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New York Times, Friday, May 31, 2024

Author:
Aidan Deshong
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
64-Across : They'll knock you out
TotalDebut
15/31/2024
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.48483%
Aidan Deshong

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JKQVX} Spans: 1 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Deshong. Friday freshness: 56%
Aidan Deshong notes:
Hi! I'm a high school senior graduating next Friday and turning 18 a few days after, so this is a very exciting time for me all ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times5/31/24 ( No. 27,233 )
Across
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One might read "Select all images with bicycles" : CAPTCHA
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Make more fun and addictive, in a way : GAMIFY
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Name meaning "father of many" : ABRAHAM
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Babies snap out of them : ONESIES
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Disrupt with technology, as an existing industry : UBERIZE
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Genealogist's tool : DNATEST
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Lack of an edge : SOFTNESS
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"The Tempest" king : ALONSO
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It ends in septembre : ETE
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"One ___ …" : SEC
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When repeated, informal term for supper : DIN
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Things on a golf bag : STRAPS
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Only N.F.L. team to win championships while representing three different cities : RAMS
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Seething feeling : IRE
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It might raise a flap : LETTEROPENER
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Clementine lookalikes : MANDARINORANGES
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Heads-up in a review : SPOILERALERT
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Designer of Dallas's Meyerson Symphony Center : PEI
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Went flying : SPED
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Musical originally released as a French concept album, for short : LESMIS
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Pricey oils, e.g. : ART
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Wet blanket? : DEW
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Itty-bitty skitterer : ANT
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"Curious …" : ITSODD
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Search through a trove of digital information : DATAMINE
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Sisters are a part of it : NUNHOOD
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The "horn" of the Horn of Africa : SOMALIA
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Ticket issuer : TROOPER
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Start of a hypothetical : PRETEND
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They'll knock you out : ETHERS
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What might cause 1 + 1 > 2 : SYNERGY
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They might be lost : CAUSES
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Titular elementary school on TV : ABBOTT
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Go for : PREFER
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Dessert that rarely lives up to its name : TART
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Boxer's target : CHIN
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Reason to turn on headlights : HAZE
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"Oy, what ___!" : AMESS
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Mars, but not Venus : GOD
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___ Holmes, founder of the website Jezebel : ANNA
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Fast break? : MEAL
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: : ISTO
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Hankering, slangily : FIENDING
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"You betcha!" : YESSIREE
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Ones dealing with joint inflammation? : STONERS
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Like many opera lovers : SERENADED
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"Angels We Have Heard on High," e.g. : CAROL
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Multinational supermarket chain based in Germany : ALDI
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Rings : PEALS
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Throat ailment : STREP
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Prized mushroom : MOREL
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What "/" can mean : SPARE
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Beat : TIRED
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Tolkien creatures : ENTS
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Built-in Windows application with a palette logo, familiarly : MSPAINT
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Opening : APERTURE
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"Nuh-uh!" : NOITSNOT
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Certain padded container : MAILER
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Segment of a game of horseshoes : INNING
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Good at the game Operation, perhaps : STEADY
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Female flying group in W.W. II : WASPS
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"I know! I know!" : OHOH
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Sick : DOPE
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Active type : DOER
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Loyalist during the American Revolution : TORY
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"So true!" : AMEN
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Pub pal : MATE
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Hosp. staffers : DRS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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