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New York Times, Thursday, February 1, 2024

Author:
Simeon Seigel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : Resolve
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Simeon Seigel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {KQVZ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Seigel. Thursday freshness: 86%
Jim Horne notes:
How rare are loop-de-loop words? Mr. Seigel found a good set. I dug up several others, but most are boring, obscure, too repetitive, ... read more
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J
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© 2024, The New York Times2/1/24 ( No. 27,113 )
Across
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Zeroes, in soccer : NILS
5
Comedic takedown : ROAST
10
Includes : HAS
13
Peak of revelation? : SINAI
14
Happen next : ENSUE
15
Lead-in to -cide : ECO
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*A little bit of everything : THISTHATANDTHEOTHER
18
Org. whose initials omit its "E" (for "Explosives") : ATF
19
Lousy (with) : RIFE
20
Instrument with a bell : OBOE
21
First Muslim Nobel Laureate (1978) : SADAT
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Character with a famous opening line? : ALIBABA
25
Resolve : METTLE
26
Exposes personal information about online, informally : DOXES
27
Cultured dessert option : TCBY
30
Former Yankee nickname : AROD
31
Crown, in Persian : TAJ
33
*1957 hit by the Edsels with a nonsense title : RAMALAMADINGDONG
35
Depot: Abbr. : STN
38
Indian spice mixes : MASALAS
40
Cue preceder : PEE
41
*"Eventually ..." : WHENTHETIMECOMES
43
Casual rejection : NAH
45
So : ERGO
46
Adolph who purchased The New York Times in 1896 : OCHS
48
Potentially offensive, say : NOTPC
52
Prepare for a kiss, perhaps : LEANIN
54
Home of some of the best drivers in No. America : PGATOUR
56
Actress Juliette : LEWIS
57
Middling : FAIR
59
Risk-taker's mantra, in brief : YOLO
60
Hoppy inits. : IPA
61
Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues : LOOPDELOOPS
64
Cause of some head-scratching : NIT
65
"You shouldn't have!" : AWGEE
66
Randy looks : OGLES
67
Appreciated, as a joke : GOT
68
Overly involved : MESSY
69
Campus health and safety org. : SADD
Down
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Ex ___ (from nothing: Lat.) : NIHILO
2
Up the creek : INAFIX
3
"Past post" wager at the track, e.g. : LATEBET
4
One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit "Cheap Thrills" : SIA
5
Winged mammal with rust-colored fur : REDBAT
6
Not snookered by : ONTO
7
Arthur with a statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue : ASHE
8
Appeal, as for peace : SUE
9
Like the responses of "yes" or "no" : TERSE
10
Journey of the mind : HEADTRIP
11
Have no co-conspirators : ACTALONE
12
Gradual transition, in art : SOFTEDGE
13
Very valuable violin, informally : STRAD
17
Bean or noodle : NOB
22
Marginally : ATAD
24
"Me, too!" : ASAMI
25
Brotherly greeting : MYMAN
28
Depression precursor : CRASH
29
___ Harbour, Fla. : BAL
32
Cured Spanish meat : JAMON
34
Sitting meditation pose : ASANA
35
Sign of an injury, maybe : SWELLING
36
Artoo's well-spoken partner : THREEPIO
37
Measure of energy savings, as when the meter runs in reverse : NEGAWATT
39
1/3,600th of a deg. : SEC
42
Literature Nobelist Morrison : TONI
44
Extra-sweaty meditative exercise : HOTYOGA
47
Kind of sense : SPIDEY
49
Like 20, for Little League : TOOOLD
50
Like wood prepped for papermaking : PULPED
51
Sects' symbol? : CROSS
53
Subject covered in a madrasa : ISLAM
55
Possible hurdle for getting a master's, for short : GRE
57
Gets hard to see through, in a way, with "up" : FOGS
58
Does impressions of : APES
62
Need to pay : OWE
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L.A.P.D. head? : LOS

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

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