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New York Times, Friday, December 13, 2024

Author:
Ryan Patrick Smith
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
Garden-variety poker?
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Ryan Patrick Smith

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Smith. Friday freshness: 94%
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© 2024, The New York Times12/13/24 ( No. 27,429 )
Across
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Put a lid on it! : HATRACK
8
To which a "To/From" label might be attached : GIFTBOX
15
Chance meeting greeting : OHHELLO
16
Away for a while : ONLEAVE
17
Question after an untimely joke : TOOSOON
18
Attacked from the sides : FLANKED
19
Pronouncing "pronunciation" as "pronounciation," e.g. : ERRING
20
Drift : MEANDER
21
Dorothea who documented the Great Depression : LANGE
22
Lodge : BURY
23
What Han Solo never wants to be told : ODDS
25
Stars are big ones : NAMES
27
Open, as a compressed file : UNZIP
28
Sexually charged title track of a hit 1973 album : LETSGETITON
33
Title princess in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera : IDA
34
Spanish pronoun : ESA
35
Something to show for a tow : AAACARD
36
Recurring quirk : TIC
37
Contribute to a company, say : ACT
38
Hallmark of a hypocrite : INSINCERITY
40
Trig ratio : COTAN
42
___ shock (Japan's term for the video game crash of 1983) : ATARI
43
Place for an ornament : HOOD
44
Cornmeal cake : PONE
46
"My heart is like a singing bird / ___ nest is in a water'd shoot": Christina Rossetti : WHOSE
50
Features of work boots : TOECAPS
52
Elevated pitches : SHARPS
53
Main course? : SEALANE
54
"The Fault in Our Stars" genre, informally : TEENLIT
55
Touchdown, e.g. : ARRIVAL
56
Without exception : BARNONE
57
Slack alternative, in brief : MSTEAMS
58
Major product of Jordan : SNEAKER
Down
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W, for one : HOTEL
2
Now, in Spanish : AHORA
3
Garden-variety poker? : THORN
4
Steps down : RESIGNS
5
1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan hit with a melancholy title : ALONEAGAIN
6
Draining issue : CLOG
7
___Mari (organization method) : KON
8
Office lackey : GOFER
9
Nacre on a nice guitar, say : INLAY
10
Dessert made with a double boiler : FLAN
11
Achilles, e.g. : TENDON
12
Cheesy casserole : BAKEDZITI
13
Went too far : OVERDIDIT
14
Struck (out) : XED
20
Performers of note? : MUSICIANS
22
Test releases : BETAS
24
Scatterbrained : SPACY
26
Statistics calculation : MEAN
27
Question that one is tricked into asking, in a classic gag : UNDERWHERE
28
Drain (away) : LEACH
29
Chargeable conveyances : ESCOOTERS
30
Makeup of a sleeve : TATTOOART
31
Soeur de la mère : TANTE
32
What's black and white and wet all over? : ORCA
39
Singer with the 2009 double-platinum album "Rated R" : RIHANNA
41
Antarctic penguin : ADELIE
44
First airline to fly a jumbo jet : PANAM
45
Cars known as Vauxhalls in the U.K. : OPELS
47
Count ___, a.k.a. Nosferatu : ORLOK
48
Book identifier, often : SPINE
49
Compound formed from an alcohol and an acid : ESTER
51
Drink similar to Champagne : CAVA
52
Bean on the screen : SEAN
53
Tech entrepreneur Altman : SAM
54
"American Dad!" airer : TBS

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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