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Picture Day

New York Times, Sunday, June 23, 2024

Author:
Michael Schlossberg
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
53-Down : Like one's soul in a heart-to-heart
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Michael Schlossberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Schlossberg. Sunday freshness: 67%
Joel Fagliano notes:
Michael Schlossberg is an internist in Bend, Ore. This is his third Sunday crossword of the year. Michael's antenna is always up for theme ideas — he struck upon this one after seeing ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times6/23/24 ( No. 27,256 )
Across
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Plant in a bloom : ALGA
5
"La Vie en Rose" singer : PIAF
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Mechanical catch : PAWL
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Seasonal decoration from the Old French for "sparkle" : TINSEL
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Atypical band instrument : HARP
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Path to Machu Picchu : INCATRAIL
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World Cup cheer : OLEOLE
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Two Iowans (1930) : AMERICANGOTHIC
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Renovation need, perhaps : PERMIT
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Succor : AID
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Patton crossed it in 1944 : SEINE
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Stuff left behind by an old flame? : CINDERS
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Slip in a warehouse : INVOICE
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Part of the atmosphere above most weather : NEARSPACE
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Writer buried in a Baltimore churchyard : POE
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Six Basque villagers (1937) : GUERNICA
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"Real Time With Bill ___" : MAHER
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Souvlaki go-with : PITA
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Hashtag's neighbor on a keyboard : ATSIGN
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12 orbs (1889) : THESTARRYNIGHT
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Adorable one : CUTEY
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Runner Down Under : EMU
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Many moons : EON
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Modern-day Phoenicia : LEBANON
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TV host Joy : REID
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Performing, perhaps : ONSTAGE
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Wane : ABATE
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About to bloom : INBUD
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"Ted Lasso" footballer Jamie ___ : TARTT
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Good name for a nuclear engineer? : ROD
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One gemstone (1665) : GIRLWITHAPEARLEARRING
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Just manage, with "out" : EKE
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Component of the immune system : TCELL
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Sauce in Philippine cuisine : ADOBO
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Wacky : INANE
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Feature of a Raggedy Ann doll : REDHAIR
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Frog-hopping-into-water sound : PLOP
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Crazy Horse and kin : OGLALAS
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Name on a box of fruit-flavored candy : IKE
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Minute : WEE
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Wash out : RINSE
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With 99-Across, four timepieces (1931) : THEPERSISTENCE
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Too much, musically : TROPPO
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Plugs : WADS
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Unreliable narrators : LIARS
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See 86-Across : OFMEMORY
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Prefix with genetics : EPI
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Instrument "played" in the "Bill & Ted" movies : AIRGUITAR
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Shanties : LEANTOS
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Goes straight : REFORMS
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Eyelike openings : OCULI
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Not in the dark : LIT
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Kitchen drawer section : KNIVES
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Kind of craft store kit ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme : PAINTBYNUMBERS
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Sheathe : ENCASE
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They're comfortable alone or in a crowd : AMBIVERTS
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River through Kazakhstan : URAL
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Yarn label number : DYELOT
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World capital that's part of the NATO alphabet : LIMA
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Viking group? : NASA
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Cable channel with horror/fantasy programming : SYFY
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"So that's your game!" : AHA
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Flight : LAM
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Shin armor : GREAVES
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Knowable without experience : APRIORI
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Proof of meeting a celeb, say : PIC
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"Hold on!" : INASEC
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What pore clogging can lead to : ACNE
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"Oliver Twist" antagonist : FAGIN
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Press conference organizers : PRTEAMS
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Sound at the doctor's office : AAH
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Console with a wireless controller : WII
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Business name ender : LLC
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Something to talk about : TOPIC
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Actress Graff of "Mr. Belvedere" : ILENE
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Enthusiast : NERD
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Words woven into Charlotte's web : SOMEPIG
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Director who is part of filmdom's Splat Pack : ELIROTH
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"Mangia!" : LETSEAT
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Answering machine signal : TONE
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Bouncer's job : IDING
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Vocalist Vikki : CARR
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Supermarket chain inits. : IGA
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Enthusiast : NUT
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Fünf : German :: ___ : Spanish : CINCO
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Put a value on : RATED
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Sorry excuse for a pillowcase? : SHAM
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20-Across setting : PERU
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QB stat: Abbr. : ATT
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About 40% of a yard : PINT
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Like some teas : HERBAL
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Look at desirously : EYEUP
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Gossip : YENTA
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One of two openings under a bridge : NOSTRIL
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Divider's counterpart : UNITER
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Bock or dunkel : LAGER
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Chargeable transport : EBIKE
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Like one's soul in a heart-to-heart : BARED
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The Hawks, on scoreboards : ATL
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Fresh perspective : NEWTAKE
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Paragon : IDEAL
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Cereal with a Mega Stuf variety : OREOOS
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Helvetica-like typeface : ARIAL
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"I'm ___ Git You Sucka" (1988 parody film) : GONNA
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Often-frayed parts of papyrus : EDGES
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Penguins play in it, for short : NHL
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It circles the earth : TROPIC
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Neighbor of Montana: Abbr. : ALB
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Less emotional : ICIER
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Deck out : ADORN
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Vaccine component : RNA
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Starts of some cheers : HIPS
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Kind of dish that you wouldn't want to eat from : PETRI
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"Ya dig?" : GETME
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"Bridesmaids" co-star : WIIG
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Biblical figure whose "whole body was like a hairy garment" : ESAU
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Con head? : NEO
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Danced like Cardi B : TWERKED
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Two farthings, colloquially : HAPENNY
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Large building : EDIFICE
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Some cameras, for short : SLRS
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Country that had a nonviolent "singing revolution" in the late 1980s : ESTONIA
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Sphere : REALM
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Kind of spending bill : OMNIBUS
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That's a bunch of crock! : POTTERY
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Hardly a noob : PRO
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Kvetchers' cries : OYS
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Lighter igniters : FLINTS
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Childish retort : ARESO
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"No more for me, thanks" : IMSET
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When Macbeth fights Macduff : ACTV
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Politico Gallego : RUBEN
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Like some mirrors : OVAL
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Vega's constellation : LYRA
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Mate : PAL
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113-Down, in French : AMI
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Company that once generated more than 4,000 patents in a single year : IBM
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Security Council member : USA
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Subj. of Churchill's "Never ... was so much owed by so many to so few" : RAF
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Canny : SLY

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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