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New York Times, Friday, March 15, 2024

Author:
Daniel Grinberg
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
55-Across : Rip (from)
TotalDebutLatest
68/28/20193/15/2024
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Daniel Grinberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 34 Missing: {GQ} Spans: 6 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Grinberg. Friday freshness: 30%
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© 2024, The New York Times3/15/24 ( No. 27,156 )
Across
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Put on blast : BASH
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Vegetable whose name comes from Igbo : OKRA
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Bill originating in Texas : PECOS
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It has its standards, for short : OSHA
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17-Across, for one : POET
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Raise : EXALT
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"On Being Brought From Africa to America" writer, 1768 : PHILLISWHEATLEY
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Nobody else can take it : SELFIE
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Campaign platforms, perhaps : ROSTRA
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Ground rule? : NOTV
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Milquetoast : WIMP
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Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective : ABLE
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Proportion of customers that make a purchase, in business-speak : HITRATE
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More trifling : MERER
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"Baloney!" : MYEYE
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Gets ready to fly : TAXIES
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Forgetting to finish this clue, for examp : CARELESSMISTAKE
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Got taken for a ride, in a way : UBERED
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Your ___ : HONOR
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Occasion to ask the Four Questions : SEDER
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After Brazil, the world's second-largest producer of coffee : VIETNAM
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Give a hand? : SLAP
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Left for the country? : WEST
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"My goodness!" : JEEZ
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Roy Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl," e.g. : POPART
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Bit of deductive reasoning? : TAXTIP
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Cocktail with caffeine : ESPRESSOMARTINI
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Can't stand the heat, say : WILTS
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Kind of fixation : ORAL
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Foul smell : REEK
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Rip (from) : WREST
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iPhone command : SYNC
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Real prat : ARSE
Down
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Catchy tunes : BOPS
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Opposite of rubicund : ASHEN
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Battle site in Tennessee : SHILOH
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Components of some sports broadcasts : HALFTIMEREPORTS
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Swing-era bandleader ___ Cates : OPIE
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Decks and floors, informally? : KOS
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Alters the narrative, in a way : REWRITESHISTORY
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Familiar (with) : ATHOME
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Laphroaig flavorer : PEAT
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Words from a paper pusher? : EXTRAEXTRAEXTRA
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Region of Italy that lends its name to a pepper : CALABRIA
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Scream for a team : OLE
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What Charlotte lives above in "Charlotte's Web" : STY
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"The Lord of the Rings" actress : LIVTYLER
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Unlikely gift : ESP
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Courses : WAYS
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Vichyssoise ingredient : LEEK
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Source of the words "plaid" and "trousers" : ERSE
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Bacteriologist Walter who conducted yellow fever research : REED
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Preserver's purchase : MASONJAR
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Salon offering : TINT
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Swear : CUSS
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Name that's a homophone of 24-Across : ABEL
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Fuji, for one : REDAPPLE
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Dom maker : MOET
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Pages on the left side : VERSOS
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Profession : METIER
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"And She ___" (Talking Heads hit) : WAS
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Indie output : ZINES
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Threat to crops : PEST
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Common additive to white rice : TALC
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Fish named for a weapon : PIKE
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*grimaces, sticks out tongue* : EWW
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"Which one of Arthur's knights built the Round Table? ___ Cumference!" (groaner) : SIR
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"My goodness!" : MAN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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