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New York Times, Friday, September 13, 2024

Author:
Boaz Moser
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
56-Across : At this point
TotalDebut
19/13/2024
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.52444%
Boaz Moser

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JKQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Moser. Friday freshness: 6%
Boaz Moser notes:
Newer constructors are sometimes advised to stay away from themeless puzzles, as they have higher fill standards and a lower demand at ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times9/13/24 ( No. 27,338 )
Across
1
What jackknives can help to carve : ABS
4
"That's fair" : VALID
9
Account of a wild night out? : TAB
12
Fail, with "out" : CRAP
14
Site sieged by Santa Anna : ALAMO
15
Cross : SORE
16
Cob, e.g. : MALE
17
What's often made by doctors : SIXFIGURES
19
Together : ENMASSE
21
Vacuous : INANE
22
"Actually, forget I asked" : DONTANSWERTHAT
26
Like meetings of the U.N. General Assembly : ANNUAL
27
Group of zombies : HORDE
28
Blowout : PARTY
29
Gets high on a kite : PARASAILS
33
Sch. in Ypsilanti whose mascot is an eagle, not another large bird : EMU
34
Bad thing to be out of : SORTS
35
Zip : NIL
36
Extraterrestrial menace in 5-Down : XENOMORPH
39
Comic Gillis : SHANE
41
Murphy's co-star in "48 Hrs." : NOLTE
42
Went after : CHASED
43
Response to not getting the reference? : CITATIONNEEDED
47
Put into effect : ENACT
48
Sources of high-quality wool : ALPACAS
50
Dynamic stance : ACTIONPOSE
54
No more : GONE
55
Went after, in a way : SUED
56
At this point : SOFAR
57
At some point : ONCE
58
Make a gaffe : ERR
59
How Vin Diesel was cast in "The Fast and the Furious," you might say : APTLY
60
Ottoman setting : DEN
Down
1
Summit : ACME
2
Dumpster or zipper, originally : BRANDNAME
3
Boon for grizzly bears : SALMONRUN
4
One doing the lord's work : VASSAL
5
Sci-fi franchise since 1979 : ALIEN
6
Laissez-faire : LAX
7
Global lending org. : IMF
8
Enthusiastic assent : DOI
9
Numbers 1 through 36 are found in it : TORAH
10
Where some banners are hung : ARENA
11
Under siege : BESET
13
Bit of foam, perhaps : PEANUT
15
Beverage steeped in bright daylight : SUNTEA
18
Encircles : GIRDS
20
Not take off : STAY
23
Improve, as an argument : SHARPEN
24
Concern for an antiquer : WORTH
25
They increase with blown saves, for short : ERAS
26
Summit : APEX
29
___-Novo, capital of Benin : PORTO
30
"Be right with you" : INASECOND
31
Cotton-Eyed Joe, e.g. : LINEDANCE
32
___ dog : SLED
34
Most arias : SOLI
37
Tripping : ONACID
38
Minnesota's is French and California's is Greek : MOTTO
39
"Old ___," country standard performed by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley : SHEP
40
Attempted, with "at" : HADAGO
42
Food that's roughly 95% water : CELERY
43
Halt : CEASE
44
Rack up : INCUR
45
Eyed food, informally : TATER
46
Nosy? : NASAL
49
A good way to feel : SEEN
51
Org. whose official number of employees is unknown to the public : NSA
52
Word with rock or Rocks : POP
53
O'er and o'er : OFT

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