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MIXED FEELINGS

New York Times, Sunday, February 26, 2017

Author:
Josh Knapp
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
121-Across : So, so awful, with "the"
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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 75 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Knapp. Sunday freshness: 74%
Jeff Chen notes:
MIXED FEELINGS explains it all, various feelings like WOE and WONDER anagrammed within phrases for kooky effect. I usually am not hot on this theme type, as the lack of flexibility in ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times2/26/17 ( No. 24,582 )
Across
1
Word before "Ooh, didn't mean to make you cry" in Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" : MAMA
5
Maxim : SAW
8
Brother with a cross : ABBOT
13
Unfaithful sorts : CADS
17
Roasting place : OVEN
18
Land between hills, poetically : VALE
19
___ Palmer ("Twin Peaks" victim) : LAURA
20
Jacobin revolutionary who was stabbed in a bathtub : MARAT
21
They're pumped to compete in a race : ROADBIKES
23
Fashionable enough for a runway model? : STRUTWORTHY
25
Assault involving a hatchet? : TINYAXEATTACK
27
Broadway's Eugene ___ Theater : ONEILL
28
Throw in : ADD
29
___ relief : DEBT
30
Post-run feeling : ACHE
31
1982 Dustin Hoffman film : TOOTSIE
32
Place for a sponge : REEF
34
Annoying sort : NOODGE
36
Bro : PAL
37
Little bit : TAD
38
Coffee brewing style : DRIP
40
Some scans, for short : MRIS
41
Lifesaving team : MEDICS
44
"Stop insisting Ra doesn't exist!"? : CURBYOURSUNATHEISM
51
Pill bottle info : DOSAGE
54
Really comes down : POURS
55
A bit crude : EARTHY
56
Andean gold : ORO
57
Places : PUTS
61
Fast-food sandwich not available in Muslim countries : MCRIB
63
Goes up : RISES
64
Stories from bankruptcy court? : TALESOFOWE
68
Be too broke to take the bus? : HAVENOFARE
70
Country singer Black : CLINT
71
Grammy category : OPERA
73
Beast in rare "sightings" : YETI
74
Poet/musician ___ Scott-Heron : GIL
75
One who can't learn new tricks, they say : OLDDOG
77
___-Lay : FRITO
79
Doze : NODOFF
82
"The king really wants to be around people right now"? : MYSIRELOVESCOMPANY
87
Professor's goal, one day : TENURE
88
Marvel role for Chris Hemsworth : THOR
89
Yazidis, e.g. : SECT
92
Go in (for) : SUB
95
Actor Curry : TIM
96
Go all in : COMMIT
98
What many 100-Across do in the spring : SHED
100
See 98-Across : ANIMALS
103
Certain earring : HOOP
105
Trader ___ : JOES
107
Baseball league for the Salt Lake Bees : AAA
108
"Yeah, let's do it!" : IMGAME
109
Celebration after a coup? : UPRISERSPARTY
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Negative Nancy? : DOWNERWOMAN
115
Words before a punch line : WAITFORIT
116
Muddies : SOILS
117
2% alternative : WHOLE
118
Moving line on a tree trunk : ANTS
119
Orange-and-white Pixar title character : NEMO
120
Wild revelry : ORGY
121
So, so awful, with "the" : WORST
122
Rapper with the most-viewed YouTube video of all time : PSY
123
P.M. after Churchill : EDEN
Down
1
Weapon usually fired between a 45° and 90° angle : MORTAR
2
Ducked : AVOIDED
3
Go wherever : MEANDER
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With 41-Down, first tennis player to win two Olympic singles gold medals : ANDY
5
Potent sushi bar cocktail : SAKEBOMB
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Dependent on chance : ALEATORY
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Against the jet stream : WEST
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French region around Strasbourg : ALSACE
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Tray of brownies, e.g. : BATCH
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Philosopher who said "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion" : BURKE
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Christian school in Okla. : ORU
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Skin art, informally : TAT
13
Character resembling a hat : CARET
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Drawer, say : ARTIST
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Flower named for a Swedish botanist : DAHLIA
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All done up, as hair : STYLED
18
Den mother : VIXEN
20
Like original Buddy Holly and the Crickets recordings : MONO
22
Turned : BAD
24
Detergent brand with a fabric in its name : WOOLITE
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Gets back on base : TAGSUP
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"And that's it!" : TADA
33
Abbr. on a pay stub : FICA
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God: It. : DIO
36
Thoughtful : PENSIVE
39
So-ugly-it's-cute pooch : PUG
41
See 4-Down : MURRAY
42
One-named singer once married to Xavier Cugat : CHARO
43
Letter feature : SERIF
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Take back, in a way : REPO
46
CD or DVD follower : ROM
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"___ is life" : SUCH
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"We're on!" : ITSAGO
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Muslim official : SHERIF
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I, personally : MYSELF
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E-business : DOTCOM
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By voice : ORALLY
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One side in a pool game : SOLIDS
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Subject of a tinfoil hat theory : UFO
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Peak physical condition : TOPFORM
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Veer : SWERVE
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Put up stakes : BET
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Stop seeing each other : ENDIT
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Box on a mall map : STORE
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Former tribe in western New York : ERIE
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Singer Simone : NINA
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@@@ : ATS
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Less stormy : GENTLER
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Sea creatures with remarkably high I.Q.s : OCTOPI
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Turn-___ (thrills) : ONS
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Congo red and gentian violet : DYES
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San ___, Argentina : LUIS
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Volt/ampere : OHM
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High-waisted, shamelessly unfashionable garment : MOMJEANS
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Chief concern : PRIORITY
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Way overcooked : CHARRED
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4:00 p.m., maybe : TEATIME
92
Made a declaration : SAIDSO
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Set adrift : UNMOOR
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V.I.P. : BIGWIG
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Instrument for Louis Armstrong : CORNET
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Doctors' orders : TESTS
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National Aviation Hall of Fame city : DAYTON
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Macho : MANLY
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NASA's ___ Research Center : AMES
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Comedy : HUMOR
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Crown insets : OPALS
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Letters on some lotion : SPF
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It's a deal : SWAP
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Unbeatable : AONE
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Net letters : WWW
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"Well, look at that!" : OHO

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

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