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Growth Spurts

New York Times, Sunday, November 26, 2023

Author:
Adam Wagner and Michael Lieberman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
101-Down : Nickname for a muscly Disney protagonist
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Rows: 22, Columns: 21 Words: 143, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 17 for Mr. Wagner. This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Lieberman. Sunday freshness: 92%
Will Shortz notes:
Adam Wagner, of Oakland, Calif., is a creative lead at Patreon, the crowdfunding site for content creators. Michael Lieberman, of Washington, D.C., is an attorney at Fairmark Partners, a ... read more
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© 2023, The New York Times11/26/23 ( No. 27,046 )
Across
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Sweeties : BAES
5
Heaven on earth, to the ancient Greeks : ARCADIA
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International pizza chain founded in Brooklyn : SBARRO
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Pipsqueak : RUNT
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"We're not ready to joke about this yet?" : TOOSOON
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Caps that lack brims : BEANIES
21
Apt name for a Whirlpool salesman? : EDDY
22
Trying to get a rise out of : BAITING
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Gut : BELLYFAT
24
Deserved : WELLEARNED
26
"Don't believe one word of that!" : ITSALLALIE
28
Visibly scornful : SNEERY
29
Reptile with a big bite, informally : CROC
31
Surprise and delight : AMUSE
32
Slip up : ERR
33
One of the seven in "Se7en" : SIN
34
Agcy. that oversees the Secret Service : DHS
35
One's natural habitat : HOMETURF
38
Sequin-covered undergarment popularized by Lady Gaga : DISCOBRA
41
Permitted : LICIT
42
Place to rest your head : PILLOW
46
Musician Parks or Guthrie : ARLO
47
___ cit. (footnote abbr.) : LOC
48
They're just over two feet : ANKLES
50
Lake on the Malawi/Mozambique border : NYASA
51
Subatomic particle : MUON
52
Release, as a trailer : UNHITCH
54
Campus military grp. : ROTC
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"Your" of yore : THY
57
"Monday Night Football With Peyton & ___" : ELI
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"The results ___ ..." : AREIN
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Japanese "yes" : HAI
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Showy flowers native to Mexico : DAHLIAS
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Thrills : SENDS
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Political org. with a quadrennial convention : DNC
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Website with info about the stars : IMDB
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Well, in both French and Spanish : BIEN
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Get by : COPE
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"Top Chef" judge Simmons : GAIL
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Bother, with "at" : EAT
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Classic name in wafers : NECCO
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One who doesn't have a prayer? : ATHEIST
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Producer of sketches, in brief : SNL
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Addis ___ : ABABA
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When doubled, fake laugh : HAR
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"Yellowjackets" network, for short : SHO
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Subscribe again : REUP
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Fox hunting shout : TALLYHO
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Where the proverbial buck stops : HERE
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Actress Hedren : TIPPI
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Mississippi city in a Neil Simon title : BILOXI
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Marathoner's wear : BIB
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World capital near the 60th parallel : OSLO
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How a Broadway star might break out : INSONG
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What a stiffed server receives : NOTIP
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Football rival of the Brigham Young Cougars : UTAHUTES
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20-sided shape : ICOSAGON
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Question of introspection : AMI
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Upper-left keyboard key : ESC
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Fertility lab supply : OVA
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Most mountainous Caribbean nation : HAITI
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Cry of faux-surprise : GASP
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French brothers : FRERES
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Reasons to wear socks post-vacation : SANDALTANS
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Resort offering that might include a lift ticket : SKIPACKAGE
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Ones catching waves? : ANTENNAS
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"Impossible!" : ICANNOT
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Poet Pound : EZRA
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Behind : KEISTER
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One might improve a pupil's performance : MONOCLE
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Hurl with gusto, in Gen Z slang : YEET
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One of a record-setting 3,234 for Sue Bird : ASSIST
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Wraps up in fabric : SWATHES
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Some old jets, for short : SSTS
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Pub orders : BREWS
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"Autumn Song" poet : AUDEN
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Barbecue buffet offering? : ENDLESSLOINCHOPS
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Princess Di or Prince, once : STYLEICON
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In check : ATBAY
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Sound from a den : ROAR
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Invent the sound of a cash register? : COINCHACHING
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Fall blooms : ASTERS
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1982 Stevie Wonder hit : DOIDO
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It's never free of charge : ION
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Home services website : ANGI
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Fully divests one's stake : SELLSUP
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Yao Ming, before joining the N.B.A.? : BALLERINCHINA
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Actress Taylor-Joy : ANYA
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Search (through) : RIFLE
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Show again : REAIR
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Big kitchen brand : OSTER
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Doozy : BEAUT
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Detector of nonsense, informally : BSMETER
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Toymaker Rubik : ERNO
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Language that gave us "mulligatawny" and "patchouli" : TAMIL
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Peruvian road sign? : CHINCHILLAXING
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Spoke monotonously : DRONED
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English philosopher William of ___ : OCKHAM
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Go by air : FLY
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Shirley Bassey and Agatha Christie, for two : DAMES
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Gloater's words : IRULE
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Photo editing option : BLUR
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Midback muscle : LAT
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Reasons that South American furniture stores have super-long lines? : LATINCHESTCRAZES
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Org. concerned with plant-based well-being? : OSHA
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Methods : WAYS
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Nursery purchase : SOD
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Historic quinoa cultivators : INCAS
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Amount owed : TAB
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Things like "What do we want?" "Headache relief!" "When do we want it?" "Now!"? : ASPIRINCHANTS
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Best-case : IDEAL
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California congresswoman Barbara : LEE
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Fawn's mother : DOE
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Affectionate squeeze of an infant's bottom? : BABYBUMPINCH
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Language suffix : ESE
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Altogether : INTOTO
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Setting for many Gauguin works : TAHITI
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The ___ Honors (annual picture book awards) : CARLE
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Black-and-white cookies : OREOS
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Italian wine region : ASTI
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Flimsy : THIN
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Where you might get into hot water : TUB
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Bubble tea : BOBA
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Things that kids are encouraged to break : PINATAS
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Sass : LIP
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Items exchanged when a relationship gets serious : HOUSEKEYS
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Polynesian food : POI
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Access an account : LOGIN
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Bit of soccer or hockey equipment : GOALNET
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Nickname for a muscly Disney protagonist : HERC
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Plucked instrument : SITAR
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Start of a famous Kennedy quote : ASKNOT
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Tennis's Naomi : OSAKA
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Roof toppers : VANES
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The opposition : ANTIS
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Yoga pose : ASANA
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Destinies : FATES
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Everglades wader : EGRET
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Pew, pew, pew! : SEATS
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Comedian Lydic of "The Daily Show" : DESI
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Virtual replications, for short : SIMS
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North or south end : POLE
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One might be spotted on a farm : COW

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