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New York Times, Monday, August 5, 2024

Author:
Andy Walker
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
53-Down : Word with Double or Planet
TotalDebut
18/5/2024
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0100000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.58325%
Andy Walker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Walker. Monday freshness: 67%
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© 2024, The New York Times8/5/24 ( No. 27,299 )
Across
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"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" band : ABBA
5
Actor Driver : ADAM
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___ on a true story : BASED
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"Yippee!," in internet-speak : WOOT
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Rich vein of ore : LODE
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Proverb : ADAGE
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Young horse : FOAL
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Garnish for a glass of iced tea : LEMONWEDGE
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How some things are better left : UNSAID
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Response to "Call me!" : IWILL
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Disappoints : LETSDOWN
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"I don't need that back" : KEEPIT
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Number of U.S. states without any straight borders : ONE
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Fish-and-chips fish : COD
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Tennis champion Swiatek : IGA
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Appliance at a hotel breakfast bar : WAFFLEIRON
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Tree of the tropics : PALM
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Pseudonym : ALIAS
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Big wad : GOB
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Watercraft prone to tipping : CANOE
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Something forbidden : NONO
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Expensive cabinet material : CHERRYWOOD
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San Jose-to-Sacramento dir. : NNE
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"Survivor" shelter : HUT
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Nickname for a Bronx-born U.S. congresswoman : AOC
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Shares the same view : AGREES
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Secluded : ISOLATED
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Where Nissan and Nintendo are headquartered : JAPAN
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Legendary stoner? : MEDUSA
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Credit card industry pioneer … or a hint to 18-, 32- and 42-Across : DINERSCLUB
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Prefix with climactic : ANTI
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The "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," for two : EPICS
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Org. that runs the Jet Propulsion Laboratory : NASA
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Slippery part of a banana : PEEL
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Foamy coffee order : LATTE
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She-sheep : EWES
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Guitarist Anastasio of Phish : TREY
Down
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Terrible : AWFUL
2
American frontiersman Daniel : BOONE
3
Caesar's "Veni, vidi, vici" is a famous one : BOAST
4
Book of maps : ATLAS
5
"Finished!" : ALLDONE
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Anonymous Jane or John : DOE
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Website overseer, for short : ADMIN
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Be a chatty catty? : MEOW
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Cried one's eyes out : BAWLED
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"Rolling in the Deep" singer : ADELE
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Forlorn : SAD
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Binding agent in baking : EGG
13
Grade that's not as bad as eff : DEE
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Big name in cameras : NIKON
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Greatly admired figures : IDOLS
24
Package measurement : WEIGHT
26
With 51-Down, someone who gets keys in key : PIANO
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Arctic home : IGLOO
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Domesticated : TAMED
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Snake charmers' snakes : COBRAS
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"___ Get Away?" (Southwest Airlines slogan) : WANNA
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Together (with) : ALONG
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More exquisite : FINER
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___ Schwarz (toy retailer) : FAO
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Caviar : ROE
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Feline foot : PAW
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Ride a bike : CYCLE
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Inflection points : CUSPS
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Robotic vacuum cleaners : ROOMBAS
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Funeral vehicle : HEARSE
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Last-resort button in a cockpit : EJECT
49
Family member by marriage : INLAW
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Modify : ADAPT
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See 26-Down : TUNER
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Lauder of cosmetics : ESTEE
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Word with Double or Planet : DAILY
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Teen's skin affliction : ACNE
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Marina ___ Rey, Calif. : DEL
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Hoppy brew, for short : IPA
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Minor criticism : NIT
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Purpose : USE

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