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New York Times, Friday, March 31, 2017

Author:
David C. Duncan Dekker
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
37-Down : Good practice for the show "It's Academic"
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David C. Duncan Dekker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Scrabble average: 2.17 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Dekker. Friday freshness: 96%
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Check out all those rare letters! JQXZ are the Big Four in crosswords, letters that can be tough to incorporate into a grid. Dave ... read more
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© 2017, The New York Times3/31/17 ( No. 24,615 )
Across
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"Don Juan," for one : EPICPOEM
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Look a little here, look a little there : BROWSE
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Old means of getting discovered : DEMOTAPE
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Mammals using echolocation : SHREWS
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Stayed the course : KEPTATIT
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Like biorhythms : CYCLIC
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"The Flowering Peach" playwright : ODETS
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Moo ___ : SHU
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Hayek of "Grown Ups" : SALMA
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John of pro wrestling : CENA
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Hard stuff to swallow : BOOZE
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Dunderhead : SIMP
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Nancy Sinatra's "If ___ Love Me" : HED
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Brown Betty, e.g. : PUDDING
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Org. with a campaign called "Degrees Not Debt" : NEA
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Options in a catalog : SIZES
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In a sound bite, say : QUOTED
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Jet stream locale : JACUZZI
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Romantic visionary : QUIXOTE
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N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Mourning : ALONZO
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Oscar-winning role in "Life Is Beautiful" : GUIDO
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___ system (GPS device) : NAV
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Romantic liaison : AFFAIRE
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Real pal, for short : BFF
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Many of its products have legs : IKEA
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Lacking focus : FUZZY
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Noah of "Falling Skies" : WYLE
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Plants of the arum family : TAROS
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Ft. Sumter battler : REB
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Pet shop purchases : CAGES
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Range that's home to Ha Ha Tonka State Park : OZARKS
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Units in modern film ratings? : TOMATOES
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Convertible : RAGTOP
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A trivial sum, informally : TWOPENCE
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Like cream cheese on a bagel : SMEARY
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Shady bunch? : ELMTREES
Down
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1980s big-city mayor : EDKOCH
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Alphabetically rhyming river name : PEEDEE
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Loom : IMPEND
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Baked, in Bologna : COTTA
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Grps. supporting the 30-Across : PTAS
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Wild thing? : OAT
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Series opener : EPISODEI
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Modi operandi : METHODS
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Common four-year deg. : BSC
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Novelist Jean with the 1966 best seller "Wide Sargasso Sea" : RHYS
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Things in a pod : ORCAS
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Not near the beginning of : WELLINTO
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What has different strokes for different folks? : SWIMMEET
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Bit of antics : ESCAPADE
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AK-47 alternative : UZI
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"Go away!" : BUZZOFF
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Probe, to Brits : ENQUIRY
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___ topping : PIZZA
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Leading figure : GUIDE
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Light of the world : SUN
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Big name in kitchen utensils : OXO
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Cleanup crew : JANITORS
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"Presto chango!" : ALAKAZAM
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Media attention : COVERAGE
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Good practice for the show "It's Academic" : QUIZBOWL
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Montreal daily : GAZETTE
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Winter coat lining : FUR
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Past : BYGONE
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Winter coat lining : FLEECE
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Spills it, with "up" : FESSES
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Trunk in the trunk : AORTA
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Well-kept resource : WATER
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Hershey bar : SKOR
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Airline V.I.P.: Abbr. : CAPT
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One wearing sunglasses, stereotypically : SPY
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Pop enthusiast? : MOM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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