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New York Times, Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Author:
Zachary David Levy
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
63-Across : Make safer, in a way ... or what the starts of 17-, 27-, 38- and 52-Across might be?
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Zachary David Levy

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {K} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Levy. Tuesday freshness: 47%
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© 2024, The New York Times5/21/24 ( No. 27,223 )
Across
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Hit a serve past : ACED
5
Ballet dancer's bend : PLIE
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Lightens (up) : EASES
14
Word after golden or slide : RULE
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Often-discarded part of a fruit : RIND
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Canonized person : SAINT
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Cheat sheets : CRIBNOTES
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Post-panel sesh : QANDA
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Male cat : TOM
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Big name in public opinion research : PEW
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It might be poked : FUN
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Cry of disgust that sounds like 24-Down : UGH
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Fruit also known as calabash : BOTTLEGOURD
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"Yeah, I suppose" : GUESSSO
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Soup kitchen utensils : LADLES
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Stare open-mouthed : GAPE
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Target, as a wide receiver : PASSTO
38
Outbuilding for many a historic home : CARRIAGEHOUSE
43
Millennial's successor, informally : GENZER
44
Tennis do-overs : LETS
46
"That's pretty nifty!" : OHNEAT
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Fashion house whose logo features Medusa : VERSACE
52
Counterpart to a landline : MOBILEPHONE
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Appreciative text : THX
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Schedule abbr. : ETA
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Middle name for Alec Baldwin and Carly Jepsen : RAE
58
Go the other way : ZAG
60
Indian royals : RAJAS
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Make safer, in a way ... or what the starts of 17-, 27-, 38- and 52-Across might be? : BABYPROOF
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Pageant topper : TIARA
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Often-discarded part of a fruit : STEM
70
Inactive : IDLE
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One-___ bandit : ARMED
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Biblical pronoun : THEE
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Nonnegotiable thing : NEED
Down
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Airplane's path on a flight map, often : ARC
2
Junkyard dog : CUR
3
Roth of "Inglourious Basterds" : ELI
4
Red scare? : DEBT
5
Sneak previews : PROMOS
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Happening, in modern parlance : LIT
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Bumbling : INEPT
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Old car make named for Henry Ford's son : EDSEL
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Abbr. on a lawyer's business card : ESQ
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Highly rated, as a bond : AAA
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Iniquitous : SINFUL
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Stick it out : ENDURE
13
Array at a farmer's market : STANDS
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Noggins : NOBS
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Language in which "w" can be a vowel : WELSH
24
Australian boot brand : UGG
25
Green dip, familiarly : GUAC
26
Purifying filter acronym : HEPA
28
November birthstone : TOPAZ
29
One purring in Peru : GATO
30
Nonalcoholic beer brand : ODOULS
32
Composer Rachmaninoff : SERGEI
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Ripen : AGE
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Kind of motor used in robotics : SERVO
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Down-to-earth : REAL
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Lead-in to mingle or mezzo : INTER
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Ticket assignment : SEAT
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Cut quite a figure? : ETCH
45
Something a prenatal ultrasound can determine : SEX
46
Mafia code of silence : OMERTA
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Windbag's output : HOTAIR
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Classic video game with the catchphrase "He's on fire!" : NBAJAM
50
Biological catalyst : ENZYME
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Collect what's been sown : REAP
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"Blue Ribbon" brewer : PABST
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Toffee bar brand since 1928 : HEATH
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Beam : GRIN
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"What ___ the odds?" : ARE
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Down in the dumps : SAD
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Wax producer : BEE
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Shelley's "To a Skylark," for one : ODE
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World Cup chant : OLE
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Put quarters in, as a meter : FED

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