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Alex Eaton-Salners
Alex Eaton-Salners

NY Times, Sun Jan 7, 2024 Going Too Far

20-Across : Gingerly slip past

Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40
Notepad: Many of the answers in this crossword are too long and won't fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it. When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell a quote by the comedian George [56-Down].

The quote: "If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?"

— [George] Carlin

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© 2024, The New York Times
Across
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Lab reports? : ARFS
5
"Uncle!" : IGIVE
9
Display zero aptitude for : FAILAT
14
Bad, bad Brown of song : LEROY
15
Five-spots : ABES
16
Washington, but not Jefferson : STATE
17
Checklist component : ITEM
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Like a recessive gene, often : UNEXPRESSED
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Gingerly slip past : EASEBY
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File variety : RASP
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Chi-Town squad : SOX
24
Chinese "How are you?" : NIHAOMA
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First half of N.B. : NOTA
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Take the reins again : RELEAD
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Derive logically (from) : INFER
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Boiled breakfast dishes : PORRIDGES
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Some printer cartridge inks : CYANS
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Sheltered, nautically : ALEE
40
In the stomach already : EATEN
43
Khaki fabric : CHINO
44
Leave bare : DENUDE
46
Couldn't stay any longer : HADTORUN
48
Got all lathered up? : SOAPED
49
Crowbar, essentially : LEVER
50
H. H. Munro, pseudonymously : SAKI
52
Love interest for Archie : VERONICA
57
Actress Skye : IONE
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"___ noted" : DULY
61
Six-string, e.g. : GUITAR
62
Down Under instrument : DIDGERIDOO
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Up to the point that : UNTIL
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English class assignment : ESSAY
68
Universal donor's designation : TYPEO
69
Actress Ryan of "Star Trek: Picard" : JERI
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Like some kisses and bases : STOLEN
71
"Steppenwolf" author Hermann : HESSE
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Elvis's middle name : ARON
Down
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Person from abroad : ALIEN
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Sell in stores (for) : RETAIL
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Just picked, say : FRESH
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"Not nice!" : SOMEAN
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Jupiter's largest moon : GANYMEDE
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"Yeah, right!" : IBET
7
Bother : VEX
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Where Sevilla is : ESPANA
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Sterile : ASEPTIC
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___-bitsy : ITSY
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Stock holder? : LASSO
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Consumed, biblically : ATEOF
13
Online lecture franchise : TEDX
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+/- : ORSO
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___ acid (insecticide) : BORIC
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Pond gunk : ALGAE
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"As I was saying ..." : ANYHOW
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What most babies do between 6 and 12 months : TEETHE
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Like cloudless weather : FAIR
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Listless feeling : ENNUI
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Result of a bad match? : ARSON
34
Safari runners : IPADS
35
Spread in a tub : OLEO
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Combat locale : ARENA
37
Signs on for another tour : REUPS
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Gutter spot : EAVE
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Experiences : UNDERGOES
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Expert marksman : DEADEYE
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What a prankster might drop : TROU
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Frasier's ex on "Frasier" : LILITH
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Many a northern Iraqi : KURD
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Japanese sneaker? : NINJA
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Successful swinger : HITTER
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Capital on the Nile : CAIRO
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[See puzzle instructions] : CARLIN
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Palms, as a card : HIDES
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Raise with ropes : HOIST
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"Your point being ...?" : ANDSO
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Guy's partner : GAL
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Easter egg colorer : DYE
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"My bad!" : OOPS
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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