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New York Times, Saturday, October 15, 2022

Author:
John Hawksley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Tricky spot to be in?
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John Hawksley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 31 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Hawksley. Saturday freshness: 76%
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© 2022, The New York Times10/15/22 ( No. 26,639 )
Across
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Tricky spot to be in? : MAGICSHOP
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COPY, perhaps : STAMP
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Coffee order : AMERICANO
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Seasonal shop, e.g. : POPUP
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Adherent to the motto "Fortune favors the bold" : RISKTAKER
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Wrong : AMISS
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Pretentious display : ARTSINESS
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Start fishing : CAST
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Org. with many overseas workers : CIA
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What makes the short list? : ETC
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Prefix with -centric : ETHNO
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Father of Calypso : ATLAS
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Nothing to write home about : MEH
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Something you might get at the beach : COLOR
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Volleyball position : SETTER
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Large storage unit : PETABYTE
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Home contractor specialty, for short : HVAC
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Word with bread or water : SODA
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Certain marine herd : WHALEPOD
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Lickspittle : YESMAN
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Loved, with "up" : EATEN
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Word that retains its meaning when preceded by "no" : DUH
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Be a pest, in a way : TEASE
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Took a hard fall, informally : BITIT
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Something a TV station may not earn money from, for short : PSA
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Abbr. in calculus : LIM
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Verdant : LUSH
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Declaration of innocence : ITWASNTME
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Boy who said "Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about" : LINUS
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"Beowulf" and "Aeneid," for two : EPICPOEMS
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Warmest month in Patagonia : ENERO
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Is shocked or horrified by the image of, jocularly : CANTUNSEE
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First permanent settlement by people of European descent in what is now Utah : OGDEN
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M.I.T.'s sports team name : ENGINEERS
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Latin music duo : MARACAS
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"Ain't it so?" : AMIRITE
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Big picture : GESTALT
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Ticks off : IRKS
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Corp. with a red umbrella implied in its logo : CITI
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What classic sonnets do : SCAN
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N.B.A. legend Olajuwon : HAKEEM
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Simple dance : ONESTEP
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Taycan and Macan : PORSCHES
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Head-in-the-clouds sort : SPACECADET
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What makes clam chowder "Manhattan" rather than "New England" : TOMATOBASE
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How an imitator or silly person acts : APISHLY
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Words of prohibition : MUSTNOT
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Here's even more: Abbr. : PPS
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Rock that's graded : ORE
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Fashion trend embraced by Fendi and Versace : ATHLEISURE
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Potentially prophetic child : SEVENTHSON
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Lil Baby's genre : RAP
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The first "T" of TOTY (___ of the Year award) : TOY
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Renaissance-era cup : CODPIECE
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Bug catcher : WEB
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Coming down hard? : HAILING
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Keyed in (to) : ATTUNED
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Item on a janitorial cart : DUSTPAN
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Certain lap dog : MALTESE
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Not quite boiling : ASIMMER
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Pokémon's Gary and Ash, e.g. : NEMESES
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Verbal interruption and hesitation : HAWING
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Prologue follower : ACTI
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Woven, as a 37-Down : SPUN
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Choice of one who's too hard to please : NONE
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"Titanic" co-star, familiarly : LEO

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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