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New York Times, Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Author:
Miranda Kany
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Bit of pork, but not in a congressional bill
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Miranda Kany

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 40 Missing: {GQZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Kany. Wednesday freshness: 48%
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© 2023, The New York Times10/11/23 ( No. 27,000 )
Across
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Propped open, say : AJAR
5
People of northern Scandinavia : SAMI
9
Ballerina's support : BARRE
14
Output of the Rolling Stones, appropriately : ROCKMUSIC
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Real tear-jerker? : ONION
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Bit of pork, but not in a congressional bill : ANDOUILLE
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Confident gait : STRUT
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Pen name : BIC
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Gets old, say : STALES
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Socialize : MIX
23
Forever and a day : AEON
24
Airline once acquired by Carl Icahn : TWA
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Stuff it! : PEPPER
29
Something that's red-hot in the kitchen? : CAYENNE
33
Upon : ATOP
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Shut up : SEALED
36
Saloon sip : ALE
38
Great divide : CHASM
40
Garlic, in Guadalajara : AJO
41
Slyly derisive : SNIDE
43
Personal quirk : TIC
44
Emanates (from) : ISSUES
47
Hot spot for a chef : OVEN
48
Scaredy-cat : CHICKEN
50
Stick in a salad? : CELERY
52
Mai ___ : TAI
53
Nut once used as an ingredient in Coke : KOLA
54
"Whatevs" : MEH
56
"Oh, settle down …" : NOWNOW
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N.Y.C.'s ___ Cortlandt Park : VAN
62
"Stranger Things" kid : LUCAS
64
What pales in comparison to other carbs? : WHITERICE
66
Fitting way to invest in Campbell's : STOCK
67
Paramedic, perhaps : LIFESAVER
68
Test of patience : DELAY
69
Risked a ticket, say : SPED
70
Three feet : YARD
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Many an Omani or Iraqi : ARAB
2
Musical Mitchell : JONI
3
Current choice : ACDC
4
One of the Big Five film studios of Hollywood's golden age : RKO
5
Romantic hopefuls : SUITORS
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Narnia lion : ASLAN
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George Eliot's "The ___ on the Floss" : MILL
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Beverage that can cause brain freeze : ICEE
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Logan Airport code : BOS
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Marvel role for Paul Rudd : ANTMAN
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Nickname for Rihanna : RIRI
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Fat/flour mixture : ROUX
13
Suffix with differ : ENT
15
Le Louvre, e.g. : MUSEE
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Eye affliction : STYE
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Yummly, SideChef and Food Monster : APPS
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Does rite by one's partner? : WEDS
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Treaty : PACT
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Guiding principle : ETHIC
28
Cook in simmering liquid : POACH
29
Cuisine with [circled letters], whose ingredients are the answers to the italicized clues : CAJUN
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Ancient Egyptians referred to it as the "plant of immortality" because of its ability to survive without soil : ALOE
31
Green : NAIVE
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Respected figure : ELDER
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Adroitness : EASE
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Itsy : EENY
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Sheet mineral : MICA
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City where 29-Down food is popular, informally : NOLA
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Largest human organ : SKIN
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Moved (over) : SCOOTED
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New York home of Cornell University : ITHACA
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Cary of "The Princess Bride" : ELWES
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Part of a place setting : KNIFE
54
Smartphone button : MUTE
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Environmental sci. : ECOL
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"Wise" ones : OWLS
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Beat into a froth, as cream : WHIP
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"___ Las Vegas" : VIVA
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Laptop brand : ACER
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Wonk : NERD
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Alternative to mushrooms : LSD
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Place for pie, idiomatically : SKY
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Word after alpha, beta or gamma : RAY

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