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New York Times, Thursday, March 7, 2024

Author:
Joe O'Neill
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
24-Across : Things that Harvard no longer requires
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13/7/2024
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Joe O'Neill

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXZ} Spans: 4 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. O'Neill. Thursday freshness: 31%
Jim Horne notes:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening BY ROBERT FROST Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times3/7/24 ( No. 27,148 )
Across
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Culture setters? : LABS
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14-Across subfield : MACRO
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Spill the beans : BLAB
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B-school subject : ECON
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"___ of wisdom" ("Dalai Lama," in translation) : OCEAN
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Protagonist who would "just as soon kiss a Wookiee" : LEIA
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Modern reimagining of a Robert Frost classic, part 1 : IKNOWWHOSEWOODS
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Loses a lap? : RISES
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Denigrates : DISSES
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Security camera letters : CCTV
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Things that Harvard no longer requires : SATS
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Reimagining, part 2 : THESEAREMYHORSE
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Lo-o-o-ong time : EON
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Layered rock : SHALE
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___ Africa (nickname of singer/activist Miriam Makeba) : MAMA
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Bit : MITE
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Like the fruits durian and mangosteen : ASIAN
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Impudent person : SNOT
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Rarely the winner in a nature documentary : PREY
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What a clutch lacks : STRAP
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Certain turkey : TOM
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Reimagining, part 3 : ISRESTLESSIHAVE
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Study, with "over" : PORE
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Untimely? : LATE
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Bird in an early warning system : CANARY
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Waste's way away : SEWER
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End of the reimagining : ALOTTODOGIDDYUP
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Design deet : SPEC
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Like a twangy voice : NASAL
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Traditional knowledge : LORE
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"Codswallop!" : TOSH
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Key material : EBONY
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Rapper ___ Gravy : YUNG
Down
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String of islands? : LEI
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Exclamation from Bill the Cat : ACK
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___ mot : BON
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Some barnyard sounds : SNORTS
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Makes shorter, in a way : MOWS
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Long : ACHE
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Org. chart figures : CEOS
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___ Tafari : RAS
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Sooner or later : ONEDAY
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Opens up, in a way : BLOSSOMS
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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, astrologically : LEOS
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Help around the House : AIDE
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Lowest of the low? : BASS
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Subject of the mnemonic "Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" in Broadway's "Six" : WIVES
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Featuring : WITH
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Some church assemblies : CHOIRS
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Athlete who snaps : CENTER
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Features of a dirty campaign : SMEARS
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Andante and largo : TEMPI
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Seeing sound? : AHA
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Get into it, rustically : RASSLE
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High-class : ELITE
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Go off on : RANTAT
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Actor J. B. of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" : SMOOVE
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Message on a cake in "Alice in Wonderland" : EATME
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Pirate costume staple : EYEPATCH
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Lil ___ X : NAS
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Like clothes in a hamper : PILED
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Variety : SORT
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Sampler suggestion : TRYONE
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"Fat chance!" : HARDLY
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Throw : CAST
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Prime Cuts brand : ALPO
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Brushoffs : NOES
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Meh : SOSO
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Novelist Jennifer : EGAN
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Cunning : WILY
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Smidge : DAB
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Word often shortened to its last letter by texters : YOU
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Vessel with a tap : URN
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Throw : PEG

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