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New York Times, Monday, August 21, 2023

Author:
Jennifer Nutt
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Jennifer Nutt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQ} This is puzzle # 9 for Ms. Nutt. Grid flow: 35.2 Monday freshness: 16%
Jennifer Nutt notes:

This puzzle was inspired by childhood summers at the beach in Cape May, New Jersey. Many thanks to my son and test solver, Nick Diamant, who caught a few errors.

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© 2023, The New York Times8/21/23 ( No. 26,949 )
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Jamaican music genre : SKA
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Largest city in Nebraska : OMAHA
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Pulitzer or Pritzker : PRIZE
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Approximate weight of a full-grown walrus : TON
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Eggs (on) : URGES
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Desert watering hole : OASIS
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Author Bradbury : RAY
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Got hitched : TIEDTHEKNOT
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Some saxes : ALTOS
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___-wop : DOO
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Mount ___, active Italian volcano : ETNA
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Not require fees to be paid : WAIVECHARGES
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Hashtag that trended in a late-2010s movement : METOO
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Covers in goo : SLIMES
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App that asks "Where to?" on its home screen : UBER
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Office leader : BOSS
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Silly : INANE
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Lust or envy : SIN
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Something you might hold to your ear in order to hear the first parts of 18-, 24-, 52- and 62-Across? : SHELL
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Fishy bagel topper : LOX
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Dark beer variety : STOUT
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Berry in a smoothie bowl : ACAI
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Cheerful, as an outlook : ROSY
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Prepare to regift, perhaps : REWRAP
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Story with Achilles : ILIAD
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Fruity breakfast biscuit : CURRANTSCONE
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Biblical sister of Rachel : LEAH
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Debtor's note : IOU
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Ohio city where Goodyear is headquartered : AKRON
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"Saturday Night Live" cast member from 1980 to 1984 : EDDIEMURPHY
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Chicago airport code : ORD
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Jerry Maguire's profession in "Jerry Maguire" : AGENT
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"Twice-Told ___" : TALES
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G.I. entertainers : USO
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Opposite of sparse : DENSE
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Replay option : SLOMO
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Stitch up : SEW
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Drink sucker-upper : STRAW
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"Bear" in a eucalyptus forest : KOALA
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"We're waiting ..." : ANYTIMENOW
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Very beginning : OUTSET
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Hosp. procedure : MRI
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Mature, as wine : AGE
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Ibsen's "___ Gabler" : HEDDA
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Fur tycoon John Jacob : ASTOR
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"The Purloined Letter" author : POE
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Earns and earns and earns : RAKESIN
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"Money ___ everything" : ISNT
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National park with the notorious Angels Landing hike : ZION
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"Cómo ___ usted?" : ESTA
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Refuses to share : HOGS
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Above : OVER
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Corn interiors : COBS
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Kerfuffle : HOOHA
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Lilly of pharmaceuticals : ELI
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Stinky : MALODOROUS
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Biblical son of Seth : ENOS
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Smokin' hot : SEXY
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It broke up on Dec. 26, 1991 : USSR
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Small snack : BITE
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Jiffy : SEC
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Done in, as a dragon : SLAIN
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Cheery tune : LILT
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Spiny sea creatures : URCHINS
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Letter between sigma and upsilon : TAU
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Set of antlers : RACK
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Strait-laced : PRIM
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Words after "because" that don't really explain : ISAYSO
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Decisive victories : ROUTS
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Of the ear : AURAL
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Viking language : NORSE
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Fund, as a university : ENDOW
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Metal that an alchemist "converts" into gold : LEAD
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Slight advantage : EDGE
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Port of Yemen : ADEN
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Summer in Québec : ETE
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West Bank grp. : PLO
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___ and haw : HEM

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