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New York Times, Thursday, March 28, 2024

Author:
Dominic Grillo
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
51-Down : Olympic marathon powerhouse
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Dominic Grillo

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 77, Blocks: 46 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 1 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Grillo. Thursday freshness: 64%
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© 2024, The New York Times3/28/24 ( No. 27,169 )
Across
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Enhance, in a way : PAD
4
Is against : ABUTS
9
Lead-in to -genesis : EPI
12
A famous one begins "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" : ODE
13
Dustin's sweetheart on "Stranger Things" : SUZIE
14
Palindromic family member : MOM
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O-O-O part : TAC
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Queen consort starting in 2022 : CAMILLA
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Imitated : DID
19
What might come between May and December? : AGEGAP
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Not widely known : ARCANE
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Part of a furniture joint : TENON
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Specialist in family medicine, in brief : PCP
27
Shade-tolerant perennial : HOSTA
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Bone-related prefix : OSTEO
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"Woo-___!" : HOO
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Made a contented sound : AAHED
31
Bank deposits? : SEDIMENTS
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National park that's home to the Narrows : ZION
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Synonym found after deleting half the letters of EXHILARATE : ELATE
38
Taiwanese president ___ Ing-wen : TSAI
42
Skinny : INFO
43
Bishop's topper, to Brits : MITRE
44
Feels bad : AILS
45
"Be mindful when clicking," in brief : NSFW
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Shaped like this puzzle's subject : OVOID
47
Queer community inits. : LGBT
48
Currency once pegged to the U.S. dollar : CHINESEYUAN
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Enthusiastic : KEEN
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"Good answer!" : YES
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Colorless : DRAB
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Apple Music heading : GENRES
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"The Story of ___" (1975 film by François Truffaut) : ADELEH
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Like the parts of this puzzle's toy, as depicted throughout the grid : INTERCHANGEABLE
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"Later!" : BYE
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Later : TARDIER
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Iberian greeting : OLA
66
Where tabs are kept : BAR
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It flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean : RHONE
68
Made one's mark? : XED
Down
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With 58-Down, classic toy that dropped gendered titles in 2021 : POTATO
2
"Better late than never" and "Better safe than sorry" : ADAGES
3
Dressed, say : DECENT
4
Urgent letters : ASAP
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Bring down, with "out" : BUM
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Rap's Lil ___ Vert : UZI
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Dusk-dawn connector : TIL
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Ward of Hollywood : SELA
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— : EMDASH
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Kind of shoe for a ballerina : POINTE
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Cry from a goner : IMDEAD
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Equipment for an Olympic slalom or sprint : CANOE
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Nirvana achiever : ARHAT
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Makes little progress : GOESNOWHERE
22
The Outer Banks or the Jersey Shore, e.g. : COASTALAREA
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Winner of 10 World Series of Poker bracelets : PHILIVEY
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Deeply asleep, hyperbolically : COMATOSE
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They can be epic or lyric : POETRIES
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Exceptionally driven sort : DEMON
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Wanting : NEEDY
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Certain red, for short : ZIN
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Line-skipping assets : INS
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Slightly misaligned : OFFCENTER
39
Building that maintains train operations : SIGNALBOX
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Bishop's vestment : ALB
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Natural finish? : IST
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Not quick to react : INERT
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Source of milk : UDDER
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Olympic marathon powerhouse : KENYA
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Detroit's ___ Isle Park : BELLE
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Songwriter Barry who once had six consecutive #1 hits : GIBB
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Leave a mark : SCAR
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Pulitzer-winning author whose name is found in nonconsecutive letters of "page turner" : AGEE
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See 1-Down : HEAD
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Former title for 16-Across: Abbr. : HRH
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Bother : ADO
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Diarist Anaïs : NIN

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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