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FOUR BY FOUR

New York Times, Sunday, September 28, 2014

Author:
Todd Gross
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
95-Down : Activates, in computer lingo
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Todd Gross

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 68 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Gross. Sunday freshness: 37%
Todd Gross notes:
I sent Will the initial version of Four By Four in early June. I heard back in late July, saying he liked the puzzle but wanted me to change two entries that repeated words: BADA BING BADA ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
After finishing the puzzle, I was itching for BADA BING BADA BOOM to be in there, so I was glad to see Todd's notes (this is partially why I run constructors' notes above my own). Too bad, ... read more
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© 2014, The New York Times9/28/14 ( No. 23,700 )
Across
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Bygone potentate : MAHARAJA
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Ottoman inns : IMARETS
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Web starter : HTTP
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Kind of steroid : ANABOLIC
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Small thing to burn : CALORIE
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"Fancy meeting you here!" : OHHI
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1975 Tony-nominated play about an extended affair : SAMETIMENEXTYEAR
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Spanish province : LEON
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Rehnquist's successor on the high bench : SCALIA
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New home loan deal, in short : REFI
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Exclaimed : CRIEDOUT
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"Guardians of the Galaxy" title characters, informally : ETS
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Org. implementing the Protect America Act : NSA
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Audacity : GALL
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Chief justice during the Civil War : TANEY
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Relationships : TIES
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Skateboard jump : OLLIE
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Private parts : LOINS
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Clear-minded : SANE
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The Crossroads of the West : SALTLAKECITYUTAH
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Fields : AREAS
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Early-millennium year : MII
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Undermine : ERODE
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Prop on "The Bachelor" : ROSE
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What a bachelor might do : COURT
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___ Watts, English hymnist who wrote "Joy to the World" : ISAAC
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Uncontested basketball attempts : OPENSHOTS
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Swarms : HORDES
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Rockefeller Center statue : ATLAS
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Go after : ENSUE
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Irons, say : SMOOTHS
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Encourage : EGGON
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Like a good-sized estate, maybe : TENACRE
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"Wait, you can't possibly think ...?" : WHOME
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Writer painted by Velázquez : AESOP
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Pre-Bill Hillary : RODHAM
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Historic figure with a reputation at stake? : JOANOFARC
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Shelfmate of Bartlett's, maybe : ROGET
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Onion relative : CHIVE
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Go cheek-to-cheek with : ABUT
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Lingo : ARGOT
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Good source of iron? : ORE
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Exxon Valdez, e.g. : OILER
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Warm way to welcome someone : WITHARMSWIDEOPEN
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Millennials, informally : GENY
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Unflinching : STOIC
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Be profligate, say : SPEND
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Radio host John : TESH
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Throat problem : STREP
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Team of oxen : SPAN
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"Say what?" : HUH
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Brother : FRA
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Not now : INAWHILE
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Stats for Aaron and Gehrig : RBIS
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Deeds : TITLES
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Goddess of marriage : HERA
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Common slogan for a music radio station : LESSTALKMOREROCK
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Kind of cavity : ORAL
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Vatican City vis-à-vis Rome : ENCLAVE
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"CSI: Miami" actress : EVALARUE
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Take in some views? : POLL
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Some farms : DAIRIES
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Unpredictable one : WILDCARD
Down
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Pool stroke : MASSE
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Put on ___ : ANACT
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Gaza group : HAMAS
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Biblical brother : ABEL
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Corkscrew-shaped pasta : ROTINI
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George Orwell and George Eliot : ALIASES
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Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory" : JIM
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Taiwanese computer giant : ACER
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Flowing glacial feature : ICEFALL
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Mandible's counterpart : MAXILLA
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Not the main rte. : ALT
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The natural in "The Natural" : ROY
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Build : ERECT
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Sparkly topper : TIARA
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Relative of a canary : SERIN
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"Don't be ashamed" : HOLDYOURHEADHIGH
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Vincent van Gogh's brother : THEO
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G : THOU
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Pub order : PINT
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Haggle : NEGOTIATE
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Hard to grasp : EELY
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"Ditto" : ASAMI
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Valley girl's filler : LIKE
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Reagan's challenge to Gorbachev : TEARDOWNTHISWALL
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Architect Saarinen : EERO
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Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes" : ITOO
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Earliest-born member of the Cartoon Hall of Fame : NAST
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"___ Mine, All Mine" (1920s tune) : SHES
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Goldman's banking partner : SACHS
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"___ of One's Own" (Woolf essay) : AROOM
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Intro to science? : NEURO
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___ Leslie, three-time W.N.B.A. M.V.P. : LISA
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Get by : COPE
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Driver's lic., e.g. : IDENT
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Like overtime periods vis-à-vis regulation play : TENSER
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Prefix with -scope : STETHO
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Bit of seaweed : ALGA
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Cav or Mav : CAGER
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Brand with a red arrow through its logo : SUNOCO
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Synagogue instrument : SHOFAR
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Middlin' : SOSO
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Some smug comments : SMARM
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Bum : NOGOODNIK
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It has almost 4,000 miles of coastline : CHILE
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Lustrous black : RAVEN
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It might be at your fingertips : EMERY
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Work units : ERGS
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One picked out of a lineup, informally : PERP
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Classic movie shot on Martha's Vineyard : JAWS
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Dead reckoning? : OBIT
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Prefix with correct : AUTO
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Sights at 127-Across : COWS
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Baby ___ : TEETH
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Bar jarful : TIPS
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Pituitary gland output, briefly : ACTH
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Corrupt : DEPRAVE
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Activates, in computer lingo : ENABLES
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No one can drive in this : NEUTRAL
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Protect : SHIELD
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All worked up : RILED
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Justice Kagan : ELENA
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Oscar-winning actor whose name is Italian for "fishes" : PESCI
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Trees and shrubs : FLORA
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Come back : RECUR
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Posed : ASKED
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2007 purchaser of Applebee's : IHOP
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Nephew of Caligula : NERO
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Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
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Duck that nests in tree hollows : SMEW
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Gillette brand name : TRAC
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Olympus OM-2, e.g. : SLR
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___ chi : TAI
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Egg: Prefix : OVI

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8 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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