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New York Times, Thursday, April 25, 2024

Author:
Hanh Huynh
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
17-Across : Seats of power
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Hanh Huynh

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 39 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Huynh. Thursday freshness: 73%
Jim Horne notes:
Holy COW! Three COWs have holes (circles) that are just gaps going across, but need to be read as HOLE going down. Empty sqaures in ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times4/25/24 ( No. 27,197 )
Across
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Snap : PIC
4
Misfortune : WOE
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Warm-up leader at a race : PACECAR
14
Dirty look : SC O WL
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Passionate, as a performance : EMOTIVE
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Seats of power : THRONES
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Good and hot : ENRAGED
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Signal to snap : HUT
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Kind of workout class : SPIN
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Longtime judge on "Britain's Got Talent" and "America's Got Talent" : SIMONC O WELL
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Alternative : PLANB
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Small power sources : AAS
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Plant with lance-shaped leaves : ALOE
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Surrounded : HEDGEDIN
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Fords discontinued in 1959 : EDSELS
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Lit part of an 11-Down : END
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One wearing stripes : REF
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"Thanks for sharing ... not!" : TMI
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Gender prefix : CIS
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"Doesn't matter to me" : NOLOSS
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Mixtape medium : CASSETTE
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Ready to move on from : OVER
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Wicked stuff? : WAX
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Jazz singer Carmen : MCRAE
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City in the Pacific Northwest with a Russian-sounding name : MOSC O WIDAHO
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Puzzle (out) : SUSS
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Musician Brian : ENO
52
The tiniest bit : ONEIOTA
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Quarterback's pass : ATTEMPT
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Big name in sports betting : FANDUEL
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"Wow!" ... or a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme : HOLYCOW
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Globe, for one : THEATRE
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Uncover dirt, in a way : HOE
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"Me!" : IDO
Down
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Vegas winter hrs. : PST
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German pronoun : ICH
3
Ire : CHOLER
4
1, 2, 3, etc. : WHOLENUMBERS
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Have because of : OWETO
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Leads of "La La Land"? : ELS
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Low-tech security measures on some doors : PEEPHOLES
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Procedure performed by an OB : AMNIO
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Popular backyard game : CORNHOLE
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Important info for a connection, in brief : ETA
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Smoke : CIG
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Address abbr. : AVE
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Detroit ___, nickname for Malcolm X : RED
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Expressing wonder : OOHING
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Instruction to open some restaurant menus : SCAN
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Burdens (with) : SADDLES
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Ingenuous person : NAIF
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Historian's verb : WAS
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Spider-Man adversary played by Jamie Foxx : ELECTRO
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Novel parodied by Umberto Eco's "Granita" : LOLITA
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Tenant : LESSEE
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Prodigy : PHENOM
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Laptop brand : LENOVO
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From, in France : DES
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Letters on an ambulance : EMS
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Break down : DISMANTLE
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Something checkered in New York's past? : TAXI
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Creature of fantasy : ORC
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Harsh cries : CAWS
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Like like like this clue clue clue ... : ECHOEY
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Not retail : WHOLESALE
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Sinks the putt : HOLESOUT
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What "ecto-" means as a prefix : OUTER
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Artoo-___ : DETOO
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E'er so frequently : OFT
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"Pass" : NAH
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Suffix with methyl : ENE
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Journalist Tarbell : IDA
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"That's the spot!" : AHH
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Former AT&T competitor : MCI
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Where peas are queued? : POD
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Powerful card in the game President : TWO

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