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New York Times, Friday, December 22, 2023

Author:
Brooke Husic and Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Across : Lovely, in Spanish
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
218/8/202010/23/202418
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1103187
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6114266%
Brooke Husic
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1938/7/199612/22/202321
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
385152119522716
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
531.631,16472%
Brendan Emmett Quigley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 20 for Ms. Husic. This is puzzle # 193 for Mr. Quigley. Friday freshness: 31%
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© 2023, The New York Times12/22/23 ( No. 27,072 )
Across
1
Numbers can be read in this : TORAH
6
Org. that offers free at-home hearing tests : AARP
10
Scholz of German politics : OLAF
14
Spanish count : UNODOSTRES
16
Make it up? : RISE
17
Making headlines, say : NEWSWORTHY
18
Bed cover : SOIL
19
Emphatic suffix : ASS
20
Big name in vegan cheese : DAIYA
21
Like conventional music : TONAL
22
Children's TV character whose last name is Márquez : DORA
23
Big break : SCHISM
25
Some break dancers, informally : BBOYS
27
Plays the wrong way : CHEATS
28
Telenovela profession : TEAMO
29
Rama is one, in Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi novel "Rendezvous With Rama" : ALIENSHIP
32
Locale dubbed the "Las Vegas of the East" : MACAU
33
Knock hard : PAN
34
Who wrote "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" : KEATS
35
Words from someone who doesn't want to be taken seriously : IMKIDDING
37
Deservingness : MERIT
38
Elitists : SNOOTS
39
Riffs on, modernly : MEMES
40
Lovely, in Spanish : BONITA
41
Buds : PALS
42
Tackles : HASAT
43
Lewis who played Grizabella on Broadway : LEONA
45
Texter's "Ta-ta!" : CYA
48
Little bit of make-up? : ATOM
49
One working on a keynote : PIANOTUNER
51
Card-dealing casino device : SHOE
52
Last-ditch remedies for computer problems : HARDRESETS
53
Authors : PENS
54
Cloverleaf cluster? : INNS
55
Fix, as a bowline : RETIE
Down
1
Bigeye, for one : TUNA
2
Gender-neutral possessive : ONES
3
Parts of tables : ROWS
4
Stream interrupters : ADS
5
Question expressing amazement : HOWDOYOUDOIT
6
They may have glass ceilings : ATRIA
7
Appealing to an indie audience, maybe : ARTY
8
Meeting extender : REHASHING
9
___.D (therapist's deg.) : PSY
10
"… apparently" : ORSOITSEEMS
11
Largest part : LIONSSHARE
12
Exactly the way you see me : ASIAM
13
Was defeated : FELL
15
Skyrockets : SOARS
21
"Take my word for it, you're going to love this" : THANKMELATER
22
Address components : DOMAINNAMES
24
Acrylic finish? : CEE
25
Support piece : BEAM
26
"Didn't you just leave?" : BACKSOSOON
27
Family units : CLANS
28
Letters that might make a long story short? : TMI
29
Course that may cover Dante and Ferrante, familiarly : APITALIAN
30
Terse affirmation : ITIS
31
Setting for most Laker home games: Abbr. : PST
36
One of three in Fiji? : DOT
39
Misselthwaite ___, setting of "The Secret Garden" : MANOR
40
Soak (in) : BATHE
41
Scummy locales : PONDS
42
Gate feature : HASP
44
Get on the job : EARN
45
"Your guide to a better future" website : CNET
46
Figure in Sherpa folklore : YETI
47
19-Across, to a Brit : ARSE
49
Preantepenultimate letter : PHI
50
Single-___ : USE

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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