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SECOND SHIFT

New York Times, Sunday, August 24, 2014

Author:
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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 75 Missing: {JZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 188 for Mr. Berry. Sunday freshness: 32%
Jeff Chen notes:
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© 2014, The New York Times8/24/14 ( No. 23,665 )
Across
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In most cases : ASARULE
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Stomach settler : BICARB
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Fasten, as a rope : BELAY
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"But wait ... there's more!" items : BONUSES
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Truck-driving competitions : ROADEOS
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The Roman poet Ovid, once : EXILE
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Paintball gun? : BLOTACTIONRIFLE
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"Keep climbing" sloganeer : DELTA
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Hankerings : YENS
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Maintains the border, say : HEMS
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Device that can tell if someone's recently vacationed in Hawaii? : LEIDETECTOR
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U.K. news source, with "the" : BEEB
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Trifling amount : SOU
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Dated : SAW
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Narrow shaft in a mountain? : SLIVERMINE
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The Cardinals, on scoreboards : STL
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Eschew modesty : CROW
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Big name in trucking : CONWAY
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Item from the Victoria's Sweetness catalog? : BRAOFCHOCOLATE
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Nautical command : AVAST
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Collective effort : TEAMPLAY
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Boccaccio wrote a biography of him : DANTE
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Union general Wallace : LEW
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Shingle sealant : TAR
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Poker set? : SUITS
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Like many hospital patients getting visitors : POSTOP
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Anne Frank, e.g.? : DIARYMAID
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Ones manifesting Manifest Destiny : SETTLERS
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Wash. Square campus : NYU
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Some credit card rewards : MILES
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Aerodynamic : SLEEK
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Site of many IVs : ICU
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One in a tight space, perhaps : SMALLCAR
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"Hee Haw" heyday, say? : ERAOFCORN
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Rock growth : LICHEN
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Director of the "Dark Knight" trilogy : NOLAN
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Salt source : SEA
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Make do with, say : USE
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Figure skater Mao : ASADA
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Microscope part : EYEPIECE
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Absorb : SOPUP
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Novelist Danielle without her glossy dress? : SATINLESSSTEEL
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"A Streetcar Named Desire" role : STELLA
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___-Ball : SKEE
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Channel-surfing catalysts : ADS
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Honey Bunches of Oafs, e.g.? : CLODCEREAL
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Set a price of : ASK
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Beaver Cleaver exclamation : GEE
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Yom Kippur War figure : MEIR
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Soup after it's been taken off the burner? : CALMCHOWDER
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Semidome site : APSE
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Care providers, for short : HMOS
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Given : AXIOM
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What might determine if the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie is truly amore? : CROONERSINQUEST
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"A Journal of the Plague Year" novelist, 1722 : DEFOE
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___ Lane, acting first lady during Buchanan's tenure : HARRIET
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Send to the ocean bottom : SCUTTLE
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Goes downhill? : SLEDS
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Cells displaced them : PAGERS
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British eatery : TEASHOP
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Pen name of columnist Pauline Phillips : ABBY
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Where the rubber meets the road? : SOLE
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In a moment : ANON
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Reasons to resurface : RUTS
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Miss ___ : USA
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"Lolita" subject : LECHERY
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Honor : ESTEEM
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Family business abbr. : BROS
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Particle in a salt solution : ION
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Connie's husband in "The Godfather" : CARLO
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Last thing bid? : ADIEU
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Mortgage adjustment, briefly : REFI
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Willing to take risks : BOLD
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Dampen, perhaps : BEDEW
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Higher-up : EXEC
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"Rock-a-bye Baby," e.g. : LILT
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___ clef : ALTO
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It starts with a celebration : YEAR
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Handles : SEESTO
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Take a shot? : IMBIBE
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Masseur's supply : TALC
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"Bugsy" star : BEATTY
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Fashion lines : SEAMS
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Burn : SCALD
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Peaceful protest of the 1960s : LOVEIN
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Kind of : INAWAY
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Bugs that weigh tons : VWS
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Brady Campaign opposer, for short : NRA
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Cheat : SHYSTER
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Kind of rock : CLASSIC
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Sound off : RANT
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Palindromic name : OTTO
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Grieve openly : WEEP
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Work with a number : OPUS
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Garbage collection? : FLIES
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Driven group : CATTLE
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Sign of rot : ODOR
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Be behind : TRAIL
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Modern-day capital that King David ordered besieged : AMMAN
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Sri Lanka export : PEKOE
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"Joseph Anton: A Memoir" autobiographer : RUSHDIE
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Absence justification : ILLNESS
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Game drawers : DECOYS
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Letter arrangement? : LEASE
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Black Friday events : SALES
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Candlelight diners, perhaps : COUPLE
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Phoebe's twin on "Friends" : URSULA
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Have in mind : MEAN
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Spellbound : RAPT
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When repeated, cry before "They're catching up!" : FASTER
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High country : NEPAL
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Miss : LASS
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Author Dinesen : ISAK
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Blanchett of "Blue Jasmine" : CATE
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One who may be grand? : NIECE
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Slithery swimmer : EEL
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Walks noisily : CLOMPS
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Poetic contraction : OER
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Whip tip : LASH
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Ex-mayor seen in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" : EDKOCH
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"It's true whether or not you believe in it," per Neil deGrasse Tyson : SCIENCE
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Stop it : DESIST
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Summits : ACMES
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___ Cantor, German mathematician who invented set theory : GEORG
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Kovacs of comedy : ERNIE
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Heels : CADS
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Rink maneuver : AXEL
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Long sentence : LIFE
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Grammatical concept : MOOD
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Close the set? : WRAP
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TV "explorer" : DORA
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Kennedy Center focus : ARTS
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Humble dwellings : HUTS
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"Breaking Bad" commodity : METH
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Home of the first U.N. secretary general : OSLO
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Walking distance : STEP
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Poetic contraction : EER
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Who: Lat. : QUA

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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