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New York Times, Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Author:
Benjamin Panico
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
43-Down : YouTube journals, essentially
TotalDebut
18/13/2024
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.66313%
Benjamin Panico

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 44 Missing: {QWX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Panico. Tuesday freshness: 23%
Jim Horne notes:

Ella and Louis (41-Across) is a justifiably famous landmark in the history of American music.

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© 2024, The New York Times8/13/24 ( No. 27,307 )
Across
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Pathetic : SAD
4
Sound hoarse : RASP
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1992 novel set in 1920s Harlem : JAZZ
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Walk heavily : PLOD
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Concur with by repeating : ECHO
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Covered veranda often equipped with a ceiling fan : LANAI
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Exude, as confidence : OOZE
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Ergo : THUS
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Take in or take on : ADOPT
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1970 novel exploring racism's effect on a young girl's self-esteem : THEBLUESTEYE
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One who dies for a cause : MARTYR
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Home for a queen : HIVE
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Modernizing prefix : NEO
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Road curve : ESS
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Like Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off," key-wise : ING
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1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance : TARBABY
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No later than : UNTIL
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Deep-dish pizza chain, informally : UNOS
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1977 novel whose title references a lyrical Old Testament book : SONGOFSOLOMON
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Confer : LEND
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Collaborations like those on "Ella and Louis" : DUETS
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1987 Pulitzer-winning novel about the haunting of a formerly enslaved family's home : BELOVED
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Traitor : RAT
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It might welcome you home : MAT
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Backdrop for a shooting star : SKY
51
Folk wisdom : LORE
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"Burning" feeling : DESIRE
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Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle : TONIMORRISON
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Clean up, as software : DEBUG
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Burkina ___ : FASO
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Sound of a fall : THUD
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Shooting stars, some believe : OMENS
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Cache for cash : TILL
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Effortlessness : EASE
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1973 novel set in "the Bottom," a neighborhood slated to be demolished for a golf course : SULA
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___ gin fizz : SLOE
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For each : PER
Down
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Request in the weight room : SPOTME
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Kauai goodbyes : ALOHAS
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Earth-moving machines, informally : DOZERS
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Pick up again, as a book : RETURNTO
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Muscle misery : ACHE
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"Pipe down!" : SHUSH
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Sticky note : POSTIT
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Green gemstone : JADE
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"That's ___-brainer" : ANO
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Heat in the microwave : ZAP
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Photo retoucher's focus, perhaps : ZIT
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Something that can be racked up : DEBT
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Coat of paint : LAYER
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Telling tall tales : LYING
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#bestfriends4___ : EVA
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iPod model : NANO
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Black, poetically : EBON
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Pained cries : OYS
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Looping animation file : GIF
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Mooches, as a cigarette : BUMS
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Overturn : UNDO
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Mind-altering drug : LSD
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Pursue : SEEK
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Just : ONLY
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Your and my : OUR
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Top billing : LEADROLE
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Furry swimmer : OTTER
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Scale units: Abbr. : LBS
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YouTube journals, essentially : VLOGS
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Very long time : EON
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Heaps of windblown snow : DRIFTS
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Unfortunate incident : MISHAP
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Make excited : AROUSE
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Sensitive to the touch : TENDER
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One might begin "Hope this finds you well" : EMAIL
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Construction area : SITE
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"Chicken of the sea" : TUNA
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World capital on the same latitude as Tallinn and Stockholm : OSLO
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Half of cuatro : DOS
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Australia's tallest bird : EMU
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"The Fresh Prince of ___-Air" : BEL

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