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A SIGN OF THE TIMES

New York Times, Friday, October 24, 2014

Author:
Patrick Blindauer
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Patrick Blindauer

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QV} This is puzzle # 59 for Mr. Blindauer. Friday freshness: 75%
Notepad: A Crossword Contest
All the puzzles this week, from Monday to Saturday, have been created by one person, Patrick Blindauer. Keep your solutions handy, because the Saturday puzzle conceals a meta-challenge involving the solution grids of all six. When you have the answer to the meta-challenge, send it to crossword@nytimes.com. Twenty correct solvers, chosen at random, whose entries are received by 6:00 p.m. E.T. Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014, will win one-year online subscriptions to the New York Times crossword. Only one entry per person, please. The answer and winners' names will appear on Friday, Oct. 31, at www.nytimes.com/wordplay.
Patrick Blindauer notes:
My first Friday NYT puzzle! As of tomorrow I will have "hit for the cycle" (had a puzzle on every day of the week), but it took a ... read more
Will Shortz notes:

(see my Note from Monday)

Jeff Chen notes:
Contest week! Jim and I decided to keep everything quiet until the contest is over, including the grid solutions. I doubt we'd give ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

Patrick Berry also hit for the cycle only because of his six-day meta contest back in 2011. They're still his only Monday and Tuesday NYT crosswords.

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© 2014, The New York Times10/24/14 ( No. 23,726 )
Across
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Times for speaking one's mind? : ORALEXAMS
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Coarse : CRASS
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Spot for shooting stars : REDCARPET
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Finish putting on pants, say : ZIPUP
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Became a bachelor, maybe : GRADUATED
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Onetime Coleco competitor : ATARI
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Rom-___ (some films) : COMS
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Up to the present time : YET
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Beyond blue : XRATED
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Trivial Pursuit board location : HUB
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Agreements : ASSENTS
25
Richard March ___ (inventor of the rotary printing press) : HOE
26
Remotely monitored event, informally : ATEST
28
Plum or pear : TREE
29
"Sharknado" channel : SYFY
30
Save : REDEEM
32
Sleep on it : SERTA
34
"Ash Wednesday" poet : TSELIOT
36
Groups with play dates? : TROUPES
40
"Brokeback Mountain" role : ENNIS
42
"Hurry up!," en español : ANDALE
43
Henchman first seen in "The Spy Who Loved Me" : JAWS
46
Stationery store stock : INKS
48
Pusillanimous : TIMID
49
___ Aduba of "Orange Is the New Black" : UZO
50
Stop obsessing : LETITGO
52
Not just a pop group, for short? : PTA
53
Tilting poles : LANCES
55
Triton's domain, in myth : SEA
56
Dart : FLIT
57
Two-time N.B.A. All-Star Brand : ELTON
58
Free : TURNLOOSE
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Flowering plant named for a Greek god : PEONY
61
Saloons : GINJOINTS
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Onetime sponsor of "I Love Lucy" : SANKA
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"Boy, am I having fun!" : ITSABLAST
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Diagram showing company positions, briefly : ORGCHART
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Detours : REROUTES
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Title carpenter of an 1859 novel : ADAMBEDE
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Watch things, for short : LCDS
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Condensed vapeur : EAU
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Patient looks? : XRAYS
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Most fitting : APTEST
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People with signs at airports, e.g. : MEETERS
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Part of E.S.T.: Abbr. : STD
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Bygone emperors : CZARS
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"Lovely" one of song : RITA
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It may elicit a shrug : APATHY
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Not doubting : SUREOF
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___ sense : SPIDEY
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Nissan offering : XTERRA
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Took courses at home : ATEIN
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"Faster than shaving" brand : NEET
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Yugoslavian-born winner of nine Grand Slam tournaments : SELES
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One with a short hajj : SAUDI
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$, € and £ : MONIES
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Johnny Depp role of 2013 : TONTO
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Formatting palette choice : TINT
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Site of an annual encierro : PAMPLONA
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They think they're special : ELITISTS
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Least excited : SEDATEST
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Outfit worn with goggles : SKISUIT
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Things downed at Churchill Downs : JULEPS
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Rhododendron relative : AZALEA
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Chinese appetizer : WONTON
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Rear ends : STERNS
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Actress/singer Lotte : LENYA
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Pot : GANJA
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Bop : CONK
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Thwart : FOIL
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___ Friday's : TGI
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Start of an alley-oop : LOB

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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