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New York Times, Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Author:
Sarah Sinclair and Amie Walker
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
68-Across : About 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth
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Sarah Sinclair
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1.661122%
Amie Walker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Sinclair. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Walker. Tuesday freshness: 64%
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© 2024, The New York Times7/23/24 ( No. 27,286 )
Across
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"City/highway/combined" stat : MPG
4
Pampering place for purring pets : CATSPA
10
Article that Ohio State University surprisingly managed to trademark in 2022 : THE
13
Greek god often depicted with a helmet and shield : ARES
15
Imperfect : FLAWED
16
Alley-___ (basketball pass) : OOP
17
Role for which James Gandolfini won three Emmys : TONYSOPRANO
19
GPS approximation : ETA
20
Hearty steakhouse option : TBONE
21
Start of an online address : HTTP
22
Common deg. for a professor : PHD
23
Kind of lane marked with a diamond : HOV
24
"___ Twist, Scientist" (kids' book) : ADA
26
Out of the country : ABROAD
29
Cipher machine of W.W. II : ENIGMA
31
Silicon Valley city whose name translates to "tall stick" : PALOALTO
33
"You just blew my mind," using a modern spelling : WOAH
34
Word after G or e : MAIL
36
Gets ready to yell "Surprise!," perhaps : HIDES
37
Stable temperament : EVENTENOR
40
Pioneer in arcade games : ATARI
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Food with a shell : TACO
44
Tiny bit : IOTA
48
Freshwater fish named for its shoreline habitat : ROCKBASS
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Have a predilection for : PREFER
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British Conservative Party, colloquially : TORIES
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"Under the ___" (Oscar-winning song from "The Little Mermaid") : SEA
54
Close relatives, informally : FAM
55
Swindle : CON
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"Easier said ___ done" : THAN
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Standards : NORMS
61
Teacher's cover : SUB
62
What the ends of 17-, 31-, 37- and 48-Across are, collectively : CHORALGROUP
64
School fund-raising grp. : PTA
65
One who's always calling people out? : UMPIRE
66
Ken's Mojo Dojo ___ House (redundantly named dwelling in "Barbie") : CASA
67
Until now : YET
68
About 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth : BASALT
69
Novelist Brown : DAN
Down
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Actor Macfadyen of "Succession" : MATTHEW
2
Like some free legal work : PROBONO
3
Fictional country in "The Princess Diaries" : GENOVIA
4
Corp. money manager : CFO
5
Dominant wolf in a pack : ALPHA
6
Fruit-filled pastry : TART
7
Give a thwack : SWAT
8
What a best friend from camp might become : PENPAL
9
Hullabaloo : ADO
10
Rock climber's notch : TOEHOLD
11
Promising romantic encounter : HOTDATE
12
Clean air org. : EPA
14
Thesaurus entry: Abbr. : SYN
18
Layer of coal : SEAM
22
Wide-open grassland : PRAIRIE
25
Title for Julie Andrews or Maggie Smith : DAME
27
___ chic (fashion style) : BOHO
28
Cinco menos tres : DOS
30
Pickle, to a Brit : GHERKIN
31
Shawarma holders : PITAS
32
Guinness of "Star Wars" : ALEC
35
Grasshoppers' foes in "A Bug's Life" : ANTS
38
General feeling : VIBE
39
"Hard pass" : NOPE
40
Word in the name of many design colleges : ART
41
"So adorbs!" : TOOCUTE
42
One getting bent out of shape at work? : ACROBAT
45
Where to ride ATVs and dirt bikes : OFFROAD
46
Simone Biles's squad : TEAMUSA
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Length from fingertip to fingertip, perhaps : ARMSPAN
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Reason to carry an inhaler : ASTHMA
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Used, as a doorbell : RANG
53
Tangle : SNARL
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Hillsboro ___, minor-league baseball team with a mascot named Barley : HOPS
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Opera solo : ARIA
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Fearsome Middle-earth creature : ORC
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Do some snooping : SPY
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Pup : otter :: ___ : bear : CUB
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Permit : LET

Answer summary:
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