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New York Times, Thursday, April 29, 2021

Author:
Adam Wagner
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
9-Down : Certain ways to work
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Adam Wagner

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Wagner. Thursday freshness: 92%
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© 2021, The New York Times4/29/21 ( No. 26,105 )
Across
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Response to a knock at the door, perhaps : WOOF
5
Vancouver Canucks' mascot Fin, for one : ORCA
9
Pet peeves? : BATHS
14
Chuck : HURL
15
Totally improvise : WING
16
Deplete : USEUP
17
First line of a three-line poem : ITWOULDBEASHAME
20
What Yellowstone's Old Faithful does about 17 times a day : SPOUTS
21
Deal (with) : COPE
22
Erector Set piece : ROD
23
"Heart of Darkness" character who cries "The horror! The horror!" : KURTZ
24
In 2020, they outsold CDs for the first time since 1986 : LPS
25
Globe : ORB
26
1st to 228th, in Manhattan: Abbr. : STS
27
___ Solis, Obama-era secretary of labor : HILDA
30
With 36- and 43-Across, second line of the poem : IFMY
31
Pepper between jalapeño and cayenne on the Scoville heat scale : SERRANO
34
John ___, husband of Pocahontas : ROLFE
36
See 30-Across : HAIKUWERE
38
Less forward : COYER
40
Sticky stuff that drips down the side of a cone? : PINESAP
43
See 30-Across : TOBE
44
David ___, boss on the British version of "The Office" : BRENT
46
Apple or orange seed : PIP
48
___ Victory, world's oldest naval ship still in commission : HMS
49
___ Paulo : SAO
50
Less naïve : WISER
52
Suggestion, colloquially : REC
53
Sacha Baron Cohen character : ALIG
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Wet weather wear : PONCHO
56
Final line of the poem : ONESYLLABLETOOLONG
59
Year-end reward : BONUS
60
Real first name of singer Lorde : ELLA
61
Writer ___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
62
"Yesssss!" : SWEET
63
"Nooooo!" : DAMN
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Harmonica piece : REED
Down
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Removes quickly, with "away" : WHISKS
2
Yields : OUTPUTS
3
"... not to mention everything else that could go wrong!" : ORWORSE
4
Scoff at : FLOUT
5
Real head-turners : OWLS
6
Free from, with "of" : RID
7
"Fast Money" channel : CNBC
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Like hallowed traditions : AGEOLD
9
Certain ways to work : BUSES
10
Wood in Louisville Sluggers : ASH
11
Remove quickly, as a Band-Aid : TEAROFF
12
"Just go with it" : HUMORME
13
Zoomed past : SPEDBY
18
Potato chip brand : UTZ
19
Seeming : APPARENT
27
Kitty litter? : HAIRBALL
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Finalize, as a deal : INK
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Jeweler's magnifying glass : LOUPE
30
A group of them is called un archipel : ILES
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"Seven Seas of ___" (Queen's first radio hit) : RHYE
33
Addison ___, high-earning TikTok personality : RAE
35
Mined matter : ORE
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The 1, in 1-0 : WIN
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"Be reasonable, will you!" : COMENOW
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Like an over-the-top display of wealth : OBSCENE
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Fig. on a college application : APSCORE
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Big stupid mouth : PIEHOLE
43
Beats : THROBS
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Shook up : ROILED
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Extended the duration of : PROLONGED
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Speak, as thou might : SAYST
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Hardship : WOE
51
Bury : INTER
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Big do : GALA
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Strategy : PLAN
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Not just accept a wrong, say : SUE
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Racial justice movement since 2013, for short : BLM

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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