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New York Times, Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Author:
Daniel Bodily
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Blog:
50-Down : Hitchcock's highest-grossing film at the box office
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Daniel Bodily

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 79, Blocks: 44 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Grid has mirror symmetry. Scrabble average: 1.90 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Bodily. Tuesday freshness: 54%
Daniel Bodily notes:
The theme in this puzzle really blew my mind. TL;DR version: ~275,000 terms in my dictionary (Jeff's XWordInfo Dictionary) ~3.5 ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
"Find three entries from a word list that, between them, include every consonant exactly once." That's an interesting software challenge. If I ... read more
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© 2024, The New York Times9/10/24 ( No. 27,335 )
Across
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Cause of a Richter scale blip : SEISM
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Fixed look : GAZE
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Curved sword : SABER
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One referring to "Jehovah" as "Jah" : RASTA
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Place for a pizza : OVEN
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"Make You Feel My Love" singer, 2008 : ADELE
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Around 70% of the earth's surface : OCEAN
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Rule for kids before homework is done, perhaps : NOTV
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What makes ryes rise : YEAST
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Straightforward and unadorned, as literary prose : HEMINGWAYESQUE
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Close the tab : PAY
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Baton Rouge sch. : LSU
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Corporate management group : EXECUTIVEBOARD
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Celebrant in May or June : GRAD
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First name in 2024 political headlines : KAMALA
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Overflow (with) : TEEM
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Shot down, as an idea : NIXED
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San ___ Obispo, Calif. : LUIS
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"Get your paws off me!" : LETGO
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Highest kicker in Texas hold'em : ACE
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Philadelphia landmark named for the 35th president, in brief : JFKPLAZA
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Lamb's dad : RAM
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Green sushi condiment : WASABI
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Spanish wife : ESPOSA
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Group whose members are represented completely (with no repeats) in 21-, 26- and 43-Across : CONSONANTS
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"Fake it 'til you make it" or "No pain, no gain" : MOTTO
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Candy bar with caramel and shortbread : TWIX
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Gunslinger Earp : WYATT
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Give or take : ABOUT
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Pro's counterpart : ANTI
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Blood of the gods, in Greek mythology : ICHOR
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Holy scroll : TORAH
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Plant with fronds : FERN
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"Have you no ___?!" : SHAME
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Pumps and wedges : HEELS
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Animal that absorbs water directly through its skin : FROG
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Beekeeping or baking, e.g. : HOBBY
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"Sold out" sign : SRO
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Apiece : EACH
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"That makes sense now" : ISEE
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What a rush! : STAMPEDE
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Total madman : MANIAC
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Instrument with a mallet : GONG
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Assert : AVOW
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Z, as in Zeus : ZETA
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Emotion that sounds like its middle two letters : ENVY
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States as fact : SAYSSO
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Good enough : ADEQUATE
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Male suitor : BEAU
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If's partner in computer logic : ELSE
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No longer working: Abbr. : RET
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Three Stooges laugh sound : NYUK
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Island on which Napoleon was exiled : ELBA
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Novelist Jong : ERICA
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Basic plot lines? : XAXES
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Speaker's event : TALK
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"That's my cue!" : IMUP
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Ski resort in the Colorado Rockies : VAIL
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Creator of the giant snowman Marshmallow in "Frozen" : ELSA
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Cool in a throwback sort of way : RETRO
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Impressionist Edgar : DEGAS
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Emulate a beaver : GNAW
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Cultural attraction in midtown Manhattan, for short : MOMA
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Workspaces for some nightclub performers : DJBOOTHS
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Deathbed request : LASTWISH
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Dolphin's fluke, e.g. : FIN
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Meditative state : ZEN
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Genuine : ACTUAL
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Hitchcock's highest-grossing film at the box office : PSYCHO
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Collection of employees : STAFF
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Pet's person : OWNER
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The "N" of TNT : NITRO
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Hewing : AXING
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Subject that a young Einstein never failed, despite the common misconception : MATH
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Orchestra woodwind : OBOE
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Raced (through) : TORE
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Whale pursuer of fiction : AHAB
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Pyramid, for a pharaoh : TOMB
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Three-pointer, in hoops lingo : TREY

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