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New York Times, Friday, November 10, 2023

Author:
Kate Hawkins
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
11-Down : "I don't approve of what you're doing, but OK"
TotalDebutLatest
148/28/20208/16/2024
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Kate Hawkins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {GJQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 12 for Ms. Hawkins. Friday freshness: 10%
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© 2023, The New York Times11/10/23 ( No. 27,030 )
Across
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Not up to the job : UNFIT
6
"Butt out!," in brief : MYOB
10
Up to the job : ABLE
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Subtly damaging : PERNICIOUS
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Copy cat? : MEOW
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Drives around in circles, perhaps : DOESDONUTS
18
Pharmaceutical plant : ALOE
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Unified : ONE
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Low parts of an opera : BASSI
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Comic strip with a teenage protagonist : ZITS
22
Study : HITTHEBOOKS
25
"House of Games" writer/director : MAMET
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Cash in the music business : ROSANNE
29
Press : IRON
30
Little, in Lyon : PEU
31
Convent resident : SISTER
34
One who's been tapped on the shoulder : SIR
35
Installation in a children's play area : BALLPIT
37
Make ___ : HAY
38
Who says, in Shakespeare, "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look" : CAESAR
40
Start to charge? : DIS
41
Reserve : SAVE
42
Highland wear : TARTANS
44
Points to : CITES
45
Many a shop outside a national park : TOURISTTRAP
47
It's true! : FACT
48
Group often costumed in robes : CHOIR
49
Marvy : FAB
52
Hautbois, en anglais : OBOE
53
"Oh, grow up!" : REALMATURE
55
Terminus of the Appian Way : ROME
56
Potential source of interest : INVESTMENT
57
Word with pigeon or pointy : TOED
58
Confucius' "Book of ___" : ODES
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Walled-off divisions, metaphorically : SILOS
Down
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Bun, e.g. : UPDO
2
Like clothing worn to some '80s-themed parties : NEON
3
Available : FREE
4
Toeholds : INS
5
Morsel : TIDBIT
6
Renaissance faire performer such as a lutenist or juggler, perhaps : MINSTREL
7
"I love it, but it's too much" : YOUSHOULDNTHAVE
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Only about 10% of human bodies have these : OUTIES
9
Degs. with lab courses, often : BSS
10
Famed archers : AMAZONS
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"I don't approve of what you're doing, but OK" : BELIKETHAT
12
Makes off with the goods, in a way : LOOTS
13
___ milk : EWES
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Chesterfield, e.g. : COAT
22
Rooster, but not a rooster : HEN
23
Footing : BASIS
24
Taking care of things : ONIT
25
Abbr. at the end of a list : MISC
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Highlight of an opera : ARIA
27
"Stay tuned ..." : MORETOCOME
30
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — ___" (2014 film) : PARTI
32
Overhang : EAVE
33
Manhattan options : RYES
35
Former attorney general Bill : BARR
36
Doubloons : PISTOLES
39
Prepared, as green beans : SAUTEED
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Take in a little bit : SIP
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Rise : ASCEND
44
Units divided into 100 points : CARATS
45
Verboten : TABOO
46
Things on mason jars or racing cars : RIMS
47
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was written about one : FORT
49
Stoke : FUEL
50
River through Florence : ARNO
51
Things made of stakes? : BETS
53
Carnival location : RIO
54
"I didn't want to know that!" : TMI

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