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New York Times, Saturday, August 9, 2014

Author:
Josh Knapp
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
4-Across : Conventioneers: Abbr.
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Josh Knapp

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Knapp. Saturday freshness: 92%
Jeff Chen notes:
A well-constructed but incredibly difficult puzzle for me today. Josh ventures outside his usual oeuvre with a relatively low ... read more
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© 2014, The New York Times8/9/14 ( No. 23,650 )
Across
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Colonel's charge, once : KFC
4
Conventioneers: Abbr. : DELS
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Washington, once, so they say : SWAMP
13
Creature that moves by jet propulsion : NAUTILUS
15
Loses one's shadow, say : SHAVES
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Like John Belushi, ethnically : ALBANIAN
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Spelunking supply : PITONS
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High level : PLATEAU
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Couscous ingredient : PINENUT
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Ones working over the holidays? : SANTAS
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Try to stop : DETER
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Part of Austin Powers's attire : ASCOT
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Big beat? : GINSBERG
26
"Mad Men" award : CLIO
27
One getting stuck in a horror movie : VOODOODOLL
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Powder holder : KEG
30
French locale of prehistoric cave paintings : LASCAUX
31
Bellwether sound : BAA
32
Image on many an old map : SEASERPENT
34
ConocoPhillips competitor : HESS
35
Like top-shelf liquor : PRICIEST
36
Place to walk to : FIRST
37
Tired : STALE
38
"The Divine Comedy" has 100 of them : CANTOS
39
Ski lodge fixtures : HOTTUBS
42
Digression : TANGENT
43
Going in circles : AWHIRL
44
Lear's youngest : CORDELIA
45
British footballer Wayne ___ : ROONEY
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Inconvenience : IMPOSEON
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Some modern fads : MEMES
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Reckon : DEEM
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Curtains : END
Down
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Contents of some lockers : KNAPSACKS
2
Drop off : FALLASLEEP
3
Bolívar, Cohiba or Juan López : CUBANCIGAR
4
Patronize, in a way : DINEAT
5
Mount St. ___ (Alaska/Canada border peak) : ELIAS
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Common dance theme : LUAU
7
Fig. on some shredded documents : SSN
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Case for a bootblack : SHINEBOX
9
Weak, with "down" : WATERED
10
Drug dealer on "The Wire" : AVON
11
Many a flier under a door : MENU
12
Alternative to an elbow : PSST
14
Tomahawk for Andrew Jackson, surprisingly : TATTOO
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Quickly produces in great quantity : SPITSOUT
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One might have a cameo at the end : PENDANT
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Bishop's place : DIOCESE
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Biblical quartet : GOSPELS
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Arlington House is his memorial : ROBERTELEE
25
Monocle, in British slang : GLASSONION
27
How Mount Etna erupts : VARIABLY
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The Battle of Thermopylae, for the Spartans : LASTSTAND
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Some gatherings in halls : LECTURES
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Raphael's "___ Madonna" : SISTINE
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Swinging joints : HINGES
36
Group of lovers, collectively : FANDOM
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"___ mañana" (procrastinator's jokey motto) : CARPE
39
"What's the ___?" : HARM
40
Shakespearean lament : OWOE
41
Fashion designer Browne : THOM
42
A-F or G-K, maybe : TOME
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Conqueror of Valencia, with "the" : CID

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

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