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New York Times, Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Author:
Robert S. Gard
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
28-Across : Partner of "ceases"
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Robert S. Gard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Gard. Tuesday freshness: 94%
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© 2024, The New York Times2/20/24 ( No. 27,132 )
Across
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Mail inits. since 1971 : USPS
5
___-Carlton (hotel chain) : RITZ
9
Lettuce or cabbage : MOOLA
14
Small recess : NOOK
15
Drill (into) : BORE
16
Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels : ASLAN
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Evidence of a day at the beach : BIKINITAN
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In a deadpan manner : DRILY
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Spleen : IRE
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Middle of a classic boast from Caesar : ISAW
22
Spanish girlfriend : AMIGA
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"Phooey!" : NERTS
25
Chocolate confection with a molten core : LAVACAKE
28
Partner of "ceases" : DESISTS
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"Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it": Richard Feynman : SEX
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Cleric's title, for short : REV
33
Tiki bar drink : MAITAI
35
Part of a decent-sized plot : ACRE
36
Effect of secondhand pot smoke : CONTACTHIGH
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Uber-fan : STAN
41
Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" : CHIANG
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Make a mistake : ERR
43
"Well, lah-di-___" : DAH
45
Made an irreverently sarcastic comment : SNARKED
49
Flight of fancy : WILDIDEA
52
Crooner Mel who was called "The Velvet Fog" : TORME
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Common sight along the Norwegian coast : FJORD
54
Male admirer : BEAU
57
Signature Obama achievement, in brief : ACA
58
Held on (to) : CLUNG
59
Description of 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across, in different senses? : HALFBAKED
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Where it's at : VENUE
62
Afghan's place : ASIA
63
Bottom of a boat : KEEL
64
Army squad leaders: Abbr. : SSGTS
65
Rudely "welcome" the away team : JEER
66
"Toy Story" boy : ANDY
Down
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Remove the fastenings from : UNBIND
2
Evening party : SOIREE
3
Tools for fireplaces : POKERS
4
Winter item on a car's roof rack : SKI
5
Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297) : RBIS
6
Smidgen : IOTA
7
Fishing net : TRAWL
8
Mindfulness-based practice : ZEN
9
Cop-turned-vigilante in a postapocalyptic film : MADMAX
10
Courtier who oversees Hamlet's duel with Laertes : OSRIC
11
Member of a powerful ruling elite : OLIGARCH
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B-baller in California : LALAKER
13
"___ takers?" : ANY
18
Altima maker : NISSAN
22
"___ Maria" : AVE
24
Shakespeare's "___ of Athens" : TIMON
26
"Given the way things appear …" : ASITIS
27
12/24 or 12/31 : EVE
29
Small songbird : TIT
30
Upper part of a Vandyke beard, informally : STACHE
34
German "Geez!" : ACH
35
Belligerent, in British slang : AGGRO
36
Swiss founder of analytical psychology : CARLJUNG
37
Largest Chinese ethnic group : HAN
38
Like "three men" of nursery rhyme : INATUB
39
Patch things up, say? : SEW
40
Unimportant things : TRIFLES
43
Funereal compositions : DIRGES
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Chip in : ADD
46
N.H.L. team with a mythological eponym : KRAKEN
47
Presided over a roast, say : EMCEED
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Lethal : DEADLY
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Dunkable edible : DONUT
51
Degrade : ABASE
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Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
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Miles away : AFAR
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Big name in pharmacies : CVS
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One of Islam's Five Pillars : HAJ
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Inits. before a nickname : AKA

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