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New York Times, Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Author:
Lance Enfinger
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Person often flirting with disaster
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2010101
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Lance Enfinger

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JVZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Enfinger. Grid flow: 55.6 Tuesday freshness: 58%
Jim Horne notes:

QUIDDITCH, not yet an Olympic sport, is from the Harry Potter books.

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© 2025, The New York Times1/14/25 ( No. 27,461 )
Across
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Ruling from a tennis line judge : ITSIN
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Spelled-out chant at the World Cup : USA
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Home for Shrek : SWAMP
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For the first time : NEWLY
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___ Beta Kappa : PHI
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Signature Caitlin Clark shot, informally : THREE
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One in charge of a sting operation? : BEEKEEPER
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Vessel in a slip : YACHT
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Individuals : ONES
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It locks locks into place : GEL
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Lead-in to rock or weekly : ALT
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Like a birthday candle prior to your making a wish : LIT
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Absolute champion : WORLDBEATER
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Head off : DEPART
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Make good as new : RESTORE
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Cheer after a gooooooal! : OLE
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Poorly behaved child : BRAT
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Parks who sparked a bus boycott : ROSA
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Publicity hound : ATTENTIONSEEKER
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News of an alien landing, probably : HOAX
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"Milk's favorite cookie" brand : OREO
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Barnyard sound : MAA
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Challenge for a person drawing lots? : ARTTEST
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Piece of equipment seen at the Paralympics : SITSKI
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Person often flirting with disaster : STORMCHASER
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Response in the game of Battleship : HIT
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Org. that helped phase out CFCs : EPA
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Jost's "S.N.L." Weekend Update co-host : CHE
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Hardy and Petty : TOMS
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Friend of Flower and Thumper : BAMBI
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Game that ends when the snitch is caught ... and whose positions end 17-, 24-, 36- and 48-Across : QUIDDITCH
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Handbill : FLIER
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Chilly remark? : BRR
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Home of the Craters of the Moon National Monument : IDAHO
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Bit of snow : FLAKE
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Posed : SAT
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Question after a joke bombs : GETIT
Down
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Emphasized, textwise : INBOLD
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Like the yellow polka dot bikini, in a 1960 #1 novelty song : TEENIE
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Popular Thanksgiving item : SWEETPOTATO
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Types : ILKS
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Scientific Bill : NYE
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Word before deck or hand : UPPER
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Prominent part of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume : SHELL
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The "A" of A/C : AIR
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Choices at salons : STYLES
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"I like this so much!" : WHATATREAT
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___ de Triomphe : ARC
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"I wasn't impressed" : MEH
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Rescue animal, maybe : PET
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Quadruple award achievement, informally : EGOT
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Supports illegally, in a way : ABETS
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Small brown songbird : WREN
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Liquid-Plumr alternative : DRANO
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Attempted : TOOKASHOTAT
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Gaelic language : ERSE
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Back end : REAR
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TV host who got asked a lot of questions : ALEXTREBEK
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Labor day event : BIRTH
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Pseudonym in a landmark legal case : ROE
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Cries of understanding : AHAS
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Cause for a lawsuit : TORT
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"Vissi d'arte" opera : TOSCA
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Qatari leader : EMIR
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Enemy of the Rebel Alliance : EMPIRE
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Tournament ranking : SEED
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Korean fermented cabbage : KIMCHI
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Remark while fanning oneself, maybe : ITSHOT
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Integra maker : ACURA
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Polo, e.g. : SHIRT
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It washes a shore : TIDE
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Closest pal, informally : BFF
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Not just some : ALL
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Hamm of soccer fame : MIA
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Ones trying not to be sacked, in brief : QBS
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Fossil hunters' project : DIG

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