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New York Times, Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Author:
Aimee Lucido
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
6-Down : Vegetable with a purple top
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Aimee Lucido

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 33 Missing: {FVXZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Ms. Lucido. Wednesday freshness: 99%
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© 2023, The New York Times10/25/23 ( No. 27,014 )
Across
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1982 sci-fi film with a 2010 sequel : TRON
5
Basketball great Erving, to fans : DRJ
8
Lingo : JARGON
14
Materialize : COMETRUE
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Six Nations people : ONEIDA
17
Half of a 1990s-2000s rock duo with six Grammys : MEGWHITE
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Hit hard : HAMMER
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One sharing school drop-off duties, maybe : COPARENT
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Director Jean-___ Godard : LUC
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Church fixture : ORGAN
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Nickname for singer Justin, with "the" : BIEB
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Purposes : AIMS
27
Unsmiling in demeanor : DOUR
28
Return payments? : RANSOMS
30
WeChat chats, in brief : IMS
31
Online news aggregator founded in 2004 : DIGG
32
Leader prominent in the 1956 Suez Crisis : NASSER
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Poetic form featuring lexical repetition rather than rhyme : SESTINA
38
Carve (away) : WHITTLE
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Fiddling (with) : TOYING
40
Setting for "The King and I" : SIAM
41
German 53-Across : OMA
42
Number one focus? : EGOTISM
44
Gave prompt attention? : CUED
45
Some summer cookouts, informally : BBQS
48
Splinter group : SECT
49
Petrol measure : LITRE
50
"___ rock!" : YOU
51
Extended form of surveillance : STAKEOUT
53
Nana : GRAMMA
55
Display of skill one might request from 17-Across and 8- and 28-Down … depicted literally four times in this puzzle : DRUMROLL
59
Scandal, to a career, say : UNDOER
60
John Wayne and Ian Fleming, for two : AIRPORTS
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Doctor who lent his name to a therapeutic system : MESMER
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"___ queen!" : YAS
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It's a must : NEED
Down
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Channel for vintage film buffs : TCM
2
Caviar : ROE
3
"WHOA!" : OMG
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Stereotypical game show prize : NEWCAR
5
Boring person : DRIP
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Vegetable with a purple top : RUTABAGA
7
Ballpark fare served with raspberries? : JEERING
8
Member of Led Zeppelin : JOHNBONHAM
9
Vet school subj. : ANAT
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Dreamy sleep stage : REM
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Dwarfs' representative in the Fellowship of the Ring : GIMLI
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Ancient Greek theater : ODEUM
13
Deal breakers, informally? : NARCS
15
Read-a-___ : THON
20
Many M.I.T. grads: Abbr. : EES
22
Olds, Keats or Shelley : ODIST
23
Star-crossed Montague : ROMEO
24
Dress (up) : GUSSY
26
Helper: Abbr. : ASST
28
One of the Fab Four : RINGOSTARR
29
Badly hurt : MAIM
31
Fender blemish : DING
33
Hearty draft pick : STOUT
34
First name in "wabbit" hunting : ELMER
35
Duane ___ (drugstore chain) : READE
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Fastens with string : TIES
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Flowering plant that lent its name to a lane on "Desperate Housewives" : WISTERIA
40
Short time off work : SICKDAY
43
Something "spilled" by a gossip : TEA
44
Lemonlike fruit : CITRON
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"I mean it!," quaintly : BYGUM
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Carried along : BORNE
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Targets of squats, informally : QUADS
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Sugar serving : LUMP
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Genial boatswain in "Peter Pan" : SMEE
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Not just mine : OURS
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Stereotypical word in a heart tattoo : MOM
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Mine yield : ORE
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Letters in the corner of a phone screen : LTE
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Drug that's "dropped" : LSD

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