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New York Times, Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Author:
Kevin Curry and Jeff Chen
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
46-Across : Rage
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
411/7/202310/1/20242
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0020200
ScrabDebutFresh
1.631538%
Kevin Curry
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1577/5/201010/27/2024109
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatAcr
431017263711121
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
11411.6292255%
Jeff Chen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Curry. This is puzzle # 155 for Mr. Chen. Tuesday freshness: 73%
Constructor notes:
Kevin Curry: This one wouldn't have happened without my wife, Zhou, who suggested that it would be fun to hide Bigfoot in a crossword ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

The creatures are misspelled because you didn't quite see them through the gray shadows. They are false sightings.

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© 2024, The New York Times10/1/24 ( No. 27,356 )
Across
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Stuff in Santa's footprints : ASH
4
Exchanged for cash, in a way : PAWNED
10
West Coast wine valley : NAPA
14
Buffett or Cook, for short : CEO
15
Words after "Because" in a parent's explanation : ISAYSO
16
"Metamorphoses" poet : OVID
17
A.F.C. South team ("Look in the lake! It's … ah, never mind") : TENNESSEETITANS
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Triumphant shout : HOORAH
21
Spot for abs or apple seeds : CORE
22
Time spent in a seat : TERM
23
Investigative journalism ("What was that in the sea?! I must be imagining things") : MUCKRAKING
28
Staggering this way and that : AREEL
30
Fe, to chemists : IRON
31
1/16 of a gallon : CUP
32
Napoleon Dynamite's best friend : PEDRO
33
Asia's disappearing ___ Sea : ARAL
34
Creates, as a goal : SETS
35
Imperial unit of volume ("There's another one! I swear he just slipped into those trees …") : CUBICFOOT
38
Agile : SPRY
41
Good old-fashioned butt-kicking : ROUT
42
Corporate emblems : LOGOS
46
Rage : IRE
47
Place for ham-handed workers? : DELI
48
Window dressing : DRAPE
49
Professional proofreader ("Over there, in the snow! That had to be something, right?!") : COPYEDITOR
53
Frankenstein's assistant : IGOR
54
Smooth-talking : GLIB
55
Life forms : BEINGS
57
Pseudoscientist investigating the "sightings" in this puzzle : CRYPTOZOOLOGIST
62
Word repeated four times in the chorus of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" : HATE
63
"Sign us up!" : WEREIN
64
Bear hair : FUR
65
Wally ___, "famous" cookie maker : AMOS
66
Bare minimums : LEASTS
67
"I didn't need to hear all that!" : TMI
Down
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Play a part, or a play part : ACT
2
"Now you listen to me …" : SEEHERE
3
Paid homage to : HONORED
4
Santa Monica tourist attraction : PIER
5
Silk-producing region of India : ASSAM
6
Sch. located in St. Louis, not Seattle : WASHU
7
Bill ___, the Science Guy : NYE
8
Compass heading : ESE
9
Pointillism mark : DOT
10
Against the rules : NOTOK
11
Greed : AVARICE
12
Pesto ingredient : PINENUT
13
Many website banners : ADS
18
What the ruthless show : NOMERCY
19
Declaration of determination : ICAN
22
Alternative to a swipe, for a credit card : TAP
24
Lecture tour : CIRCUIT
25
Company that merged with Heinz in 2015 : KRAFT
26
Caramel-filled candy : ROLO
27
Navigation aid that works through satellites, in brief : GPS
29
Gehrig in Cooperstown : LOU
33
Garlicky sauce : AIOLI
34
Saving for later : STORING
36
Born and ___ : BRED
37
Like Father Time : OLD
38
[not my mistake] : SIC
39
"Get with the ___!" : PROGRAM
40
Answer, as an email : REPLYTO
43
Purchase for a white elephant exchange : GAGGIFT
44
North America's only marsupial : OPOSSUM
45
To be, in Spanish : SER
47
Money owed : DEBT
50
"Yowzers!" : YIPES
51
Orchestra woodwinds : OBOES
52
Ignited again : RELIT
56
They're not free of charge : IONS
57
"___-ching!" : CHA
58
Pretentious friend of Winnie-the-Pooh : OWL
59
Last section in a dictionary : ZEE
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" … boy ___ girl?" : ORA
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Numerical prefix that sounds like a verb : TRI

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

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