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New York Times, Sunday, June 16, 2024

Author:
Chandi Deitmer and Wyna Liu
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
71-Down : N.Y. commuter line
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This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 74 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Deitmer. This is puzzle # 9 for Ms. Liu. Sunday freshness: 41%
Joel Fagliano notes:
Chandi Deitmer, of Cambridge, Mass., works for Elevate Labs, a brain-training app. Wyna Liu, of New York City, is a puzzles editor and author of the daily New York Times game ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times6/16/24 ( No. 27,249 )
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Many pages in a travel guide : MAPS
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Location identifier for a digital photo : GEOTAG
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Biblical verb : DOTH
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A garment, maybe? : BRA
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Ingredient in some face masks : ALOE
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Extra point as the result of a foul, in basketball lingo : ANDONE
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Think about it! : IDEA
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Narrow part of a cloche : BRIM
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APP, CONVENIENCE, GENERAL, THRIFT? : STOREFRONTS
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Scorch : SEAR
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Sitar great Shankar : RAVI
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Variable directive : SOLVEFOR
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Snack sometimes served with birria : TACO
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Pair that's unlikely to win : DEUCES
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Mirren who has portrayed three different British queens on screen : HELEN
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HOLIDAY, MONSOON, TAX, TOURIST? : SEASONOPENERS
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It can be a real pane! : GLASS
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Horror director Ari : ASTER
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Item repeatedly stepped on by Sideshow Bob on "The Simpsons" : RAKE
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___ orientation, consideration in American Sign Language : PALM
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A-, DREAM, SWAT, TAG? : TEAMLEADERS
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Stevie Wonder's "___ She Lovely" : ISNT
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Fish that shares its name with a body part : SOLE
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What some tiny patches cover up : ACNE
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Nickname for Empress Elisabeth of Austria : SISI
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Word before "boy" or after "boo" : HOO
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Knock on : RAPAT
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___ cave : PLATOS
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Performance often accompanied by supertitles : OPERA
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B-, DATE, LIFETIME, SILENT? : MOVIEPREMIERES
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Adjuster's assignments : CLAIMS
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Held sway : REIGNED
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Mends : HEALS
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"Turn up the volume!" : CRANKIT
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Tuckered out : BUSHED
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BOOSTER, BOTTLE, HOUSTON, MODEL? : ROCKETLAUNCHES
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Hit musical about a politician : EVITA
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Saunters : MOSEYS
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Its national anthem is "Jana Gana Mana" : INDIA
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Start of some movement names : ART
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Neighbor of 74-Across, on a Risk board : SIAM
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Cheese with a white mold rind : BRIE
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Onetime Britney Spears partner, in the tabloids : KFED
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Jonathan Van ___ of "Queer Eye" : NESS
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CERTIFIED, FUNKY, MINTY, POPPIN'? : FRESHSTARTS
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Word that sounds like its first and last letters : EASE
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Hertz, e.g. : UNIT
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"___ directed" : USEAS
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Gives off : EMITS
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BRAND, LIKE, NOTHING, WHAT'S? : NEWBEGINNINGS
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Wreck : TOTAL
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___ & Mariam (musical duo) : AMADOU
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Slightly : ATAD
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Lives as lovers : SHACKSUP
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Streaming device whose name means "six" in Japanese : ROKU
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Fighter of Ravana, in Hindu lore : RAMA
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BRIDAL, COLD, GATORADE, METEOR? : SHOWERHEADS
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One of Canada's First Nations : CREE
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Like whole numbers after they're multiplied by two : EVEN
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Masked official : UMPIRE
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Sci-fi sightings : UFOS
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Cries of exasperation : OYS
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Some P.T.A. members : DADS
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Was active online : POSTED
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Confined, with "up" : PENT
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Ceremony with a censer : MASS
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Tina Turner or Stevie Nicks, e.g. : ALTO
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Where you might say "That's my cue!" : POOLHALL
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"That's what I get" : SERVESMERIGHT
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Faux pas : GAFFE
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Notable bankruptee of 2001 : ENRON
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What the nose knows : ODOR
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Whole bunch : TON
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Formicary resident : ANT
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Come to term with? : GESTATE
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Strife : DISCORD
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Ancient performance space : ODEON
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It's in the bag : TEA
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"Yeah, absolutely not" : HARDPASS
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Alternative to a boot, maybe : BRACE
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Many a state boundary : RIVER
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Off : AMISS
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Sultanate just north of the Equator : BRUNEI
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Snaky swimmers : EELS
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Cruising, say : ASEA
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Possible response to a squeak : EEK
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Identical : SAME
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Class often offered at the library, for short : ESL
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Root used in perfumery : ORRIS
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Rte. giver : GPS
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Cuisine with larb and green papaya salad : LAO
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Appointed : TAPPED
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Clickable greeting : ECARD
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Kitty contribution : ANTE
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Those, in Spanish : ESOS
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Arab honorific : SHEIKH
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One with mainstream tastes, disparagingly : NORMIE
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Things a wedding D.J. might introduce : TOASTS
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Honolulu palace name : IOLANI
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Trojan War hero : AENEAS
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Share : PIECE
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In need of patching, say : LEAKY
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Where van Gogh's "The Yellow House" is set : ARLES
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Bit of lab work : TEST
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It's laid on thick for a performance : PANCAKEMAKEUP
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Classic British sitcom character inspired by Jacques Tati : MRBEAN
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Body of work : OEUVRE
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Prospective college students make them : VISITS
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Conductance units : MHOS
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Unrefined oils : CRUDES
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"Zip your lip!" : CANIT
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City that entirely surrounds another country : ROME
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N.Y. commuter line : LIRR
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Leader in the Cuban War of Independence : MARTI
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"That's not surprising" : IFIGURED
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Prominent feature of dub music : BASS
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Guaranteed to work : FAILSAFE
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Delivery abbr. : EST
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Some, in France : DES
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Quiet : SUBDUE
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They might be brought back from the beach : SUNTANS
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Lin Ching-___, icon of Chinese-language cinema : HSIA
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Lampoons : SENDSUP
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Price point? : TAG
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Start of some movement names : NEO
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Carve : ETCH
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Certain criminal, or the agent pursuing them : NARCO
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Atlanta university : EMORY
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Greets the day : WAKES
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Having a handle : NAMED
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Word repeated when consoling : THERE
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Propelled a shell : OARED
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Loretta of "M*A*S*H" : SWIT
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Thick noodle : UDON
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Something an attention-seeker might say : PSST
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Principal on "Abbott Elementary" : AVA
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Insurance option, for short : HMO
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Department that helps a company run, informally : OPS

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

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