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BP STATION

New York Times, Sunday, November 2, 2014

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
18-Down : Doorman, e.g.
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Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 165 for Mr. Quigley. Sunday freshness: 89%
Brendan Emmett Quigley notes:

I'm pretty sure I pitched something like 18 theme answers for Will. He's a tough guy to please, but he eventually liked what we ran here.

Jeff Chen notes:
Sound change puzzle today, Bs morphing into Ps, thus a "BP STATION." What I really like about BEQ's execution is the surprising nature of the word changes. It would be easy to replace Bs ... read more
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C
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D
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C
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R
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A
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B
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F
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D
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G
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I
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N
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A
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R
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P
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Q
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M
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O
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D
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B
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M
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A
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J
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C
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A
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C
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N
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W
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P
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W
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L
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G
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L
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C
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U
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F
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P
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H
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O
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L
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© 2014, The New York Times11/2/14 ( No. 23,735 )
Across
1
Chase things, briefly? : CDS
4
Complainers : CRABS
9
Spat : TIFF
13
Landscaping task : EDGING
19
Ill : WOE
20
Mark down anew : RELOG
21
Baby with a bow : AMOR
22
Ruthless Wall Street sort : RAIDER
23
Engraving on an award? : PLAQUEART
25
Kahakuloa Head locale : MAUI
26
Green, say : UNRIPE
27
Cookware item : OLLA
28
Middle ground, for short : DMZ
29
Food critic's love of fast food, maybe? : SECRETPALATE
31
Stadium capacity : SEATS
33
Winter pear : BOSC
35
Embarrassing spot? : ZIT
36
James Joyce's "Ulysses," per a 1921 court decision : SMUT
37
Juliet's combative cousin in "Romeo and Juliet" : TYBALT
39
"Down in front!" : ICANTSEE
43
"___ Is the Glory" (hymn) : THINE
44
Go exploring, say : ROAM
46
Former G.M. compact : ALERO
47
Track star Al : JOYNER
48
Collector of offerings at a revival? : CHRISTIANPAIL
52
Part of an e-tailer's address : COM
53
Mideast land, for short : UAE
54
Sticky : HUMID
55
Waterway of Western Australia? : PERTHCANAL
61
Melville's "Billy ___" : BUDD
63
Montréal airport : MIRABEL
66
How the Taj Mahal is decorated : ORNATELY
67
Following behind : INTOW
69
Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" : PLANETS
71
Message board thread : TOPIC
72
When Prospero makes his entrance : SCENETWO
75
"All right already!" : LETITGO
78
Billy of "Titanic" : ZANE
79
Admonishment to someone eating off your plate at a Polynesian restaurant? : THATSMYPOI
81
Actress Davis : GEENA
83
Jeans name : LEE
84
Eastern path : TAO
85
What's promising about a K-K-Q-Q-J-J-7 rummy hand? : THETHREEPAIRS
89
Quarantine : SHUTIN
93
Blitzed, e.g. : RANAT
94
Battery element : ZINC
95
Skater on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : HENIE
96
Brother's home : CLOISTER
99
Jane of "Frasier" : LEEVES
103
Foreshadowing : OMEN
104
Quisling : RAT
105
Classic glam band named for an extinct creature : TREX
107
Part of some fusion cuisine : ASIAN
108
Buzzer beaters and game-winning catches? : PLAYSOFGLORY
113
Dramatic ending? : CEE
115
___ Major : URSA
116
Like some sheets : FITTED
117
Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" : OONA
118
Place to reel in some freshwater game fish? : PERCHPIER
120
Low draw : ONEONE
121
Electric Chevy : VOLT
122
Love, love, love : ADORE
123
"Well, I'd love to keep talking ...," probably : LIE
124
Have as a tenant : RENTTO
125
___ terrier : SKYE
126
Meeting point : NEXUS
127
Discontinue : END
Down
1
Breakfast cereal pioneer : CWPOST
2
Mrs. Madison : DOLLEY
3
Old Navy work site : SEALAB
4
French vineyard : CRU
5
Sax, e.g. : REED
6
Like ___ to the slaughter : ALAMB
7
Hunting dog : BORZOI
8
Pepper, for one : SGT
9
PG-rated : TAME
10
Apple offering : IMAC
11
Teatime, maybe : FOUR
12
Relief work : FRIEZE
13
Go off : ERUPT
14
___ Point, Calif. : DANA
15
Afraid to ask for a dance, maybe : GIRLSHY
16
1970s president : IDIAMIN
17
Astronomical body after which element #93 is named : NEPTUNE
18
Doorman, e.g. : GREETER
24
Like Al Jazeera : QATARI
29
Place for a massage : SCALP
30
Come out even : TIE
32
Not get carried evenly, say : SLOSH
34
Politician's downfall : SCANDAL
38
Channing of "22 Jump Street" : TATUM
40
Common Core org. : NEA
41
Rare birth : TRIPLET
42
Fish often prepared with a meunière sauce : SOLE
43
Rake : TOMCAT
45
Puccini seamstress : MIMI
47
Facilities : JOHN
48
Picasso, e.g. : CUBIST
49
Horse's hindquarter : HAUNCH
50
Mellow, faintly sweet hot beverage : REDTEA
51
Cook without oil, as some corn : AIRPOP
52
One snapping a ball to the QB: Abbr. : CTR
56
Club roll : ROSTER
57
Fully : ATOZ
58
Many a Sherpa : NEPALI
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Big name in campers : ALINER
60
Schools after collèges : LYCEES
62
Terse caution : DONT
64
Show tune with the repeated line "Come to me, come to me!" : BALIHAI
65
Phoenix-to-Albuquerque dir. : ENE
68
Certain terrier, informally : WESTIE
70
More friendly : TIGHTER
73
Laundering investigator, for short : TMAN
74
Its motto is "Equal rights": Abbr. : WYO
76
"Oh ... come ... on!" : GEEZ
77
William ___ + Co. (brokerage) : ONEIL
80
Sancho's other : OTRO
82
It's breath-taking : APNEA
86
One-striper: Abbr. : ENS
87
Cheap-looking : TATTY
88
Hand with two bullets and two deuces, e.g. : ACESUP
89
Try to buy : SHOPFOR
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End of a shift? : HEMLINE
91
Like food waste : UNEATEN
92
Toddler : TINYTOT
96
School lunchroom, informally : CAF
97
State vices?: Abbr. : LTGOVS
98
Ebb : RECEDE
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Manly : VIRILE
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Enter gently : EASEIN
102
Roped in : SNARED
104
Roping event : RODEO
106
Duplicate : XEROX
109
Posted : SENT
110
"Attention!" : LOOK
111
Kind of child : ONLY
112
Bit of info on the side of a taxi : RATE
114
Neutral color : ECRU
118
Greek god of the wild : PAN
119
Billie Holiday's "___ Funny That Way" : HES

Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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