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New York Times, Monday, January 8, 2024

Author:
Nate Cardin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
44-Across : Improves, as a skill
TotalDebutLatest
67/26/20185/12/2024
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Nate Cardin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JQVZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Cardin. Monday freshness: 62%
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© 2024, The New York Times1/8/24 ( No. 27,089 )
Across
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Random ___ of kindness : ACTS
5
"What's more ..." : ALSO
9
Loser to scissors, winner over rock : PAPER
14
Eating plan : DIET
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Slightest little sound : PEEP
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Future fungus : SPORE
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Tim Duncan's longtime N.B.A. team : SANANTONIOSPURS
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Feminine article in Spanish : UNA
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"I'll do that right away, boss!" : ONIT
22
Source of draft beer : TAP
23
Metaphor for some special-interest government spending : PORKBARREL
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Dust ___ (tiny critter) : MITE
28
Taylor Swift's "We ___ Never Ever Getting Back Together" : ARE
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Little hopper : TOAD
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Sudden overwhelming fear : PANIC
31
Energy drinks that "give you wings" : REDBULLS
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Choose : SELECT
35
Mouth-related : ORAL
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Versin' person? : POET
37
Spins : WHIRLS
40
Titular soccer coach on a hit Apple TV+ series : TEDLASSO
44
Improves, as a skill : HONES
45
Greek salad cheese : FETA
46
___-to manual : HOW
47
Shapes of rainbows : ARCS
48
Attention seeker at school : CLASSCLOWN
51
"I did NOT need to know that!" : TMI
52
Stretched tight : TAUT
53
Sound in a "Batman" fight : POW
54
"Done this before, you know!" ... or a hint to the last words of 17-, 23-, 31-, 40- and 48-Across : NOTMYFIRSTRODEO
60
Do a bit better than : ONEUP
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College head : DEAN
62
Annoying thing to find unmatched in the laundry pile : SOCK
63
Doorstop's shape : WEDGE
64
Certain risqué message : SEXT
65
Swelled heads : EGOS
Down
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Interruptions in YouTube videos : ADS
2
Spy org. : CIA
3
Like professors with job security : TENURED
4
Performed poorly, informally : STANK
5
Well-suited : APT
6
Sign before Virgo : LEO
7
Ladies of Spain : SENORAS
8
Stated a viewpoint : OPINED
9
"Hey, you! Over here!" : PSST
10
Smartphone download : APP
11
Canadian fries-and-gravy dish : POUTINE
12
Unpredictable : ERRATIC
13
Aretha Franklin hit ranked #1 on a Rolling Stone magazine "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list : RESPECT
18
Catch in the act : NAB
19
Frying need : OIL
23
Golf standard : PAR
24
Underground metal : ORE
25
Book of maps : ATLAS
26
"Let the good times ___!" : ROLL
27
Island nation south of Sicily : MALTA
30
Banana discard : PEEL
32
Tiresome sorts : BORES
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Addresses with links, for short : URLS
34
Cokes and Pepsis : SODAS
36
Nonhuman household residents : PETS
37
"Where do we go from here?" : WHATNOW
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Estrogen or testosterone : HORMONE
39
Provoked : INCITED
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Source of an extract used in aromatherapy : TEATREE
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Entrant in a Westminster Kennel Club event : SHOWDOG
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Scatter, as seeds : SOW
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Take responsibility for : OWN
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Liquids : FLUIDS
48
Half-___ (rhyming coffee order) : CAF
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Lifesaving skill, in brief : CPR
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"___ lips sink ships" : LOOSE
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Use a keyboard : TYPE
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One might read "#1 Dad" : MUG
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"Wailing" instrument : SAX
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Explosive inits. : TNT
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Prefix with conscious : ECO
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Approves : OKS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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