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New York Times, Saturday, August 17, 2024

Author:
Brandon Koppy
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
56-Across : "A deal's a deal!"
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Brandon Koppy

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Koppy. Saturday freshness: 58%
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© 2024, The New York Times8/17/24 ( No. 27,311 )
Across
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Ireland's second-best-selling musical act after U2 : ENYA
5
Forsythia, for one : SHRUB
10
Verbally waver : HAW
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Something shown to a rude houseguest : DOOR
14
Mistreatment : ABUSE
15
"___ Agua Para Chocolate" (hit 1992 foreign-language film) : COMO
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One might clean up lots of toys : DOGGROOMER
18
Potatoes, in Indian cuisine : ALOO
19
Grown in ___ (brand of frozen French fries) : IDAHO
20
Reason one might read a "Speed Hump" sign and laugh : DIRTYMIND
22
One might be "slippery" : ELM
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Epic backdrop, maybe : WAR
25
Some skintight clothing : SHAPERS
26
Coal miner's discovery : SEAM
28
Josh who voices Olaf in "Frozen" : GAD
30
Initial tentative attempt : FORAY
31
Nonstop flight? : STAIRMASTER
35
Jamie Lee Curtis or Neve Campbell, notably : SCREAMQUEEN
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Really loses one's cool : GOESNUCLEAR
39
Planned Parenthood doc : OBGYN
42
Often-bracketed bit of Latin : SIC
43
Mark as important, in a way : STAR
45
You! All of you! : SOLVERS
48
Lunes, e.g. : DIA
50
The "1" in 8-8-1, e.g. : TIE
51
"Hold please"? : INEEDAHUG
53
River through Glasgow : CLYDE
55
What lions can do that pumas cannot : ROAR
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"A deal's a deal!" : NOBACKSIES
58
ThinkPads, originally : IBMS
59
___ anglaise (rich custard) : CREME
60
Survey unit : ACRE
61
Cry for help : SOS
62
Toaster's opening : HERES
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Randall's elder daughter on "This Is Us" : TESS
Down
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Goes down the drain, perhaps : EDDIES
2
Thinks (on) : NOODLES
3
Stretcher bearers? : YOGAMATS
4
Frustrated cry : ARGH
5
Portuguese title : SAO
6
"True Detective" and "The Wire," for two : HBODRAMAS
7
One-named poet from the 13th century : RUMI
8
App audience : USERS
9
Sea bed? : BERTH
10
Like Medina, Saudi Arabia, vis-à-vis Medina, Ohio : HOLIER
11
So-called "king of the Egyptian gods" : AMONRA
12
Rustic : WOODSY
15
Scouting gatherings : CAMPOREES
17
Spat : ROW
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"Get me?" : YAFEEL
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Match up : AGREE
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Fashions out of whatever's lying around : MACGYVERS
29
Sends to hell : DAMNS
32
Worked on a collapsible table, say : IRONED
33
Hit Netflix show whose pilot episode is titled "Red Light, Green Light" : SQUIDGAME
34
Stanley of "Julie & Julia" : TUCCI
36
Low-cost lager from Anheuser-Busch, familiarly : NATTYICE
38
Eleven in Las Vegas : RAIDERS
39
God slain by his brother, then resurrected by his wife : OSIRIS
40
Animal also known as a pygmy chimpanzee : BONOBO
41
Sparkles : GLEAMS
44
___ Puffs : REESES
46
In Buffalo, it's a faux pas to order this with Buffalo wings : RANCH
47
Buttress, with "up" : SHORE
49
Frustrated cry : ACK
52
Eschew the subway, say : UBER
54
Something that's good to do a 180 on? : LSAT
57
These, in French : CES

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