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Punch Lines

New York Times, Sunday, February 4, 2024

Author:
Daniel Grinberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
10-Down : Shake slightly
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Daniel Grinberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Grinberg. Sunday freshness: 32%
Will Shortz notes:
Daniel Grinberg, of Philadelphia, researches user experience for a utility company. This is his fifth crossword for The Times. It was inspired at a party when he heard someone with a new ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times2/4/24 ( No. 27,116 )
Across
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Pink, purple and blue Pride display, familiarly : BIFLAG
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Hound : NAG
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Kind of opening : JOB
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Frontwoman for the Pussycats : JOSIE
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Nipple rings : AREOLAE
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Target of an inventory scan : BARCODE
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Acting like : APING
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Fault line? : GUILTYASCHARGED
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Qualifier for a date : CIRCA
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Olaf's creator in "Frozen" : ELSA
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Nickname that drops "An-" : DRE
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A gig has a thousand of these : MEGS
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Permitted : OKAYED
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Permitted : LET
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Fine line? : CANTCOMPLAIN
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Atomic number of neon : TEN
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Preserves things? : JARS
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Shaped like a kiwifruit : OVATE
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Processes : DIGESTS
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___ attachment : EMAIL
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Anatomical stabilizer : TOE
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The Green Hornet's assistant : KATO
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Not down, in a way : SIP
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Fishing line? : TELLMEIMPRETTY
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Mediterranean morsel : OLIVE
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Get just right : NAIL
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Long-running police procedural, for short : NCIS
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Catalan artist Joan : MIRO
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Thought the world of : ADORED
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" setting : ALABAMA
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Match well with : BEFIT
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First color TV manufacturer : RCA
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Subway line? : SIXINCHORFOOTLONG
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Tittle : DOT
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1970s-'80s Supreme Court justice ___ F. Powell Jr. : LEWIS
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Scams : RIPSOFF
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With an eager spirit : GAMELY
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Landed : ALIT
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Flying formations : VEES
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March ___ : HARE
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South American grassland : LLANO
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Assembly line? : PLEASEBESEATED
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Variety : ILK
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Boxing stats : TKOS
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Celestial shape : ORB
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British bottoms : ARSES
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Ladybugs and fireflies : BEETLES
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Some sports car features : TTOPS
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Currency replaced by the euro : MARK
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North American fish with toxic roe : GAR
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Power line? : YOURETHEBOSS
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Simple card game : WAR
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Groundskeeping equipment : MOWERS
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It's signed after a break : CAST
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Otherworldly creatures, for short : ETS
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Z, to Zeno : ZETA
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Illegal offering : BRIBE
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Subject line? : GODSAVETHEQUEEN
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Passage of rite? : AISLE
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Two outs left, in baseball : ONEAWAY
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Performed really badly : STUNKAT
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Timetable: Abbr. : SCHED
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"There's more to the story, right?" : AND
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"The Shining" prop : AXE
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Quakes : SEISMS
Down
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There's a hole in one : BAGEL
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Gloater's cry : IRULE
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One-named indie singer with the 2007 hit "1234" : FEIST
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Kinks hit that starts "I met her in a club down in old Soho" : LOLA
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Neighbor of Ctrl : ALT
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Sense of orientation : GAYDAR
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Peacock parent : NBC
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Exclamation of amazement : AAH
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Alternative to nana : GRAMMA
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Shake slightly : JOGGLE
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Ukraine's third most populous city : ODESA
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Where a lot of lying happens : BED
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Item in a trunk : JACK
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Post-surgery prescription : OPIATE
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Private line? : SIRYESSIR
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Motivator : INCENTIVE
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"Crikey!" : EGAD
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Brings in : EARNS
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Moved like a cat burglar : CREPT
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Word after dead or data : SET
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Volunteer's declaration : ONIT
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Soothe : CALM
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Communal housing arrangements : COOPS
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/, in math : OVER
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Director Lupino : IDA
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Co-founder of the Joining Forces initiative, with Michelle Obama : JILLBIDEN
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One role in a classic interrogation trope : GOODCOP
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Zoomed : SPED
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World Heritage Site in Sicily : ETNA
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Ground grain : MEAL
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Dame Edna, for Barry Humphries : ALIAS
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"Enough! I get the picture already!" : TMI
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Capital of Japan until 1868 : KYOTO
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Hostile state : ENMITY
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Volunteer's declaration : ICAN
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Like many retired professors : EMERITA
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Petty arguments : TIFFS
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TLC or Run-D.M.C. : TRIO
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Person of interest? : LOANSHARK
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HBO comedy about a sports agent : ARLISS
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Salamander named after an Aztec deity : AXOLOTL
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___ knife : BOWIE
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Gives a hand? : CLAPS
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Hot spot : HELL
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Genealogist's chart : TREE
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Kids and nannies : GOATS
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Liberated : FREE
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N.S.A. agents, e.g. : FEDS
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Superficial, in a way : GLIB
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Rich with metaphor : ALLEGORIC
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Party line? : MAKEAWISH
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What might lead to a bridge : VERSE
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Subside : EBB
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Second-year: Abbr. : SOPH
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Bunny ___ (photo prank) : EARS
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Janitor's ringful : KEYS
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Spanish "bear" : OSO
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Kind of clef : TREBLE
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Switched : TRADED
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Actress Thompson of "Westworld" : TESSA
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Canadian Tulip Festival location : OTTAWA
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Light-headed sorts? : MOTHS
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Selling points : ASSETS
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School name that sounds like a Canadian territory : UCONN
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Hip Hop Awards channel : BET
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Gestational metric : WEEKS
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First-stringers : ATEAM
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Posts in a rage, perhaps : RANTS
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Degrees for C.F.O.s : MBAS
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Bog plant : REED
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New Mexican tribe : ZUNI
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___-courtin' : GOA
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Shot in the arm, slangily : VAX
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Word after stink or pink : EYE
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What's what in Oaxaca : QUE

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