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New York Times, Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
30-Across : Stupid
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 107 for Mr. Gordon. Tuesday freshness: 99%
Jeff Chen notes:
Tight and specific theme set today, adjectives in the form of [food] + [body part] + (E)D. Not sure I would have ever thought of it! ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times6/5/18 ( No. 25,046 )
Across
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Headliner : STAR
5
Hindu social division : CASTE
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Crowd around : MOB
13
Island off the western coast of Scotland : IONA
14
Person handing out chocolate cigars, maybe : PROUDPAPA
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Color akin to rouge : CERISE
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Bad looking : LEERING
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Alan in the Television Hall of Fame : ALDA
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Cut (off) : LOP
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Bendable body part : KNEE
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Truth tellers' opposite : LIARS
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Lead-in to gender : CIS
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Psychoanalysis topics : FEARS
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Stupid : MUTTONHEADED
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Dir. from Iceland to Ireland : SSE
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Rock singer? : LORELEI
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"Dude!" : BRO
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Eloquent : HONEYTONGUED
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Dodges of the 1980s : OMNIS
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Match the bet of : SEE
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Lincoln in-laws : TODDS
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Edible part of a carrot or radish : ROOT
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Expert in calculus: Abbr. : DDS
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Western defense grp. : NATO
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Bears witness (to) : ATTESTS
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Nearest target for a bowler : ONEPIN
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Cowardly : CHICKENLIVERED
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Goatish : LECHEROUS
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Sage : WISE
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"That will be ___ the set of sun" (line from the first scene of "Macbeth") : ERE
61
Third ___ (character who delivers the line in 60-Across) : WITCH
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Nonkosher lunch orders, briefly : BLTS
Down
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Composer who's the eponym of a Helsinki park : SIBELIUS
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Line on a band T-shirt, maybe : TOURDATE
3
Dadaism, pejoratively : ANTIART
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"Phooey!" : RATS
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Lifeguard's skill, for short : CPR
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Alternative to "Woof!" : ARF
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Earth : SOIL
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What a whistler whistles : TUNE
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Lip : EDGE
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Yacht spot : MARINA
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First game of a series : OPENER
12
Heat shields? : BADGES
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Snapped to attention, with "up" : PERKED
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Wriggly swimmer : EEL
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Sedates : CALMS
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Autumn colours : OCHRES
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Drunk : PIEEYED
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Forgoes a co-pilot : SOLOS
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Like some peanuts and winter roads : SALTED
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Deceptive movement : FEINT
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Tours turndown : NON
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"Gloria in Excelsis ___" : DEO
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World capital where Harry Houdini and Erno Rubik were born : BUDAPEST
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Colorful ocean phenomena caused by dinoflagellates : REDTIDES
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Takes too much of, for short : ODSON
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Electronically advanced, informally : HITECH
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King Lear's eldest daughter : GONERIL
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Teller of the future : ORACLE
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Person whose inner child has been released? : MOTHER
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Small print advertisement : NOTICE
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Part of U.S.S.R.: Abbr. : SOV
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Distort : SKEW
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Actress Garr of "Young Frankenstein" : TERI
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Impertinent sort : SNOT
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Neophyte, in modern lingo : NEWB
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Capt. Jean-___ Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise : LUC
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Suffix of approximation : ISH

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

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