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New York Times, Saturday, November 2, 2024

Author:
Blake Slonecker
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
9-Across : Modest home in Modesto, say
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Blake Slonecker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 26 Missing: {HQYZ} Spans: 6 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Slonecker. Saturday freshness: 60%
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© 2024, The New York Times11/2/24 ( No. 27,388 )
Across
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Early electric lights : ARCLAMPS
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Modest home in Modesto, say : CASITA
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Direct marketing tactic : COLDCALL
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First act : OPENER
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Sub's reference : CLASSROOMROSTER
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What always ends well? : ELS
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Spendy : STEEP
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___ May Gaskin, author of "Spiritual Midwifery" : INA
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Puzzle (out) : SUSS
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Fly traps? : MITTS
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Fed : GMAN
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Ward off bad luck, in a Greek tradition : SPIT
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Noted name in lithographs : IVES
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English folk singer Billy : BRAGG
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Inveigled : COAXED
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Just so : TOATEE
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They're not afraid to take charge : FEARLESSLEADERS
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Media-based learning sites, informally : AVLABS
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Word on many "No Trespassing" signs : POSTED
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Hanes brand once sold in ovoid packaging : LEGGS
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90° : EAST
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Team that briefly changed its name during the 1950s to appease McCarthyites : REDS
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The case, so to speak : TRUE
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Jumps from one foot to the other : JETES
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Break off : STOP
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Record company behind (and inside) Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" : EMI
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1988 Summer Olympics host : SEOUL
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Word that's a homophone of its middle letter : ARE
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Spin right round? : ROTATECLOCKWISE
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What might remove all of your problems? : ERASER
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Went after : ASSAILED
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Cleans up like the Pied Piper : DERATS
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Band aids : SETLISTS
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What passwords unlock : ACCESS
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Arrive curbside : ROLLUP
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Andrés Segovia won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for it : CLASSICALGUITAR
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Temple Square letters : LDS
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Window installations, in brief : ACS
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Sully : MAR
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P, B, D, T, K and G : PLOSIVES
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Kitchen flippers : SLOTTEDSPATULAS
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De-centers? : CORES
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Per : APOP
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Its in French : SES
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Juicy stuff : INTIMATEDETAILS
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Outspoken parenting critic, maybe : TEENAGER
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Sets up : ARRANGES
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Subject of the 2021 documentary "Once Upon a Time in Queens" : METS
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Cyber space? : STORAGE
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Socializes : MIXES
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Teaching assistants, often : GRADERS
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Certain Thanksgiving dish : BOAT
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Mass apparel : ALBS
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Pilots, e.g. : TESTS
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Had a hiccup : FALTERED
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Till the end of time : EVERMORE
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Doubly disadvantageous : LOSELOSE
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Fair-hiring agcy. : EEOC
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Home to England's Jurassic Coast : DORSET
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Fan settings : SPEEDS
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Unhappy chorus : JEERS
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Galley command : STET
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Arkansas pol Hutchinson : ASA
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New Orleans setting: Abbr. : CST
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Carrier to 46-Across, for short : KAL
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Device sold with a remote : WII

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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