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Double-Doubles

New York Times, Sunday, February 26, 2023

Author:
Will Nediger
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
84-Across : "It is what it is," e.g.
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Will Nediger

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 46 for Mr. Nediger. Sunday freshness: 81%
Will Shortz notes:
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© 2023, The New York Times2/26/23 ( No. 26,773 )
Across
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British dandy : TOFF
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Dennis the Menace types : PESTS
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Really grand : EPIC
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The "A" in STEAM, for educators : ARTS
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Maker of the Aspire laptop : ACER
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Pain relief brand : ALEVE
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Recordings for oral historians : TAPES
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Bound : LEAP
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Slow-driving holiday parade in December? : CHRISTMASCARROLL
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"Huh, didn't expect to run into you here!" : OHHI
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Musical piece like Smetana's "Vltava" : TONEPOEM
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Club collections : DUES
29
Movie genre … or a shout on a movie set : ACTION
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Onetime Yves Saint Laurent employer : DIOR
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Make : EARN
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Words at a pity party : POORME
34
Arrange by category : ASSORT
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Update Wikipedia after the 2012 election? : ADDMITTSDEFEAT
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Yiddish for "pancake" : LATKE
42
Enthralled : AGOG
43
Like some landscape photography : AERIAL
44
Assert confidently : AVER
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Banned, in a way : EXILED
47
Brand of "old-fashioned" root beer : DADS
48
Delicate bit of hair : WISP
52
Subject of study for an insect psychologist? : BEEATTITUDES
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"Don't love it, don't hate it" : MEH
56
Against : ANTI
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Communication method that may be written with Stokoe notation, in brief : ASL
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Investigative journalist Farrow : RONAN
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Heroes that don't wear capes : SUBS
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Trademarked refrigerant : FREON
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Kind of gel : STYLING
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Condiment drizzled on a taco : CREMA
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Shot followers : CHASERS
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Drumroll followers : TADAS
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Blacken : CHAR
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Pale purple : LILAC
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Holi powder : DYE
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Some announcements interrupting in-flight movies, for short : ETAS
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Intelligence grp. featured on "Quantico" : FBI
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Promise from actor Damon's friends regarding his movie premiere? : WELLCOMEMATT
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"To Sontag, to Sondheim, to anything taboo" musical : RENT
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Ceramic stewpot : OLLA
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Philosophy influenced by the "I Ching" : TAOISM
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Eager assistant's declaration : ONIT
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"It is what it is," e.g. : TRUISM
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Corn ___ : PONE
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Art shop purchase : FRAME
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Words accompanying an offering to the ruler of the donkeys? : FORTHEEASSKING
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Partner worth holding on to : KEEPER
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Open acknowledgment : AVOWAL
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Uncreatively draws from : APES
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Busy locale in December : MALL
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Leah who wrote "Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology" : REMINI
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Ivan the Great, for one : TSAR
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Some holiday tree decorations : GARLANDS
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Home of the poet Forugh Farrokhzad : IRAN
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Arrive too late to see a hotel being built? : MISSINNFORMATION
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Number of worlds in Norse myth : NINE
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Thought spot : BRAIN
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Russian pancakes : BLINI
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Disney's Queen of Arendelle : ELSA
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Pontiac muscle cars : GTOS
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"The Crown ___ Worth Much" (Hanif Abdurraqib collection) : AINT
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One who questions people's motives : CYNIC
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Collect from the fields : REAP
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Arbitrator's asset : TACT
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Eight, in Spanish : OCHO
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Plant with no flowers or seeds : FERN
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Southern dish often made with buttermilk and cornmeal : FRIEDOKRA
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Tuchus : PATOOT
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Film composer Bernstein : ELMER
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Ore locale : SEAM
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Electronics aisle array : TVS
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Jiffy : SEC
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Ancient Italian region : ETRURIA
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Dealt with minor issues? : PARENTED
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Some business news topics, for short : IPOS
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What's still in cartoons? : CEL
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Many : ALOTOF
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Bring back on board : REHIRE
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Mount Rainier's ___ Glacier : TAHOMA
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Small piano : SPINET
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Done hurriedly and carelessly : SLAPDASH
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Skyscraper feature : SPIRE
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First of all : ADAM
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Screenwriter/actress Michaela : COEL
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Moved cautiously : EDGED
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Soft white mineral : ALABASTER
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Snapshot of a gamer's progress : SAVESTATE
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Duo inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 : STEELYDAN
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Aggravation : AGITA
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Grab a midday meal with someone : DOLUNCH
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Trolleys : TRAMS
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Heads or tails : SIDE
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Getting rid of : AXING
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Berkshire school since 1440 : ETON
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Western settlement area led by Brigham Young : DESERET
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Major conflicts : WARS
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Tired expression? : INEEDANAP
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When to read aloud to kids : STORYTIME
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Bowling alley device : PINSETTER
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Swimming/cycling/running competitions, informally : TRIS
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Zero-___ game : SUM
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Grow to a huge size : BALLOON
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Part of a clock : FACE
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Booby prize winner's place : LAST
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Unflinchingly candid : RAW
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Within a point or two, as scores : CLOSE
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Two-time Olympic gold medalist in soccer : HAMM
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Flagella relatives : CILIA
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Medium for a birthday message : ICING
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Body part that a dog uses to shake, e.g. : FORELIMB
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77-Down's color : BLUE
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75-Down gemstone : LAPIS
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"To be continued …" : MORELATER
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Charlotte Corday, to Jean-Paul Marat : ASSASSIN
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Word after better or worse : THAN
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Simple graphics editor, informally : MSPAINT
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Guy : FELLA
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Getting along : FARING
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No longer obsessed : OVERIT
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Italian-style cheese : ROMANO
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Strong strings : TWINES
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Adjust the spacing between, in typography : KERN
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Like a deserved comeuppance : KARMIC
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Soprano Nixon : MARNI
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Director Ming-liang : TSAI
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Pass the threshold : GOIN
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Memphis's river : NILE
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Pancake served with sambar : DOSA
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Onesie closure : SNAP
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Plan for the future, in brief? : IRA
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"America's Got Talent" network : NBC
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Do the Wright thing? : FLY

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