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New York Times, Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Author:
Alan Arbesfeld
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
6-Down : One close by a swordsman's side
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Alan Arbesfeld

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 123 for Mr. Arbesfeld. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Wednesday freshness: 48%
Jeff Chen notes:
So clever! This one reminded me of another change-of-spacing puzzle I loved. Not sure if I ever would have come up with the idea ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times12/5/18 ( No. 25,229 )
Across
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Sabbath service site : SHUL
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Title woman in a 1976 Dylan song : ISIS
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Couples : DYADS
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___ Millions (multistate lottery) : MEGA
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Aberdeen resident : SCOT
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"Yippee!" : WAHOO
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"You can't bring in a crazed antelope, Mr. Glass!"? : IRANOMANICELAND
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Picker-upper : TONIC
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House, as soldiers : BILLET
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Put under wraps : HID
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Wrigley Field's beer boycott goes into effect? : CUBALEBANON
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Shoulder bone : SCAPULA
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Call for help : SOS
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Stat for which lower is better : ERA
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One may be red : ALERT
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"Mayor" memoirist : KOCH
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Organization honored on October 24 ... and the theme of this puzzle : UNITEDNATIONS
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Melee memento, maybe : SCAR
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Early spaceman : GLENN
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Clay, after 1964 : ALI
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Guitarist Paul : LES
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Amusement park attractions : ARCADES
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Mother isn't straight with actress Vardalos? : MALIESTONIA
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Mich. neighbor : ONT
54
Venetian basilica eponym : STMARK
55
Western band : POSSE
57
Suffering caused by reader prejudice? : PERUSERBIASPAIN
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Slave in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" : ELIZA
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Let off some steam : VENT
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Breakfast brand : EGGO
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Ability to effect change : CLOUT
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One of 12 on a cube : EDGE
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It helps you focus : LENS
Down
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Workers at forges : SMITHS
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Lifesaving, say : HEROIC
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Landlocked African country : UGANDA
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Civil rights activist Guinier : LANI
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Suffix with ideal : ISM
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One close by a swordsman's side : SCABBARD
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Ancient land on the Aegean Sea : IONIA
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Shots from movies : STILLS
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Nerdy sorts : DWEEBS
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Big Three conference site : YALTA
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"Gotcha!" : AHA
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Put on : DON
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Means of putting down roots? : SOD
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Like Hogwarts courses : OCCULT
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Jazz singer Laine : CLEO
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Beekeeper of filmdom : ULEE
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Element between helium and argon on the periodic table : NEON
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Middle-earth menaces : ORCS
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"Don't think so" : NAH
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Part of a full house : PAIR
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"Star Trek" sequel, briefly : TNG
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Big Island coffee : KONA
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Jackie Robinson's alma mater : UCLA
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Get perfectly : NAIL
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Comic who said "If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books" : ALANKING
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Garr of "Tootsie" : TERI
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PRINTED SO AS TO SHOUT : INCAPS
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Rick's Café Américain employee : SAM
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Sics on : LETSAT
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Name in a Salinger title : ESME
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Eschew rather than chew? : STARVE
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Rx info : DOSAGE
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Flag : ENSIGN
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Pool members of old : STENOS
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Japanese import : ISUZU
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Spherical : ORBED
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Volkswagen competitor : OPEL
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Toning target, for short : PEC
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90° turn : ELL
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Kia model : RIO
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Polished off : ATE

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