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New York Times, Friday, July 2, 2021

Author:
Brooke Husic and Ada Nicolle
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
57-Across : Eagerly starting, as one's work
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
218/8/202010/23/202418
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1103187
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6114266%
Brooke Husic
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
47/17/20193/18/20231
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0001012
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.512638%
Ada Nicolle

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 6 This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Husic. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Nicolle. Friday freshness: 3%
Constructor notes:
ADA: I am so excited to be sharing a New York Times byline with THE Brooke Husic. She is one of my favourite themeless constructors in ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Six fantastic marquee entries, that's REALLY SOMETHING! I paused when I finally uncovered that one, wondering if it felt arbitrary or ... read more
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© 2021, The New York Times7/2/21 ( No. 26,169 )
Across
1
Has nowhere to go but down : PEAKS
6
Scepter topper : ORB
9
It's just the wurst! : BRAT
13
Northernmost land in the Inner Hebrides : ISLEOFSKYE
16
Prefix with nautical : AERO
17
Cut-and-paste tool for language learners : GOOGLETRANSLATE
19
Piece of sensitive info, for short : SSN
20
Average : MEAN
21
Name that sounds like two of its letters : ELLY
22
Garden figure : GNOME
25
Stoke : FUEL
26
What a fitness coach likely leads : ACTIVELIFESTYLE
32
One-named rapper with the 2019 video "Can't Explain It" : CHIKA
33
Puts on the line, say : DRIES
34
Word after dead or data : SET
35
Browser button : HOME
36
Bedouins, e.g. : ARABS
37
Post-punk sort : GOTH
38
Squeeze (out) : EKE
39
Classic Disney character who never speaks : PLUTO
40
It can come as a relief : CAMEO
41
In-N-Out Burger's "Animal Style" burgers and fries, e.g. : SECRETMENUITEMS
44
[Gulp!] : OHNO
45
Plus : ASSET
46
Part of a church chorus : AMEN
47
Theravada or Mahayana vis-à-vis Buddhism : SECT
49
Japanese assent : HAI
52
Like some headphones : NOISECANCELLING
56
People of northeastern Canada : INNU
57
Eagerly starting, as one's work : DIVINGINTO
58
Streaks on the side of a wineglass : LEGS
59
Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to WI : SLY
60
Bring to a boil : ANGER
Down
1
Gluttons : PIGS
2
Those: Sp. : ESOS
3
Well overdue : ALONGTIMECOMING
4
Powder holder : KEG
5
G, in a C major scale : SOL
6
West African food staple : OKRA
7
"Star Trek" actress Jeri : RYAN
8
Big ___ : BEN
9
In which you might see an échappé sauté : BALLET
10
Out of the ordinary : REALLYSOMETHING
11
Pretentious, in a way : ARTY
12
The point of 9-Down? : TOE
14
Queer designation : FEMME
15
Instrument played by a pannist : STEELDRUM
18
Dr. for kids : SEUSS
23
Daughter of Styx : NIKE
24
Things sometimes frozen : OVA
25
Requirements with some applications : FEES
26
Can't move a muscle, say : ACHES
27
Crack under pressure : CHOKE
28
Boiling : IRATE
29
Eponym for a mathematical pattern identified centuries earlier in India : FIBONACCI
30
"Eh, they can do that" : LETEM
31
Spirit of a people : ETHOS
36
Range for a viola : ALTO
37
Box-office revenue : GATE
39
Mostaccioli relative : PENNE
40
Lead-in to male or female : CIS
42
Kind of monkey : RHESUS
43
Hwy. through Fargo and St. Paul : USTEN
46
Tops : AONE
47
Fly (through) : SAIL
48
"Our ___ always lasts longer than the happiness of those we ___": Heraclitus : ENVY
50
Request a hand, say : ANTE
51
Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
52
Love of the game? : NIL
53
Their sales were surpassed again by phonograph records in 2020 : CDS
54
Inits. near New York's Flushing Bay : LGA
55
Jeremy ___, first Asian-American N.B.A. champion : LIN

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