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New York Times, Monday, November 18, 2024

Author:
Rajeswari Rajamani
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
Two-player offensive sequence in basketball
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Rajeswari Rajamani

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Rajamani. Grid flow: 22.4 Monday freshness: 81%
Jim Horne notes:

The theme entries all fit the pattern __CK and __LL.

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R
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E
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L
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A
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X
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C
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O
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G
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N
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J
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H
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N
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L
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W
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B
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C
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K
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B
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L
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U
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© 2024, The New York Times11/18/24 ( No. 27,404 )
Across
1
Take a chill pill : RELAX
6
Welsh dog breed : CORGI
11
"Yuck!" : EWW
14
Self-evident truth : AXIOM
15
Spheres of study : AREAS
16
July-August zodiac sign : LEO
17
Personal bidding, in an idiom : BECKANDCALL
19
Part of a train ... or an alternative to one : CAR
20
___ Scurry, first Black woman in the National Soccer Hall of Fame : BRIANA
21
Museum info displayer : PLACARD
23
Wee, informally : ITTY
24
___ Moines, Iowa : DES
27
Take ___ (catch some Z's) : ANAP
28
Who went "up the hill" in a nursery rhyme : JACKANDJILL
32
Glass fragment : SHARD
36
Suspend : HALT
37
Great Plains tribe : OTOE
38
Speaking and pointing at objects, in a game of charades : NONOS
39
Mel in the Baseball Hall of Fame : OTT
40
High-fives, basically : SLAPS
41
Actor Guinness : ALEC
42
Ooze : SEEP
43
Spanish babies : NENES
44
Two-player offensive sequence in basketball : PICKANDROLL
47
Instructional talk at an expo, informally : DEMO
48
Facility at many a luxury resort : SPA
49
Doughnut shapes, mathematically speaking : TORI
53
Steamy literary genre : EROTICA
56
Maneuvered (through), as traffic : WEAVED
58
Bit of cricket gear : BAT
59
Like a hard-to-believe story : COCKANDBULL
62
Broadway, for one: Abbr : AVE
63
Corrected with Ctrl+Z : UNDID
64
"Kate & ___" (1980s sitcom) : ALLIE
65
"Certainly!" : YES
66
Religious factions : SECTS
67
Adheres to, as a deadline : MEETS
Down
1
Synagogue leader : RABBI
2
Put forth, as effort : EXERT
3
Permitted by law : LICIT
4
Perfectly fine : AOKAY
5
Marvel Comics mutant : XMAN
6
Real scoundrel : CAD
7
Soldier of Sauron in "The Lord of the Rings" : ORC
8
"You ___ what you sow" : REAP
9
Like a brave knight : GALLANT
10
One of more than 14,000 that make up Japan : ISLAND
11
Iconic landmark in Yosemite Valley : ELCAPITAN
12
Partner of tear : WEAR
13
Boggle find : WORD
18
Zippo : NADA
22
Persuade with flattery : CAJOLE
25
Was bouncing off the walls? : ECHOED
26
Performers of kickflips and boardslides : SKATERS
28
Law school grads, in brief : JDS
29
Subgenre for Lorde and Lana Del Rey : ALTPOP
30
Leisurely run : LOPE
31
"Sometimes ___ is more" : LESS
32
Finger-clicking sound : SNAP
33
Hindu festival of colors : HOLI
34
Amusing stories from a public speaker : ANECDOTES
35
What goes up after a countdown? : ROCKET
40
Weekend comedy show, for short : SNL
42
Flavored ice treat : SNOCONE
45
___ curiae (friend of the court) : AMICUS
46
On which croquet and cornhole are played : LAWN
49
On which Ping-Pong and air hockey are played : TABLE
50
Tiny egg : OVULE
51
Like the Olympic cauldron every four years : RELIT
52
Keeps the engine running, say : IDLES
53
Site where NWT = "New With Tags" and GU = "Gently Used" : EBAY
54
Five-star review : RAVE
55
Rock band with an electric name : ACDC
57
Wax-coated cheese : EDAM
60
D.I.Y. purchase : KIT
61
Distractions on many free apps : ADS

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

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