONYM
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Longest bone in the human body : FEMUR
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Thrown with force : FLUNG
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Eats (at) : GNAWS
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Lewd look : LEER
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Month after Av : ELUL
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Chemo target : TUMOR
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City that, despite its name, is smaller than Little Rock : BOULDER
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Sole : LONE
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Prattle : YAP
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Like hand-me-downs : PREWORN
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19,101-foot volcano next to Peru's second-largest city : ELMISTI
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Like Joan of Arc : SAINTED
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Gone bad, in Britain : SPOILT
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"Liliom" playwright Ferenc ___ : MOLNAR
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Bets : WAGERS
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Something that stuns : DAZER
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Marketplace of old : AGORA
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Common strip steak weight: Abbr. : TENOZ
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"___ saw a little bird ..." (Mother Goose rhyme) : ONCEI
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___ Rica : COSTA
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Plains dwelling: Var. : TIPI
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The year 1601 : MDCI
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Sherlock Holmes accessory : PIPE
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Like dungeons : DANK
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Tokyo, once : EDO
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___-Tiki : KON
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D.C. player : NAT

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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