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New York Times, Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Author:
Blake Slonecker
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
48-Across : Sacramental friars?
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Blake Slonecker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Slonecker. Wednesday freshness: 76%
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© 2023, The New York Times9/6/23 ( No. 26,965 )
Across
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1964 title role for Anthony Quinn : ZORBA
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Where to do one's bidding, maybe : EBAY
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Not that : THIS
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Like more than half of the earth's population : ASIAN
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Some fancywork : LACE
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"The ___ of the Ancient Mariner" : RIME
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Suddenly cut off all communication with … but do so nicely? : GHOSTRIGHT
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Great Plains people : OTOE
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Leave full : SATE
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Something that may be up one's sleeve : ACE
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Jokester : CUTUP
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Cordial shipbuilders? : CIVILWRIGHTS
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Rude rejoinder popularized by the Fonz of 1970s TV : SITONIT
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For real : KOSHER
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Like cheering audiences : AROAR
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Something up one's sleeve? : ARM
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Classroom projectile : WAD
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Pens a seafaring tale? : WRITESOFPASSAGE
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___ Paradise, narrator of "On the Road" : SAL
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X a box, say : OPT
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Superman's baby name : KALEL
43
Flap of skin hanging from a bovine's neck : DEWLAP
46
Fence-sitter's question : SHOULDI
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Sacramental friars? : RITEBROTHERS
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Oxford and Surrey in "Richard III" : EARLS
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Novelist Chang-___ Lee : RAE
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Tooth trouble : ACHE
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Con Ed, e.g.: Abbr. : UTIL
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"It's a plan" … and what might be said of 17-, 23-, 35- and 48-Across : SOUNDSGOOD
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In the public eye : SEEN
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Let go : AXED
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Marathoning powerhouse : KENYA
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Phonetic initialism along Canadian roadways : ESSO
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Nosegay : POSY
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Black tea region : ASSAM
Down
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Sharply turns back the other way : ZAGS
2
Worker welfare grp. : OSHA
3
Run ___ : RIOT
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Start of a paint job : BASECOAT
5
Myrmecologist's specimen : ANT
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Draw out : ELICIT
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6-0 set, in tennis lingo : BAGEL
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Bavarian "Bah!" : ACH
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So far : YET
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Horse's watering spot : TROUGH
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What a marathoner may do around mile 20 : HITTHEWALL
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Cry from one who's fuming : IMOUTRAGED
13
Oozes : SEEPS
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Shankar at Woodstock : RAVI
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Prefix with gender : CIS
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As to : INRE
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Radio station on TV : WKRP
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Canning tomato : ROMA
27
Maxims : SAWS
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Lightens up? : IRRADIATES
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Travel kit filler : TOILETRIES
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Back on a cruise : AFT
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Kind of counter in a supermarket : DELI
36
Take off : SOAR
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Dirt-digging research, for short : OPPO
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Heath bar shelfmate : SKOR
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Many links : SAUSAGES
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"Uh … huh-uh" : WELLNO
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Scale units: Abbr. : LBS
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Lemony quaff : SHANDY
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Obey : HEED
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Second rule of waste reduction : REUSE
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Makes even : TRUES
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Swindles : CONS
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Georgetown athlete : HOYA
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North Holland cheese town : EDAM
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Syrupy stuff : SAP
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Good Grips kitchen brand : OXO
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Rocksteady precursor : SKA

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