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New York Times, Monday, April 29, 2024

Author:
Tom Locke
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
53-Across : Closest island to the Big Island
TotalDebut
14/29/2024
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ScrabFresh
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Tom Locke

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Locke. Monday freshness: 36%
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© 2024, The New York Times4/29/24 ( No. 27,201 )
Across
1
Computer suffix with soft or hard : WARE
5
"Dancing Queen" band : ABBA
9
Boots from office : OUSTS
14
Online alternative to a garage sale : EBAY
15
Fly high : SOAR
16
German sub in W.W. II fighting : UBOAT
17
Marine creature that can weigh over 400,000 pounds : BLUEWHALE
19
City that's home to Arizona State University : TEMPE
20
Picture taken with an outstretched arm, perhaps : SELFIE
21
Product from Milk-Bone or Pup-Peroni : DOGTREAT
23
Forearm bone : ULNA
25
Meadow, in poetry : LEA
26
Soft mineral powder : TALC
28
Bar from joining a private club, e.g. : BLACKBALL
34
Make a wager : BET
35
Shrek, e.g. : OGRE
37
___ aware (paying close attention) : KEENLY
38
Caboose's location : REAR
40
Pi is one, for the circumference of a circle to its diameter : RATIO
42
It might be open and shut : DOOR
43
Big online brokerage : ETRADE
45
Teeny-tiny : ITSY
47
Purchase for purple hair : DYE
48
Chardonnay or pinot grigio, e.g. : WHITEWINE
50
Had to pay back : OWED
52
Parking area : LOT
53
Closest island to the Big Island : MAUI
55
What Nielsen ratings measure : AUDIENCE
60
Point at an off-target spot : MISAIM
64
Impact that one might "bear" : BRUNT
65
Public uproar … or a phonetic hint to the two words in 17-, 28- and 48-Across? : HUEANDCRY
67
Way in which a word is employed : USAGE
68
Cupid's Greek counterpart : EROS
69
Fail to include : OMIT
70
"Tall" stories : TALES
71
Mamas' boys : SONS
72
Fit well together : MESH
Down
1
Some Halloween decorations : WEBS
2
Ready, willing and ___ : ABLE
3
One of Cuba's Castros : RAUL
4
Quite a sight to behold : EYEFUL
5
Pale as a ghost : ASHEN
6
Snake that constricts : BOA
7
Hairless : BALD
8
Ring surrounding a nipple : AREOLA
9
Scene that doesn't make it into the movie : OUTTAKE
10
Lyft competitor : UBER
11
A few : SOME
12
Spanish appetizer : TAPA
13
"Ignore that change," to a proofreader : STET
18
Radio reply after "Roger" : WILCO
22
Lizards with sticky toe pads : GECKOS
24
Start of a magic spell : ABRA
26
Canines, e.g. : TEETH
27
Pioneering video game company : ATARI
29
Admit : LETIN
30
Unorthodox spot from which to take a meeting while working from home : BED
31
One end of a battery : ANODE
32
Architect Frank ___ Wright : LLOYD
33
Bard's instrument : LYRE
34
Make, as coffee : BREW
36
Slowly became appealing to : GREWON
39
One who snitches : RAT
41
Tabloid twosome : ITEM
44
Backspaces over : DELETES
46
Dealer's "Wanna play?" : YOUIN
49
Reasons to scratch one's head, say : ITCHES
51
"Conventional ___ says …" : WISDOM
54
Accumulate : AMASS
55
Be up against : ABUT
56
Bear in constellation names : URSA
57
Two-part : DUAL
58
"Picnic" playwright William : INGE
59
Multinational currency : EURO
61
High point : ACME
62
Colored part of the eye : IRIS
63
"We only use 10% of our brain," e.g. : MYTH
66
Long stretch of time : EON

Answer summary:
2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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