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New York Times, Saturday, August 10, 2019

Author:
Anna Gundlach and Erik Agard
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
3-Down : Tom ___, co-star of Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch"
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Erik Agard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {FJKQZ} Spans: 1 This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Gundlach. This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Agard. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Saturday freshness: 46%
Constructor notes:
ANNA: I'm so excited for this puzzle to exist — this is my first NYT print puzzle, and working with Erik is a great experience. I've ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
The mysterious clue for DEAR SANTA would have earned this puzzle the POW! alone. That huge SE corner, so hard to break into, made it ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times8/10/19 ( No. 25,477 )
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What takes motion out of motion pictures? : STEADICAM
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Goddess of spring and rebirth : MAIA
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Superiority-asserting action : POWERMOVE
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Drunk, in modern slang : TURNT
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Is to come : LIESAHEAD
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Wiped out : ATEIT
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Fair game : ALLOWED
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Parody : IMITATE
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Certain online food critic : YELPER
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Prefix with car : ECO
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Place for a tab : CAN
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Wine lover's favorite team? : REDS
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Persuaded to take a higher-priced option : UPSOLD
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Enemies, in slang : OPPS
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Lose balance : TIP
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Women who were legally permitted to drive for the first time in 2018 : SAUDIS
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Response to someone with unrealistic hopes : WHATDOYOUEXPECT
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"Take your time" : NORUSH
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Word whose musical sense was added to Merriam-Webster dictionaries in 1986 : RAP
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Competitor of Petro-Canada : ESSO
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Green-light : ENABLE
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Some baskets : TWOS
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Business card abbr. : RES
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California W.N.B.A. team, on scoreboards : LAS
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"This party's poppin'!" : ITSLIT
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Boo-boos : SLIPUPS
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Off guard : UNREADY
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Discover serendipitously : HITON
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Article of summer wear : HALTERTOP
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___ Montoya, swordsman in "The Princess Bride" : INIGO
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Woman's name that's an anagram of INTERNEES : ERNESTINE
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Body parts that sound like some units of measure : PECS
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Start of an anti-coal petition : DEARSANTA
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Spread out : SPLAY
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Fabric whose name is French for "cloth" : TOILE
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Tom ___, co-star of Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch" : EWELL
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"Venus and the Cat" author : AESOP
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Storage site : DRAWER
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"Let me assist you" : IMHERETOHELP
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Like some rec leagues : COED
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Palindromic woman's name : AVA
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Cry on a battlefield : MEDIC
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Unlikely entrant in a Westminster show : MUTT
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Some demographic data : AREACODES
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Emphasized : INITALICS
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Deals with : ATTENDSTO
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Mai ___ : TAI
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Arrow on a screen : MOUSEPOINTER
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Field for gamers : ESPORTS
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Kind of project for a hardware store customer, in brief : DIY
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Goddess of peace : PAX
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Person whom people take their complaints to, informally : SUPE
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It can pass when you pass : OWNERSHIP
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Connection to the outside world : PHONELINE
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Spongelike : PARASITIC
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Proof of purchase, perhaps : STUB
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Certain connection for a 30-Down, for short : DSL
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Negotiating partner with G.M. : UAW
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Natural ager : STRESS
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Flicked, in a way : ASHED
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Competitor of Stearns & Foster : SERTA
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Music store category : LATIN
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Words before know, care or mind : IDONT
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Most serious kind of flu : TYPEA
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Fad game of the 1990s : POGS
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Unnamed individual from Italy : UNO
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It reaches to touch one's hand : ULNA
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What you can take that I can't? : ARE

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