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HEADS OF STATE

New York Times, Sunday, July 5, 2015

Author:
Elizabeth C. Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 134, Blocks: 79 Missing: {QXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 217 for Ms. Gorski. Sunday freshness: 72%
Jeff Chen notes:
Mount Rushmore commemoration, with Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln laid out in order. Nice touch to use nicknames as the crossword entries, with THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, ... read more
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© 2015, The New York Times7/5/15 ( No. 23,980 )
Across
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Monocle part : RIM
4
Bridge support : TRUSS
9
Many a Theravada Buddhist : THAI
13
Indiana city where auto manufacturing was pioneered : KOKOMO
16
Ruler in Richard Strauss's "Salome" : HEROD
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Construction site sight : HARDHAT
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Art of flower arranging : IKEBANA
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Red-wrapped imports : EDAMS
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Prince of Darkness : EVILONE
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Senate vote : NAY
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Tea made by Peter Rabbit's mother : CAMOMILE
28
Restriction on Army enlistees : AGELIMIT
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Part of CBS: Abbr. : SYST
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Bring in a new staff for : REMAN
32
Blender sound : WHIR
34
"The Untouchables" role : NESS
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Table d'___ : HOTE
36
Grouch : CRANK
37
"Fasten your seatbelts ..." : HEREWEGO
40
"Smack That" singer : AKON
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Jaunty greeting : HIHO
42
Shunned ones : PARIAHS
43
Pharma fraud police : FDA
46
___ of time : SANDS
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Half-___ (java order) : CAF
49
Plains Indian : OTO
50
Straw mats : TATAMIS
52
Senate vote : AYE
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Hoppy brew, for short : IPA
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Flawless routine : TEN
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City on Utah Lake : OREM
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Duds : TOGS
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Astronomer who wrote "Pale Blue Dot" : SAGAN
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U.S. 66, e.g.: Abbr. : HWY
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Like Fr. words after "la" : FEM
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Boston iceman : BRUIN
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Plane folk? : GROUNDCREW
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Pepper spray targets : ASSAILANTS
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Extols : LAUDS
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Comcast, e.g., for short : ISP
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Bio subject : DNA
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Trial that bombs, informally : NTEST
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Piedmont city : ASTI
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Stud money : ANTE
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Interminable time : EON
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G.E. and G.M. : COS
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Singer Carly ___ Jepsen : RAE
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Ball-like : SPHERIC
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Award accepted by J. K. Rowling and turned down by C. S. Lewis : OBE
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"___ Ho" ("Slumdog Millionaire" song) : JAI
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Big channel in reality programming : TRUTV
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Man's name that's the code for Australia's busiest airport : SYD
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Genre of Oasis and the Verve : BRITPOP
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Works at the ballpark, maybe : UMPS
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Movie dog : ASTA
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Army-Navy stores? : ARSENALS
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Kind of tiara and cross : PAPAL
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Leg bone : SHIN
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Okey-___ : DOKE
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Onetime Nair alternative : NEET
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"___ a customer" : ONETO
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10 cc's and 64 fl. oz. : AMTS
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The person you want to be : EGOIDEAL
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Give a thorough hosing : WASHDOWN
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Away : OUT
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What the buyer ends up paying : NETCOST
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Old crime boss Frank : NITTI
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"I Love Lucy" surname : RICARDO
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Response to "Who, me?" : YEAHYOU
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Eight-related : OCTAL
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Smooth fabric : SATEEN
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Lip : SASS
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Head of a crime lab? : SKULL
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Prosciutto, e.g. : HAM
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Hold up : ROB
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Non-PC office purchase : IMAC
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Beautiful butterfly : MONARCH
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*Nickname for Thomas Jefferson : THEMANOFTHEPEOPLE
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Debt, symbolically : REDINK
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It flows to the Caspian : URAL
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To a degree : SOMEWHAT
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Campus grp. formed in 1960 : SDS
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*Nickname for Abraham Lincoln : THEGREATEMANCIPATOR
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Eat or drink : HAVE
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Seed cover : ARIL
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Not going anywhere : IDLING
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Capital on the Congo : KINSHASA
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"I heard you the first time!" : OKAYOKAY
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See 18-Down : KEYSTONESOUTHDAKOTA
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What 15-Down is ... or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues in left-to-right order : HOMEOFMOUNTRUSHMORE
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Black birds : ANIS
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Hanoi celebrations : TETS
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*Nickname for George Washington : AMERICANCINCINNATUS
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Union Pacific headquarters : OMAHA
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"The ___ Breathe" (2007 drama with Kevin Bacon and Julie Delpy) : AIRI
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Minister (to) : TEND
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*Nickname for Theodore Roosevelt : HEROOFSANJUANHILL
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"Kapow!" : WHAM
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Guinness Book suffix : EST
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Pay (up) : PONY
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Thumb, for one : DIGIT
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AARP and others: Abbr. : ASSNS
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Subject of semiotics : SIGNS
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Gillette products : ATRAS
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Apartment, informally : PAD
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Comment regarding a squashed bug : EWW
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High-___ image : RES
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Cornish of NPR : AUDIE
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Consecrated, to Shakespeare : BLEST
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Toaster's need : GLASS
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Like a stereotypical mobster's voice : RASPY
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Alphabet trio : RST
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Four seasons in Seville : ANO
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"Am ___ believe ...?" : ITO
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Worthy of pondering : DEEP
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River through Yorkshire : AIRE
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Truculent manner : ATTITUDE
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Where Northwestern University is : EVANSTON
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N.F.L. ball carriers: Abbr. : RBS
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Barry of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" : BOSTWICK
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Stoked, with "up" : AMPED
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Blank, as a tabula : RASA
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Bygone Chinese money : TAEL
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Not too swift : SLOWISH
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Old German governments : REICHS
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Unlike most mail nowadays : POSTAL
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Gainsay : DENY
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Kind of arch : OGEE
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1977 Electric Light Orchestra hit : DOYA
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Those: Sp. : ESOS
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Westernmost island of the Aleutians : ATTU
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Org. with rules on eligibility : NCAA
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Turndowns : NOS
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Bread source, for short : ATM

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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