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New York Times, Saturday, December 21, 2024

Author:
Barbara Lin and Lewis Rothlein
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
Shifty little sucker?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
151/23/202012/21/20242
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1223412
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.617952%
Barbara Lin
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
106/11/201512/21/20244
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.566567%
Lewis Rothlein

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 26 Missing: {JQVXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 15 for Ms. Lin. This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Rothlein. Saturday freshness: 59%
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© 2024, The New York Times12/21/24 ( No. 27,437 )
Across
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Shifty little sucker? : BENDYSTRAW
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C.D., e.g.: Abbr. : ACCT
15
Madrid's Teatro Real, for one : OPERAHOUSE
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Character who says "I am short, fat and proud of that" : POOH
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The "King of Mambo" : TITOPUENTE
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Austrian composer Mahler : ALMA
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No longer waffle : OPT
20
Pill alternatives, in brief : IUDS
22
Returner's call : LET
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À la king? : NOBLY
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Reason for foot-tapping : ANTSINESS
28
Lines in bars : URLS
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Confirmation, for one : RITE
30
Mount ___, Canada's highest peak : LOGAN
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Certain tech exec : CIO
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Chinese dog breed, for short : PEKE
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All the greater : MORESO
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Alabama is in it, but Alaska is not : LOWERFORTYEIGHT
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Adds to the code, say : ENACTS
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Stake : FUND
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Apt name for a thief : ROB
40
"The Hate U Give" author Thomas : ANGIE
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First name in country : REBA
42
Rooney of "Women Talking" : MARA
43
Most of the 1980s : REAGANERA
45
Slogged (through) : WADED
46
Its first airing was "The French Chef" with Julia Child : PBS
47
"And the ___ raths outgrabe" ("Jabberwocky" line) : MOME
48
Exclamation with a shake : BRR
49
Black-and-white divers : AUKS
51
It's a little shady : BONSAITREE
56
Last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, familiarly : CLEO
57
"Worth a shot" : ITCANTHURT
58
What some people display after getting stuck? : TATS
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Far below the surface : DEEPSEATED
Down
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X follower, perhaps : BOT
2
Lead-in to -gram : EPI
3
Losing athlete in the 2002 and 2003 N.B.A. Finals : NET
4
Runs off at the mouth? : DROOLS
5
Like a noisy toy : YAPPY
6
Turned (off) : SHUT
7
Oft-kissed part of the statue of St. Peter in Vatican City : TOE
8
Shield, with "for" : RUNINTERFERENCE
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Not born yesterday, so to speak : ASTUTE
10
Bed hogs, at times : WEEDS
11
Shrinks' org. : APA
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One who's made it to some degree? : COLLEGEGRAD
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Lands : COMESASHORE
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"I kinda like it!" : THATSNOTBAD
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Isolated : SILOED
23
SALT, but not PEPPER : NUCLEARPACT
24
Star-forming region nearest to Earth : ORIONNEBULA
25
Go ballistic : BLOWAGASKET
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Jhené ___, Grammy-nominated R&B singer : AIKO
27
Japanese food that's a good source of what it spells backward : NORI
29
Some who whistle while they work : REFS
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Comms group : PRTEAM
33
Noisy Asian bird : MYNA
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Pen for a hit : ECIG
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Latin for "trumpet" : TUBA
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Like many on a Zoom call : REMOTE
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Vineyard eponym : MARTHA
44
Like a sole-source contract : NOBID
45
Form letters? : WRITE
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Blue laws, e.g. : BANS
50
This means trouble : SOS
52
Woodpecker's fare : SAP
53
Bad place to be stuck : RUT
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Short palindrome in the middle of a famous longer one : ERE
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Track stat : ETD

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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