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New York Times, Friday, August 30, 2024

Author:
Colin Adams
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
44-Down : Quite blue
TotalDebutLatest
32/16/202411/4/2024
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Colin Adams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Adams. Friday freshness: 59%
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© 2024, The New York Times8/30/24 ( No. 27,324 )
Across
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Consideration when donning an off-the-shoulder dress : BRASTRAPS
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Vindictiveness : SPITE
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Defiant protester : REFUSENIK
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Uruguayan cash : PESOS
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Illusory quality : UNREALITY
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Did a jeté : LEAPT
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"The Watercourse Way," per an Alan Watts title : TAO
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They may surround spectacles : RIMS
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Obnoxiously loud : GARISH
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Ones used to working from home? : UMPS
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Mittens might fiddle with one : CATTOY
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Animal found on either end of a scale : DOE
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"Parasite" setting : SEOUL
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Dove, e.g. : SOAP
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"Job's getting done as we speak!" : ONIT
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Many John le Carré characters : SPIES
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Glaring oversight by a writer : PLOTHOLE
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Makes fast : TIES
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Traditional Scottish New Year's gift, representing warmth for the year to come : COAL
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Marked Twain? : DOGEARED
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Summer snack with a swirl : FROYO
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Psyche's lover, in Greek myth : EROS
46
Lead-in to stakes : VEEP
48
"I think so," in modern shorthand : PROBS
50
Symbol of industry : ANT
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Robert in "Heat" : DENIRO
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Component of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle : DISK
54
They're made to measure : RULERS
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Neat arrangements : ROWS
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U.S.M.C. bigwig : NCO
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Disgusting, slangily : GRODY
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Common browser extension : ADBLOCKER
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Actor/activist Davis : OSSIE
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Uncommitted sort : FREEAGENT
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Advise against : DETER
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Takes for a spin, as a motorcycle : TESTRIDES
Down
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Historic figure grouped with Judas in Dante's "Inferno" : BRUTUS
2
Handles differently? : RENAMES
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Genre for Wizkid and Burna Boy : AFROPOP
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Seek reparations : SUE
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Title first used by Ivan the Great : TSAR
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Thing of the past : RELIC
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Inner selves : ANIMAS
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Occasion for retirement? : PITSTOP
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Chicago W.N.B.A. team : SKY
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Spread out : SPLAY
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Fellow : PEER
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"Don't ask me again!" : ISAIDNO
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Nursery purchase : TOPSOIL
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Connoisseur of the finer things : ESTHETE
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Disappear into thin air : GOPOOF
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Deluxe accommodations : SUITES
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Gold Bond ingredient, once : TALC
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Film character with an iconic gold bikini : LEIA
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"Good heavens!" : OHLORD
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Waits on : SERVES
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Camper's cover : TARP
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Spotted : SEEN
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Opening words of a prayer : DEARGOD
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Vital hosp. worker : ORNURSE
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Scrammed : GOTLOST
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Tragic heroine of Irish mythology : DEIRDRE
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Snatched, colloquially : YOINKED
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Quite blue : OBSCENE
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Voyagers, e.g. : PROBES
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Portmanteau garments : SKORTS
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Alternative to hanging out? : DRYER
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Babe in the woods? : OWLET
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Falco of "The Sopranos" : EDIE
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Increase dramatically : SOAR
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Back, at sea : AFT
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Green-screen tech. : CGI

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