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New York Times, Monday, January 22, 2024

Author:
Jake Halperin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
61-Across : Habitat's flora and fauna
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Jake Halperin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JXZ} This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Halperin. Monday freshness: 73%
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© 2024, The New York Times1/22/24 ( No. 27,103 )
Across
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"Make it snappy!" : ASAP
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Metal for a blacksmith : IRON
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"Well, shucks!" : AWGEE
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Bug bite annoyance : ITCH
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Put money in the bank : SAVE
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Emotional states : MOODS
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What the suffix "-er" may mean : MORE
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Entree served in a bowl : STEW
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"Rainbow" fish : TROUT
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*British publishing house founded in 1935 : PENGUINBOOKS
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Cookie with "Stuf" inside : OREO
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Lover boys : ROMEOS
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Opposite of "It is I" : NOTME
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Initialism meaning "Be wary of looking at this in the office" : NSFW
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Having the means : ABLE
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Numbered classical pieces : OPUSES
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"I gotta decline" : NAH
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In one's birthday suit : NUDE
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Sea: Fr. : MER
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*Certain ice cream or soap product : DOVEBAR
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Cambridge sch. that sends out acceptance letters to students on Pi Day : MIT
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Singer Paul with the memoir "My Way" : ANKA
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Produce whoppers : LIE
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Soy-based protein source : TEMPEH
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Went kaput, as a battery : DIED
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Fashion legend Wang : VERA
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Hermann who wrote philosophical fiction : HESSE
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Impede the progress of : STYMIE
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Wander : ROAM
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Subject of "the talk" about sex … or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues : BIRDSANDBEES
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Habitat's flora and fauna : BIOTA
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Apple music player discontinued in 2022 : IPOD
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Midday rests : NAPS
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What a score of 70 or less signifies on a common standardized test : LOWIQ
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Spill the beans : TELL
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Lumberjack's target : TREE
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Prefix with media or cultural : MULTI
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Spiral down the sink, say : EDDY
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A single time : ONCE
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Asset in playing Whac-A-Mole : AIM
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"I can't take it any longer!" : STOP
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Farm measurement : ACRE
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Minors who look to be headed to the majors : PHENOMS
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Magazine installment : ISSUE
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Mete out : RATION
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Kitchen fixture : OVEN
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Inexperienced gamer, informally : NEWB
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Playground retort : AMTOO
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One who makes his living with his hands : WORKMAN
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*Bodily response to something eerie : GOOSEBUMPS
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End of a school's URL : EDU
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Winter clock setting in N.Y.C. : EST
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Trait of the fabled fisherman's wife : GREED
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"Alternatively …???" : ORWHAT
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Songs from the '60s and '70s, say : OLDIES
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Be quietly furious : SEETHE
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Wanderers : NOMADS
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Order to a birthday girl or boy : OPENIT
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*Thanksgiving football game : TURKEYBOWL
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Contemptuous expression : SNEER
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"Mahvelous!" : FAB
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Figured out, as a mystery : SOLVED
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Compete (for) : VIE
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Goal of an intervention, maybe : REHAB
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"Enough denying!" : ADMITIT
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Token of past times : MEMENTO
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Actor Schwarzenegger : ARNOLD
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Baghdad citizen : IRAQI
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"As ironic as it sounds …" : ODDLY
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Place for a construction project : SITE
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Mimicked : APED
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Make, as money : EARN
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Display size or camera res, e.g. : SPEC
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Antiracist movement since 2013, in brief : BLM
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Letters acknowledging debt : IOU
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"'I ___,' said the blind man, as he picked up a hammer and saw" : SEE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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