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New York Times, Friday, June 21, 2024

Author:
Billy Bratton
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
22-Across : "That seems like a bad idea"
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Billy Bratton

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Bratton. Friday freshness: 15%
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© 2024, The New York Times6/21/24 ( No. 27,254 )
Across
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Literally, "our thing" : COSANOSTRA
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What might come between "that" and "that" : WAS
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They go downhill fast : AVALANCHES
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Notes taken by a single person? : SOLO
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Condescendingly spells out : MANSPLAINS
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Chi-town daily : TRIB
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Colorado's ___ Mountains : ELK
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Make sense of : PARSE
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Industry for marketing majors : SALES
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Scrap : BIT
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"That seems like a bad idea" : IWOULDNT
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Scottish fold and Russian blue, e.g. : BREEDS
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Sticky stuff on a shoe : VELCRO
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Roughly half of mice : DOES
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Genesis : ONSET
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Piece of wall décor at a lake house, perhaps : OAR
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One of 17 on a Clue board : DOOR
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Like some covers : BLOWN
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Nickname for a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus skeleton discovered in 1974 : LUCY
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Word at the bottom of some marketing emails : OPT
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Island that's home to Popeye Village, a film-set-turned-theme-park : MALTA
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Peddled good : WARE
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It erupts from time to time : GEYSER
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Word with failure or terror : ABJECT
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Consideration for the Academy : OSCARBID
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In China, it's 1 at birth : AGE
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Airport with the most runways in the world (8) : OHARE
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Filth : GRIME
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Screening org. : TSA
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Feature of many a bodega : DELI
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Sign of sluggishness? : SLIMETRAIL
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Fish that can survive for several hours on land : EELS
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Rare shots : HOLESINONE
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Shares on X, for short : RTS
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"Hang on!" : HOLDITASEC
Down
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Turned up : CAME
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Shape of the Crab Nebula : OVAL
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Didn't go down well? : SANK
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Green and others : ALS
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Dummies : pacifiers :: ___ : diapers : NAPPIES
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Like much adult programming : ONLATE
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Leave damaged : SCAR
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🚨 "Serious situation developing!" 🚨 : THISISNOTADRILL
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Extend, in a way : RENEW
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Fool : ASS
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It takes suits from around the globe : WORLDCOURT
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Vulcans, e.g. : ALIENRACE
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Blue yarn? : SOBSTORY
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Repeat an interviewer's question, perhaps : STALL
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Haggis ingredient : SUET
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Title in children's literature : BRER
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Dutch ___ : OVEN
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Rings given to a lover : BOOTYCALLS
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One might be nesting : DOLL
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Page for a bookmaker : DOPESHEET
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Covid test component : SWAB
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Holier-than-thou type : DOGOODER
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Biting comment : BARB
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Intertwine : LACE
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Paltry : MERE
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah" : WEGETIT
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Sights on the Bollywood red carpet : SARIS
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First Stuart king of England : JAMESI
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Dome-icile? : IGLOO
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Pinged online : IMED
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Home of a 20th-century art colony : TAOS
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Function that can be derived from a unit circle : SINE
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___ Burks, N.B.A. shooting guard since 2011 : ALEC
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Sound in the stacks : SHH
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Translation material : RNA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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