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New York Times, Saturday, January 6, 2024

Author:
Ben Tolkin and Julian Xiao
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
55-Across : They change colors
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Julian Xiao

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Tolkin. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Xiao. Saturday freshness: 2%
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© 2024, The New York Times1/6/24 ( No. 27,087 )
Across
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"Ciao" : TATA
5
Out-of-focus effect in photography, from the Japanese for "blur" : BOKEH
10
Stunt for three, six or 10 people, typically : HUMANPYRAMID
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Olympic bars? : NATIONALANTHEM
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Doesn't come out all at once : OOZES
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Deft : AGILE
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It's a big deal : ACE
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Most tongue-in-cheek : WRYEST
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Pop-___ (some visits) : INS
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One might get a lead : STAR
22
Surrealist filmmaker Buñuel : LUIS
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Possible side effect of using steroids : ACNE
25
Long division? : AISLE
26
Certain pseudoscience, for short : ESP
27
Lead-in to rock : PROG
28
Director Lee : ANG
29
"Bad plan!," in Southern slang : THATDOGDONTHUNT
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"Here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how ___": Hamlet : OFT
36
Cells that handle low-light vision : RODS
37
"___ man can tether time or tide": Burns : NAE
38
Some score marks : RESTS
41
Ones who tell each other *everything* : BFFS
42
P.A. gear : AMPS
43
Emerald ___ : ISLE
44
"A symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal," according to John Steinbeck : WAR
45
Mystic : OCCULT
47
Org. that maintains a museum in Annapolis Junction, Md. : NSA
48
California's San ___ County : MATEO
50
Troubadours' instruments : LUTES
51
Show with an hourglass in its opening title sequence : DAYSOFOURLIVES
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Performance-based paycheck : YEARENDBONUS
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They change colors : DYERS
56
Spot : SITE
Down
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Pupils : TUTEES
2
Off : AMISS
3
"___: The Watercourse Way" (Alan Watts book) : TAO
4
Fashion designer Sui : ANNA
5
Author credit : BYLINE
6
Exams you don't need a pencil for : ORALS
7
"Citizen ___" : KANE
8
First responder, for short : EMT
9
Drum kit components with pedals : HIHATS
10
Unfiltered brew : HAZYIPA
11
Comment after a revealing moment : PAGINGDRFREUD
12
Sticker on a model, e.g. : DECAL
13
"Take your time!" : NORUSH
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Only : MERE
15
Baby covered in fluffy down : OWLET
19
Fool's deck : TAROT
21
[Aw, jeez!] : SIGH
24
Small part of a system : COG
25
Carpenters, maybe? : ANTS
27
Many downloads : PDFS
28
"Thus ..." : ANDSO
30
Lug : TOTE
31
"That's rough, buddy" : OOF
32
Prepares to speak, in a modern meeting : UNMUTES
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Where pizza is said to have been invented : NAPLES
34
Finals, but not semifinals : TESTS
38
Twist of a screwdriver? : RIND
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Part of many 34-Down : ESSAY
40
Impressed greatly, as at a drag show : SLAYED
41
They're relayed in a relay : BATONS
42
Big name in contact lenses : ACUVUE
44
Thin slice of silicon at the heart of an integrated circuit : WAFER
46
American soccer icon ___ Dempsey : CLINT
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Glutton's constant desire : MORE
49
Spheres : ORBS
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"Suppose ..." : SAY
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Pascal's law? : LOI

Answer summary:
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