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New York Times, Friday, October 8, 2021

Author:
Yacob Yonas
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Across : Epiphanies
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Yacob Yonas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQVZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Yonas. Friday freshness: 49%
Jeff Chen notes:
Neat mini-theme, linking AHA MOMENTS and EYE OPENERS as [Epiphanies]. So appropriate for a crossword puzzle. Lots to enjoy in ... read more
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© 2021, The New York Times10/8/21 ( No. 26,267 )
Across
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Epiphanies : AHAMOMENTS
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Spoke to a judge, say : PLED
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Classic Warhol subject : TOMATOSOUP
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Lead-in to -stat : AERO
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Like hitting a million-dollar jackpot : IMPROBABLE
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Grps. receiving Our Children magazine : PTAS
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Classic O'Keeffe subject : LILIES
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Get into : ACCESS
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Fox's ___ Choice Awards : TEEN
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Pub container : TANKARD
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The "F" in F = ma : FORCE
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Object : THING
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Musician on the cover of Rolling Stone, often : ROCKIDOL
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Martial arts actor Steven : SEAGAL
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Obtain a sum via special relativity? : INHERIT
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Some like it dirty : MARTINI
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Model/TV personality Chrissy who wrote the cookbook series "Cravings" : TEIGEN
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One who objects to screw caps, say : WINESNOB
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Shocked : AGASP
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Cry heard at a shoe auction? : SOLED
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Per diem, e.g. : STIPEND
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Shortening used in many recipes : TSPS
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Reason for a colonial "party" : TEATAX
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Mendeleev who created the periodic table : DMITRI
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Timely query : WHEN
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"I'm ba-a-ack!" : ITSMEAGAIN
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Anti-D.W.I. org. : MADD
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Be in direct competition : GOTOETOTOE
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Insult, slangily : DISS
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Epiphanies : EYEOPENERS
Down
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Not straight : ATILT
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Bud : HOMIE
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More than enough : AMPLE
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California county that's home to Muir Woods : MARIN
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Great Plains tribe : OTOE
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Packs : MOBS
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Spanish pronoun : ESA
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Head, in slang : NOB
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New Orleans university : TULANE
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Iota : SPECK
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Homemade headwear for kids : PAPERHATS
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"Time to eat!" : LETSDIGIN
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Ballpark figs. : ERAS
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___ Equis : DOS
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Like many fancy parties : CATERED
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Moderate pace : TROT
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___ tear (sports injury) : ACL
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Place to roast marshmallows : FIREPIT
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Norse war god : ODIN
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Prefix with technology : NANO
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A bit too articulate, perhaps : GLIB
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Eponym for an Italian ice chain : RITA
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25-Across on Earth, in brief : ONEG
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"Superfood" commonly used as a smoothie bowl topping : CHIASEEDS
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Frat party stunts : KEGSTANDS
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All there : SANE
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Like bell peppers, on the Scoville scale : MILD
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Earned : WON
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Classic gag gift at a bachelorette party : SEXTOY
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Negro leagues legend Satchel : PAIGE
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Portmanteau for a certain hybrid feline : TIGON
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Washington, but not Jefferson : STATE
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Previous : PRIOR
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Right triangle ratios : SINES
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Like the ancestry of 37-Across : THAI
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Challenger ___ (lowest known point in the earth's oceans) : DEEP
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Bud : MATE
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Nuclear bomb, e.g., for short : WMD
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Business card abbr. : STE
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Jersey greeting : MOO

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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