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TRICKY TRIOS

New York Times, Sunday, June 17, 2018

Author:
Amanda Chung, Karl Ni and Erik Agard
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
22-Across : GPS suggestion
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Amanda Chung
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Erik Agard

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JQX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Chung. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Ni. This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Agard. Sunday freshness: 42%
Constructor notes:
AMANDA AND KARL: We are from the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoy many shared hobbies, one of which is crossword puzzles. Amanda renewed her interest in crosswords a few years ago and ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
LAST ONE STANDING = final person in a trio oriented vertically. We've highlighted the people below in case you missed them. One thing I thought Amanda, Karl, and Erik did ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times6/17/18 ( No. 25,058 )
Across
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Temporarily stops running : STALLS
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Sport-___ (some vehicles) : UTES
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Contain, as a spewing oil well : CAP
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Military bigwigs : BRASS
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"Pick me!" : OOHOOH
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Light bite : NOSH
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Excitement : ADO
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GPS suggestion : ROUTE
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Breakfast trio : SNAPCRACKLEANDPOP
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Classic song : OLDIE
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___-backwards : ASS
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Smuggler's unit : KILO
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Record label for Pink and Pitbull : RCA
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Lets off the hook? : UNCLIPS
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Otello, in "Otello" : TENOR
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Even : TIED
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Act as a go-between : LIAISE
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"You can skip me" : PASS
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Puppet show trio : KUKLAFRANANDOLLIE
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Fall guy? : HUMPTY
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"That's rough!" : OOF
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Some Canadian natives : CREE
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In the tradition of : ALA
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___ Aldridge, pioneering Shakespearean actor : IRA
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Lost baggage helpers : IDTAGS
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Ad biz awards : CLIOS
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Producer of public radio's "Radiolab" : WNYC
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Spanish seasoning that's a letter short of its English counterpart : SAL
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Youngest daughter on "Black-ish" : DIANE
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Hold tightly : CLASP
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Dangerous injection : VENOM
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Capital city with more than 300 islands : HELSINKI
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Sergey of Google : BRIN
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"Nobody's here but me" : IMALONE
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Sailing trio : WYNKENBLYNKENANDNOD
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Surrounded by : AMONGST
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"Little Latin ___ Lu" (1960s hit) : LUPE
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Effervescent citrus beverage : LIMESODA
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Old Ford vehicles, for short : MERCS
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Open : OVERT
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Skyrockets : ZOOMS
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Open ___ : MIC
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Strip pokers? : AWLS
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Fumes : STEWS
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Some skin art : HENNAS
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Place for R.N.s : ICU
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Subj. of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" : LSD
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"lol" alternative : HEHE
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Unnecessary extra : FAT
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Gilda of "Saturday Night Live" : RADNER
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Folk trio : PETERPAULANDMARY
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Rap artist Flo ___ : RIDA
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Dinero : MOOLAH
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Throw : HURL
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State a case : ARGUE
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Director Taika ___ : WAITITI
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"Star Wars" nickname : ANI
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Pronoun in Dixie : YALL
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Philosopher ___-tzu : LAO
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Fortune 500 company with an avian symbol : AFLAC
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Survivor of an all-out brawl ... or a hint to 23-, 38-, 64- and 87-Across : LASTONESTANDING
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Battle of Leningrad, e.g. : SIEGE
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Something ratable by number of Pinocchios : LIE
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Long transmission of folklore, say : SAGA
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Charlotte Motor Speedway org. : NASCAR
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Underworld : HADES
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Camera with a mirror, in brief : SLR
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Hail on a bridge : AHOY
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Trash : DELETE
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Sammy on a 1998 cover of Newsweek : SOSA
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Heaps : TONS
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Good crosswords provide lots of them : AHAS
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Chop (off) : LOP
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John who wrote "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" : LOCKE
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Arts-and-crafts kit trendy in the 1970s-'80s : SHRINKYDINKS
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Open, as a bottle of wine : UNCORK
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"TiK ___" (Kesha hit) : TOK
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Class for some immigrants, for short : ESL
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Foe of Robin Hood : SHERIFF
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Geographically largest member of NATO : CANADA
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Interject : ADD
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In view? : POPULAROPINION
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Upholsterer's fabric : BROCADE
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Certain expensive watch, in slang : ROLLIE
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Autobahn autos : AUDIS
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Michael of R.E.M. : STIPE
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Goes with : SEES
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Jesus on the diamond : ALOU
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Big name in laptops : ACER
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Digits ending many prices : NINES
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Baking meas. : TSP
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Eponymous New Mexico tribe : TAOS
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Do email scamming : PHISH
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Radiant emanations : AURAE
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"Huh, you know him, too?!" : SMALLWORLD
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Stadium section : LOGE
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Police procedural beginning in 2003 : NCIS
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News : TIDINGS
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Words before a year : ANNODOMINI
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City on the Rhône : LYON
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Zenith : ACME
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Have ___ with : ANIN
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Ernest who wrote "Ready Player One" : CLINE
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Tall and thin : LANK
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Joins : WELDS
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Classic horror film locale : CRYPT
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Actress/singer Hudgens : VANESSA
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Matches up : SYNCS
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Makes fuzzy : BLURS
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Nursing facility? : MAMMARYGLAND
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Huffed and puffed : BLEW
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Southern university whose team is the Phoenix : ELON
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___ Clooney, Barbara Walters's "most fascinating person" of 2014 : AMAL
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Litter sounds : MEWS
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Chopped up : DICED
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BMW competitor : ACURA
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Swerve : VEER
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Letter that, surprisingly, is not the end of the Greek alphabet : ZETA
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Assail : SETAT
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Campus building : HALL
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Spirals : HELICES
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Charlize Theron's role in 2015's "Mad Max" reboot : FURIOSA
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Dr. ___ : DRE
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Thick soup : POTAGE
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Sci-fi stunner : PHASER
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One who cries "Uncle!"? : AUNT
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Contradict : NAYSAY
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"Nuts!" : DRAT
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Underworld : MAFIA
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Three sheets to the wind : OILED
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Things near funny bones : ULNAE
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Load of laundry : WASH
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Pet peeves? : LICE
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Med. school course : ANAT
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Fearsome figure : OGRE
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Suffer : AIL
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"Forget about it!" : NAH
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Freudian area of study : EGO
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Cable alternative : DSL

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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