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New York Times, Saturday, November 18, 2023

Author:
Hoang-Kim Vu
Editor:
Will Shortz
9-Across : Opens up, in a way
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Hoang-Kim Vu

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Vu. Saturday freshness: 71%
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© 2023, The New York Times11/18/23 ( No. 27,038 )
Across
1
Modern meeting organizer : ZOOMHOST
9
Opens up, in a way : BLOOMS
15
Radicchio relative : ESCAROLE
16
Common bit of knitwear : BEANIE
17
Kitchen item for preparing cookies or pizza : SHEETPAN
18
Keep : CASTLE
19
Shade named for a bird : TEAL
20
Recipe part : STEP
22
Certain descriptor after a signature nowadays : HEHIM
23
Elder Stark daughter on "Game of Thrones" : SANSA
25
Try : STAB
27
___ Institute, home of the Carl Sagan Center : SETI
28
Brown-y points, for short? : TDS
30
Start on a draft, say : SIP
32
Drove : RAN
33
Feast for "holiday orphans" : FRIENDSGIVING
37
Writer with good taste? : FOODCOLUMNIST
38
One way to stress something that's important : DRAMATICPAUSE
39
Caribbean spirit : RUM
40
Hit song title for Abba or Rihanna : SOS
41
Apple core, for short : CPU
42
Athlete's affliction also called "twisties" in gymnastics, with "the" : YIPS
44
Musical intermission? : REST
47
Leaves for lunch, maybe : SALAD
51
Walks and runs, e.g. : STATS
53
Makeup of some wet bars : SOAP
55
It may be buried : LEDE
56
On now : AIRING
58
Arcade fixture with miniature toys and candy as prizes : CLAWGAME
60
Proceed with gusto : LETRIP
61
"Did you enjoy yourself?" : HOWWASIT
62
Sessions of congress? : TRYSTS
63
Flashes of understanding : INSIGHTS
Down
1
Kitchen shavings : ZESTS
2
___ Jackson Jr., actor who portrayed his father in "Straight Outta Compton" : OSHEA
3
Charybdis' milieu : OCEAN
4
Charybdis, for one : MAELSTROM
5
Treatment for someone in transition, in brief : HRT
6
"My bad!" : OOPS
7
Mattress support : SLATS
8
Something held in church : TENET
9
Channel established under a royal charter : BBC
10
Genesis woman : LEAH
11
Retreats in the sand : OASES
12
Up and coming : ONTHERISE
13
One decidedly not laissez-faire : MILITANT
14
Supposed : SEEMING
21
Turn down : PASSUP
24
Brand with three stripes : ADIDAS
26
Burger burgled by the Hamburglar : BIGMAC
29
Slice of pie, mathematically : SECTOR
31
Contents of some old calendars : PINUPS
33
Festivity with mountains of bubbles : FOAMPARTY
34
Bangs, e.g. : NOISES
35
Gamer's post-purchase add-ons, for short : DLC
36
Photo of someone holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, say : VISUALGAG
37
Like a daiquiri vis-à-vis a shot of whiskey, say : FRUITIER
38
Curing technique : DRYSALT
43
Moves around : STIRS
45
2014 Winter Olympics locale : SOCHI
46
Sharp point on a kite : TALON
48
One might attach to a toddler's backpack : LEASH
49
Receive : ADMIT
50
The 411 : DEETS
52
Apt rhyme for "fit" : SNIT
54
Print sources, maybe : PAWS
57
E.T.A. provider : GPS
59
Setting for the film "1917," familiarly : WWI

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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