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WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT

New York Times, Sunday, July 13, 2014

Author:
Tom McCoy
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
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Tom McCoy

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. McCoy. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Sunday freshness: 21%
Notepad: The circled letters, when read clockwise, will reveal a quote from Gertrude Stein.
Tom McCoy notes:
I constructed this puzzle while staying at my sister's house, so a big thanks to her for the hospitality! Another shout-out goes to Doris Day, whose recording of "Que Sera Sera" I played ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
What a perfect title for this clever idea. Self-evident, indeed! I'm impressed that Tom was able to come up wtih so many snappy phrases that fit the pattern. The Yogi Berra quote in the ... read more
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© 2014, The New York Times7/13/14 ( No. 23,623 )
Across
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Fighting group : CADRE
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Understood : GOT
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Scientific truth : LAW
12
Lives : ABIDES
18
Opposite of wind up : UNREEL
20
Bobby on the ice : ORR
21
Memphis-to-Nashville dir. : ENE
22
Like yesterday : RECENT
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Classic excuse for some misdemeanors : BOYSWILLBEBOYS
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Intimidating words : ORELSE
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Prefix with -graphic : IDEO
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Mercury, but not Earth : GOD
29
Workman's aid : VAN
30
Heavy work : TOME
32
Carrier to Tokyo : ANA
33
World's largest particle physics lab, in Switzerland : CERN
34
Many a drive-thru installation : ATM
35
Declaration from Popeye : IYAMWHATIYAM
38
___ Anne's (popular pretzel purveyor) : AUNTIE
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Smugglers' worries : RAIDS
42
___ mortal : MERE
43
Doubt-dispelling words from Lady Macbeth : WHATSDONEISDONE
48
Follower of lop : SIDED
49
Follower of lop : EARED
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Formerly, once : ERST
51
Spectrum : GAMUT
53
"Alea iacta ___" ("The die is cast") : EST
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Mutt's mutter? : ARF
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"When You're Good to ___" ("Chicago" song) : MAMA
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Aside, e.g. : REMARK
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Encyclopedic : VAST
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Frequent features of John Constable landscapes : ELMS
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Atypical : RARE
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Bearing in mind : NOTING
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Famous Yogiism : ITAINTOVERTILLITSOVER
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Traditional Gaelic singer : LILTER
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Falafel holder : PITA
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Food often with pentagonal cross sections : OKRA
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"All ___" : RISE
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Holy ___ : TERROR
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Makes loop-the-loops? : SEWS
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Chicken ___ diable : ALA
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Spanish "that" : ESA
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One summing things up : ADDER
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They may come with covenants : ARKS
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Property areas : ACRES
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Match game? : SLOTS
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Words dismissive of detractors : HATERSGONNAHATE
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Send, in a way : WIRE
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Urge to attack : SETON
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Top choice : BLOUSE
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Expression of resignation : ITISWHATITIS
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Baseball stat. : AVG
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"Did gyre and gimble in the ___": "Jabberwocky" : WABE
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Take it easy : VEG
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Cast : HURL
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Sushi topper, maybe : ROE
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Hardly highbrow reading : RAG
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Material blocked by parental controls : SMUT
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Fantasy title character whose name is one letter different from the creature he rides : ERAGON
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"We will tolerate this no more!" : ENOUGHISENOUGH
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Least plausible : LAMEST
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Certain wardrobe malfunction : RIP
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Filler of la mer : EAU
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Mess up : TOUSLE
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Covers with goo : SLIMES
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Austin Powers, e.g. : SPY
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Record stat : RPM
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Guide : STEER
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Like some measures : CUBIC
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Cell part : ANODE
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Whirlpool product : DRYER
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Strike a chord : RESONATE
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"Gross!" : EEW
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Source of great profit : GOLDMINE
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Mercury or Earth : ORB
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District in Rome : TREVI
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Sheldon's apartment-mate on "The Big Bang Theory" : LEONARD
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"___ questions?" : ANY
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Emmy-winning drama four years in a row, with "The" : WESTWING
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Some memory triggers : AROMAS
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Stereotypical beatnik accessory : BERET
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Hard water : ICE
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Pushed back : DELAYED
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Capture : ENSNARE
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Fuming : STEAMED
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Bonding molecule : LIGAND
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Kind of ticket : LOTTO
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Howl : BAY
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"My, my!" : OHDEAR
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Card game with a "Chairman" : MAO
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Ape : IMITATOR
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Letters of certification? : USDA
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Ending for how or who, for Shakespeare : EER
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One that's a bore? : WEEVIL
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Fights : HASATIT
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Where prints may be picked up : ARTSALE
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Movement : ISM
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Send in troops, say : STARTAWAR
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Some wrestlers : SUMOS
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Bonkers : MENTAL
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Went back over : RETROD
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Rapper ___ Rida : FLO
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Juin preceder : MAI
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1968 live folk album : ARLO
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"Tender Is the Night" locale, with "the" : RIVIERA
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Mideast legislature : KNESSET
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Determines the concentration of a dissolved substance : TITRATES
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Team V.I.P. : MVP
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Ocho - dos : SEIS
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Certain ruminant : ELK
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"Summer Nights" musical : GREASE
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Colorful, pebble-like candies : NERDS
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Bit of trip planning: Abbr. : RTE
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Roth ___ : IRA
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Take up again, as a case : REHEAR
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Yearbook sect. : SRS
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Small power sources : AAAS
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Ones that warn before they attack : RATTLERS
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Former employer for Vladimir Putin, for short : KGB
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Sunny room : SOLARIUM
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Reams : CHEWSOUT
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Takes a turn : SWIVELS
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Strict : LITERAL
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Work for a folder : ORIGAMI
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What you might be in France? : TOI
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Degree of disorder in a system : ENTROPY
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Pop stars? : NOVAS
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Bit of wisdom : NUGGET
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Pushes aside : SHUNTS
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"___ Baby Are You?" (1920 show tune) : WHOSE
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Debt note : IOU
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Rocker Bob : SEGER
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Beguile : AMUSE
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Corn chip since 1966 : BUGLE
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Clear sky : ETHER
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Pip : GEM
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Barely beat : NIP
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Chance, poetically : HAP
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Refusals : NOS

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