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New York Times, Thursday, September 30, 2021

Author:
Rich Proulx
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
50-Down : Shrivel from age
TotalDebutLatest
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Rich Proulx

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Proulx. Thursday freshness: 90%
Rich Proulx notes:
As I mulled how to make an auditory-centric puzzle, an idea clicked. I snapped up my scratchpad and scraped together a list of every ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
SOUND MIXING, indicating two-word phrases that are made up of two common sounds. Rich made a great call kicking off the puzzle with ... read more
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K
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© 2021, The New York Times9/30/21 ( No. 26,259 )
Across
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Website overseer : ADMIN
6
Spanish for "sweet" : DULCE
11
Former N.Y.C. mayor Beame : ABE
14
Like soil that combines sand, silt and clay : LOAMY
15
AAA part: Abbr. : ASSOC
16
Turpentine ingredient : SAP
17
[Birds] + [Bees] = P.R. campaign goal : TWITTERBUZZ
19
Contraction that drops an "i" : TIS
20
"A," on a timeline : ANNO
21
Put down : DIS
22
Response to a doubter : YESIDO
24
Neat analogy? : ASAPIN
26
[Lightsaber] + [Impatient fingers] = Boring : HUMDRUM
27
Painter's kit : ARTSET
28
Half of a 1960s folk rock group : PAPAS
29
P.O.'ed : IRATE
30
Go-___ : KART
31
Common prom coif : UPDO
35
Tail ... or one with a tail : DOG
36
[Cellphone] + [Bubble] = Edible accessory : RINGPOP
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Far from fastidious : LAX
40
Blown away : AWED
42
Fictional business on TV frequently targeted by prank calls : MOES
43
Hold forth : ORATE
45
Tests that are very hard to cheat on : ORALS
47
"___ noches!" : BUENAS
48
[Cow] + [Thunder] = Snake eyes, e.g. : LOWROLL
51
Apollo Theater's locale : HARLEM
52
Word with party or balloon : ANIMAL
53
Be struggling, say : AIL
54
Grammy winner India.___ : ARIE
56
Rep. Cheney of Wyoming : LIZ
57
Academy Awards category eliminated in 2021 ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle : SOUNDMIXING
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It's often included in a good deal : ACE
61
Private student : TUTEE
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Watch it! : VIDEO
63
Former Chinese premier Jiabao : WEN
64
Keeps thinking "Grrrr!" : STEWS
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Hägar the Horrible's pooch : SNERT
Down
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Acqua ___ (cause of annual flooding in Venice) : ALTA
2
A key to what's underneath? : DOWNARROW
3
Prime spot at a music festival : MAINSTAGE
4
"My parents are gonna kill me!" : IMTOAST
5
Winner of over 125 Pulitzer Prizes, for short : NYT
6
Bobby who sang "Mack the Knife" : DARIN
7
Many flash drives, familiarly : USBS
8
Sch. in Baton Rouge : LSU
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Ingratiate oneself with : COZYUPTO
10
Skin malady : ECZEMA
11
Up and about : ASTIR
12
Major Chinese internet company : BAIDU
13
___ salts : EPSOM
18
Copy-right? : EDIT
23
Calif. school that's about 20 miles from the Mexican border : SDSU
25
Colleague : PEER
26
Dwells tiresomely (on) : HARPS
27
Verdi opera : AIDA
28
Flips (through) : PAGES
30
Small hill : KNOLL
32
United way? : PLANERIDE
33
Worker searching for patterns in the statistical noise : DATAMINER
34
Dumb ___ (buffoons) : OXES
37
Shopkeeper's "Sorry, none left" : IMALLOUT
38
Decant : POUR
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Place to live and learn : DORM
44
Pregnancy hormone : RELAXIN
46
Certain tributes (although they may not seem like them) : ROASTS
47
Great relief : BALM
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Legal drama with Jimmy Smits : LALAW
49
Temporarily suspended : ONICE
50
Shrivel from age : WIZEN
51
Goes underground : HIDES
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From the start : ANEW
55
Performer's grand slam, in modern parlance : EGOT
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Sport ___ (all-terrain vehicle) : UTE
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O.R. lines : IVS

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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