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New York Times, Saturday, August 3, 2024

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
53-Across : Last syllable of a word
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Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 189 for Mr. Norris. Saturday freshness: 23%
Jim Horne notes:
Rich Norris is a veteran constructor. He edited the Los Angeles Times crossword for years, and still had time to create nearly 200 ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times8/3/24 ( No. 27,297 )
Across
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Election presence since the '40s : PACS
5
Retrieval speed of a computer : ACCESSTIME
15
Latin I word : AMAT
16
Professional pitcher? : PIANOTUNER
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Request for details : CARETOELABORATE
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What often can't be beat? : THERAP
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Light touch : CARESS
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Minnesota W.N.B.A. team : LYNX
22
Cousin voiced by Snoop Dogg in two films : ITT
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"Not ___" : YET
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Heaven : ECSTASY
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Meryl Streep and Amy Adams played them in 2008's "Doubt" : NUNS
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French resort town : STTROPEZ
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Unsolicited, in a way : ONSPEC
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More than just impress : AWE
37
Block : DAM
38
Ref's decision : TKO
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Supply at an I.V.F. clinic : OVA
40
Home run, informally : DINGER
42
Ready : PREPARED
44
Vet : EXGI
45
Word from the French for "rung" : ECHELON
47
Scott in Illinois, e.g.: Abbr. : AFB
49
Cultivate, in a way : HOE
50
"Really?" : ITIS
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Last syllable of a word : ULTIMA
55
Losers of the 1994 and 1999 N.B.A. Finals : KNICKS
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Virtually silently, in a classic poem : ONLITTLECATFEET
60
[shrug] : IDONTGETIT
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Helen of Troy's mother : LEDA
62
1962 war epic loaded with A-listers, with "The" : LONGESTDAY
63
Old map letters : USSR
Down
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Deal : PACT
2
Title hero of a Menotti opera : AMAHL
3
Drew using many lines? : CAREY
4
"Ambition should be made of ___ stuff": "Julius Caesar" : STERNER
5
Per person : APOP
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Abbr. in French business names : CIE
7
School with the mascot Oski the Bear, familiarly : CAL
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Puts on the books : ENACTS
9
Buckwheat noodle : SOBA
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Part of a child's bedtime routine, perhaps : STORY
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Deep dishes : TUREENS
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Foggy : INASTUPOR
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M.L.B. team that's played in three different stadiums since its inception in 1962 : METS
14
Old word of precedence : ERE
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It contains nearly 10,000 sections : TAXCODE
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Market unit : ITEM
23
Looney Tunes menace, familiarly : TAZ
26
Alley pickup : SPARE
27
Sticks figure : YOKEL
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First name on the "Scream" poster : NEVE
30
Slew : SCAD
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Only African-born headliner at London's Live Aid 1985 : SADE
32
Bar from Mars : TWIX
33
Clothing misnomer more aptly replaced by "three-quart" : TENGALLON
35
Zero use : NOPOINT
38
Stereotypical lowly role in a school play : TREE
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Christmas tradition : GIFTING
42
___-Nomenal, punny restaurant name : PHO
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Like some targeted winter meds : ANTIFLU
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Style of house with wide eaves : CHALET
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"S'il vous plaît," across the Rhine : BITTE
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Drinks mistakenly invented by a Dairy Queen owner in 1958 : ICEES
52
Agendas, for short : SKEDS
53
Useful command for the error-prone : UNDO
54
Many Zoom calls: Abbr. : MTGS
55
Singer Perry : KATY
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Leading : STAR
57
Peanut ___ : OIL
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Going concern, for short? : ETD
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Jack Ryan's org. in "The Hunt for Red October" : CIA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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