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New York Times, Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Author:
Chloe Revery and Alissa Revness
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Across : Chose a course
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Chloe Revery
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Alissa Revness

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Revery. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Revness. Wednesday freshness: 30%
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© 2024, The New York Times1/10/24 ( No. 27,091 )
Across
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Podcasters' needs : MICS
5
Meaty pasta sauce : RAGU
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"Hey, by the way …" : OHSAY
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Apple with multiple cores : IMAC
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Eurasian river : URAL
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Abstain from : NOTDO
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*Job for a coxswain with rowdy rowers? : TAMINGOFTHECREW
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What's tolerated by every body? : TYPEO
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Natural hairstyles : AFROS
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Poorly : ILL
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*Review for a so-so bakery? : NOGREATCAKES
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2007 Michael Moore documentary about health care : SICKO
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"You've got ___ nerve!" : SOME
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Melody : TUNE
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It's often in stock : BONE
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Chose a course : OPTED
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Dorothy Parker quality : WIT
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*Person who assigns the order of opening presents? : GIFTCOP
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"Yes," in Japanese : HAI
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Check box of last resort : OTHER
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Norse protector of humankind : THOR
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Complain querulously : CARP
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Kyrgyzstan mountain range : ALAI
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Extremist sects : CULTS
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*Completes a superhero transformation? : GETSINTOCAPE
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And others too numerous to mention : ETC
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Nary a soul : NOONE
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Island nation whose currency is the tala : SAMOA
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Preschool teacher's mantra … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues : SHARINGISCARING
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Have a nibble of : TASTE
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Brazilian berry : ACAI
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She, on the Seine : ELLE
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Expression that might accompany a mustache twirl : SNEER
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Word repeated in a 1956 Doris Day single : SERA
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Brighter times : DAYS
Down
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It's catching : MITT
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"Not sure yet" : IMAY
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Something to make or break : CAMP
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"Magic that works," per Vonnegut : SCIENCE
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Runner on the ground? : RUG
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Like an excited crowd : AROAR
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Social blunder : GAFFE
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Marine leader? : ULTRA
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Small ice cream order : ONESCOOP
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Ad ___ : HOC
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"Never mind what I just said!" : STRIKETHAT
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One of the Astaires : ADELE
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Caterwauls : YOWLS
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Cozy corner : NOOK
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Romantic attraction, slangily, with "the" : HOTS
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Its name means "waterless place" in Mongolian : GOBI
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Hype (up) : AMP
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Something to follow, in cards : SUIT
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"If so, then …" : INTHATCASE
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Number of graduates in the first class at West Point (1802) : TWO
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Poetic frequency : OFT
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Utmost : NTH
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Writer Umberto : ECO
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Buds go in them : EARS
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Dance floor flourish : DIP
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Less sharp, as footage : GRAINIER
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Animal whose brain has the most gray matter of any mammal : ORCA
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They're raised in Chi-Town : ELS
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Found innocent : CLEARED
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Part of, as a plot : INON
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"___-daisy!" : UPSA
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Tales of daring : GESTS
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Frome of fiction : ETHAN
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Classical cover-ups : TOGAS
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Chilling : ONICE
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Labor activist Chavez : CESAR
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"___ 18" (novel by Leon Uris) : MILA
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Exclusively : ONLY
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Wrinkles in time? : AGES
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Its ways are numbered: Abbr. : RTE
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O.S.S. successor : CIA

Answer summary:
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