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Stella Zawistowski
NY Times, Sun Dec 22, 2024 Cryptic Crossword
4-Down : Empathizes with part of quarrel at estate (7)
Author:
Stella Zawistowski
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 30, Blocks: 73
| 1 I | N | 2 R | E | 3 S | E | 4 R | V | 5 E | | 6 B | U | 7 D | S |
| N | | A | | T | | E | | M | | R | | E | |
8 H | A | N | D | B | A | L | L | | 9 P | R | I | N | C | E |
| P | | I | | L | | A | | A | | O | | A | |
10 A | T | T | A | C | K | | 11 T | E | N | A | C | I | T | Y |
| | | T | | | | E | | A | | H | | H | |
12 F | 13 O | R | E | S | 14 T | | 15 S | U | D | D | E | N | L | Y |
| R | | | | E | | | | A | | | | O | |
16 D | I | S | 17 S | O | L | V | 18 E | | 19 S | U | 20 P | I | N | E |
| G | | W | | L | | L | | | | O | | | |
21 F | I | N | E | T | U | N | E | | 22 G | R | U | N | 23 G | E |
| N | | A | | R | | G | | O | | T | | U | |
24 M | A | I | T | A | I | | 25 A | P | P | R | I | S | E | D |
| T | | E | | D | | N | | R | | N | | S | |
26 B | E | A | R | | 27 E | X | T | R | O | V | E | R | T | |
© 2024, The New York Times
Across
1
6
Friends' beers (4) :
BUDS8
Reverend Spooner's venue for a musical group: a kind of court (8) :
HANDBALL9
Lithographs in speech for a royal heir (6) :
PRINCE10
Go after a bulletin board fastener, reportedly (6) :
ATTACK11
Determination of actor initially seen in "X" and "Metropolis" (8) :
TENACITY12
Group of trees in Front Street (6) :
FOREST15
Duly ends by arrangement all at once (8) :
SUDDENLY16
Abolish seedy bar absorbing loss, in retrospect (8) :
DISSOLVE19
Have dinner in beginning of evening lying on one's back (6) :
SUPINE21
Tweak finish: Piano exercise should have Beethoven's Ninth instead of Haydn's Fourth (4-4) :
FINETUNE22
Step between two musical keys in Nirvana's music, say (6) :
GRUNGE24
Mentioned my Southeast Asian cocktail (3,3) :
MAITAI25
Notified YouTube, for example, to move up middle of video (8) :
APPRISED26
Stomach starts to burble eating Almond Roca (4) :
BEAR27
People person to text rover after accident (9) :
EXTROVERT
Down
1
T-Pain remix is off the mark (5) :
INAPT2
Cool - in the '80s, I consumed spread (7) :
RADIATE3
Pursue small talk (5) :
STALK4
Empathizes with part of quarrel at estate (7) :
RELATES5
Who created this puzzle flipped cooking utensil with Ada's turnovers (9) :
EMPANADAS6
Dash added to half of cheese bread (7) :
BRIOCHE7
Mistakenly latched on a track-and-field event (9) :
DECATHLON13
14
Inform you in a text: Uber, perhaps, is somewhere in Colorado (9) :
TELLURIDE17
Yes, we ate rice sandwiches - it helps keep one warm (7) :
SWEATER18
Cultivated earwig's head and leg with worker insect (7) :
ELEGANT20
Make a face, in ecstasy, for Canadian food (7) :
POUTINE22
Sludge around public relations camera (5) :
GOPRO23
Rogue state imprisons visitor (5) :
GUEST
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle.
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