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New York Times, Monday, December 9, 2024

Author:
Elliot Caroll
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
5-Down : 2022 dark comedy that satirized haute cuisine
TotalDebut
112/9/2024
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Elliot Caroll

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQVW} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Caroll. Monday freshness: 76%
Jim Horne notes:

Ms. Caroll ends her Wordplay comments with, "If you'll be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal." 😊

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© 2024, The New York Times12/9/24 ( No. 27,425 )
Across
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Discontinued Apple music player : IPOD
5
Baker's amts. : TSPS
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Iranian language : FARSI
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Shania Twain's "That Don't Impress Me ___" : MUCH
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Backboard attachment : HOOP
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"Break the ice" or "break a leg" : IDIOM
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"Guilty," e.g. : PLEA
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Upper hand : EDGE
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Accept eagerly : LAPUP
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Cocktail made with Southern Comfort, sloe gin, amaretto and orange juice : ALABAMASLAMMER
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Give a positive or negative charge : IONIZE
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Flat-screen TV type, for short : LCD
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Drs.' colleagues : RNS
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Subdivision : UNIT
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Relax, or a place to relax : LOUNGE
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Crinkly kitchen wrap : ALUMINUMFOIL
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Prank on the public : HOAX
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Actor Daniel ___ Kim : DAE
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Assns. : ORGS
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Writer, director and co-star of "Defending Your Life," 1991 : ALBERTBROOKS
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Capital of the Bahamas : NASSAU
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Green Gables girl : ANNE
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Passé : OLD
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Stephen Colbert's network : CBS
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___ Babies (stuffed toys) : BEANIE
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1986 hit song for Paul Simon ... or an instruction from the starts of 20-, 34- and 41-Across? : YOUCANCALLMEAL
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Pianist's pace : TEMPO
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Predator sometimes called the "wolf of the sea" : ORCA
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"To write is human, to ___ is divine": Stephen King : EDIT
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$100, in slang : HUNDO
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Humdrum routines : RUTS
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Grp. whose logo features an orbiting spacecraft : NASA
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The "U" of 22-Down : UNION
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Sign in a parking garage : EXIT
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Some food additives : DYES
Down
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Cause damage to : IMPAIR
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Like many comfy pants : PULLON
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Vast blue expanses : OCEANS
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Abu ___ : DHABI
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2022 dark comedy that satirized haute cuisine : THEMENU
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Bubbly beverage : SODA
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Collectible cardboard caps of the 1990s : POGS
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Compete in a bee : SPELL
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The movie industry : FILMDOM
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Politician Schiff or Kinzinger : ADAM
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Like yellow bananas : RIPE
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Like lemons : SOUR
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Little hell-raiser : IMP
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Blue, in Spanish : AZUL
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Free speech grp. : ACLU
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Online source for cinephiles : IMDB
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Bejeweled topper : TIARA
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Sci-fi vehicles : UFOS
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"We can neither confirm ___ deny that this is our first tweet" (how @CIA opened its Twitter account) : NOR
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Short-term engagement : GIG
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Chi-town trains : ELS
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x and y, on a graph : AXES
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Highlighter-colored : NEON
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Chinese dynasty during which paper was invented : HAN
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Hello, in Portuguese : OLA
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Six-pack muscles : ABS
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Trash-loving critter : RACCOON
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What's deep in a pit? : TUBA
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Subjected to public condemnation, in modern slang : ONBLAST
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Ship's spine : KEEL
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Eventually : ONEDAY
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Work together (with) : LIAISE
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These upper- and lowercase Greek letters: Δ δ : DELTAS
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Apt rhyme for "bore" : SNORE
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Change, as a bill or a will : AMEND
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Steven ___, Oscar-nominated actor for "Minari" : YEUN
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Prefix meaning "everything" : OMNI
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Hairstyle that's swept : UPDO
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Pivotal point : CRUX
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Play opener : ACTI
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Two after Tue. : THU

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