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Breakout Performance

New York Times, Sunday, September 22, 2024

Author:
Jeremy Newton and Tracy Gray
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
57-Across : "Bad luck, I guess … It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the ___" (quote from 18-Down)
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Jeremy Newton
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Tracy Gray

This puzzle:

Rows: 19, Columns: 23 Words: 141, Blocks: 80 Missing: {JQZ} Grid has mirror symmetry. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Newton. This is puzzle # 37 for Ms. Gray. Sunday freshness: 57%
Joel Fagliano notes:
Jeremy Newton, of Austin, Tex., works as an engineering manager for a mobile game company. Tracy Gray, of Hunt Valley, Md., is recently retired from the lawn and landscaping business. They found that ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

Andy Dufresne starts in the 4x3 prison cell at the bottom of the grid, carves out a hole with the letter Y (look behind the poster of Rita Hayworth), and tunnels through various gray shafts to escape.

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© 2024, The New York Times9/22/24 ( No. 27,347 )
Across
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One getting into some hot water? : BATHER
7
Home monitors : UMPS
11
Data sought in phishing attempts, in brief : SSNS
15
Thus far : TODATE
21
Cry from a treehouse : UPHERE
22
Doesn't rule out, as a possibility : KEEPSOPEN
24
Wrinkle-free, say : IRONED
25
Turned on an axis : SLEWED
26
Real no-brainer? : UTTERFOOL
27
Colorful ingredients in some cookie recipes : MANDMS
28
Trash : TOSS
29
Reef lurker : EEL
31
Ways off : EXITS
32
Part of H.M.S. : HER
34
Word with body or blood : TYPE
35
Texter's alternative to an eye roll emoji : SMH
36
Olympians on stunt bikes, informally : BMXERS
38
Genre for Fall Out Boy : EMOPOP
41
U.S. currency: Abbr. : DOL
42
Negative influence on others, metaphorically : BADAPPLE
44
Expressed : PUT
47
To sweeten the deal : ASABONUS
49
Declines to : WONT
50
Houdini's signature feat … or a hint to the circled squares in this puzzle : ESCAPEACT
53
Basis for a feud : BEEF
54
Rudder found in nature : FISHFIN
57
"Bad luck, I guess … It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the ___" (quote from 18-Down) : TORNADO
58
Became stuck : HITARUT
61
"This is the worst!" : UGH
62
Receptacle for soaking before a pedicure : FOOTSPA
64
Brainy bunch : MENSANS
66
Electronica pioneer Brian : ENO
67
Bulgarian or Bosnian : SLAV
69
Rap group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame : NWA
70
The White House grounds have 18 of them : ACRES
72
Some online pings, in brief : IMS
73
"Yo!," on the down-low : PSST
74
Lightning-fast hedgehog of video games : SONIC
76
What "washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," per Picasso : ART
78
Lane for carpoolers : HOV
79
Six-foot-tall Aussie sprinter : EMU
80
Grows dimmer : WANES
81
"Are you ___ drive?" : OKTO
82
Certain online video snippet : YOUTUBECLIP
85
Downwind, to seafarers : ALEE
86
"Breaking Bad" channel : AMC
88
Fastener that's one letter ahead of "U-bolt" in the dictionary : TNUT
89
Org. with the Artemis program : NASA
90
Office building unit: Abbr. : STE
91
What a police escort may offer : SAFEPASSAGE
95
Classic cover-ups for spies : TRENCHCOATS
100
Fumble or bumble : ERR
101
Card game with a Power Grab edition : UNO
102
"Good joke!" : HAH
103
Red side, in brief : GOP
104
Indecency : POORTASTE
108
Female in the forest : DOE
111
"Like that matters to me!" : ASIFICARE
114
Stage a jailbreak à la 18-Down : TUNNELOUT
115
Annual May race, familiarly : IND
116
Held together in a makeshift way : DUCTTAPED
117
Wraps : ENDS
118
Sizable challenge for a mover : SOFA
119
Make a break for it : RUN
120
Yearn (for) : ACHE
121
Swain : BEAU
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Parts of N.F.L. highlight reels, for short : TDS
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This really blows! : TNT
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Airport monitor, for short : TSA
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Razz : KID
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Pennzoil competitor : STP
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Exceeds 21, in blackjack : BUSTS
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Poise under pressure : APLOMB
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With 6-Down, prison drama released on September 23, 1994 : THESHAWSHANK
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Hacks with an ax : HEWS
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Ahead of, in poetry : ERE
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See 3-Down : REDEMPTION
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Instrument strummed in the Train song "Hey, Soul Sister" : UKULELE
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Popular gala venue, with "the" : MET
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Sneaky ___ (sly dogs) : PETES
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Glasses, informally : SPEX
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Like cashmere : SOFT
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Imagine, casually : SPOSE
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Prefix with -lithic : NEO
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16-time gig for Steve Martin : SNLHOST
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Portrayer of 18-Down : TIMROBBINS
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"Cup ___ cone?" : ORA
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Terse admonishment : DONT
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Lead role in 3-Down/6-Down : ANDYDUFRESNE
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They're measured in beats per minute : TEMPOS
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Famed Ford flop : EDSEL
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Honorific from Sanskrit : SRI
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Date on a debit card: Abbr. : EXP
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Pollution-regulating org. : EPA
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Resort town in Alberta's Rockies : BANFF
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Kicks back : RESTS
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"The Heart of Georgia" : MACON
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___ Corner, section of Westminster Abbey : POETS
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"What was I thinking!?" : DOH
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Fall accessory? : PARACHUTE
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Bygone channel that launched with the two-hour pilot of "Star Trek: Voyager" : UPN
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4x100 relay, for one : TEAMEVENT
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Org. with Student Success Grants : NEA
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___ América (quadrennial soccer championship) : COPA
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Juice drinks : ADES
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To-do : FUSS
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Yeti's commercial rival : IGLOO
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"Ain't gonna happen!" : NOWAY
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Overplay : HAMUP
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Erase from one's memory, in slang : UNSEE
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Target audience for "Peppa Pig" : TOTS
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Decks with cards numbered I through XXI : TAROTS
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Apelike : SIMIAN
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Curriculum ___ : VITAE
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Take inventory? : ROB
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Prefix with -lithic : PALEO
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Make sense : COMPUTE
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Ingredient in a niçoise salad : TUNA
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Conditional coding word : ELSE
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"Hey, I'm walkin' here!" : WATCHIT
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Harbor helper : TUG
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It might get booted : CAR
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Main blvd. through N.Y.C.'s Chinatown : CANALST
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Treated unfairly, informally : SHAFTED
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The swans in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," e.g. : SEPTET
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In the area : AROUND
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Some makeshift fans : FRONDS
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"Already?!" : SOSOON
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Ostentatiously stylish : CHICHI
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Early Christian meals of love and fellowship : AGAPES
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Unwrapped with gusto : TOREAT
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Accelerated : SPEDUP
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Shot makers, for short : RNS
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Top of a titmouse : TUFT
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H on a frat house : ETA
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Shoveled stuff : DIRT
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Unwelcome obligation : ONUS
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Irish novelist O'Brien : EDNA
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Coding pioneer Lovelace : ADA
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Be bad, like really bad : SUCK
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Kin of a zin : CAB

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