Alan Arbesfeld's Thursday NYT gave me some trouble.
None of the thematic 15-letter across answers came quickly:
RUNAROUNDSUEZ ("Do a marathon in Egypt?")
PLAYSHARDTOGETZ ("Goes all out at an audition for a sax great?")
CLASSIFIEDADZ ("Top-secret carpentry tool?")
It's a nice trick throwing in the Z's at the end, and it worked against me big time because I usually fill the grid from upperleft to lower-right, finishing the right edges last.
It didn't help that with for an nine-letter answer for which I already had BALTI filled in, I completed it to BALTIMORE without reading the clue ("Part of Poland's border.")
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