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New York Times, Friday, August 9, 2024

Author:
Hemant Mehta
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
45-Across : What awakens Godzilla from the ocean, informally
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Hemant Mehta

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQV} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Mehta. Friday freshness: 64%
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© 2024, The New York Times8/9/24 ( No. 27,303 )
Across
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Listing on a résumé : SKILL
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Bad news from a maître d' : WAIT
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Ocean spray : MIST
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The Black Keys and the White Stripes, e.g. : INDIEBANDS
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"Why would you ever think that?!" : UMNO
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Retire while successful : GOOUTONTOP
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Music magazine since 1985 : SPIN
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Short elevations? : HTS
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T, for one : MODEL
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Sparkly collectible : GEODE
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Early stage : BETA
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Top marks : APLUSES
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Goes easy on : SPARES
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Sub groups : BTEAMS
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Email ancestor : TELEX
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Taps one's foot, maybe : KEEPSTIME
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Where you can find ME : USMAP
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Nonstandard: Abbr. : IRR
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Unlit? : SOBER
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Subway fare : FOOTLONGS
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City once home to Black Wall Street : TULSA
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Animals that appear in the fossil record before trees : SHARKS
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Unlawful coercion : DURESS
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Sources of some political gaffes : HOTMICS
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Middle word of a Stowe title : TOMS
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Introduce to the mix : ADDIN
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What awakens Godzilla from the ocean, informally : HBOMB
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"Les ___" : MIZ
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Japanese noodles : UDON
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Rodeo event : BARRELRACE
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Camp sight : TENT
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"It's been too long!" : IMISSEDYOU
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You are, on the Yucatán : ERES
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Helpful how-to : DEMO
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"Why don't sheep shrink when it ___?": George Carlin : RAINS
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Something to heave : SIGH
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Wedding planning website, with "the" : KNOT
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Wedding exchange : IDOS
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Fourth-most-common surname in China (after Wang, Li and Zhang) : LIU
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"Don't get mad yet …" : LETMEEXPLAIN
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Marvel's Maximoff : WANDA
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Entry fee for some clubs? : ANTE
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Blind worshipers : IDOLATERS
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Alternative to a pinch: Abbr. : TSP
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Journeys into the past? : MUSEUMTOURS
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Out of the question : IMPOSSIBLE
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Nasty, as a remark : SNIDE
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Busy signals, e.g. : TONES
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Kicks (out) : BOOTS
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Cocktail vessel : GLASSTUMBLER
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Apt anagram of TINS BEAR THEM, minus an E : BREATHMINTS
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Dynamism : PEP
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Double ___ (cookie descriptor) : STUF
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Replacement for the Spanish colonial real : PESO
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"One more minute!" : ALMOSTDONE
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They might fall off a shelf : BERGS
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Stigmatize sexual preferences, in modern lingo : KINKSHAME
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Fiasco : MESS
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Meiji and Taisho, in Japanese history : ERAS
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Middle-earth menace : ORC
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Heads, slangily : DOMES
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___ cuisine : HAUTE
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Less expected : ODDER
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Line drawn after an early wrong guess in hangman : TORSO
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Part of a hat : BRIM
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Question that's often a directive to step aside : MAYI
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Taskbar image : ICON
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A statue of him was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World : ZEUS
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Prospective Olympic city's campaign : BID
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Vitamin qty. : RDA

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