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New York Times, Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Author:
Julia Hoepner
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
15-Down : Read carefully ... or leisurely
TotalDebut
18/27/2024
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.60432%
Julia Hoepner

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Hoepner. Tuesday freshness: 60%
Jim Horne notes:

Re. 17 Across — Like every other programmer, I wrote my own Mandelbrot Set viewer.

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© 2024, The New York Times8/27/24 ( No. 27,321 )
Across
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Campy rock subgenre of the early 1970s : GLAM
5
Dance in single file : CONGA
10
Totally smitten : GAGA
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Social activity that one tries to get out of? : ESCAPEROOM
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Super- : UBER
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Mathematician Benoit ___, coiner of the word "fractal" : MANDELBROT
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Shelter that's pitched : TENT
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Take the wheel : STEER
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Conscript : DRAFTEE
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"You're the One That I Want," for one : DUET
25
Rank above viscount : EARL
26
Philosophically noncommittal : AGNOSTIC
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Former capital of Japan : KYOTO
33
Lead-in to algebra or calculus : PRE
34
___ nous (between us) : ENTRE
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Cornmeal cake in Colombian cuisine : AREPA
38
Epigram or elegy : POEM
40
Set straight : ALIGN
42
Opposed to : ANTI
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Fizzy drinks : SODAS
45
Incorporate, as a hyperlink : EMBED
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Sitcom narrator Mosby : TED
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"I tip ___ to you!" : MYHAT
50
Fashion designer in "The Incredibles" : EDNAMODE
52
Start of a texter's two cents : IMHO
54
Storm relief org. : FEMA
55
Give one's two cents : CHIMEIN
58
Nobel Peace Prize winner Sadat : ANWAR
62
Covid-19, slangily : RONA
63
Copywriter's handbook : STYLEGUIDE
67
Hankering : ITCH
68
Messy end to a relationship, with a hint to this puzzle's shaded squares : BADBREAKUP
69
Asian cuisine choice : THAI
70
___ salts : EPSOM
71
"Slander!" : LIES
Down
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Precious stones : GEMS
2
Future J.D.'s exam : LSAT
3
Skin affliction : ACNE
4
Worked with what's available : MADEDO
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Animation frame : CEL
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Celestial body : ORB
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"Water, water, every where, / ___ any drop to drink": "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" : NOR
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Johnny B. of song : GOODE
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The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, familiarly : AMTRAK
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Micro-organisms in the digestive tract : GUTFLORA
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Aid's partner : ABET
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Apt name for a DNA expert? : GENE
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Commedia dell'___ : ARTE
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Read carefully ... or leisurely : PERUSE
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Stark daughter on "Game of Thrones" : ARYA
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Europe's tallest active volcano : ETNA
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Museum placard info : TITLE
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Phone screen array : APPS
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Bachelor party V.I.P. : GROOM
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Down-and-out : NEEDY
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True ___ (podcast genre) : CRIME
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Fifty minutes past the hour : TENTO
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Made a choice : OPTED
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Musical staff letters : EGBDF
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Capitol Hill staffer : AIDE
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Hawaiian fish : MAHIMAHI
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Hawaiian goose : NENE
44
Word before day or difference : SAME
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Fallout : DAMAGE
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Pyramus' beloved, in myth : THISBE
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Not automatic : MANUAL
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Ready for use : ONTAP
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Feedback session in art school, for short : CRIT
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Ice planet in "The Empire Strikes Back" : HOTH
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Largest empire in pre-Columbian America : INCA
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Reference site, familiarly : WIKI
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Together, in music : ADUE
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Workout units : REPS
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Gridiron gains: Abbr. : YDS
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Wall St. acquisition : LBO
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Indecisive sound : ERM

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