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New York Times, Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Author:
Rebecca Goldstein
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
13-Across : Poppable muscle, informally
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Rebecca Goldstein

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FJQ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Goldstein. Wednesday freshness: 72%
Rebecca Goldstein notes:
Building a puzzle around ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS with each of the three possible outcomes depicted was one of my very first theme ideas, ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Test-solving this one, I forgot to add in the circles to the draft file, giving me the impression the puzzle was simply ROCK PAPER ... read more
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© 2022, The New York Times4/13/22 ( No. 26,454 )
Across
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Ending with walk or run : ONS
4
Grape group : BUNCH
9
Exude irrepressibly : OOZE
13
Poppable muscle, informally : PEC
14
Popular Japanese brew : ASAHI
15
Experts : PROS
16
Scorpion's stinger : TAIL
18
Ikea department : DECOR
19
Polo of "The Fosters" : TERI
20
"Don't worry" : ITSOK
22
Less soaked : DRIER
24
.com alternative : ORG
25
Lose : MISPLACE
27
"Already?" : SOSOON
29
Likely answer to "Who wants ice cream?" : IDO
30
Festival, in Arabic : EID
31
Awe and Tay, for two : LOCHS
32
One to tip : SERVER
34
Breading for tonkatsu : PANKO
35
Tortilla dough : MASA
36
Bring stress or agitation to : VEX
37
___ large : WRIT
41
South American capital with the world's longest urban gondola : LAPAZ
44
Nuclear codes? : GENOME
46
Zero out : RESET
47
Plead : BEG
48
Therein lies the rub! : SPA
49
Bit of metadata : GEOTAG
51
Wet weather wear : GALOSHES
53
Poet's sphere : ORB
54
Coverer : PAPER
56
Portion : SHARE
57
Word with sitter or steps : BABY
59
Good name for a black cat with white feet : SOCKS
61
Commander, in Arabic : EMIR
62
Mt. Fuji setting : ASIA
63
1990s TV nerd : URKEL
64
Is that what ewe said? : BAA
65
Uber-enthusiast : GEEK
66
Part of a child's bedtime ritual : STORY
67
Stale : OLD
Down
1
"That's good" thinking : OPTIMISM
2
"That's good thinking!" : NEATIDEA
3
Cutter : SCISSORS
4
Rotten : BAD
5
Something heard secondhand? : USEDCD
6
Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
7
"Parasite" actor Woo-shik : CHOI
8
Adds to the team, so to speak : HIRESON
9
Go (for) : OPT
10
Cookie-flavored cereal : OREOOS
11
Fictional character partially inspired by Mexican folklore : ZORRO
12
Provide digital approval : ESIGN
17
Apt rhyme for chop and crop : LOP
21
Artist who said "A line is a dot that went for a walk" : KLEE
23
Breaker : ROCK
26
The "A" of A.Q.I. : AIR
28
Exhibited : SHOWN
31
Hardly strict : LAX
33
One to tip : VALET
34
Candy once marketed as a smoking cessation aid : PEZ
36
Big tub : VAT
38
One name for the game depicted in this puzzle : ROSHAMBO
39
Like Rome starting in the first century B.C. : IMPERIAL
40
Promo : TEASERAD
42
"Rush!" : ASAP
43
Perseus' horse : PEGASUS
44
Mousse alternative : GEL
45
Bigwigs may have big ones : EGOS
46
Actress Margot of "Bombshell" : ROBBIE
47
Carnival hypeman : BARKER
49
Case of emergency? : GOBAG
50
Clear : ERASE
51
Geico "spokeslizard" : GECKO
52
"Nevertheless, ___ persisted" : SHE
55
Dessert wine : PORT
58
Himalayan ox : YAK
60
Foxy : SLY

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