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MOVING PARTS

New York Times, Sunday, July 20, 2014

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
123-Across : Young seal
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Eric Berlin

This puzzle:

Rows: 23, Columns: 20 Words: 151, Blocks: 78 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Berlin. Sunday freshness: 38%
Notepad: The answer to each starred clue must have two consecutive letters removed before it is written into the grid. These letters will move to a pair of circles elsewhere in the puzzle. (In all cases, new words will be formed.) The nine letter pairs, when properly arranged, will spell an appropriate answer at 72-Across.
Jeff Chen notes:
A big welcome back to Eric! After a three-year hiatus from constructing, he comes back with a brain bender of a Sunday. Eric is the author of the Winston Breen series, a neat ... read more
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© 2014, The New York Times7/20/14 ( No. 23,630 )
Across
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Swaddles, e.g. : ENWRAPS
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*Turn, as a wheel : ROTE
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Edible plant extract : PALMOIL
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Be too fearful to : DARENOT
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Former Nebraska senator James : EXON
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Burger go-with : FRIENDS
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Yolk surrounder : WHITTLE
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Bit of sweat : BEAD
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Most hip : COOLEST
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Low numero : TRE
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Cowboys' activity : ROUNDUP
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Cologne conjunction : UND
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Slushy drink : ICEE
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Kitten sounds : MEWS
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Detailed plans : SPECS
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Use a straw : SUCK
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Idea : NOTATION
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Hides away : STASHES
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*Words of praise : PAN
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Thingamajig : DOODAD
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Strangle : GAROTTE
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Cartoon dog : ASTRO
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Italian dish that needs much stirring : RISOTTO
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Openly defy : FALLOUT
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*Royal messenger : HERD
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Tony-winning musical with the song "Find Your Grail" : SPAMALOT
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Long March participant : MAOIST
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Not ___ (none) : ALICK
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Raised transports : ELS
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Unchanged : SAME
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Classic muscle cars : GTOS
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Not just slow : GLACIAL
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Theater supporters : PATRONS
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See instructions : ALITTLEGIVEANDTAKE
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Wise men : THEMAGI
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Is on the brink : TEETERS
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Get rid of : SHED
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___ menu : EDIT
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Eagle's org. : BSA
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*Piddling : TRIAL
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Smear : MALIGN
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Locks up again : RECHAINS
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Painterish : ARTY
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Plain to see : OVEREAT
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Stir up : AGITATE
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Trickster of American Indian mythology : RAVEN
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Close overlap of fugue voices : STRETTO
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Attack : ASSAIL
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K.C.-to-Detroit dir. : ENE
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She rules : EMPRESS
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Indigenous : NEGATIVE
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Caroled : SANG
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"___ deal?" : ISITA
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Prix ___ : FIXE
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Sci-fi's Hubbard : LRON
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Appeared in print : RAN
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Beast of burden : BURRITO
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Young seal : PUP
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Many ski lodges : AFRAMES
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Legitimate : REAL
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Formed from a mold : DIECAST
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Babble on : PRIVATE
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Cathedral area : NAVE
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Stay-at-home workers? : UMPIRES
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Tot-watched : BABYSAT
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Peevish state : SNIT
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Asparagus unit : SPEAKER
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One of eight Eng. kings : EDW
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Informal turndown : NAH
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Email, say : WRITETO
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Used tire : RETREAD
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Pay to play : ANTE
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Glad-handing sort : POL
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Two-channel : STEREO
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*Upbraids : REBUS
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Field team : OXEN
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Mushroom : TOADSTOOL
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Reach, eventually : ENDUPAT
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Cpl.'s inferior : PFC
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Stir up : AROUSE
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*Great in number : LION
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Card combinations : MELDS
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Low number : ONE
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Checks at the door, say : IDS
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W.W. II craft : LST
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Soccer blooper : OWNGOAL
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Bother : PEST
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Neither blue nor red?: Abbr. : IND
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Say sweet words : COO
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Some dresses : MIDIS
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Saucier's boss : CHEF
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In the mood : UPTOIT
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Tenor from Naples : CARUSO
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Don of "The Andy Griffith Show" : KNOTTS
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Sticky stuff : TAR
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Mex. miss : SRTA
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41-Down's room : SALA
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Convenience store sights : ATMS
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Slow, hard progress : SLOG
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Stepped in for : SPELLED
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French fine : AMENDE
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Witch : HAG
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"___ Enchanted" : ELLA
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Mideast currency : RIAL
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701, once : DCCI
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Bone: Prefix : OSTE
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Fictional estate : TARA
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Chanteuse Eartha : KITT
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State with the motto "Oro y plata" : MONTANA
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Half sister of Ares : ATHENA
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Greedy sort : PIG
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Bird: Prefix : AVI
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"Undo" mark : STET
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Overseas prince : EMIR
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Box office : GATE
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___ Plus : ATRA
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Actor Dullea : KEIR
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Latin "was to be" : ERAT
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Underhanded : SLY
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Three-ingredient treats : SMORES
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World capital where Monopoly is banned : HAVANA
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Football team : ELEVEN
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Terrible : DIRE
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*Old West robber : BAIT
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"Shaddup!" : SITONIT
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*Not rough : GENE
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Like the cry "Veni, vidi, vici" : CAESAREAN
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Abbr. in some city names : HGTS
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Old West transport : STAGE
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Shortening in recipes? : TSPS
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Spanish "that" : ESA
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Windy City paper, with "the" : TRIB
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Election night data : RETURNS
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One of the Windward Islands : STLUCIA
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Facility for small planes : AIRPARK
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Nobel-winning writer Andric : IVO
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N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Dawson : LEN
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Former transportation secretary Norman : MINETA
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Large-scale evacuation : EXODUS
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*Newton subject : GRAVY
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Choice cut : FILET
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Latin "you love" : AMAS
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Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
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Nickname for José : PEPE
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P.D. alert : APB
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Brother's title : FRA
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Poke fun at : RIB
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Collection : SET
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Prankster : IMP
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Bishop's domain : SEE
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Classic fantasy game co. : TSR

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