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BYWORDS

New York Times, Sunday, December 23, 2012

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 77 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 114 for Mr. DiPietro. Sunday freshness: 40%
Jim Horne notes:

Side-by-side circled words combine with "by" to form new phrases like KNEW by HEART.

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© 2012, The New York Times12/23/12 ( No. 23,056 )
Across
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Sewer, at times : MENDER
7
Dregs of society : SCUM
11
"I'm not doing so well" : AHME
15
___ it up (dress flamboyantly) : GLAM
19
Sherpa's tool : ICEAXE
20
Kind of street : THRU
21
Accurse : DAMN
22
Grams : NANA
23
Drank quickly : DOWNED
24
Allocated dollars for digs : RENTMONEY
26
&&& : ANDS
27
"___ time now" : ANY
28
Smoker's convenience : CIGARSTAND
30
Toiling away : ATWORK
32
Santa's bootblack? : SOOT
34
"___ ever!" : DOI
35
Paisley refusals : NAES
37
Gets up : RISES
38
Density symbol : RHO
40
Anti-apartheid org. : ANC
42
1970 hit for Neil Diamond : SHILO
43
De novo : ANEW
44
Lies in the hot sun : BAKES
46
Shacks : LEANTOS
48
Marine rescue grp. : USCG
50
Fancified : ORNATE
52
Really desire, with "over" : DROOL
53
Precipitate : LEADTO
57
House of the speaker? : STEREO
58
Writer : PENNER
60
Big guns : MORTARS
61
F = ma formulator : NEWTON
62
Very wide shoe spec : EEEE
63
Text changes : EDITS
65
Rocket center, once : YAO
66
___ admin : SYS
67
"Not doable" : CANT
68
Govt. money guarantor : FDIC
69
Its capital is Sydney: Abbr. : NSW
70
"O Sole ___" : MIO
71
Just ___ ... or "Just '___" : CAUSE
73
Crones : HAGS
74
From way back : AGEOLD
77
It's needed for self-checkout : BARCODE
79
Alternative to broadband : DIALUP
81
Fixed rate : SETFEE
82
Capital north of Cyprus : ANKARA
83
Mat material : SISAL
84
Not yet out of the closet? : UNWORN
85
Attach a handle to : NAME
87
Preceded : FORERAN
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Give a rude awakening, say : ROUST
90
Flexible, electrically : ACDC
92
Derby features : BRIMS
94
Turn blue, say : DYE
95
Do wrong : ERR
96
Bubbling up : ABOIL
97
Ruination : BANE
98
Leonard Nimoy's "___ Not Spock" : IAM
100
"Fish Magic" painter : KLEE
103
Rapper who played Brother Sam on "Dexter" : MOSDEF
105
1996 Olympian noted for performing on an injured ankle : KERRISTRUG
110
Form letters? : IRS
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"No ___" ("Don't ask me") : IDEA
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Basically : INESSENCE
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Breaks one's back : SLAVES
116
Boston player, for short : CELT
117
Triple Crown winners must lead their league in these : RBIS
118
Too-good-to-be-true offer, often : SCAM
119
Roman tragedy writer : SENECA
120
Florida's Sanibel, e.g. : ISLE
121
Zebra feature : MANE
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They're run up : TABS
123
Like some dough : YEASTY
Down
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Unhappy king of legend : MIDAS
2
Prefix with -metrics : ECONO
3
Vegas casino : NEWYORKNEWYORK
4
Roseanne's husband on "Roseanne" : DAN
5
Suit : EXEC
6
Made de novo : REDID
7
Certain baby food : STRAINEDPEAS
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So-called "Goddess of Pop" : CHER
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Samovars : URNS
10
It's part this, part that : MUTT
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Whom Shelley wept for : ADONAIS
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"Water Music" composer : HANDEL
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Fr. title : MME
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"Watermark" vocalist : ENYA
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Really bugging : GNAWINGAT
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Woolly : LANOSE
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English royal : ANDREW
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Covers up : MASKS
25
Street opening : MANHOLE
29
Sports announcer's scream : GOAL
31
Lost-parcel inquiries : TRACERS
33
Newspaper section : THEARTS
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It's almost nothing : SOU
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Prefix with -porosis : OSTEO
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Took turns recklessly : CAREENED
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Things may be written in it : STONE
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Cap'n's mate : BOSN
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Kind of well : ARTESIAN
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Piece for nine : NONET
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Hockey area in front of the crease : SLOT
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Seemingly forever : EON
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Long-running TV show featuring the Hortons and the Bradys : DAYSOFOURLIVES
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Fishing boats : TRAWLERS
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South American zoo animal : OSO
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Revolutionary 1960s Chinese youth : REDGUARD
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Open ___ : MIC
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They're often behind glass : DISPLAYITEMS
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Prompt : CUE
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Apocryphal : FALSE
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ABC, for one : NETWORK
70
Wall St. credential : MBA
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Small boat made of wickerwork : CORACLE
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"___ / Had 'em" (classic two-line poem about fleas) : ADAM
73
Quibblers split them : HAIRS
74
The Sun Devils' sch. : ASU
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Sci-fi or western : GENRE
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Result of a bang-up job? : DENT
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One running : CANDIDATE
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Beta carotene and others : ISOMERS
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Go out : EBB
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Trick-winning attempt in bridge : FINESSE
88
___ beer : NEAR
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Dwellings : ABODES
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TV announcer who broke the news of John Lennon's murder : COSELL
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Earn hand over fist : RAKEIN
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Firenze friends : AMICI
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Rumpled : MUSSY
101
Put up : ERECT
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Lamb specialty : ESSAY
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Unwilling to budge : FIRM
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Kick back : REST
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People conquered by the Spanish : INCA
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Wound protector : SCAB
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Much merriment : GLEE
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Heat org. : NBA
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Got ___ (did great) : ANA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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