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New York Times, Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Author:
Victor Barocas
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Down : Designed with passageways
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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Victor Barocas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QW} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Barocas. Tuesday freshness: 66%
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© 2024, The New York Times2/6/24 ( No. 27,118 )
Across
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Book after II Chronicles : EZRA
5
Stone on a set : EMMA
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Heat almost to the point of boiling : SCALD
14
Bad person to trust : LIAR
15
Close at hand : NEAR
16
Actress Shire of "Rocky" : TALIA
17
*Large container for cinnamon or coriander? : SPICEDRUM
19
Sign up for, as a contest : ENTER
20
Good qualities : ASSETS
21
*Gist of a Dear John letter? : LOVEDONE
23
Able is he and he is Elba : IDRIS
25
Depend (on) : RELY
26
Number for John Tyler (or Alexander Hamilton) : TEN
28
Tiny matter? : ATOM
30
Place back on the market, say : RELIST
34
Not yet up : INBED
36
Laundry unit : LOAD
38
Pot starter : ANTE
39
*Play matchmaker? : FORGEDALLIANCES
42
Lose steam : FLAG
43
Cookie in a Dairy Queen Blizzard : OREO
44
Perfect : IDEAL
45
Seasonal workers in red suits : SANTAS
47
Recovers some yards? : SODS
49
Deal that protects company secrets, for short : NDA
50
Midmonth date : IDES
52
Boneless steakhouse order : FILET
54
*Tinkling racket on a windy day? : CHIMEDIN
58
Jog the memory of : REMIND
61
Positive Instagram responses : LIKES
62
Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues : MOVEDOVER
64
Unconcealed : OVERT
65
Grp. that Qatar left in 2019 : OPEC
66
Rapper Wyclef : JEAN
67
Pick on, in a way : TEASE
68
On deck : NEXT
69
Analogy words : ISTO
Down
1
Woman's name that's also the first four letters of a Central American country name : ELSA
2
Closes, as a fly : ZIPS
3
Kellogg's cereal with a purple box : RAISINBRAN
4
Followed a curved path : ARCED
5
Breaks off a relationship : ENDSIT
6
Lead-in to maid or man : MER
7
Viciously attack : MAUL
8
Brink's truck feature : ARMOR
9
1980s TV role for Brosnan : STEELE
10
Game with Lollipop Woods and Gumdrop Mountains : CANDYLAND
11
Kind of sax : ALTO
12
Lender's security : LIEN
13
Have the courage : DARE
18
Online financial company : ETRADE
22
"Il Trovatore" composer : VERDI
24
Like some panels and flares : SOLAR
26
Dust-ups : TIFFS
27
"___ Holmes" (streaming film about Sherlock's sister) : ENOLA
29
Earthworm hunters : MOLES
31
Deal sweeteners : INCENTIVES
32
Stand in good ___ : STEAD
33
Automaker with a Cybertruck : TESLA
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Kitchen counters? : EGGTIMERS
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Standoffish : ALOOF
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Gave a shot, say : DOSED
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Designed with passageways : AISLED
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"___ Fideles" : ADESTE
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To the point : DIRECT
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"Simple" nursery rhyme character : SIMON
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Nontext component of a text : EMOJI
54
Form lumps : CLOT
55
Bee complex : HIVE
56
Retail giant whose first store opened in Älmhult, Sweden : IKEA
57
"Uh-uh" : NOPE
59
Lacking clutter : NEAT
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Foe of Mr. Bond : DRNO
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Cause trouble for : VEX

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