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New York Times, Saturday, January 18, 2025

Author:
Scott McMahon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Hit 1976 album whose title track won the Grammy for Record of the Year
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Scott McMahon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 9, (3 triple stacks) This is the debut puzzle for Mr. McMahon. Grid flow: 12.8 Saturday freshness: 0%
Jim Horne notes:

We haven't had triple-triple stacks in ten years, but they were all the rage from 2000-2015. Crossword fashion evolves too.

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© 2025, The New York Times1/18/25 ( No. 27,465 )
Across
1
Famous palindrome starter : AMANAPLANACANAL
16
"Is there more?" : CARETOELABORATE
17
It can be infectious after Thanksgiving : CHRISTMASSPIRIT
18
Coloring sometimes confused with dun : ROAN
19
Female rapper with the 2008 hit "Paper Planes" : MIA
20
Makes a move : ACTS
21
Lead-in to day, way or more : ANY
22
Love interest of Peter in the "Spider-Man" universe : GWEN
24
Informal preposition : TIL
26
Fish with a shy-sounding name : KOI
27
It's the word : MUM
28
___-Cat : SNO
31
One of 12 for Katharine Hepburn : OSCARNOMINATION
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Dish that's different from its cousins by the inclusion of potatoes : SPANISHOMELETTE
38
Catchers of waves : SATELLITEDISHES
39
Vein output : ORE
40
Constellation with the star Regulus : LEO
41
Informal hookups : IVS
42
Half a candy bar? : KAT
43
Reasonable : SANE
45
Initials for a 20th-century president (and his wife) : LBJ
48
Avian symbol of good fortune in Celtic culture : WREN
51
Throne : CAN
52
Uncover : BARE
53
Hit 1976 album whose title track won the Grammy for Record of the Year : HOTELCALIFORNIA
58
Yogi Berra or Joe DiMaggio, e.g. : ITALIANAMERICAN
59
Sent out feelers, so to speak : TESTEDTHEWATERS
Down
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City that's the "heart of Africa's art scene," per National Geographic : ACCRA
2
Capital and second-largest city of Minorca : MAHON
3
Range : ARRAY
4
How to turn down a Hamburger : NEIN
5
They share keys with 2's : ATS
6
Nursery purchase : POT
7
"I can handle this!" : LEMME
8
___ LeRoy Locke, "Father of the Harlem Renaissance" : ALAIN
9
Org. with a climate research program : NASA
10
Required safety feature on cars, in brief : ABS
11
13-Down, e.g. : COP
12
It preceded Calibri as Microsoft's default font : ARIAL
13
Kilo finder : NARC
14
Plugging away : ATIT
15
Some do-overs : LETS
22
Chest-beating sort : GORILLA
23
Kate who won an Academy Award for "The Reader" : WINSLET
24
On the right radio frequency : TUNEDIN
25
Cry after a close shave : IMALIVE
26
Memorable title role of a 1941 film : KANE
27
Handy person? : MIME
28
Dark Lord of the ___ ("Star Wars" title) : SITH
29
Pay attention to : NOTE
30
Stack of Monopoly bills : ONES
31
Scapola o femore : OSSO
32
Go a couple of rounds : SPAR
33
___ Tiernan, author of the "Immortal Beloved" trilogy : CATE
34
Largest tributary of the Mississippi : OHIO
35
Wisecrack : MOT
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Novelist Gerritsen : TESS
42
Showed respect or submission, in a way : KNELT
43
Arabic for "prayer" : SALAH
44
Netflix category : ANIME
45
Long weapon : LANCE
46
Pipe material : BRIAR
47
Jimmy Carter was the first president regularly seen in these : JEANS
48
Slightest amount : WHIT
49
___ learning : ROTE
50
Some travelers' concerns, in brief : ETAS
51
Lingo : CANT
52
Person partial to humour? : BRIT
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Golfer's concern : LIE
55
Scoundrel : CAD
56
Handful : FEW
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___ pro nobis : ORA

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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