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New York Times, Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Author:
Tom McCoy
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : Rara avis
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Tom McCoy

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 77, Blocks: 34 Missing: {BQVXZ} This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. McCoy. Wednesday freshness: 96%
Tom McCoy notes:
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© 2016, The New York Times4/20/16 ( No. 24,270 )
Across
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Uncommon bills : TWOS
5
Texas city where Dr Pepper was created : WACO
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Wraiths : GHOSTS
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Reducing wind resistance : AERO
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Hairstyle maintained with a pick : AFRO
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Receptacle in a machine : OILCUP
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Baseball scoring play : GRANDSLAM
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Rara avis : ODDONE
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Understand : GET
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Munched (on) : CHOMPED
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"Layla" musician Clapton : ERIC
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Site of an iconic war photo : IWOJIMA
27
Hockey scoring play : HATTRICK
29
Ephron who wrote "When Harry Met Sally" : NORA
30
Moment to come, briefly : ETA
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French pronoun : TOI
33
Onager, for one : ASS
34
Catch the light : GLINT
36
Makes red in the face : ROUGES
39
Proposal of Woodrow Wilson ... or what the scoring values of 18-, 27-, 55- and 66-Across total : FOURTEENPOINTS
44
Spotted attending : SEENAT
45
Santa-tracking org. : NORAD
47
Multi-episode story line : ARC
50
Canal zone? : EAR
51
Grunt upon hoisting something heavy : OOF
54
___ E. Coyote : WILE
55
Basketball scoring play : FOULSHOT
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Material that is foreign to the body : NONSELF
60
Pro ___ : RATA
61
Cocktail recipe phrase : ONEPART
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A deer, a female deer : DOE
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Question in response to "I am" : AREYOU
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Football scoring play : TOUCHDOWN
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Real keepers? : MISERS
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Mechanical repetition : ROTE
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Laments : RUES
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Main course : ENTREE
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Yankee nickname beginning in 2004 : AROD
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Raison d'___ : ETRE
Down
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Identifying, on Facebook : TAGGING
2
Lycanthrope : WEREWOLF
3
Handel's "Messiah," for one : ORATORIO
4
Male delivery : SON
5
Words finger-drawn on a dirty car : WASHME
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Not sinking : AFLOAT
7
Study all night, say : CRAM
8
Vigor : OOMPH
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All set : GOODTOGO
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Concealed : HID
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Word at the bottom of a blog page : OLDER
12
Dark volcanic rock : SCORIA
13
Loose garb in ancient Rome : TUNICS
14
Little bits : SPECKS
19
Cicero's 601 : DCI
23
Readily accept : EATUP
26
Two-faced Roman god : JANUS
28
Many a Happy Meal toy : TIEIN
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Neck of the woods : AREA
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Golf course obstacles : TREES
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Aware of : ONTO
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Persuades in a deceitful way : SNOWS
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Place to chat over a hot drink : TEAHOUSE
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Name in a 2002 scandal : ENRON
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Auditioned : TRIEDOUT
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More pallid : SALLOWER
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Chant at a basketball game : DEFENSE
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Structure that's roughly a triangular prism : AFRAME
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Enter with much commotion : ROARIN
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Most adorable : CUTEST
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Proceeding unthinkingly : ONAUTO
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Like some smiles and humor : FORCED
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Mantle or crust : LAYER
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Aquarium fish : TETRA
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Last in a series : NTH
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D-worthy : POOR
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Bauxite, for aluminum : ORE
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Beats by ___ (audio brand) : DRE

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

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