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New York Times, Saturday, March 9, 2024

Author:
John Guzzetta
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
41-Down : Word with escape or escalator
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John Guzzetta

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 40 for Mr. Guzzetta. Saturday freshness: 42%
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© 2024, The New York Times3/9/24 ( No. 27,150 )
Across
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They often come in shoeboxes : DIORAMAS
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Key : ISLE
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Widespread rumors, in a portmanteau : INFODEMIC
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It's handled at a bar : STEIN
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Post-crisis baseline : NEWNORMAL
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Like the second movement of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony : LARGO
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Family nickname : GRAN
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"The ultimate form of free speech," to Denis Leary : COMEDY
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___ tape : VHS
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Streaked : STRIPY
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Not sit still : FIDGET
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Died down : EBBED
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Tony Stark or Jack Sparrow feature : GOATEE
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Meet : FIT
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MacGyvering : JURYRIGGING
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Gets less green, say : AGES
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Mathematical subgroup : COSET
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Puffed up : SMUG
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Possible response to "Did you find it?" : NOLUCKSOFAR
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Some records, informally : EPS
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Remington of 1980s TV : STEELE
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Actor Fitch of "This Is Us" : NILES
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As yet : TODATE
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Parts of LEDs : DIODES
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Berkeley, familiarly : CAL
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In working order : USABLE
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___-Saint-Michel, abbey site in France : MONT
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Flattens, in a way : IRONS
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Underlying reason : ROOTCAUSE
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Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of ___ March" : AUGIE
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Beyoncé's "Dangerously in Love" or John Lennon's "Imagine" : SOLOALBUM
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Gem used in intaglio : ONYX
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They are felt every April : TAXBITES
Down
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Slight faults, to a rater : DINGS
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Reluctant to join? : INERT
3
Words after god or man : OFWAR
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___ Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia : RONNIE
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Kerfuffle : ADO
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"Thanks a lot!," in intentionally butchered French : MERCYBUCKETS
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___ belt : AMMO
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Ananda Mahidol became its king at the age of 9, while living in Switzerland : SIAM
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Spanish diminutive : ITA
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Pay for a crime, say : SERVETIME
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"Oh, come on, can't you take a joke?!" : LIGHTENUP
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Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905 : ENOS
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Sign in front of some bars : CLEF
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Trickster : SLYDOG
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Stepping away from screens : DIGITALDETOX
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Lunchbox option, informally : PBJ
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Silences : GAGS
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Concupiscent one : EROS
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Appliance giant founded in England in 1991 : DYSON
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They're sometimes replaced by applesauce in vegan recipes : EGGS
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Strikes out, slangily : FANS
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"See ya!" : IGOTTARUN
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Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for "study of the end" : TELEOLOGY
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Mortgage deal, for short : REFI
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Like many defendants in court : SUED
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Word with escape or escalator : CLAUSE
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Camp-y retailer? : REI
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___ Peninsula (Horn of Africa) : SOMALI
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Rabbit ___ : EARS
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"The origin of wisdom," per René Descartes : DOUBT
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Follow : ENSUE
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Asparagus, essentially : STEMS
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"See ya!" : CIAO
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Eject : BOOT
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Actress Kirke of "Mozart in the Jungle" : LOLA
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Shoot down : NIX
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One in line at an airport : CAB

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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