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New York Times, Friday, September 6, 2024

Author:
Adrian Johnson
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
20-Across : Compete in a Summer Olympic sport
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Adrian Johnson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 3, (1 triple stack) This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Johnson. Friday freshness: 8%
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© 2024, The New York Times9/6/24 ( No. 27,331 )
Across
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Mollycoddle : BABY
5
They often have multiple horns : SKABANDS
13
Spy's assumption : ALIAS
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One might be reached at a summit : PEACEDEAL
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Part of the military brass? : BUGLE
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Intensely focused : INTHEZONE
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Hyperbolic ordinal : UMPTEENTH
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Compete in a Summer Olympic sport : FENCE
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Claim in court : HARM
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Peke's squeak : YIP
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Something made just for show? : SET
25
Agcy. that helps start-ups : SBA
27
Keir Starmer and others, for short : PMS
30
Emily's List, e.g., informally : PAC
32
Rembrandt and Sargent, notably : PORTRAITARTISTS
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"Much appreciated" : ITMEANSALOTTOME
40
Line from a blame-shifter : THATWASNTMYIDEA
41
A split one may need trimming : END
42
Garden swimmer : KOI
43
"Go to the ___, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise": Proverbs 6:6 : ANT
44
Faux finish? : PAS
47
Where the malleus and incus bones are found : EAR
49
Jerry's car of choice on "Seinfeld" : SAAB
52
Pangolin scales, functionally : ARMOR
54
Transient : EPHEMERAL
59
Youth-centric magazine spinoff : TEENVOGUE
61
Subject of the classic song lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" : IRENE
62
Competition with many missions : SPACERACE
63
Roman goddess of childbirth : DIANA
64
Where one person's trash is another's treasure : YARDSALE
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Unsullied environment : EDEN
Down
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Hindu gentleman : BABU
2
Booster, perhaps : ALUM
3
Powerful D.C. lobby, informally : BIGPHARMA
4
Crimean town in 1945 headlines : YALTA
5
In transit : SENT
6
Comedian Griffin : KATHY
7
Frankfurter's cry : ACH
8
Part of a slider : BEEFPATTY
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Shipbuilder's tool : ADZE
10
Crayola's atomic tangerine and shocking pink, e.g. : NEONS
11
Chicken or mashed potato : DANCE
12
Nasty fall? : SLEET
14
Nostradamus, supposedly : SEER
15
Certain chess tactic : PIN
19
Deep-fried Latin American fare : EMPANADA
23
Swear words? : IPROMISE
25
What female llamas do to show disinterest in a mate : SPIT
26
"Ice cream or cake?" response, perhaps : BOTH
28
White peg, in Battleship : MISS
29
Was awful : STANK
31
"___ Never Sleeps" (banking slogan) : CITI
33
Spot for a toque : TETE
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Things touched by touchy topics : RAWNERVES
35
Bajo's opposite : ALTO
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It's leavened with sour milk : SODABREAD
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Bootlegger busters : TMEN
38
"Take a ___" : SEAT
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Con target : PATSY
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Relative of a pupusa : AREPA
46
Slander : SMEAR
48
Grand : REGAL
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Surrounded by : AMID
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Treetop dwelling : AERIE
53
Ready for a drive, perhaps? : ONCD
55
Shade akin to mauve : PUCE
56
Giggle syllable : HEE
57
Burrell of the Food Network : ANNE
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Tend (toward) : LEAN
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"Kia ___" (New Zealand greeting) : ORA

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