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Rack 'Em Up

New York Times, Sunday, March 10, 2024

Author:
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
109-Across : Place to chill, paradoxically
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This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Anguiano. This is puzzle # 25 for Mr. Stock. Sunday freshness: 4%
Notepad: Once completed, the contents of the six blue squares will spell a word associated with this puzzle's theme.
Will Shortz notes:
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano, of Oakland, Calif., is a data scientist. Matthew Stock, of Gainesville, Fla., is a master's student in school counseling. They met through the online indie ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

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© 2024, The New York Times3/10/24 ( No. 27,151 )
Across
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New dog owner's purchase : CRATE
6
Dog adoption grp. : ASPCA
11
Pop group with an "army" : BTS
14
Setting for "Heidi" : ALPS
18
"We're not standin' in their way!" : LETEM
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Pepper grinder? : MOLAR
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Put to work : USE
21
Word with good or blood : SPORT
22
Extra lives or additional gems, for a freemium game : INAPPPURCHASE
24
[Gasp!] : THEHORROR
26
Pastoral setting? : PARISH
27
"Who am I? Two-four-six-oh-___!" ("Les Misérables" lyric) : ONE
28
Cracker shape : ANIMAL
29
"___-Olution" (2002 rap album) : EVE
30
Avoided a tag, in a way : SLID
31
"The kids these days have gotten way better than me" : IMTOOOLDFORTHISNOW
35
Two-million-year-old discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland : DNA
36
Cereal bit : OAT
37
Something to butter up : TOAST
38
Text communication inits. : SMS
41
Shaggy hairstyle : MOP
42
File-creating command : SAVEAS
44
Actress Thompson : TESSA
48
Former minor-league team that played at Aloha Stadium : HAWAIIISLANDERS
51
Spot for food and craft beer : BREWPUB
53
Opt : ELECT
54
Significant stretch : ERA
55
Crane lookalike : HERON
57
"Do you really see me that way?" : AMI
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Range rover ... or something to do in a Range Rover : STEER
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Craft that uses drafts : GLIDER
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What a cracker might crack : NUT
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Something for the rest of the military? : COT
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Scrabble bonus seen six times in this puzzle : TRIPLELETTERSCORE
70
"The Chase" channel : ABC
72
Was published : RAN
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In which "Ciamar a tha thu?" means "How are you?" : GAELIC
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Booped body parts : NOSES
77
Member of the fam : BRO
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Count for a jury : DOZEN
80
I, in German : ICH
81
Slip past : ELUDE
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Product lines? : BARCODE
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Something delivered by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper : CNNNEWSHEADLINE
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Kofi of the U.N. : ANNAN
90
Pan feature : GOATEE
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Yank : TUG
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When repeated, ["Is this thing on?"] : TAP
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Battle royale : MELEE
96
Nickname next to a heart emoji, perhaps : BAE
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Cyrillic letter pronounced like the "zz" of "pizza" : TSE
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"The English Patient" actress : KRISTINSCOTTTHOMAS
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Attenuated : THIN
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"South," in Hanoi : NAM
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Place to chill, paradoxically : HOTTUB
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Home of the Hockey Hall of Fame: Abbr. : ONT
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Device that works with CarPlay : IPHONE
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Single guy? : ODDMANOUT
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Executive's acumen : BUSINESSSENSE
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Apt domain for basketball's King James : COURT
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Scanning inits. : MRI
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Something to believe in : CREDO
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Didn't just assume : ASKED
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Part of the body to slap : KNEE
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Queen ___ : BEE
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To be, in Spanish : ESTAR
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Easily irritated : TESTY
Down
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Film archive bits : CLIPS
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Kidney-related : RENAL
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Maker of the Flashback console : ATARI
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Lukewarm : TEPID
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Birds with deep booming calls : EMUS
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"Better Call Saul" channel : AMC
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Very sexy : SOHOT
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Texas city that's home to Frito-Lay : PLANO
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Lawyer's bundle of work : CASELOAD
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"___ you not entertained?" : ARE
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"Au contraire!" : BUTNO
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Cannon fodder, at times : TSHIRTS
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Appear that one may : SEEMTO
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Urgent time to start gathering tax documents: Abbr. : APR
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TikTok star Gray : LOREN
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B.Y.U.'s city : PROVO
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Scatter about : STREW
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"Here's the thing ..." : SOLISTEN
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A group of them is called a "crash" : RHINOS
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Texter's reaction button : HAHA
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Post : AFTER
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Syrupy covering for ham : MAPLEGLAZE
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Protagonist in "2001: A Space Odyssey" : DAVE
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Crockpot filler : STEW
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___ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table : DMITRI
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"___ All That" (1990s teen comedy) : SHES
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Soda shop order : MALT
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Vegetable often eaten without utensils : SWEETCORN
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Aviculture : bird :: heliciculture : ___ : SNAIL
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Campfire remains : ASH
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Out-of-this-world outfit : SPACESUIT
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Rikishi compete in it : SUMO
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Slightly : ABIT
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Taiwanese tech giant : ACER
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Pink-furred cat in "Garfield" : ARLENE
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Antipasto dish of tomatoes on grilled bread : BRUSCHETTA
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Campus military org. : ROTC
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Make more meaningful : ENRICH
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B.S., for one : DEG
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Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it : ETA
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Direction giver's suggestion: Abbr. : RTE
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Jab : PROD
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Tony winner Renée ___ Goldsberry : ELISE
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High-strung : ONEDGE
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Coin collection : ROLL
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Enclosed rhyme scheme : ABBA
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Cereal bit : BRAN
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Poet St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
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Creep out, perhaps : SEEP
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Counterpart of "Been there" : DONETHAT
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Sgt. or cpl. : NCO
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Engine parts : CAMS
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Bigwig : NABOB
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Coup d'___ : ETAT
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Time when most people are asleep : WEEHOURS
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One birthed in Perth : AUSSIE
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Shrug or wave : GESTURE
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Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, takes the form of one : LION
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Place in a crypt : ENTOMB
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Announce one's presence, in a way : KNOCK
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Invisible household hazard : RADON
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"My luck's bound to turn around!" : IMDUE
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Adorable sort : CUTIE
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Beginning stage : ONSET
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Crete's highest point, for short : MTIDA
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The ones nearby : THESE
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Indicates "Out of my way!" : HONKS
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Miniature map : INSET
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High-maintenance, say : NEEDY
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Exam with "calculator" and "no calculator" math sections : PSAT
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G.I.'s rations : MRE
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Dating inits. : BCE
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Negative Boolean operator : NOR

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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