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New York Times, Saturday, December 23, 2023

Author:
Will Nediger
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
1-Across : Modern-day scrapbooks, of a sort
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Will Nediger

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 23 Missing: {FJQWXZ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is puzzle # 48 for Mr. Nediger. Saturday freshness: 41%
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© 2023, The New York Times12/23/23 ( No. 27,073 )
Across
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Modern-day scrapbooks, of a sort : PINTERESTBOARDS
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Common cybersecurity measure : EMAILENCRYPTION
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Successfully strike a delicate balance : THREADTHENEEDLE
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Home of the Kingdom of Dahomey, today : BENIN
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Balanced : EVEN
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Like a proposal in Congress that has zero chance of passing, in brief : DOA
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___ Morgenstern, author of "The Night Circus" : ERIN
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Heavyweight wrestlers : SUMOS
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Sign … or signature : MARK
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Org. that employs Hank on "Breaking Bad" : DEA
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Five-time Grammy-winning jazz pianist McCoy ___ : TYNER
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Something large often stored upside down : CANOE
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Does : HINDS
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See eye to eye : CONCUR
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Auto parts brand owned by GM : ACDELCO
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Party leader? : HOSTESS
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Special coffee shop offerings : BLENDS
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Sandwich made with a telera roll : TORTA
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Shiny button material : NACRE
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Europe, Asia and America : BANDS
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Some vaccine administrators, in brief : RNS
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The low, low price of : ONLY
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Refuses to keep going : BALKS
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Handy trick : HACK
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Molecule that can interfere in gene expression : RNA
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Member of an elite force : SEAL
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Watercolor, clay and others : MEDIA
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Academic who works with many different schools, maybe : MARINEBIOLOGIST
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Sierra Nevada offering : AMERICANPALEALE
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Mediocre at best : LESSTHANSTELLAR
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Place to let sleeping dogs lie : PETBED
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Arrival announcement : IMHERE
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Literary domain of Peter the Magnificent and Susan the Gentle : NARNIA
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Marketing link : TIEIN
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___ vital (life force, from the French) : ELAN
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Fire-engine ___ : RED
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Hearing monitor, for short : ENT
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Rhyming arrangements, e.g. : SCHEMES
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Comic Noah who wrote the autobiographical "Born a Crime" : TREVOR
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Actress Amanda : BYNES
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Many a tournament : OPEN
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___ and ran : ATE
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"Good ___!" : RIDDANCE
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Like a dirge : DOLOROUS
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Athletic items never purchased individually : SNEAKERS
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Aligns : SYNCS
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Command after an accidental deletion : UNDO
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Kind of ray : MANTA
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Piña colada topper : TILDE
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Goes for : COSTS
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One of two Tudor kings : HENRY
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Tangle in an office : CORDS
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Not what you'd expect : ABNORMAL
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Madiba, for Nelson Mandela : CLANNAME
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States : DECLARES
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Loud bird sound : HONK
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Capital on the Gulf of Finland : TALLINN
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Words sung on the same notes as "twinkle," in a different nursery rhyme : BAABAA
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Branching out from the center : RADIAL
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Longtime police procedural that ended in 2023, informally : NCISLA
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Expert with figures? : SKATER
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Wood for smoking andouille sausage : BEECH
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Philosopher who was a major influence on Marx : HEGEL
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Hissy : SNIT
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One whose distance may be measured by the yard? : MOLE
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Division of the Treasury Dept. : IRS
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Black ___ : OPS
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West Coast news inits. : LAT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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