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Working the Night Shift

New York Times, Sunday, October 27, 2024

Author:
Jeffrey Martinovic and Jeff Chen
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
81-Down : Nearly succeeded … but there's a catch!
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Jeff Chen

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 141, Blocks: 79 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Martinovic. This is puzzle # 156 for Mr. Chen. Sunday freshness: 82%
Joel Fagliano notes:
Jeffrey Martinovic is a mechanical engineering student at Western University in London, Ontario. Jeff Chen, of Seattle, is a writer and longtime Times crossword contributor. They ... read more
Constructor notes:
Jeffrey: The basic idea for this puzzle (fittingly) came to me during a meeting last summer, while I was working for a professor in my school's astronomy department. Before long, Jeff and ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

Lunar phases: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent, new moon.

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© 2024, The New York Times10/27/24 ( No. 27,382 )
Across
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Exams first administered in 1926 : SATS
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View from St. Moritz : ALPS
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"I thought you were my friend!?" : ETTU
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Load of laundry : WASH
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Jeweler's unit : KARAT
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Complete journey … or what 84-Down makes in this puzzle? : ROUNDTRIP
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Woodworker's spinner : LATHE
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Like Yeats, but not Keats : IRISH
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Aids in car buying : AUTOLOANS
24
Remove from packaging : UNBOX
25
Complete some reps : DOASET
27
In the red : OWING
28
Do-to-do delivery? : OCTAVE
29
Joan Cusack and Robert Downey Jr. each spent one season on it, for short : SNL
30
Certain court documents : BRIEFS
33
In which 1 + 1 equals 10 : BINARY
36
Former senator Kennedy : TED
37
Completing a cycle, like 84-Down in this puzzle? : GOINGFULLCIRCLE
40
"Battle Hymn of the Republic," for one : WARSONG
42
Borrower's note : IOU
43
Like many verification codes : EMAILED
46
Impressively tough, in slang : BADASS
47
Crocheting template : PATTERN
50
Re-lease? : SUBLET
52
Nickname for a 2000s Yankee slugger : AROD
53
Montreal hockey player, to fans : HAB
54
Check scanner, for short : ATM
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A.P.R.-lowering option : REFI
57
A.P., Reuters, etc. : WIRES
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Hudson Bay or the Caspian : INLANDSEA
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Hair-lightening brand : SUNIN
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Sherlock Holmes, e.g. : LONDONER
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Apt central entry for this puzzle : EARTH
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The Lone Ranger, to Tonto : KEMOSABE
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Gender-neutral possessive : ONES
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Possesses : HAS
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Office message : MEMO
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Millimeter-wide photo used for conveying secret messages : MICRODOT
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Pants, informally : BRITCHES
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Roofed porch : LANAI
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Late-night sub, say : GUESTHOST
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Garfield's predecessor : HAYES
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Weary cry : ICANTGOON
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Company whose name ends in an exclamation point : YAHOO
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Steak option in northern Canada : MOOSEMEAT
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Celebrity chef Hussain who won "The Great British Bake Off" : NADIYA
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However : YET
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Fit to serve, in a way : EDIBLE
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Ireland, poetically : ERIN
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Newlyweds' booking : HONEYMOONSUITE
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Behind : LATE
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Gives a lot of attention, with "on" : DOTES
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Old ___, Conn. : LYME
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Supermodel with a palindromic name : EMME
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___ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state : ELLEN
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"What have we here!" : OOH
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"They'll grow out of that" … or a description of eight squares in this puzzle : ITSJUSTAPHASE
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Every member of the C.I.A.'s K-9 unit : LAB
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"___ Affaire de Femmes" (1988 French classic) : UNE
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It can be quite sappy : TREE
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Half of an exchange : TAT
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"Let's do it!" : IMIN
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Texter's "As I see it …" : IMO
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Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons : TSR
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Means of getting unstuck : HINT
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Black ___ : OPS
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Margaret Thatcher, e.g. : TORY
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Chiding sound : TSK
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Hits a rough patch, perhaps : SKIDS
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Judge seen on a bench : AARON
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Major ordeal : TRIAL
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Lip : SASS
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Constellation in the southern sky : ARA
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Reed or Rawls : LOU
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Delay : PUTOFF
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Sledder's outfit : SNOWSUIT
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Color named for a famed prep school : ETONBLUE
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Oh-so-regrettable : TRAGIC
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What's mined in a stannary : TIN
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Big name in shipping : UPS
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Wish list item : WANT
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Time "up" : ATBAT
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Act rudely in a crowd : SHOVE
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Did some spelling? : HEXED
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Jersey-born rock icon, familiarly : THEBOSS
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Roman numeral that anagrams to part of the eye : DLI
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"Charlie's Angels" actress : LUCYLIU
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Charlie's Angels and others : TRIOS
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Their dorsal fins can reach six feet in height : ORCAS
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Stopover : INN
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Vessel for an omelet : EGGPAN
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Diminuendo al ___ ("fade to nothingness," on a score) : NIENTE
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Slot machine lever : ARM
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Marked : GRADED
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Property unit : LOT
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Europe's highest volcano : ELBRUS
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Nintendo antagonist in purple overalls : WARIO
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Decorate : ADORN
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First name on the Supreme Court : ELENA
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Lifesaving device, for short : DEFIB
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Cry loudly : BAWL
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Skilled : ABLE
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Symptom of an allergic reaction : RASH
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Fork part : TINE
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Mob enforcer : HIREDGOON
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Add milk to a customer's coffee, in diner lingo : MAKEITMOO
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Feature of James Earl Jones's voice : SONORITY
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"That hits the spot!" : AAH
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Gun lobby org. : NRA
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Some N.F.L. linemen, in brief : DTS
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Gave a big kiss : SMOOCHED
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Big name in experimental music : ENO
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CPR expert : EMT
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Insignificant amount : SOU
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"___ Robinson" (Simon & Garfunkel hit) : MRS
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Cookies made with ground almond or coconut : MACAROONS
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Highly agitated : INADITHER
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Ain't that the tooth! : CANINE
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Crime novelist Josephine : TEY
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Sound from beneath a sheet : BOO
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Skywalker portrayer : HAMILL
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Guesstimate : EYEBALLIT
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Elite naval groups : SEALTEAMS
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Nearly succeeded … but there's a catch! : LINEDOUT
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Green-light : SAYYESTO
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This puzzle's subject : THEMOON
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Places for grilling : HOTSEATS
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Horned antelope of southern Africa : STEENBOK
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Cry of frustration : GAH
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"You follow?" : SEE
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Elizabeth of "WandaVision" : OLSEN
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A.F.C. East player : NYJET
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Bird that's incapable of walking backward : EMU
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Ballpark figure : UMP
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Cry in a laser tag arena : IMHIT
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Spanish "I love you" : TEAMO
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Jedi foe : SITH
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Nonsense word in a playground rhyme : EENY
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Prefix with glyceride : TRI
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Gentle attention-getter : TAP
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Polite term of address : SIR

Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 7 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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