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New York Times, Thursday, September 26, 2024

Author:
Jesse Guzman
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
56-Across : Unit of explosive power
TotalDebut
19/26/2024
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ScrabFresh
1.4963%
Jesse Guzman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Guzman. Thursday freshness: 73%
Jim Horne notes:
DOUBLE REVERSE here means that both sets of grayed letters in each theme answer must be reversed to match the clue. So, CRUELLA ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times9/26/24 ( No. 27,351 )
Across
1
Wonder drug : CUREALL
8
Have the final turn : GOLAST
14
Scolding : REPROOF
15
Prominent feature of Hello Kitty : HAIRBOW
16
Julian who founded WikiLeaks : ASSANGE
17
Intractable situation : IMPASSE
18
Some hormonal flare-ups : ZITS
19
Crowd : SWARM
21
Like hotel checkouts that may cost extra : LATE
22
Civil rights leader ___ B. Wells : IDA
23
Maximum : PEAK
25
Something found near a trap : LAT
26
Currency of 20 countries : EURO
28
Got the word out? : SAID
30
Bygone Apple products : IPODS
32
Command to a getaway driver : STEPONIT
34
Reality TV staple : DRAMA
35
Three-time nominee for Best Director (1994, 2009, 2019) : TARANTINO
37
Nation to which the island of Tortuga belongs : HAITI
39
Rescues : SALVAGES
43
What has posts all around a site : FENCE
44
Band dates : GIGS
45
Impose, as a tax : LEVY
46
Foundation, e.g., for short : ORG
47
Bareilles of Broadway : SARA
49
Palindromic family nickname : NAN
50
Smell : REEK
52
Period preceding a big event : RUNUP
55
Name suffix that can combine with "Henri" : ETTA
56
Unit of explosive power : KILOTON
58
Final circuit in a track race : BELLLAP
60
One whose mentality begins with M-E? : EGOTIST
61
They take marks off at school : ERASERS
62
With 63-Across, tricky football play ... as represented by this puzzle's shaded squares? : DOUBLE
63
See 62-Across : REVERSE
Down
1
Kooks : CRAZIES
2
Film that lasts a while? : RESIDUE
3
Sudden riser in status : UPSTART
4
Civil War and Reconstruction, e.g. : ERAS
5
Longtime college basketball coach Kruger : LON
6
Makes a note of : LOGS
7
Not many : AFEW
8
This letter: γ : GAMMA
9
Body part just below the philtrum : LIP
10
___ exam : ORAL
11
Biblical figure whose name is repeated in a Faulkner title : ABSALOM
12
Dish with a crispy tortilla shell : TOSTADA
13
They're often sugarcoated : SWEETS
15
Like some goons : HIRED
20
Advanced H.S. course taught by a professoressa, say : APITALIAN
24
Russian ballet company : KIROV
27
Related to vision : OPTIC
28
"Wake word" for an Apple device : SIRI
29
Raggedy ___ : ANN
31
Group of cable news talking heads : PANEL
33
Author Joyce Carol ___ : OATES
34
Burn, so to speak : DISS
36
Playground game : TAG
37
Announcement before taking a leap : HEREIGO
38
She recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Clinton's first inauguration : ANGELOU
40
More forgiving : GENTLER
41
Game faces? : AVATARS
42
Point of contact between neurons : SYNAPSE
43
Like lightning and some tongues : FORKED
44
Powerlifter's sound : GRUNT
48
Materialized : AROSE
51
Hoda of morning TV : KOTB
53
Transportation app banned in Denmark, Hungary and Thailand : UBER
54
Parisian patriarch : PERE
55
Conditional word in programming : ELSE
57
Up to, briefly : TIL
59
Loo : LAV

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