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New York Times, Friday, November 3, 2023

Author:
Robyn Weintraub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Show that featured the first lesbian kiss on prime-time TV (1991)
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Robyn Weintraub

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 47 for Ms. Weintraub. Friday freshness: 22%
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© 2023, The New York Times11/3/23 ( No. 27,023 )
Across
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Bill for expensive clothing? : BLASS
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Go back and forth, say : SWAY
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Farm youth : COLT
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Show that featured the first lesbian kiss on prime-time TV (1991) : LALAW
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Get in position? : HIRE
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Once again : ANEW
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Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, for two : TITLEROLES
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Reincarnated one, maybe : LAMA
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Early home décor : CAVEART
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Shade similar to coral : SALMON
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Plugging away : ATIT
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Like the light at sundown : DIMMING
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Plot lines for many early Marvel films : ORIGINSTORIES
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More than a scuffle : MELEE
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Made a good point? : HONED
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Pepper introduced in the 1960s: Abbr. : SGT
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Producers of green eggs (but not ham) : EMUS
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Sacher ___ (chocolate/apricot confection) : TORTE
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Who talks on the phone a lot : SIRI
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Where Scrabble was invented: Abbr. : NYC
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Weight of valuables : CARAT
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Didn't take a card : STOOD
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Tip line? : KEEPTHECHANGE
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Chairs usually have them : AGENDAS
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Tower of London feature : MOAT
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Eludes : DODGES
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Didn't hide one's opinion : SPOKEUP
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Ingredient in some lip balms : ALOE
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General recommendation? : BATTLEPLAN
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Land vandalized by the Vandals : GAUL
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Subject of a first-person narrative : ADAM
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In after being out : RETRO
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Residents of the Forest of Fangorn : ENTS
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After-beach wear : ROBE
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No-good conniver : SNAKE
Down
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"Giant ___," soft sculpture of a sandwich at the Whitney Museum : BLT
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Nonclerical : LAIC
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Resort with a "no snowboarders" rule : ALTA
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Rescues from a junkyard, say : SALVAGES
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Babycakes : SWEETIE
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Cheeky attire? : SHORTSHORTS
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Lose oomph : WILT
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"Chances" follower : ARE
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"You betcha!" : YESSIREE
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What an extended thumb and pinkie by your face might mean : CALLME
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Doggedly determined : ONAMISSION
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Likely candidate for a breakdown : LEMON
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Sound of a bow shooting an arrow : TWANG
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What a pluviometer measures : RAIN
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In the thick of : AMID
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"Sounds amazing, but I really shouldn't" : DONTTEMPTME
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Divination observation : OMEN
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Protagonist of Pixar's "Your Friend the Rat" : REMY
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"That was so fortunate for me" : ILUCKEDOUT
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Book that gets reread from the beginning around autumn : TORAH
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Pirate's potable : GROG
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Pool maker : TIDE
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Eatery not known for its entrees : TAPASBAR
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Big house : STATEPEN
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Give up : CEDE
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Barware for making grasshoppers and whiskey sours : SHAKERS
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Philosopher Friedrich : ENGELS
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Leave sitting in a breeze, say : COOL
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Relative of an apothegm : ADAGE
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Mideast's ___ Heights : GOLAN
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Skewer : STAB
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Sephora rival : ULTA
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Get into a spot, perhaps : PARK
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What's the big fuss? : ADO
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___ Valley (San Francisco neighborhood) : NOE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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