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New York Times, Saturday, August 24, 2024

Author:
Ryan McCarty
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
2-Down : Sights along the Gulf Coast
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
286/17/20178/24/20242
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
100012231
ScrabDebutFresh
1.6124496%
Ryan McCarty

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 31 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. McCarty. Saturday freshness: 93%
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© 2024, The New York Times8/24/24 ( No. 27,318 )
Across
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Part of a Mideast capital's name : ABU
4
Twinkletoes they're not : OAFS
8
Nuts and bolts : BASICS
14
Actress who voiced Mei Lee's strict mother in Pixar's "Turning Red" : SANDRAOH
16
Second slide of many a meeting deck : AGENDA
17
Put in a similar part : TYPECAST
18
"The ___ of suffering is experience": Harry Truman : REWARD
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Legs (it) : HOOFS
20
Prominent feature of a jacket : TITLE
22
Fooled : HAD
23
Many a rescue : MUTT
24
Actress Anne of "Wag the Dog" : HECHE
25
___ fries (South American side) : YUCA
26
Dope : ASS
27
Dried meat product with a rhyming name : TURKEYJERKY
29
Digital agreements? : PINKYSWEARS
30
"Pleeeease?" : CANTI
31
Spiteful, as a comment : CATTY
32
Hoped-for deadlines : TARGETDATES
34
They often roll around in the snow : WINTERTIRES
35
Habitat for sphagnum moss : BOG
38
Book between Joel and Obadiah : AMOS
39
Sian ___, director of the Best Picture winner "CODA" : HEDER
40
Start of a Spanish cheer : VIVA
41
Bus. driver? : CEO
42
Tizzy : PANIC
43
Hardly open : CAGEY
44
Nephrologist's specialty : KIDNEY
46
Affectionate way to walk : ARMINARM
48
What "e" might mean : ONLINE
49
Vulnerable part of one's personality : SOFTSIDE
50
Perfumery assortment : SCENTS
51
River in the name of a Best Picture winner : KWAI
52
Pop artist ___ English : RON
Down
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What Flovent can treat : ASTHMA
2
Sights along the Gulf Coast : BAYOUS
3
Prepares for transplanting : UNPOTS
4
Creatures often depicted with green skin : ORCS
5
Strong, as a bond : AAA
6
Candidate for a "forever home" : FOSTERKITTEN
7
Full of gimmicks : SHTICKY
8
Drink of boiled grains with purported detoxifying effects : BARLEYWATER
9
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" writer, 1941 : AGEE
10
Singers do this : SEW
11
Rushing : INAHURRY
12
Obsolescent means of music storage : CDRACKS
13
Down time? : SADDAY
15
Skillful : DEFT
21
Batman adversary with a stitched burlap mask : THESCARECROW
24
Country singer with the 2012 hit "Wanted" : HUNTERHAYES
25
Poet who first penned the phrase "no country for old men" : YEATS
27
Small hint : TINGE
28
Leaps on stage : JETES
29
Head lines? : PARTS
30
Spoon : CANOODLE
32
Original parent co. of Fortune and People : TIMEINC
33
Snarky reply to some unsolicited advice : DIDIASK
34
Kooks : WACKOS
35
Olympic snowboarding event : BIGAIR
36
Take too far : OVERDO
37
Many Grindr users : GAYMEN
40
Campers, e.g. : VANS
42
Shut (up) : PENT
43
Commercial lead-in to bank : CITI
45
Diarist who helped edit Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" : NIN
47
Deg. from Yale's Geffen School : MFA

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

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