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New York Times, Friday, October 25, 2024

Author:
Alex Murphy
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
31-Across : Flawless display of technique
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Alex Murphy

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQW} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Murphy. Friday freshness: 53%
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© 2024, The New York Times10/25/24 ( No. 27,380 )
Across
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Hearty : ROBUST
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Suck up : ABSORB
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"This cannot be stressed enough …" : IREPEAT
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Fairly : RATHER
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Cello parts are written in it : BASSCLEF
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Occasionally censored part of the 12-Down : NIPPLE
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Quarterback's stat: Abbr. : ATT
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Canned liquid rich in essential fatty acids : TUNAOIL
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Broadway's Salonga : LEA
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Lowry who wrote "The Giver" : LOIS
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Work out : SOLVE
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Where the lions sleep tonight, presumably : DENS
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Concoct, with "up" : DREAM
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Go through : USE
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One of the "Hollywood Chrises" : PRATT
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Flawless display of technique : MASTERCLASS
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Dog's post-surgery wear, familiarly : CONEOFSHAME
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Head cold? : BRAINFREEZE
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Play place : ARENA
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"It was news to me," in online shorthand : TIL
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Take in : ADMIT
42
Concessions : SOPS
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Some compost bin detritus : PEELS
45
Iconic role for Frank Oz : YODA
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Main ingredient of the Puerto Rican dessert piragua : ICE
47
Compounds in tea and wine : TANNINS
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It's a no. : TEL
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Fonda's co-star on "Grace and Frankie" : TOMLIN
52
Another name for C## : DNATURAL
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Yo-yos : IDIOTS
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Mount Rushmore's makeup : GRANITE
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What might be included in an act of congress : SEXTOY
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Scandinavian capital : KRONER
Down
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Bawdy : RIBALD
2
Podium figure : ORATOR
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Closest confidant, informally : BESTIE
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High times : UPS
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Sunni or Shia, e.g. : SECT
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Bone connected to the fibula : TALUS
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Nickname for an early 2000s governor of California : ARNIE
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Flake : BAIL
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Indy label : STP
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"Come on, that's just ridiculous" : OHPLEASE
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Lets up : RELENTS
12
See 18-Across : BREAST
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Perfect score : TENOUTOFTEN
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Misleading cognate, like the German "Gift" which actually means "poison" : FALSEFRIEND
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What hucksters may be guilty of : OVERSELLING
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Ethnic minority in New Zealand : SAMOANS
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It'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry : DRAMEDY
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Fever pitch : MANIA
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Square : PLAZA
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Kamala Harris, once: Abbr. : SEN
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"Guerrillero Heroico" subject, familiarly : CHE
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Timesaver for a breakfast chef : CREPEMIX
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Male protocol popularized by "How I Met Your Mother" : BROCODE
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"Currently …" : ASITIS
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Tylenol alternative : MOTRIN
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Conceptualize : IDEATE
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Like firstborn children vis-à-vis second-born children, statistically : TALLER
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Violet variety : PANSY
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Tone of many tweets : SNARK
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"La Clemenza di ___" (Mozart opera) : TITO
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Have the lead : STAR
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Fate : LOT
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___ Show 'Em No Mercy (card game variant) : UNO

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