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New York Times, Friday, November 4, 2022

Author:
Juliet Corless
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Across : Truffle hunting option
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111/4/2022
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Juliet Corless

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 27 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Corless. Friday freshness: 26%
Juliet Corless notes:
I've been solving crosswords for longer than I can remember, first starting with my family. Over the pandemic/during my freshman year ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
Jim here, sitting in for Jeff Chen, who chooses to go to the moon, not because it's easy, but because it's hard. Does today's grid ... read more
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© 2022, The New York Times11/4/22 ( No. 26,659 )
Across
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"We choose to go to the moon" speaker, for short : JFK
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Collection awaiting analysis : RAWDATA
11
Childhood vaccine combo : DPT
14
Will be present? : ARE
15
Amorphous, in a way : AMOEBIC
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Singer Carly ___ Jepsen : RAE
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Six-time Dodgers All-Star Ron : CEY
18
Ceramic iron compound that's nonconductive : FERRITE
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Usher's offering : ARM
20
Auntie Em and Uncle Henry, for two : KANSANS
22
Dry cleaner : DUSTMOP
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"I already said I would!" : OKOK
25
Battle of the ___ : SEXES
27
2009 Beyoncé hit containing the lyric "I got my angel now" : HALO
28
Be accepted by one's peers : FITIN
30
Head of House Stark on "Game of Thrones" : NED
31
Critic, in modern lingo : HATER
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Predatory relatives of coral : ANEMONES
34
Truffle hunting option : GODIVA
35
Some smartphones : LGS
36
Bit : TAD
37
One isn't good for cellphone service : BAR
38
Geom. figure : CIR
39
Pomeranian, for one : LAPDOG
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Send out again : REDEPLOY
43
Refinement : TWEAK
44
Ford or Lincoln : CAR
45
Muscly : BUILT
46
Old movie unit : REEL
47
"Shut up!" : CANIT
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___ v. Alston (landmark 2021 Supreme Court antitrust decision) : NCAA
50
Takes the throne, say : ASCENDS
52
Actress Angela of "Malcolm X" : BASSETT
54
Play-___ : DOH
55
Style moderne : ARTDECO
57
Cause of some head-scratching : NIT
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Suffix in linguistics : EME
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Star that's actually three stars : POLARIS
60
Phillipa ___, original Eliza in "Hamilton" : SOO
61
French possessive : SES
62
Professor ___ : EMERITA
63
One backward musician? : ENO
Down
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Certain multitasker? : JACKOFALLTRADES
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Amazeballs : FREAKINGAWESOME
3
Conference highlights : KEYNOTESPEECHES
4
Tennis's Nadal, informally : RAFA
5
Good faith agreements? : AMENS
6
Went downhill : WORSENED
7
German article : DER
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Accepted without objection : ABIDED
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"___ Andronicus" : TITUS
10
Nails : ACES
11
Freedom for a screenwriter, say : DRAMATICLICENSE
12
Failing a drug test or leaving the state, maybe : PAROLEVIOLATION
13
Erasable ink? : TEMPORARYTATTOO
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Go through lightly : SKIM
23
Trumpeter Jones : THAD
26
Kisses, symbolically : XES
29
Taboo : NOTOK
31
Biblical peak : HOREB
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Badger or hound : NAG
34
Wander : GAD
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Thiamine deficiency disease : BERIBERI
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Hollow : DALE
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Took off : RAN
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"Queen of denial" and "knight and day" : PUNS
44
Make a certain chess move : CASTLE
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Obsolescent PC insert : CDROM
48
Implied : TACIT
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Resting spot for some buns : NAPE
53
Slammin' Sammy : SOSA
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Give: Sp. : DAR

Answer summary:
2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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