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New York Times, Saturday, April 23, 2022

Author:
Matthew Stock
Editor:
Will Shortz
25-Across : Clodpole
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Matthew Stock

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 35 Missing: {QWX} Grid has diagonal symmetry. This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Stock. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Saturday freshness: 11%
Jeff Chen notes:
Such a cool grid pattern! At first, it looked asymmetrical because those L-blocks looked like they were going every which way, but ... read more
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© 2022, The New York Times4/23/22 ( No. 26,464 )
Across
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Colorful warning : CODERED
8
Freedom cry, for some : TGIF
12
Material for a child's necklace : MACARONI
13
Rapper with the 2001 hit "Superwoman Pt. II" : LILMO
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They've got their own problems : MATHTESTS
15
Off the mark? : ERASE
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Plus ___ (Spain's national motto) : ULTRA
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Software engineer's presentation : TECHDEMO
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"I ___ you!" : DARE
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Consolidate : MERGE
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Shot, e.g. : DOSE
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Departure announcement : BYE
24
Much : FAR
25
Clodpole : OAF
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Word with hot or fly : ROD
28
Flexible positions : ASANAS
30
Modern initialism for one skimming text : TLDR
31
Something of miner interest : ORE
32
Theia or Rhea : TITAN
33
Joe carter? : COFFEEURN
35
Lacks for nothing : HASITALL
37
Like some gallery displays : ARTSY
38
Molten pools : LAVALAKES
40
Peter Pan competitor : JIF
42
Flavor of many Anglo-Indian chutneys : APPLE
43
1978 hit whose title is spelled out in its chorus : YMCA
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"That's enough out of you!" : CANIT
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Spiritual wanderer : LOSTSOUL
51
Aid for a breakfast chef : OMELETPAN
54
Kelley of the U.S. women's national soccer team : OHARA
55
Blow up : SUPERSIZE
56
Step two in many skin-care routines : TONER
57
Right on : APT
58
Gram alternative : NANA
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Twitch : SPASM
Down
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They might smell fishy : CATTREATS
2
Hue made from limonite : OCHRE
3
What's spread on a spreadsheet : DATA
4
Palindromic preposition : ERE
5
Baseball team announcement : ROSTER
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Step in : ENTER
7
Game with baskets : DISCGOLF
8
Beat : TIRED
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All made up, perhaps : GLAMOROUS
10
"How awful!" : IMSOSORRY
11
Other side : FOE
12
Land once known as the "peninsula of gold" : MALAYSIA
13
Drove : LED
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Where to get down and dirty : MUDBATH
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They can have you going the wrong way : HEADFAKES
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Some advanced degs. : MAS
22
Setting of the first panel in Hieronymus Bosch's "The Last Judgment" : EDEN
24
Orange refreshment : FANTA
26
Part of la famille : FRERE
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Digital tool : NAILFILE
30
Turnpike feature : TOLLPLAZA
33
It goes hand to hand : CLAP
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Online seller of specialty crafts : ETSYSHOP
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Pop singer ___ Max : AVA
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"___, I cannot be" (Emily Dickinson poem) : ALONE
40
Block : JAMUP
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Like a schlemiel : INEPT
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Disney title girl : MOANA
45
Fixes : CURES
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Part of some drills : ALARM
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Thing: Sp. : COSA
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Bird with a forked tail : TERN
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Playground denizens : TOTS
52
Org. offering traveler's checks? : TSA
53
Fix : PIN

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

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