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New York Times, Friday, April 10, 2020

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
12-Down : Hanging on every word
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Byron Walden

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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JKQXZ} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 96 for Mr. Walden. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Friday freshness: 95%
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© 2020, The New York Times4/10/20 ( No. 25,721 )
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Word with cake or shop : COFFEE
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Ones with something to prove? : THEOREMS
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"Baba ___" ("CSI: NY" theme) : ORILEY
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Greek : HELLENIC
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Time release? : PAROLE
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Shot in the back : EPIDURAL
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Pichelsteiner, pozole and pot-au-feu : STEWS
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It can show you the way : MAP
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Rush : SPATE
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Nickname for Eric Cartwright on "Bonanza" : HOSS
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Starbucks 12-ouncers : TALLS
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Go a few rounds : SPAR
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Material in doblones : ORO
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Speaker of the words "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil," in Genesis : SERPENT
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Wanders around LAX or JFK? : TSA
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Deterrent to squatting : WIFIPASSWORD
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Rather impressionable? : SOFTISH
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Sam who won at the Battle of San Jacinto : HOUSTON
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Metaphorical source of the next generation of coders and researchers : STEMPIPELINE
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Hoedown lass : GAL
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Played from the tipoff, say : STARTED
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Largest labor union in the U.S.: Abbr. : NEA
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The Miners of Conference USA, informally : UTEP
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"The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey": Edmund Clarence Stedman : SLYER
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Company originally called Zimride : LYFT
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With 6-Down, acute power of discernment : SHARP
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___ Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria : LAS
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Back at the track : BETON
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Coming after : TOFOLLOW
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"Cut it out!" : NOMORE
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Big 12 college town : AMESIOWA
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Flourishes : BLOOMS
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Like 4x4 sudoku, typically : VERYEASY
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City in Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night" : CANNES
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Series of crimes? : COPSHOWS
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Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," for one : ORATORIO
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Sends in a huff : FIRESOFF
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Moves from the head to the mouth : FLOWS
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Fish in the order Anguilliformes : EELS
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See 49-Across : EYE
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Home to Blofeld's lair in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" : THEALPS
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Classic chairs with shield-shaped backs : HEPPLEWHITES
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Part of REO : ELI
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Part of REO : OLDS
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Avoids a service break? : REUPS
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Hanging on every word : ENRAPT
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Sporty Mazdas : MIATAS
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Cornea neighbor : SCLERA
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Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal : MARSHMALLOWS
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Collections dating back to the Han dynasty : TEASETS
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Nosy Parker : SNOOPER
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Hot rods? : SPITS
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Set straight : TRUED
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"___ all a blur" : ITS
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Broadband letters : DSL
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Any student at Acme Looniversity : TINYTOON
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Self-serving comment? : ONEFORME
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What ataxophobes crave : NEATNESS
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Extricate with leverage : PRYAWAY
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Name shared by the composers Holst and Mahler : GUSTAV
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In : ATHOME
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Certain autumn tourist, slangily : LEAFER
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Far from crisp, as text : PROSY
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Clunker car : LEMON
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Barre bend : PLIE
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Weapon on a cord : BOLA
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Mauna ___ : LOA
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Home of "The Monkees" on 1960s TV : NBC

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