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New York Times, Thursday, October 10, 2024

Author:
Grant Boroughs
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
58-Across : Author's concern that, when parsed as four parts, provides a hint to this puzzle's theme
TotalDebutLatest
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Grant Boroughs

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Boroughs. Thursday freshness: 16%
Jim Horne notes:
In this Schrödinger puzzle, each circle can contain either a W or a D and both the Across and Down clues fit either way. 58-Across can ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times10/10/24 ( No. 27,365 )
Across
1
Site for a light bite : CAFE
5
Cy Young winners, e.g. : ACES
9
Dog leg terminus : PAW
12
Like many Keats works : ODIC
13
Swahili honorific : BWANA
14
"Lucy and ___" (2022 documentary) : DESI
15
Instrument panels : WASHBOARDS
17
Landed : ALIT
18
Sweatshirt style : HOODIE
19
Syllables of laughter : HAHHAH
21
Word on a nutrition label : FAT
23
"Educated insolence," per Aristotle : WIT
24
Gesture of reassurance : PAT
25
Long time span : AGE
26
Subject to damages : LIABLE
28
Trademark of deadpan stand-ups : WRYHUMOR
30
Lou Grant's wife on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" : EDIE
31
Bugs, perhaps : SPIESON
33
Areas that are lower than their surrounding terrain : WELLS
35
"I'm flexible" : ANY
36
Toss out : SCRAP
40
Like the femur, among all bones in the body : LARGEST
43
Quiet period : LULL
44
What lies before you, with "the" : WAYAHEAD
47
Not ruling out : OPENTO
49
Black ___ : ICE
50
Stopover : INN
51
What makes a sticker stickier? : ANI
52
Do some garden work : SOW
53
Dance floor lighting option : STROBE
55
Text massager : EDITOR
57
Ungulate feature : HOOF
58
Author's concern that, when parsed as four parts, provides a hint to this puzzle's theme : WORDCHOICE
62
Sufficient, informally : ENUF
63
Bold, energetic and ambitious type, it's said : ARIES
64
Speed : ZOOM
65
Collector's goal : SET
66
Give, but expect back : LEND
67
Words to a betrayer : ETTU
Down
1
Major food source animal : COD
2
Computing pioneer Lovelace : ADA
3
Swerve wildly from side to side, as a car : FISHTAIL
4
___ Park, neighborhood of Los Angeles : ECHO
5
Anticipate : AWAIT
6
Mind : CARE
7
Burnt bit of brisket : END
8
Confidently struts : SASHAYS
9
___ Bay, neighborhood of the Bronx : PELHAM
10
Italian cheese : ASIAGO
11
Fail to act decisively in the face of a challenge : DITHER
13
Legislative collectives : BODIES
14
One of three in an SOS message : DAH
16
Part of a pipe : BOWL
20
Melancholy Musketeer : ATHOS
21
Raced, as away from danger : FLED
22
Right hand : AIDE
24
Feeds (on) : PREYS
27
"Twilight" protagonist : BELLA
28
Lavishly regaled, in a way : DINED
29
Scooby-Doo, to Scrappy-Doo : UNCLE
32
Druid, e.g. : PAGAN
34
Indian honorific : SAHIB
37
Goes hog-wild : RUNSRIOT
38
Prefix with cumulus : ALTO
39
Move forward resolutely : PLOD
41
Fountain of Youth's promise : RENEWAL
42
Old-timey medicines : TONICS
44
Things listed on a wedding registry : DISHES
45
Play opener : ACTONE
46
"Stee-RIKE three!" follower : YEROUT
48
Essence : PITH
51
Put two and two together, say : ADDED
54
Not quite right : OFF
55
Whistle-blower Brockovich : ERIN
56
Sludge : OOZE
59
Rich rock : ORE
60
Private sleeping accommodations? : COT
61
Big bird : EMU

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle.

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