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New York Times, Monday, September 30, 2024

Author:
Alexander Liebeskind
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
11-Down : Drop in the ocean?
TotalDebutLatest
412/9/20219/30/2024
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ScrabDebutFresh
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Alexander Liebeskind

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQWX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Liebeskind. Monday freshness: 38%
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© 2024, The New York Times9/30/24 ( No. 27,355 )
Across
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Wheel's place on a ship : HELM
5
It beats a high card but nothing else : PAIR
9
Activist Parks : ROSA
13
Elder Obama daughter : MALIA
14
New York Times opinion writer Klein : EZRA
15
The "Iliad," for one : EPIC
16
Sentence that often appears in the first paragraph of an essay : THESISSTATEMENT
19
Mover's vehicle : VAN
20
Shoe brand named for a Greek goddess : NIKE
21
Loses on purpose, as an N.B.A. team : TANKS
22
Quick confirmation of feasibility : SANITYCHECK
26
Jokes around : KIDS
27
Massachusetts college town : AMHERST
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Overused and uncreative : STALE
33
Part of the hand : PALM
35
Kinda : SEMI
36
Carry (around) : LUG
37
Dose for an LSD trip : ACIDTAB
40
Jerry's foe in old cartoons : TOM
41
Fastidious to a fault : ANAL
43
"Sadly …" : ALAS
44
Old enough : OFAGE
46
Classic ice cream order : VANILLA
48
Doughnut shapes : TORI
49
Football player in upstate New York : BUFFALOBILL
53
Animal in "Happy hump day!" memes : CAMEL
56
iPhone assistant : SIRI
57
Not worth a ___ : SOU
59
Cry from someone seeking revenge … or a hint to the ends of 16-, 22-, 37- and 49-Across : YOULLPAYFORTHIS
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Poker buy-in : ANTE
64
A panda's is 99% bamboo : DIET
65
Remote-controlled flier : DRONE
66
Must have : NEED
67
The "A" of M.F.A. : ARTS
68
Little drinks : SIPS
Down
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Laughing sounds : HAHAS
2
Supreme Court justice appointed by Barack Obama : ELENAKAGAN
3
Fleur-de-___ : LIS
4
Key point : MAINIDEA
5
Irksome : PESKY
6
Empire whose capital city was Tenochtitlán : AZTEC
7
NPR host Glass : IRA
8
Tattle (on) : RAT
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2023's "Fatal Attraction" and "The Little Mermaid" : REMAKES
10
Word before ended, handed or minded : OPEN
11
Drop in the ocean? : SINK
12
Laws passed by Congress : ACTS
13
Cable channel that first showed "Beavis and Butt-head" : MTV
17
Plops oneself down : SITS
18
___ A Sketch (classic toy) : ETCH
23
Zilch : NIL
24
Ceases : HALTS
25
Actress Watson : EMMA
28
Mom-and-pop store, e.g. : RETAILSHOP
29
Pollution that can change the colors of a sunset : SMOG
30
Stat of interest to a competitive crossword solver : TIME
31
Balkan native : SLAV
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Yellowfin or bluefin : TUNA
33
Rice dish : PILAF
34
Early computer scientist Lovelace : ADA
38
Baby cow : CALF
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Loud and unhappy sports fans, in slang : BOOBIRDS
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Defamed in print : LIBELED
45
Sat. preceder : FRI
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Temporarily calm period : LULL
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Spanish bull : TORO
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Thus far : ASYET
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Pumps iron at the gym : LIFTS
52
Some cuts of pork : LOINS
53
The "C" of a printer's CMYK : CYAN
54
Top-notch : AONE
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Button to press when stepping away from a Zoom meeting : MUTE
58
Employ : USE
60
Kissing on the street, e.g., for short : PDA
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It's almost 80% nitrogen : AIR
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Quadri- minus one : TRI

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