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New York Times, Saturday, November 25, 2023

Author:
Jeff Stillman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
59-Across : Line on a Montana license plate
TotalDebutLatest
91/28/201411/25/2023
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CircleScrabDebutFresh
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Jeff Stillman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QVZ} Spans: 4 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Stillman. Saturday freshness: 42%
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© 2023, The New York Times11/25/23 ( No. 27,045 )
Across
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Annual N.A.A.C.P. ceremony since 1967 : IMAGEAWARDS
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Series of steps in Spain : FLAMENCODANCE
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Noted antigun demonstration on the National Mall : MILLIONMOMMARCH
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Illinois city near St. Louis : ALTON
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Extra-wide shoe spec : EEEE
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That's a wrap! : SARI
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Expect to happen : PLANON
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Hosp. staffers : RNS
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Scale notes : MIS
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Thumbs-up response : LIKE
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune : ORBS
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Cold War concerns, for short : ICBMS
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It's around "two o'clock": Abbr. : ENE
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___ Prize, major honor in mathematical achievement : ABEL
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Something often containing a single parenthesis : SMILEY
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"Well, gosh, could be …" : YESISUPPOSE
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Big name in green products : SCOTTS
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27-Down, for example : TOON
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Network descended from the first national "superstation" : TBS
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Actor Rutger ___ of "Blade Runner" : HAUER
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Japanese zither : KOTO
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"You ___?!?!" : WHAT
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Fully anesthetized : OUT
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Spanish : "son" :: English : ___ : ARE
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"Peanuts" girl with curly hair : FRIEDA
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Expressions of repugnance : UGHS
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Qatar left it in 2019 : OPEC
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Relish : ENJOY
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Remark following an interesting development : THEPLOTTHICKENS
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Line on a Montana license plate : TREASURESTATE
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Documents for foreign nationals : EXITPERMITS
Down
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1972 hit whose singer claims to "know a place" : ILLTAKEYOUTHERE
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Surname on "Cheers" : MALONE
3
Kind of group in chemistry : AMINO
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___Guessr, browser game that pulls from Google Street View : GEO
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Suffix similar to -trix : ENNE
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Height : ACME
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Beaus : WOOERS
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Don Draper and Roger Sterling on a hit AMC series : ADMEN
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Hit hard : RAM
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Some forensic lab samples : DNAS
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Get ready in a hurry : SCRAMBLETHEJETS
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Substitute : FILLIN
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Deploying ransomware, for one : ECRIME
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Common residential street name : MAPLE
15
Big stink, more colloquially : HISSY
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To us, in Latin : NOBIS
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Says who? : SIMON
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Scale notes : RES
27
Olive lover? : BLUTO
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Modern descriptor with man or woman : CIS
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Aerospace company that makes launch vehicles for NASA : ASTRA
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Lampoon : SPOOF
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Automne preceder : ETE
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Ending with hot or honey : POT
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Give a whoop : SHOUT
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Saw, informally : CAUGHT
40
Rougher-than-usual instance, as of a head cold or thunderstorm : BADONE
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Legal checks : STAYS
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Didn't lose the thread : KEPTUP
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Subtly acknowledge, in a way : WINKAT
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Sleeping spot : ROOST
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Prefix with linear : RECTI
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X-ray ___ (novelty purchase) : SPEX
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French verb whose first letter contains a circumflex : ETRE
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Singer who was the highest-selling doll of 1976, surpassing Barbie : CHER
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Old French love poem : LAI
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Follower of Marx : ISM

Answer summary:
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