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New York Times, Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Author:
Martin Schneider
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
64-Across : Reformer Horace and writer Thomas
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Martin Schneider

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JKQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Schneider. Wednesday freshness: 95%
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© 2024, The New York Times5/22/24 ( No. 27,224 )
Across
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Language from which we get "shampoo" : HINDI
6
Story that starts with the end? : OBIT
10
"Let There Be Rock" band, 1977 : ACDC
14
A Philly cheesesteak comes "wit" or "witout" it : ONION
15
Umpteen's antithesis : NONE
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Nile queen, familiarly : CLEO
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Coeur d'___, city on Idaho's panhandle : ALENE
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Carbonated fountain drinks that contain neither … : EGGCREAMS
20
Derby entrant : RACER
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Kind of "quotes" : AIR
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Up to this point : ASYET
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Unusual meat courses that are neither … : SWEETBREADS
26
Bub : PAL
27
Two past "cue" : ESS
28
Response to "Who's ready?" : IAM
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Where total revenue is listed on a financial report : TOPLINE
31
Some smallish batteries : AAS
32
Word in an advertiser's starburst : NEW
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Celebratory occasions for founders to ring the N.Y.S.E. bell, for short : IPOS
34
What 18-, 23-, 49- and 56-Across could be called : DOUBLEMISNOMERS
39
Cube creator ___ Rubik : ERNO
40
StubHub purchases, informally : TIX
41
Brian who composed the original start-up sound for Windows 95 : ENO
42
Clunkers : BADONES
44
TV actor who was once a bodyguard (charging $10k/day) : MRT
45
Me, in Marseilles : MOI
48
Navajo neighbor : UTE
49
Woodwind instrument that is neither … : ENGLISHHORN
52
Longtime bridge columnist Charles : GOREN
54
France's ___-en-Provence : AIX
55
Roof parts : EAVES
56
Breakfast cereal that contains neither … : GRAPENUTS
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Feudal lord : LIEGE
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Dublin's land, to Dubliners : EIRE
60
Fairy tale monster : OGRE
61
Currently happening : AFOOT
62
Lengthy construction project, per a saying? : ROME
63
Intersect : MEET
64
Reformer Horace and writer Thomas : MANNS
Down
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Like fervent fans at the Kentucky Derby, punnily enough : HOARSE
2
Typical holiday visitors : INLAWS
3
Wife's sister's daughters, e.g. : NIECES
4
This guy gets it! : DONEE
5
Like the property cited in Newton's first law : INERTIAL
6
Difficult kind of push-up : ONEARM
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Humphrey of old Hollywood, to fans : BOGIE
8
They don't appreciate well : INGRATES
9
Private eye, in old slang : TEC
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Top four of 52 : ACES
11
Quaint item for smoking : CLAYPIPE
12
Comportment : DEMEANOR
13
Are cheaper : COSTLESS
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Grating voice quality : RASP
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Like our standard number system : BASETEN
25
Mood killers : DOWNERS
30
Luxurious ride : LIMO
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"Peek-___!" : ABOO
32
Get rid of : NIX
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Computer program that fixes other computer programs : DEBUGGER
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Handel's "Messiah," for one : ORATORIO
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Often-deodorized area : UNDERARM
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Overestimate, say : MISGAUGE
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Fleeing like a fugitive : ONTHELAM
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State bird of Hawaii : NENE
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D.J.'s performance : MIXSET
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Progressive advocacy group for public policy : MOVEON
46
First state to conduct all of its elections by mail : OREGON
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Atlas close-ups : INSETS
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Petrol unit : LITRE
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Port city in northern Israel : HAIFA
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Fencer's weapon : EPEE
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___ de plume : NOM

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