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New York Times, Thursday, February 15, 2024

Author:
Teddy Katz and Rich Katz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
50-Down : Life of ___
TotalDebutCollabs
12/15/20241
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0000100
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11112%
Teddy Katz
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51/29/20233/27/20241
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3001100
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.642750%
Rich Katz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 41 Spans: 1 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Katz. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Katz. Thursday freshness: 4%
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© 2024, The New York Times2/15/24 ( No. 27,127 )
Across
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Throw in : ADD
4
Not fixable, as an error : FATAL
9
Group whose full name translates as "Bulletproof Boy Scouts" : BTS
12
Hit or miss, perhaps : VERB
14
It makes you "dance down the street with a cloud at your feet," in a 1953 hit : AMORE
15
Red ___ (serving at a Carolina barbecue) : SLAW
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People also known as the Cat Nation : ERIE
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Powered down, in a way : DIED
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"The pause that refreshes" sloganeer, once : COKE
19
Disturb, in a way : RILE
21
Bill supporting public television : NYE
22
Told where to go, say : CUED
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Use X-ray vision on : SEEINTO
25
Graceful : LISSOME
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Make love? : ENDEAR
28
So-called "missing links" : APEMEN
29
Chignon, for one : BUN
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In the past : AGO
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Risky wager ... with a hint to the letters in this puzzle's circled squares : DOUBLEORNOTHING
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State in debate : ARGUE
42
Phenomenon nicknamed "Karl" in San Francisco : FOG
43
Biblical site of a burning bush : SINAI
44
Soft rock : TALC
45
Doctor for kids : SEUSS
47
Cleans (up) : MOPS
48
Olympic champion who said he threw his gold medal into the Ohio River : ALI
49
Garden party annoyance, colloquially : SKEETER
51
Spider web, effectively : NET
52
Part of a pen name? : EPI
53
Philanthropy : AID
55
Characteristic of video poker, lottos and casinos : LONGOS
59
Results of some dating app matches : FLINGS
63
Hoodwink : SNOOKER
64
Fat substitute : OLESTRA
65
Second of five? : DOTTEDI
66
Totally pumped : PSYCHED
Down
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Disinclined : AVERSE
2
Response to "Merci" : DERIEN
3
Sat on a clothesline, say : DRIED
4
This too shall pass : FAD
5
Kind of acid : AMINO
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___ gun : TOY
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Dizzy : AREEL
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Was up : LED
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Flower : BLOOM
10
"I want to go with you!" : TAKEME
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Nation with a four-century "Viking Age" : SWEDEN
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Controvert : BELIE
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Italian apology : SCUSE
20
Permit : ENABLE
22
Hundos : CSPOTS
24
Approved on PolitiFact, say : TRUE
26
Speaker of the line "I follow him to serve my turn upon him" : IAGO
30
Landlord-pays-broker, in rental lingo : NOFEE
31
Existential unease : ANGST
32
Word with bank or base : DATA
33
Not written : ORAL
34
Jamaican tangelo : UGLI
35
N.F.C. South pro : BUC
36
Degenerate : ROUE
37
Meaning of the Italian "lui" or German "ihn" : HIM
38
Aware of : INON
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Part of yourself that you can't see without two mirrors : NAPE
40
Essence : GIST
45
Careened across snow, maybe : SKIED
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Sleek ocean swimmers : SEALS
49
Broke one's silence : SPOKE
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Life of ___ : RILEY
52
Impressive showbiz quartet : EGOT
54
CD component : DISC
55
"Windowpane" : LSD
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Plastic ___ Band : ONO
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"I meant that sarcastically" : NOT
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Title of respect : SRI
59
Stylish dresser : FOP
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Degree in math? : NTH
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Test for a future Ph.D. : GRE
62
Blue : SAD

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