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New York Times, Saturday, October 5, 2024

Author:
Natan Last
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
44-Across : Double duty?
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Natan Last

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. Last. Saturday freshness: 84%
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© 2024, The New York Times10/5/24 ( No. 27,360 )
Across
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Newcastle-under-___, Staffordshire, England : LYME
5
Wail : BAWL
9
Zealous sects : CULTS
14
"Reward" for altruism, maybe : GOODKARMA
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Beer whose name means "morning sun" : ASAHI
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Pitches low and inside? : SUBWAYADS
18
Feature of Garamond or Perpetua : SERIF
19
Forensic site in Quantico, Va. : FBILAB
20
Like Russia before 1917 : TSARIST
22
Midday assignation : NOONER
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Org. that discourages traveling : NBA
24
Gets : NABS
25
Mercedes ___, icon of Argentine folk music : SOSA
26
Unforgettable night, perhaps : DREAMDATE
29
Affliction for Morrie in "Tuesdays With Morrie," in brief : ALS
30
What shells can be filled with : CREWTEAMS
31
Rotary successor : TOUCHTONE
32
Oldest city in France : MARSEILLE
33
Bodyweight exercise : DIP
36
Ready to drop : BONETIRED
37
W.H. Auden's "The Fall of ___" : ROME
38
Rat : FINK
39
Buddy Guy's "Damn Right, ___ Got the Blues" : IVE
40
Unchanging : STATIC
42
There are layers to this : LASAGNA
44
Double duty? : STUNTS
45
Plus ___ (national motto of Spain) : ULTRA
46
Part of a doping investigation : BLOODTEST
49
Kites, e.g. : BIRDS
50
One who sees what you mean? : LIPREADER
51
Tad : SKOSH
52
Site for artisans : ETSY
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Like some narratives and rooms : TIDY
Down
1
Some appliances : LGS
2
"Imbecile!" : YOUFOOL
3
Don : MOBBOSS
4
Given name of the first Countess Mountbatten : EDWINA
5
Political activist who organized 1963's March on Washington : BAYARDRUSTIN
6
___ studies (field for Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said) : ARAB
7
Erroneous justification for a 2003 invasion, for short : WMD
8
Seventh and final "Chronicles of Narnia" book, with "The" : LASTBATTLE
9
First word in some Spanish restaurant names : CASA
10
Handle online : USERNAME
11
Things to wrangle with : LARIATS
12
Lover of Pyramus, in Ovid : THISBE
13
Sorts : SIFTS
15
Plant of the mustard family : KALE
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It's nothing new : SAMEOLDSTORY
22
Edward Snowden's former employer : NSA
23
One being onboarded : NEWHIRE
27
Accounts ___ (ledger phrase) : RECEIVABLE
28
Gertrude, for one : DANE
30
Key : CORE
31
Drinkers' vessels : TANKARDS
32
Name of the whale in "Pinocchio" : MONSTRO
33
Epitome of completeness : DOTTEDI
34
Penalty taker's lament : IMISSED
35
Chest bump? : PEC
36
Post-Trebek "Jeopardy!" host : BIALIK
37
Go off on : RANTAT
38
Bungles : FLUBS
41
Cheek : TUDE
43
Big cut : GASH
44
Concessions : SOPS
47
Wasted : LIT
48
Whirl, so to speak : TRY

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