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New York Times, Saturday, November 16, 2024

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
21-Down : Housemate, e.g.
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Peter Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 32 Missing: {GQVWX} This is puzzle # 130 for Mr. Gordon. Saturday freshness: 60%
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© 2024, The New York Times11/16/24 ( No. 27,402 )
Across
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Goober : DORK
5
Outlaws : BANS
9
Not deliberate : HASTY
14
Headquarters of Talofa Airways : APIASAMOA
16
Leads down the aisle at a wedding, informally : USHES
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Ballerina who popularized "The Nutcracker" : TALLCHIEF
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Sandbar : SHOAL
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Word on Saudi Arabia's flag : ALLAH
20
2002 movie with the tagline "Higher education just hit a new low" : SLACKERS
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A great deal : MUCH
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Revel noisily : ROISTER
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Angel hair topper? : HALO
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Place : SITE
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Element between platino and mercurio : ORO
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Big bands : JAZZORCHESTRAS
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Italian province on the Swiss border : COMO
33
Holy book, in one spelling : KORAN
34
Does a job for a summer? : ADDS
35
Phrase on ID tags : FAMOUSPOTATOES
38
Wordle score that elicits the message "Genius" : ONE
39
Pulse, e.g. : SEED
40
Veet rival : NAIR
41
Cold palate cleansers : SORBETS
43
About 91,500 are produced by a gal. of propane : BTUS
44
Goes green, maybe : FEELSILL
46
"___ Dragon" (1977 Disney film) : PETES
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Big dipper : LADLE
51
Like some asteroids : NEAREARTH
53
Hurdles for would-be doctors : ORALS
54
Is cautious : TAKESCARE
55
Represent : ACTAS
56
Piece with a point : OPED
57
Mind : HEED
Down
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Crunched stuff : DATA
2
___ Lee, activist who led the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday : OPAL
3
Small stream : RILL
4
Home to "a real pipperoo" of song : KALAMAZOO
5
Grinchy shout : BAH
6
Like participants in the rite of rumspringa : AMISH
7
Present time : NOEL
8
Something to wear while watching the game : SAFARIHAT
9
College basketball powerhouse : HUSKIES
10
Flicks, as a butt : ASHES
11
Food that can be prepared quickly : SHORTORDER
12
Buzzy promos : TEASERADS
13
Valentino competitor, for short : YSL
15
Woodstock artist : SCHULZ
21
Housemate, e.g. : COTENANT
23
Camping kits for preparing meals : COOKSETS
25
Host of "The Joy of Painting" : ROSS
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Continually criticized : HAMMEREDAT
27
Young haddock : SCROD
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Subject of New York City's first public statue of a woman (1915) : JOANOFARC
30
Enlists for, as an unwelcome task : ROPESINTO
31
Prime minister of Ireland : TAOISEACH
32
Corp. money managers : CFOS
36
Good-for-nothing : USELESS
37
Brownish grays : TAUPES
42
Model Hadid who wore a spray-on dress at a 2022 Paris fashion show : BELLA
43
Poet whose line "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" is quoted in "Bull Durham" : BLAKE
45
Antepenultimate word in a noted Neil Armstrong quote : LEAP
47
All-Star point guard Young : TRAE
48
Being, to Sartre : ETRE
49
Shake off : SHED
50
"Mahalo nui ___" (words from a grateful Hawaiian) : LOA
52
Like three-balls : RED

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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