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New York Times, Saturday, July 6, 2024

Author:
Evans Clinchy
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
21-Across : Ancient city near Jerusalem
TotalDebutLatest
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Evans Clinchy

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Clinchy. Saturday freshness: 72%
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© 2024, The New York Times7/6/24 ( No. 27,269 )
Across
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Journalistic concern : STANDARDS
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Order at a bar … or at a butcher shop : ROUND
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Something that fades into the background : WATERMARK
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Tagging along : INTOW
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"Everything good between us?" : AREWEOKAY
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Shove off : LEAVE
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Cable inits. for cinephiles : TMC
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Went up : GREW
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Ancient city near Jerusalem : BETHEL
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Ramirez of "Madam Secretary" : SARA
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Tactic for driving digital subscriptions : PAYWALL
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One interested in bull-dozing? : COWTIPPER
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___ something : ONTO
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Historical period from 1918 to 1933 : WEIMARERA
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Money for bread, e.g.: Abbr. : SYN
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Moral bankruptcy : DEPRAVITY
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:-O : OMG
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Like many viral posts : RETWEETED
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Meeting places : FORA
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TV character who said "What you call 'love' was invented by guys like me to sell nylons" : DONDRAPER
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Author of 2001's "The Corrections" : FRANZEN
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Run slowly : SEEP
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Had a burning desire : LONGED
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Woman who sounds like she's messin' up? : ERIN
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Reason to look away, for short : PDA
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Hot dog buns in a pack, often : OCTET
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Bug-catching period : FLUSEASON
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East Coast travel option : ACELA
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Zoom classes and the like : ELEARNING
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Nitwits : DODOS
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Simple solutions : EASYFIXES
Down
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Big hits : SWATS
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Touchdown locale : TARMAC
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Suffered humiliation : ATECROW
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Sorting category on a social media feed : NEW
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Last little bit : DREG
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Gabriel García Márquez's "El ___ en los Tiempos del Cólera" : AMOR
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Casino's cut : RAKE
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Poker variety : DRAW
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You might look up to it : SKY
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N.B.A. coach Pat who trademarked the term "three-peat" : RILEY
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Left and then a right, say : ONETWO
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Pioneer Day celebrants : UTAHANS
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Unusual item : NOVELTY
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Refuse to let go : DWELLON
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Word with sound or language : BARRIER
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Knocked for a loop : AWED
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Cross : PEEVED
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Pricing plan category : TIER
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Got in the way of : IMPEDED
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Artist who released her first-ever rock album, "Rockstar," a year after being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame : PARTON
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Ten-legged sea creature : PRAWN
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"___ girl!" : ATTA
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Casual affirmatives : YEPS
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Get rid of : OFFLOAD
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Nation that declared independence from France in March 1956 : MOROCCO
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"I will admit …" : GRANTED
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Get rid of : DEEPSIX
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___ Dundee, trainer for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman : ANGELO
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Overhauled : REDONE
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Some sorority sisters, informally : ZETAS
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Heartthrobs, e.g. : PANGS
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First name of the "First Lady of Jazz" : ELLA
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Feels contrition about : RUES
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Lead-in to a suggestion : ISAY
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Material in some sports equipment : NERF
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Cancellation deterrent : FEE
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Glossy black cuckoo : ANI

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

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