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New York Times, Friday, January 1, 2021

Author:
Milo Beckman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
8-Down : Hard to fool
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106/24/20111/1/20211
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Milo Beckman

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 16 Words: 80, Blocks: 38 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Beckman. Friday freshness: 49%
Milo Beckman notes:
Happy new year! I've wanted to sneak some numbers or symbols into a themeless grid for a while, since around when "WE ARE THE 99%" was in the ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Numbers, in a themeless puzzle? A theme in a themeless puzzle? The madness! I enjoyed the change of pace, Milo interestingly incorporating ... read more
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© 2021, The New York Times1/1/21 ( No. 25,987 )
Across
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Pirates : HIJACKS
8
Part of N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr. : ASSN
12
"___ rico!" ("Delicious!": Sp.) : QUE
15
Start of a haughty declaration : IFORONE
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Do a vet's job on : SPAY
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German conjunction : UND
18
Like some mushrooms : PSYCHOACTIVE
20
Prefix with -graph : EPI
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You might get a kick out of this at a restaurant : HOTSAUCE
22
Parts of the body that are slightly larger in the evening than morning : FEET
23
Résumé asset, in brief : MBA
26
Animal known to "juggle" rocks : OTTER
27
Chokes, say : ERRS
28
Did a hook spin or knee swing : POLEDANCED
32
"It's true!" : ARESO
33
Backdrop for the Compromise of 1850 : GOLDRUSH
34
"I don't care either way" : UPTOYOU
36
Test with a Social Studies sect. : GED
37
A fifth : 20PERCENT
39
Fast-fashion retailer : FOREVER21
43
Outdoor apparel chain : REI
44
Title heroine of a James Joyce story : EVELINE
45
Modern marketplace : APPSTORE
50
Party hearty : REVEL
51
Passé : SOLASTYEAR
53
Opposite of petit : GROS
54
Work on software : DEBUG
55
Need for protein synthesis : RNA
56
Things shortened at bitly.com : URLS
57
Some instant breakfast packets : OATMEALS
61
Complete a lap? : SIT
62
Star student's goal : APLUSAVERAGE
66
Emotive verse : ODE
67
Isn't oblivious : SEES
68
Isn't oblivious : NOTICES
69
Patriarch Stark of "Game of Thrones" : NED
70
___ Park Corner (London tube station) : HYDE
71
Basic dance move : TWOSTEP
Down
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In : HIP
2
Cases to consider : IFS
3
Delight : JOY
4
Principal : ARCH
5
Small Pacific salmon : COHO
6
Metaphor for a tricky problem : KNOT
7
TV sets? : SEASONS
8
Hard to fool : ASTUTE
9
Enlivened : SPICEDUP
10
Screen ___ : SAVER
11
12/31 : NYE
12
Onetime Bravo series or its Netflix reboot : QUEEREYE
13
Term for a censored dissident in "1984" : UNPERSON
14
Censors, say : EDITSOUT
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Inescapable bind : CATCH22
22
Unrestrained violence : FEROCITY
23
Dashboard abbr. : MPG
24
Appropriately named ghost in Nintendo games : BOO
25
More than most : ALL
29
Without borders : EDGELESS
30
Movie villain with a signature pinky gesture : DREVIL
31
Pulitzer-winning poet W. H. ___ : AUDEN
32
Still : ATREST
35
Cops' targets : PERPS
38
First graduates of the new millennium, informally : 01ALUMS
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Missouri setting of 2014 civil rights protests : FERGUSON
40
Countermand : OVERRIDE
41
Refused to accept the status quo, say : REVOLTED
42
Made more waterproof, maybe : RESEALED
46
Crowning event? : PAGEANT
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Poetic contraction : OER
48
Took off : RAN
49
Timeline division : ERA
52
Thickheaded : OBTUSE
54
Only one of the Seven Dwarfs without a beard : DOPEY
58
Say frankly : AVOW
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Best Supporting Actor winner for "Dallas Buyers Club" : LETO
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Honorifics that can be repeated to indicate higher status : SRIS
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Traditional source of fertilizer : ASH
63
Do one's part? : ACT
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"Hadn't thought of it like that" : GEE
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Special gift, for short : ESP

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

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