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LOOK WHAT TURNED UP!

New York Times, Sunday, April 12, 2015

Author:
Jeff Chen
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : Eponym of a European capital
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Jeff Chen

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Chen. Sunday freshness: 19%
Jeff Chen notes:
Five guesses as to why this huge Monty Python fan put ANTIOCH into the grid. (Three, sir!) Okay, so the Holy Hand Grenade of ANTIOCH, from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," might ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Seven theme answers which "turn up," i.e. they become complete by reversing back into themselves. GLUTEN FREE B becomes GLUTEN FREE B(EER) when you hit B and bounce back upward, thus ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times4/12/15 ( No. 23,896 )
Across
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Crime lab tool : SWAB
5
Canyon creator : GMC
8
Record number, for short : RPM
11
Butler who was a professional gambler : RHETT
16
Muchacha : CHICA
17
Baseball family name : ALOU
18
Paris accord? : OUI
19
The works? : OEUVRE
20
Rolls up the sleeves and begins : HASAT
21
Hard-to-digest food items, in slang : GUTBOMBS
23
Fruit in some Asian salads : PAPAYA
24
"Gotcha, dude" : IMHIP
25
Eponym of a European capital : ATHENA
26
Prototype detail, briefly : SPEC
28
One of 21 on a die : PIP
29
Opposition call : NAY
30
Great Lakes mnemonic : HOMES
32
Ohio college named after an ancient capital : ANTIOCH
34
Letter that rhymes with three other letters : ETA
35
Musician who co-founded Nutopia : ONO
36
Tournament type : OPEN
37
Something to hold money in : ESCROW
38
Warning to a coder : ERROR
40
Alternative media magazine founder : UTNE
42
Corral : FENCEIN
44
Whoop : SHOUT
45
Finn's friend : SAWYER
47
Musical anagram of AGRA, fittingly : RAGA
48
Nile biter : ASP
50
Like an unbrushed suit, maybe : LINTY
51
One logging in : USER
52
Golden ___ : AGER
54
Skype annoyance : LAG
56
Something to get your mitts on? : OVEN
58
Big name in lean dieting : SPRAT
60
Stuffed : REPLETE
62
Places to meditate : PAGODAS
66
Hightail it : HIE
67
___ Spring : ARAB
69
Landing place on a bay, for short : SFO
70
"99 Luftballons" pop group : NENA
71
Seville cheer : OLE
72
"Couldn't handle the pressure, man" : ICHOKED
74
Young Clark Kent, e.g. : FARMBOY
76
Title in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" : LIEGE
78
Bill : William :: ___ : José : PEPE
79
Skater Midori : ITO
80
Wasn't square : OWED
82
Cut, in a way : AXED
83
Leans : LISTS
86
P.D. broadcast : APB
88
Cry for attention, maybe : MEOW
90
Roald Dahl won three of these : EDGARS
92
Nail a test : ACEIT
93
Team leader : RUDOLPH
95
Nile biter, for short : CROC
96
Extract by percolation : LEACH
97
Eyes for emoticons : COLONS
98
Owner of StubHub : EBAY
100
Spa specialty, for short : TLC
103
A.C.A. part : ACT
104
Environmental terrorism : ECOTAGE
106
Is an ass? : BRAYS
107
Language along the Mekong : LAO
108
Flight : LAM
109
Soap brand with cocoa butter : TONE
110
Mustier : STALER
112
Cable, e.g. : PAYTV
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Not digital : ANALOG
116
Do something extravagantly : GOTOTOWN
118
Delight : ELATE
119
Policy on some cruises : NOTIPS
120
Slice of history : ERA
121
Base 10? : TOES
122
X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g. : LOSER
123
Monopoly holdings : DEEDS
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Photog's choice : SLR
125
Broadcast inits. since April 1971 : NPR
126
Gifts often received while bowing the head : LEIS
Down
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One with spirit? : SHAMAN
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Postcard message : WISHYOUWEREHERE
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___ palm : ACAI
4
Line in Gotham : BATPHONE
5
Beverage brewed without barley or wheat : GLUTENFREEBEER
6
Ones found in the closet? : MOTHS
7
Die, say : CUBE
8
Have a heart-to-heart with? : ROMANCE
9
Local, e.g. : PUB
10
Mercury had 26 of them : MISSIONS
11
Becomes an adult : REACHESLEGALAGE
12
Drill sergeant's bark : HUP
13
First lady of the 1940s-'50s : EVAPERON
14
Experiment with something : TRYITOUT
15
Sons of Liberty gathering : TEAPARTY
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Uniform material : CHINO
17
Peak performance, informally : AGAME
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Grp. that knows the drill? : OPEC
22
How things may be rated : ONASCALEFROMONETOTEN
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[Wham!] : POW
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Setting for a Marx Brothers farce : OPERA
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Priority system : TRIAGE
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Class with a Classics unit: Abbr. : ENG
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Where to see the horn of Africa? : RHINO
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Model Banks : TYRA
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Tombstone lawman : EARP
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___ bar : SUSHI
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Certain gelatin : ASPIC
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Tattooed toon : POPEYE
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Top-notch : GRADEA
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Supercollider bit : ATOM
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Moving vehicle : VAN
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Future atty.'s challenge : LSAT
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"Follow my command!" : DOEXACTLYASISAY
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Horatio who wrote the Tattered Tom series : ALGER
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Progenitors : SEEDS
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Street cred : REP
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"What was I talking about before?" : NOWWHEREWEREWE
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___ nerve : OPTIC
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Bone whose name means "clasp" in Latin : FIBULA
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Big-eyed Betty : BOOP
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"I hate the Moor" speaker : IAGO
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Go downhill : DECAY
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Dreamworld : LALALAND
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Winter race vehicle : ICECANOE
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Next one in a row : SEATMATE
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Some young colleagues : PROTEGES
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Raised railroads : ELS
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Drought : DRYSPELL
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Bright spot? : DOGSTAR
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Drawback : CON
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They're raised by farmers : BARNS
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Eye-openers, of a sort : LATTES
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Charge at the door, informally : COVER
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Gear parts : COGS
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Softly hit fly : BLOOP
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Memo abbr. : ATTN
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Palliative plant : ALOE
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Hat, informally : LID
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Magic, on scoreboards : ORL

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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