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New York Times, Friday, November 1, 2024

Author:
Spencer Leach
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
58-Across : Product that reduces static cling
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Spencer Leach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FQXZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Leach. Friday freshness: 19%
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© 2024, The New York Times11/1/24 ( No. 27,387 )
Across
1
Like some tracks : OVAL
5
___ Demand Action (gun control advocacy group) : MOMS
9
Deadly biters : ASPS
13
Where opposites don't attract? : LESBIANBAR
16
Small scale business? : DELI
17
Help resolve, as a conflict : DEESCALATE
18
Answer irritably : SNAP
19
Nixon established it in 1970, for short : EPA
20
Words on a red tag, maybe : ASIS
21
Cause : LEADTO
23
Family group : CLAN
24
Large amount, facetiously : JILLION
25
Golden retriever who ends up with a chocolate lab? : CHARLIEBUCKET
29
Bit of Muslim attire : HIJAB
30
Accumulating bowlful while eating edamame : PODS
31
Measure of heat, for short : BTU
34
Swears : AVOWS
35
Net alternative : ORG
36
Eggs-terminates? : SPAYS
38
Nebraska senator Fischer : DEB
39
___-Ball : SKEE
40
Shoes, casually : KICKS
41
November handout : IVOTEDSTICKER
45
Assent to un hombre : SISENOR
47
Wine list heading : REDS
48
Lined up : INAROW
49
Pro ___ : BONO
50
"___ Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!" (long-running British reality show) : IMA
53
Sensei's domain : DOJO
54
"I" lift? : EGOBOOSTER
57
Animal on the flags of Spain, Montenegro and Sri Lanka : LION
58
Product that reduces static cling : DRYERSHEET
59
London-born actor who was People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2018 : ELBA
60
"Dress for Less" sloganeer : ROSS
61
Wearers of the Star of Life, for short : EMTS
Down
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Dated a while back? : OLDE
2
#2 : VEEP
3
Like Pi for much of "Life of Pi" : ASEA
4
Barbell abbr. : LBS
5
Native East African people : MAASAI
6
In which computer chips are used? : ONLINEPOKER
7
Degs. for aspiring entrepreneurs : MBAS
8
Parked it : SAT
9
Marketing department success : ADSALE
10
Line from an unhappy diner : SENDITBACK
11
Writer of the "Phaedrus" circa 370 B.C. : PLATO
12
Nurse : SIPON
14
"Yeah, you're lying" : ICALLBS
15
Archaeologist's finds : RELICS
22
Sighting at Yellowstone : ELK
23
Where something rankling might stick : CRAW
24
Bench coverings : JUDGESROBES
25
Home to N'Djamena : CHAD
26
Queen's residence : HIVE
27
"Hey, whatever pays the bills" : AJOBISAJOB
28
Drumming one's fingers, perhaps : BORED
32
Little one : TYKE
33
Locale of a 1991 coup attempt by the Gang of Eight, in brief : USSR
36
Some snowmobiles : SKIDOOS
37
Shots : PICS
39
Put away : STOWED
42
"Romeo and Juliet" setting : VERONA
43
Noted surname in avant-garde art : ONO
44
Certain saxophones : TENORS
45
Move crabwise : SIDLE
46
Packed like sardines, often : INOIL
49
Australian lad : BOYO
50
Couple : ITEM
51
What all straight lines on the surface of a sphere do : MEET
52
Dark ___ : ARTS
55
Watchdog's warning : GRR
56
Part of a pronoun pair : SHE

Answer summary:
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