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Roughly Speaking

New York Times, Sunday, May 26, 2024

Author:
John Kugelman
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
8-Down : Reacts to a pun, perhaps
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John Kugelman

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 80 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Kugelman. Sunday freshness: 64%
Joel Fagliano notes:
John Kugelman is a software engineer and musician from Gainesville, Va. Despite only starting to make puzzles in 2023, he is The New York Times' most-published Sunday crossword ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times5/26/24 ( No. 27,228 )
Across
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Prefix with valent : AMBI
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Sound of rejection on a 1970s variety show : GONG
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"How disappointing!" : DANG
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Academic résumés, for short : CVS
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"Embiggens" the English language : COINSAWORD
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Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
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Feature of a snake's eye : SLIT
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*"That rotted old log ain't even fit for termite food!" : KNOCKONWOOD
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Word on Charlotte's web : SOME
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Guillermo del ___ : TORO
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Does perfectly : NAILS
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Helvetica alternative : ARIAL
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Country that surrounds Gambia : SENEGAL
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Something to pump or bump : FIST
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"Huh, I wasn't aware I was at an ugly sweater party" : KNITTINGNEEDLE
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Gospel singer Winans : CECE
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Wimbledon surface : GRASS
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Studio for Astaire and Rogers : RKO
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Czech or Pole : SLAV
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Hindu mother goddess also called Parvati : UMA
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It's bright when it's full : MOON
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Disposable baking pans : PIETINS
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Actor Cage, familiarly : NIC
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"The only mystery in this novel is why I finished it" : BURNAFTERREADING
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Band whose guitarist wears a schoolboy outfit : ACDC
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Certain expensive suits : ARMANIS
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Rank below marquess : EARL
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Less clean, as a chimney : SOOTIER
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Batman adversary ___ al Ghul : RAS
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"Brains" of tech : CPUS
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Avocados are rich in it : FAT
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Mocking Jay : LENO
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"My dog could translate an ancient Mesopotamian tablet faster than you" : ARCHAEOLOGICALDIG
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Part of a thermostat : DIAL
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The i's have it : DOT
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Church area : NAVE
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Hardly ne'er : OFT
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Herald : PORTEND
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Beget : SIRE
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Cause of misery : SCOURGE
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Skinny, so to speak : DOPE
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"Thou art a villainous knave" : BLASTFROMTHEPAST
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Back the other way : FRO
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Background in the theater : SCENERY
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Feedbag contents : OATS
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Pop's ___ Lipa : DUA
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Dude, in lingo : BRAH
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Prefix in some modern art movements : NEO
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Photoshop company : ADOBE
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Switch predecessors : WIIS
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"Dear John, I'm writing you this letter to tell you — it's not me. It's 100% you" : PUTDOWNONPAPER
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Nonmetric unit … or a metric unit : FOOT
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Someone who hopes to stay out of the spotlight? : ESCAPEE
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Five Pillars religion : ISLAM
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Astounding : AWING
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It comes from the Greek for "indivisible" : ATOM
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Any of six Russian monarchs : IVAN
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"Tu as le Q.I. d'une huître" ("You have the I.Q. of an oyster") : FRENCHROAST
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Some wines : REDS
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Musical that reimagines "La Bohème" in Manhattan : RENT
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Sucrose, by another name : TABLESUGAR
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Numero di colori in Neapolitan ice cream : TRE
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Bond villain with an island lair : DRNO
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Condé ___ : NAST
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Get off to a flying start? : TAXI
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"Oops!" : ACK
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Unpopular day to get married: Abbr. : MON
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High-tech prosthetic : BIONICARM
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To be safe : INCASE
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British lockup : GAOL
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Doesn't dispute, as a criticism : OWNS
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"Stat!" : NOW
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Reacts to a pun, perhaps : GROANS
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Gave a thumbs-down : DISLIKED
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In the past : AGO
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Claim on a ramen packet : NOMSG
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Lead-in to horn or Hornet : GREEN
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Charlie Chaplin started his career with this not-at-all-silent form of entertainment : CLOGDANCING
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TikToker's hope : VIRALVIDEO
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Mistook? : STOLE
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Bit of improv : SKIT
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2007 Literature Nobelist Lessing : DORIS
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Famed Damascus product : STEEL
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Morse code click : DIT
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Counterpart of ventricular : ATRIAL
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One of the Untouchables : NESS
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Leg bone : FEMUR
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"Citizen ___" : KANE
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"Count me out!" : NOTI
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Island country sometimes called "El Cocodrilo" for its shape : CUBA
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Card game cry : GOFISH
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Breaks down : ROTS
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Fetter : MANACLE
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Epitomize : PERSONIFY
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The 'gram : INSTA
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Oxfam or Doctors Without Borders, in brief : NGO
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"Born on the Bayou" band, in brief : CCR
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Give voice to? : NARRATE
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Move, as a houseplant : REPOT
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Brother of Fidel : RAUL
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Totally bought an idea : ATEITUP
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There's bad blood between them : OLDFOES
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Corp. bigwig : CEO
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Police, slangily : FIVEO
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Point of no return? : ACE
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JFK, for one : AIRPORTCODE
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Discombobulate : ADDLE
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Teri of "Young Frankenstein" : GARR
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Olympic swimmer Ryan : LOCHTE
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Deal that brings in a big crowd : DOORBUSTER
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Common file type : PDF
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Its iconic chimes were trademarked in 1950 : NBC
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Razor sharpeners : STROPS
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Random guess : STAB
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Queen song from which a pop icon took her name : RADIOGAGA
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Astronaut's blackout preventer : GSUIT
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GPS guesses : ETAS
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Part of A.D. : ANNO
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Investigated : SEENINTO
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Terrain in "Wuthering Heights" : MOOR
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Class where students learn about squares and planes : SHOP
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Author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" : ADAMS
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"Things Fall ___" (Chinua Achebe novel) : APART
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Abase : DEMEAN
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Prevailed : WONOUT
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Drummer Neil of Rush : PEART
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Like the three sisters of "Macbeth" : WEIRD
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"In your dreams!" : NEVER
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Sitcom extraterrestrial : ALF
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Some Christmas trees : FIRS
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Common sports injury sites, for short : ACLS
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Stimulate : WHET
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New England's Cape ___ : ANN
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Court grp. : NBA
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Bluesy instrument, for short : SAX
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Prefix with valent : TRI

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

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