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New York Times, Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Author:
Barbara Lin
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
51-Across : Heroes in L.G.B.T.Q.+ history?
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Barbara Lin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 13 for Ms. Lin. Wednesday freshness: 56%
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© 2024, The New York Times9/11/24 ( No. 27,336 )
Across
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Break down : SOB
4
Overly : TOO
7
Journalist Sawyer : DIANE
12
Not now : THEN
14
___ health therapist (part of a dental practice) : ORAL
15
Type in : ENTER
16
Device with Alexa : ECHO
17
Swim around, scare some people, ram a boat …? : LIFEOFJAWS
19
Limit on borrowing : LOANCAP
21
As required, after "if" : NEEDBE
22
Good quality for a midwife? : LOVEOFLABORS
25
Claim made stronger by a witness : ALIBI
26
Palindromic preposition : ERE
27
Some ring decisions, in brief : TKOS
31
Excuses : OUTS
33
Counts at the gym : REPS
36
High dudgeon : IRE
37
What the world's largest piggy bank holds? : FORTUNEOFCHANGE
41
Brewpub order : IPA
42
Leave 'em rolling in the aisles : SLAY
43
"Smooth Operator" singer : SADE
44
New Mexico's ___ National Forest : GILA
46
Turn for the worse : ROT
48
Turbine turner : ROTOR
51
Heroes in L.G.B.T.Q.+ history? : LIONSOFPRIDE
55
Verdi's next opera after "Aida" : OTELLO
58
"Chicago" or "Oklahoma!" : MUSICAL
59
Jacket sleeves? : ARMSOFCOAT
62
Contacts listing : NAME
63
Smooths, as unruly hair : TAMES
64
1998 animated film set in Central Park : ANTZ
65
Nana alternative : GRAN
66
Marriott competitor : HYATT
67
New beginning? : NEO
68
Vietnamese celebration : TET
Down
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Parks whose cookbook "BraveTart" won the James Beard Award : STELLA
2
"That's pretty nifty!" : OHCOOL
3
Like problems a schoolteacher might deal with : BEHAVIORAL
4
Word seen in 20 squares on a Scrabble board : TRIPLE
5
Galoot : OAF
6
Spanish "Bravo!" : OLE
7
Postpone : DEFER
8
For yuks : INJEST
9
The slightest bit : ATAD
10
Rookie, informally : NEWB
11
Talk of the Irish, say : ERSE
13
Only : NONEBUT
14
Angela's successor as German chancellor : OLAF
18
Singer heard on "Give Peace a Chance" : ONO
20
Sex : COITUS
23
Usually dry streambeds : ARROYOS
24
Strengthen, with "up" : BEEF
28
Sculptures with moving parts, e.g. : KINETICART
29
Nonprofit's URL ending : ORG
30
Call, as a poker bet : SEE
32
NBC stalwart : SNL
34
Dells, say : PCS
35
# # # : SHARPS
37
Fruit associated with Newton : FIG
38
Nail polish brand : OPI
39
Make : EARN
40
Like devoted fans : ADORING
45
Ready to go : ALLSET
47
Part of a club : TOMATO
49
Whoopi's Oscar-winning role in "Ghost" : ODAMAE
50
Give in : RELENT
52
Statement of defeat : ILOST
53
Reaction to a punch : OOF
54
Mess (with) : FUTZ
55
Sworn statement : OATH
56
It may come down after the wheels go up : TRAY
57
Lazarus with a sonnet on the Statue of Liberty : EMMA
60
Soup container : CAN
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Last word before "Blast off!" : ONE

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