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New York Times, Monday, August 31, 2020

Author:
Anne Marie Crinnion
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 34 Missing: {FJQX} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Crinnion. Grid flow: 31.1 Monday freshness: 58%
Anne Marie Crinnion notes:
I'm thrilled to be making my NYT debut! I recently graduated from Harvard, and today is actually my first day of my PhD program in ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
I was so stumped by "Name That Theme" today. That's not uncommon, but it's only a handful of times a year that I'm still bamboozled ... read more
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© 2020, The New York Times8/31/20 ( No. 25,864 )
Across
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Criticize, in slang : DIS
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Something computers cannot write to or erase : CDROM
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Bottomless pit : ABYSS
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"We ___ the World" : ARE
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Nice smell : AROMA
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Like some handwriting ... or tipplers : LOOPY
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Up to, informally : TIL
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Traveled in the front passenger seat : RODESHOTGUN
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___ at the wheel : ASLEEP
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Lye, chemically : NAOH
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Rainbow's shape : ARC
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"Heavens to ___!" : BETSY
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Two-part : DUAL
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Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams : ALYRAISMAN
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Degs. for C.E.O.s : MBAS
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Chap : LAD
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Pants part that might need patching : KNEE
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Join a conference call, say : DIALIN
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Silly : INANE
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Monopoly properties you can't put houses on, in brief : RRS
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End of a lasso : NOOSE
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Screen ___ Guild : ACTORS
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Rating between excellent and fair : GOOD
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Cry in a soccer stadium : OLE
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Watermelon part that's spit out : SEED
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Main ingredient in a protein shake, maybe : WHEYPOWDER
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Great Lake with the shortest name : ERIE
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Mommy's sister : AUNTY
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Kind of connection port on a PC : USB
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Overly fussy, say : ANAL
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Hit Broadway musical set partly in Paris, for short : LESMIZ
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What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across : CHANGELANES
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Letters before an assumed name : AKA
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Sudden forward thrust : LUNGE
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"___ could've told you that!" : EVENI
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___ center : REC
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Choice words? : ANDOR
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Believer in Jah, informally : RASTA
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Pack animal of Tibet : YAK
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Facts and figures : DATA
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Part of the eye : IRIS
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Stamp on a milk carton : SELLBYDATE
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One tending a house during the owner's absence : CARETAKER
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Stops by : DROPSIN
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Towel holder : ROD
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Eclipse or a black cat, some say : OMEN
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Ancient fortification overlooking the Dead Sea : MASADA
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Hi in HI : ALOHA
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Spam spewer : BOT
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Some quiet exercise : YOGA
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Appendage on a cowboy's boot : SPUR
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Align, informally : SYNC
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Elvis's "___ Dog" : HOUND
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Always, to a poet : EER
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Belgian river to the North Sea : YSER
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"Hilarious!," in a text : LMAO
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Assumed name : ALIAS
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Knight's weapon : LANCE
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Join the flow of traffic : MERGE
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Cocktail with tomato juice : BLOODYMARY
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Seating request on an airplane : AISLE
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Mocking smile : SNEER
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World's largest island nation : INDONESIA
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Lymph ___ : NODE
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Tofu bean : SOYA
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Hogs : SWINE
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Luxurious : OPULENT
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Doctor, ideally : HEALER
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Lbs. and ozs. : WTS
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Wild party, in slang : RAGER
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Sch. whose home football games used to include a live bear on the field : UCLA
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Avoid : SHUN
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Extracurricular activity for a musician : BAND
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Molten flow : LAVA
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International furniture chain : IKEA
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"The Suite Life of ___ & Cody" (bygone teen sitcom) : ZACK
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Amnesty International, e.g., in brief : NGO
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Super ___ (1990s game console) : NES

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