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New York Times, Thursday, February 22, 2024

Author:
Dan Schoenholz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
61-Across : *Begin
TotalDebutLatest
295/5/20102/22/2024
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231.6217247%
Dan Schoenholz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Schoenholz. Thursday freshness: 15%
Jim Horne notes:

Read "ensign" as N-sign, or sign starting with N, etc.

1
L
2
A
3
V
4
A
5
J
6
A
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P
8
E
9
M
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A
11
S
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S
13
E
14
A
F
A
R
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A
M
I
D
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A
K
I
T
A
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N
O
P
A
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R
K
I
N
G
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K
A
L
E
S
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D
O
O
B
I
E
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E
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W
E
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V
E
E
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S
T
R
I
P
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M
26
A
D
A
S
27
H
E
L
L
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C
A
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B
A
L
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S
W
O
R
D
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N
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A
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P
A
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O
T
I
35
S
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A
P
A
R
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T
38
B
I
O
39
R
A
T
T
L
40
E
R
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D
U
O
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A
R
O
43
S
E
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E
T
A
L
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P
O
M
P
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G
R
A
D
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S
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L
I
F
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E
R
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D
U
T
C
H
O
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V
E
N
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L
I
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T
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U
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P
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R
I
A
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E
L
I
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U
S
V
I
S
A
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A
T
S
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E
A
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B
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E
63
E
F
E
A
T
E
R
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F
A
T
E
D
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E
R
G
O
66
C
H
O
I
67
T
R
E
K
S
68
S
A
G
S
69
Y
E
N
S
© 2024, The New York Times2/22/24 ( No. 27,134 )
Across
1
Hot topping for a cone? : LAVA
5
Practical joke : JAPE
9
Tricky billiard shot : MASSE
14
Way off : AFAR
15
Ensconced in : AMID
16
Asian dog breed : AKITA
17
*Ensign : NOPARKING
19
Rich sources of beta carotene : KALES
20
Joint : DOOBIE
21
One of millions in New Zealand : EWE
23
Migration pattern? : VEE
24
Lose one's shirt, say : STRIP
25
*Emirate : MADASHELL
28
Coup planners : CABAL
30
Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___ : SWORD
31
___ Valley : NAPA
34
Singer Williams who founded the Temptations : OTIS
36
Split up : APART
38
Pre-med pre-req : BIO
39
*Arbiter : RATTLER
41
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g. : DUO
42
Came to pass : AROSE
44
Bibliographer's abbr. : ETAL
45
Ceremony : POMP
46
They're typically older than seniors : GRADS
48
One in it for the long haul : LIFER
50
*Depot : DUTCHOVEN
52
Put on a big smile : LITUP
56
___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal) : RIA
57
Figure in I Samuel : ELI
58
Issuance from an American embassy, in brief : USVISA
59
Discombobulated : ATSEA
61
*Begin : BEEFEATER
64
Meant to be : FATED
65
"And so …" : ERGO
66
Actor Woo-shik of "Parasite" : CHOI
67
Long hauls : TREKS
68
Doesn't stay tight : SAGS
69
Hankerings : YENS
Down
1
Scores : LANDS
2
Underway : AFOOT
3
Steamy stuff : VAPOR
4
Most-grown coffee bean in the world : ARABICA
5
Copacetic : JAKE
6
Bon ___ : AMI
7
Exemplar of neatness : PIN
8
Barely defeated : EDGED
9
Launches an attack : MAKESWAR
10
Going by, in brief : AKA
11
Chevy truck since 1998 : SILVERADO
12
Staple of Trinidadian music : STEELDRUM
13
Plein-air prop : EASEL
18
Kelly of morning talk : RIPA
22
"Time ___ …" : WAS
25
Nonreflective, in a way : MATTE
26
Not too much : ALITTLE
27
First part of a triple jump : HOP
29
Stole from a burlesque act : BOA
31
With 50-Down, annual June sports event : NBA
32
It's never out of tune : AIRGUITAR
33
Anathema to an aesthete : POORTASTE
35
Cut down : SLAIN
37
Surpass : TOP
39
What some people are dyeing to be? : REDHEADS
40
Puckish sort : ELF
43
___ fly : SAC
45
Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments : PRIVACY
47
Big star, in Spain : SOL
49
If-then-___ (programming construct) : ELSE
50
See 31-Down : DRAFT
51
Things one might pick up while entering a room : VIBES
53
Church offering : TITHE
54
Apply to : USEON
55
2024 Olympics site : PARIS
58
Focus of the U.S.A.F.'s Project Blue Book (1952-1969) : UFOS
60
"Yikes!" : EEK
62
Time to remember : ERA
63
___ white : EGG

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