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New York Times, Thursday, August 15, 2024

Author:
Damon Gulczynski
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
47-Across : Most diabolical
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Damon J. Gulczynski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 79, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JZ} This is puzzle # 48 for Mr. Gulczynski. Grid flow: 37.6 Thursday freshness: 68%
Jim Horne notes:

Paris site is misheard as parasite. Soup or sandwich is super sandwich. Self-own is cell phone. Grade-A is gray day.

I don't understand "rod-shaped".

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© 2024, The New York Times8/15/24 ( No. 27,309 )
Across
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City sitting spot : STOOP
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One shown in a crowd cutaway at a sporting event, perhaps : CELEB
11
Word on a diamond-shaped yellow road sign : SLOW
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Gondola's path : CANAL
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Ancient Greek marketplace : AGORA
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Yacht spot : COVE
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*Rod-shaped parasite : EIFFELTOWER
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Hard-core : AVID
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Base figure, for short : NCO
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Garden divisions : BEDS
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Made a bundle : BALED
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"From your lips to God's ears" : IHOPESO
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*Soup or sandwich : PARTYSUB
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Point to : CITE
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Mash-up : AMALGAM
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"Green" : ECO
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Fraction of a watt-hour : ERG
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"Foyle's ___" (British TV drama) : WAR
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Exploits : FEATS
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Technology used in writing the starred clues? : SPEECHTOTEXT
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Suffix with proto- : PLASM
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Straight, informally : HET
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Rook's opposite : VET
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Take for a ride : CON
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Most diabolical : EVILEST
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Disturb : ROIL
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*Embarrassment from a self-own, perhaps : BUTTDIAL
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Businesswoman Huffington : ARIANNA
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"Peace" : SEEYA
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Command : FIAT
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Noted speedway sponsor : STP
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Laura of "Enlightened" : DERN
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*Grade-A quality : CLOUDYSKIES
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Call it a day : QUIT
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Folklore foes : OGRES
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Headdress for the archbishop of Canterbury : MITRE
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Places to get masks : SPAS
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Kingpin on "The Wire" : MARLO
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Correct, as writing : EMEND
Down
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Like the longer route, maybe : SCENIC
2
Martial art with movements like "Parting the Horse's Mane" and "Grasp Bird's Tail" : TAICHI
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One way to get around town : ONFOOT
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Clod : OAF
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Annapolis frosh : PLEBE
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Persian's realm? : CATDOM
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They often clash : EGOS
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Forecast word : LOW
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Poetic palindrome : ERE
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She originated the role of Fanny in "Funny Girl" : BARBRA
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Like pangolins : SCALY
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Small sofa : LOVESEAT
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Fallopian tube, e.g. : OVIDUCT
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Make one out of two? : WED
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18th-century French novelist whose name means "the wise man" : LESAGE
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Charge for money, say : ATMFEE
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Friends, in slang : PEEPS
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Major tributary of the Missouri : PLATTE
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Farming prefix : AGRO
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NYY rival : BOS
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"Well, shoot!," more colorfully : AWHELL
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Fix : REMEDY
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Deleted scene, e.g. : EXTRA
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Afro-Caribbean religion : SANTERIA
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Plant in the mint family with healthful seeds : CHIA
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Mobile dinner table : TVTRAY
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Banned chemical contaminant, for short : PCB
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Bungle : LOUSEUP
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One half of the merger that formed Paramount Global : VIACOM
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Insisted : SAIDSO
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Not remote : ONSITE
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Starting position, maybe : INTERN
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Ran out : LAPSED
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Rainflies can cover them : TENTS
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Identifying words from a familiar voice : ITSME
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Stoke : FUEL
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Makes ineligible for competition, for short : DQS
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N.Y.C. luggage tag letters : LGA
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Defenseman who scored a Stanley Cup-winning "flying goal" : ORR
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___ Dae-jung, Nobel-winning former president of South Korea : KIM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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