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New York Times, Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Author:
Joseph Gangi
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
14-Across : Get in a twist
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Joseph Gangi

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 43 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 1 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Gangi. Wednesday freshness: 43%
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© 2023, The New York Times10/18/23 ( No. 27,007 )
Across
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Rent in the garment district? : RIP
4
Tuna type : AHI
7
Amount on an invoice : FEE
10
Nickname for a young Skywalker : ANI
13
The Great Depression, for one : ERA
14
Get in a twist : CONTORT
16
Foosball apparatus : ROD
17
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to witness something extraordinary that has never been seen or attempted before!" (go to 34-Down) : FORTHEFIRSTTIME
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Get out of a tangle : UNTIE
21
"Charlotte's Web" monogram : EBW
22
Yoga posture : ASANA
23
Unit of doubt, so to speak : SEED
24
Relating to city life : URBAN
26
Twisted tangle : KNOT
27
Name seen going down the drain? : EDDY
28
Drum type : SNARE
29
Camila Cabello's "Never Be the ___" (2018) : SAME
30
Get more, say : REORDER
32
Kind of belt : BIBLE
36
Patrick on the 1992 Dream Team : EWING
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Name that translates as "people of the standing stone" : ONEIDA
43
Divine or digital representation : AVATAR
44
Declares : STATES
45
"Groom and board" locale : PETSPA
46
Vegetarian's demand : NOMEAT
47
Bio and chem student's program, perhaps : PREMED
48
"The spell is cast! Don't blink or you'll miss it …" (go to 15-Down) : ABRACADABRA
52
Bulldoze : RAZE
54
Not as well : ILLER
55
Pepper and others: Abbr. : SGTS
58
Sheltered from the wind : ALEE
59
Bet more than : RAISE
60
Bird revered by the Maori : KIWI
61
Modern initialism when skipping text : TLDR
62
What a server may "serve" : EMAIL
63
Recycle bin on a desktop, e.g. : ICON
Down
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Garbage : REFUSE
2
Straightened (out) : IRONED
3
Like some hair and seas : PARTED
4
Hunger (for) : ACHE
5
Chopping tool : HOE
6
Hell of a poem? : INFERNO
7
Overfamiliar, in a way : FORWARD
8
Hosp. sections : ERS
9
James of jazz : ETTA
10
Grande of pop : ARIANA
11
"So, so delish!" : NOMNOM
12
Brainstorm : IDEATE
15
Visual representation of this puzzle's trick (go to 38-Down) : TIBBAR
18
Considerable, as a sum : TIDY
19
Sounds of disapproval : TSKS
24
Application : USE
25
Lily Potter, ___ Evans : NEE
30
Sunfish with colorful gills : REDEAR
31
Echo effect : REVERB
32
Cap'n's mate : BOSN
33
Smitten with : INTO
34
"You will experience a great and unexpected surprise!" (go to 48-Across) : BEAMAZED
35
Miller offering : LITEBEER
37
Participate in an aquatic sport : WATERSKI
38
"Presto!" : ITSMAGIC
39
Back of the neck : NAPE
40
___ school : GRAD
42
Rogers's co-star in "Top Hat" : ASTAIRE
43
Tailcoat, vest and bow tie, e.g. : APPAREL
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Stop talking, with "up" : CLAM
50
Inter ___ : ALIA
51
Relating to the Indian subcontinent : DESI
52
Tell (on) : RAT
53
___ too easy : ALL
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II : TWO
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Transgress : SIN

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

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