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New York Times, Thursday, April 6, 2023

Author:
Sam Buttrey
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Down : Fruits you might aptly buy in twos?
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Sam Buttrey

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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Buttrey. Thursday freshness: 7%
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© 2023, The New York Times4/6/23 ( No. 26,812 )
Across
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*Acronym of talks : BILL
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Muslim minority : SHIA
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*Kind of wreath : HARDY
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Strawberry ___ Lemonade (Starbucks menu item) : ACAI
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*Bank employee : PENN
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Ere : AFORE
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Some drums, informally : TOMS
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Social split : RIFT
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Cafeteria array : TRAYS
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"Right away, chief!" : ONIT
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Kind of trip : EGO
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Sweet libation : MEAD
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Bygone city in present-day Iraq, once the world's most populous : NINEVEH
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Sought after : DESIRED
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Alarm : SCARE
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Hit off the end of the club, in golf lingo : TOED
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*China problem : DALE
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Drop-___ : INS
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Reason to stop : RED
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Short-term job : GIG
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Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing : TRADINGPLACES
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Date : SEE
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Bird spotted in eastern Samoa? : MOA
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Right-angled bend : ELL
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Something he or she can use that you can't? : ISNT
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Comfy lodgings : INNS
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Bananagrams pieces : TILES
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High point, of a sort : STEEPLE
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Gas for a tank : PROPANE
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___ club : GLEE
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Seek favor with : WOO
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Green movement? : PUTT
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Refrain syllables : TRALA
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*Hill's partner : CHIP
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Part of the eye : IRIS
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Something to get down from : EIDER
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Advantageous kind of position : POLE
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Black: It. : NERO
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"Those who can" : DOERS
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Old org. for Armenia : USSR
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Valley : GLEN
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Sticks around for a race? : BATONS
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Immediately recognizable : ICONIC
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Thin layer : LAMINA
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Why pregnant women are advised against eating raw fish : LISTERIA
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Jag : SPREE
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Vital statistic : HEIGHT
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Stats, e.g. : INFO
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Fire ___ : ANT
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Severely criticizes, with "on" : HATES
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Yellow, so to speak : AFRAID
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What you might think "The Fast and the Furious" is about? : ROADRAGE
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Martini specification : DRY
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"Sim," in Brazil : YES
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Interfere : MEDDLE
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Sell : VEND
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Basslike : DEEP
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Princeton Tiger rivals : ELIS
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M.A., e.g. : DEG
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Skin, for one : ORGAN
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Colorful analogy, perhaps : SIMILE
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Common subject of a stress dream : TEST
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Apostate : RENEGADE
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Survey choice : NONE
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Tall: Sp. : ALTO
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Part of a collage, perhaps : CLIPPING
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Family nickname : SIS
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*Philadelphia university, familiarly : TELLER
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Booty : SPOILS
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*Able to endure difficult conditions : LAUREL
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Complete : ENTIRE
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Puts atop : SETSON
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Fruits you might aptly buy in twos? : PEARS
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Cowboy, sometimes : ROPER
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"___ asking?" : WHOS
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*Unwelcome bit of mail : TED
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Bravo in the movies? : RIO
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PC "brain" : CPU

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