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New York Times, Friday, September 20, 2024

Author:
Jackson Matz
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
33-Across : Lays waste to
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Jackson Matz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FQZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Matz. Friday freshness: 40%
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© 2024, The New York Times9/20/24 ( No. 27,345 )
Across
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Philosophy influenced by Aristotle's concept of the Unmoved Mover : THEISM
7
Four-year-old in pig tales? : PEPPA
12
Dog breed with a blue-black tongue : SHARPEI
13
Strains : EXERTS
15
Members of the family Passeridae : SPARROWS
16
Upgrade, as a backsplash : RETILE
17
Some flats : CONDOS
18
Drenches : SOPS
20
"Wowzers!" : MAN
21
"The Tin Drum" protagonist : OSKAR
22
Harshly criticizes : RIPS
23
Pilot productions? : PENS
24
Gunty who wrote "The Rabbit Hutch," winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction : TESS
25
Reunion attendee : AUNT
26
You might sleep on it : SERTA
27
Industry that emerged in the 1970s : GAMING
29
Flip : LOSEIT
30
Windy flight? : SPIRALSTAIRCASE
33
Lays waste to : HAVOCS
34
Option for a backpacker : HOSTEL
35
Apt name for a successful crypto investor? : ERICH
36
Farmer's market sight : TENT
37
Sub : TEMP
40
Safe place : BANK
41
Mock : JAPE
42
Brazilian soccer club named for an explorer, familiarly : VASCO
43
Director Lee : ANG
44
Manufacturer of minifigures : LEGO
45
Like you and me : MORTAL
46
Showed sleepiness : NODDED
48
New member : INITIATE
50
John, in Milan : GIANNI
51
Unwelcome sight in musical chairs : NOSEATS
52
Twosomes : DYADS
53
Actress Bella of Disney's "Shake It Up" : THORNE
Down
1
Part of the Detroit Lions schedule since 1934 : THANKSGIVINGDAY
2
Extremely solid : HARDASAROCK
3
What an "X" might mark : ERROR
4
Market events, for short : IPOS
5
Wrap (up) : SEW
6
Failing to get it : MISSINGTHEPOINT
7
Lawbreakers, informally : PERPS
8
People for whom a "no contact" rule might apply : EXES
9
___ food : PET
10
A lot to like? : PRIMEREALESTATE
11
Ancient civilization doomed by greed, in myth : ATLANTIS
12
"What if ...?," informally : SPOSE
14
Feeling : SENSATE
15
Alexander Graham Bell, by birth : SCOT
19
Elect : OPT
22
Lines on a ski map : RUNS
23
Kind of diet high in omega-3 fatty acids : PESCETARIAN
25
Bothers : AILS
26
Excel function : SORT
28
Kind of number represented by the equation M = v/c : MACH
29
Honor roll, e.g. : LIST
30
A "whole" thing : SHEBANG
31
"Being slightly ___ is like being slightly pregnant — it tends to get worse": Molly Ivins : PARANOID
32
Battleship corner : AONE
36
Size indicator : TAG
38
Exams with a highest possible score of 528, for short : MCATS
39
Vault opener? : POLE
41
Plural form decried by staunch "Star Wars" fans : JEDIS
42
Ticket picker : VOTER
44
Advance : LEND
45
Paste with an umami taste : MISO
47
Kind of test that's impossible to study for? : DNA
49
Japanese art form whose name means "skill" : NOH

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