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New York Times, Thursday, April 18, 2024

Author:
David Kwong
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
9-Down : Roguish sorts
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David Kwong

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 46 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Kwong. Thursday freshness: 3%
Jim Horne notes:
Parse 63 Across as A STAR IS B OR N to make sense of the asterisk clues. 17-Across is Ballot time 23-Across is Nacre on the ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times4/18/24 ( No. 27,190 )
Across
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It might come in a package : AID
4
Showy accessories on marching band uniforms : PLUMES
10
Big mouth : MAW
13
Measure of inflation, in brief : PSI
14
Bygone : DEFUNCT
16
Money maven, for short : CFO
17
*Allot time : ELECTIONDAY
19
The False Good Samaritan, e.g. : CON
20
Account that's been overdrawn? : SAGA
21
Delightful diversion : ROMP
22
Mo. without a federal holiday : AUG
23
*Acre on the ocean floor : MOTHEROFPEARL
28
Menu fish : SOLE
29
It'll all shake out : SALT
30
Wood commonly used in mid-century modern furniture : ASH
33
One way to come out : AHEAD
36
Aware of : INON
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Limitless quantity : SEA
40
*Ice is found on it : RIVIERA
43
Animal whose name, when capitalized, is a major West African language : EWE
44
Things to piece together : KITS
46
Fireplace bit : EMBER
47
"That being said …" : YET
48
Days leading up to the next sign, in astrology : CUSP
51
Director Johnson : RIAN
53
*Ovid of Greek mythology : THECRETANBULL
58
Verizon sale of 2021 : AOL
59
Greet the day : RISE
60
Roundup sounds : MOOS
62
You might need a lift to do this : SKI
63
Thrice-remade movie … or, when parsed as six words, a hint to the theme clues in this puzzle : ASTARISBORN
67
First name in objectivism : AYN
68
Horace's "Ars ___" : POETICA
69
Hosp. scan : MRI
70
Faddish 1990s disk : POG
71
Like some coding loops and measuring cups : NESTED
72
Not wavering : SET
Down
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Does like : APES
2
It follows the Hijri calendar : ISLAM
3
Saber-toothed tiger in the "Ice Age" movies : DIEGO
4
Summer setting in S.F. : PDT
5
Bloomers worn around one's head? : LEI
6
Visitor from a faraway place : UFO
7
Alice with a Nobel Prize in Literature : MUNRO
8
Words before time or story : ENDOF
9
Roguish sorts : SCAMPS
10
*Assist in a foursome : MCCARTNEY
11
One way to run : AFOUL
12
Anna May ___, Hollywood's first Chinese American film celebrity : WONG
15
Naturally competitive : TYPEA
18
Musical with Rum Tum Tugger and Mungojerrie : CATS
24
Winter frost : HOAR
25
For grades K-12 : ELHI
26
Superman portrayer : REEVE
27
Athlete with the only vertically mounted marker on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so his holy name is not walked upon : ALI
30
"Don't ___" : ASK
31
Half of dodici : SEI
32
*Ascent stage for a bird : HATCHLING
34
Sightsee? : AIM
35
Name that's an anagram of BREAD : DEBRA
37
Be beholden to : OWE
38
Clear : NET
41
Attachment to a bit : REIN
42
Graceful horse : ARAB
45
Seek retribution, in a way : SUE
49
Small brawl : SCRAP
50
Joint, so to speak : PRISON
52
Deadened : NUMB
53
2020 Olympics site : TOKYO
54
Perfume name with an accent : ESTEE
55
Milk sources : TEATS
56
Devices with shuttles : LOOMS
57
Peter of 1934's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" : LORRE
58
"Yesterday!" : ASAP
61
Cross fit? : SNIT
64
Gradually slower, in music: Abbr. : RIT
65
Suffix with coward : ICE
66
Heavy-hearted : SAD

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

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