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New York Times, Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Author:
Guilherme Gilioli
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Down : Singer known as the "Queen of Power Ballads"
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Guilherme Gilioli

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FQX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Gilioli. Wednesday freshness: 83%
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© 2023, The New York Times9/13/23 ( No. 26,972 )
Across
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Stuff in a party bag : SWAG
5
Shade of black : JET
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More than once : AGAIN
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Use a cleaning cloth on : WIPE
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Common mixer : SODA
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Sense of purpose : DRIVE
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Fails to be : ISNT
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Nuisance : PAIN
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Gave (out) : DOLED
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Paradoxical answer to "What is 'Golf' in the NATO alphabet?" : GEEIDONTKNOW
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Give (out) : RATION
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Emcees' deliveries : INTROS
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Paradoxical answer to "Can you say what 'nyet' is Russian for?" : NOLETMETHINK
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Shadow, e.g. : SPYON
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Overhead light? : HALO
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Architect who lived to be 102 : PEI
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Boast : CROW
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Seems lit from within : GLOWS
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Flexed : BENT
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Fell : HEW
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Suffix with cyclo- : TRON
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Meanders : WENDS
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Paradoxical answer to "Where does oil come from?" : WELLYOUGOTME
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Comedian Aziz : ANSARI
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What cheating might get you, informally : BADREP
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Paradoxical answer to "What isle is located between Ireland and Great Britain?" : MANTHATSHARD
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View from a periscope : OCEAN
57
Word before run and stretch : HOME
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Little wonder? : ATOM
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"La Campanella" composer : LISZT
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Surf sound : ROAR
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London transport, with "the" : TUBE
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Some plus-ones : DATES
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Boom times : UPS
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Hurried : SPED
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Big drink : SWIG
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None the ___ : WISER
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Breath control practice in competitive freediving : APNEA
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"See?" : GETITNOW
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Woman in a Lady Gaga song and album title (2016) : JOANNE
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Change the narrative? : EDIT
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Scuba need : TANK
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Supplement : ADDONTO
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Business executive's hope : GROWTH
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Feel under the weather : AIL
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"___ gotta run" : IVE
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Homer calls him "stupid Flanders" : NED
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Part of a tape cassette : SPOOL
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Singer known as the "Queen of Power Ballads" : DION
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Physics Nobelist Bohr : NIELS
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Change from green to red, maybe : RIPEN
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Continually : ONEND
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"S.N.L." routines : SKITS
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Bikini style : THONG
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Gaping mouth : MAW
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Start or end for Alexa? : SCHWA
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Clean one's feathers : PREEN
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Distress calls? : YOWLS
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Where two barrel vaults intersect, in architecture : GROIN
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Baseball's Gehrig : LOU
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Wearable party gear with built-in straws : BEERHATS
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Oppressors : TYRANTS
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Modern warfare concern, in brief : WMDS
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Delivery class? : LAMAZE
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Malia and Michelle, for two : OBAMAS
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Idaho product, slangily : TATER
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Really dig : EATUP
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NASA project : PROBE
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"No ___ Traffic" : THRU
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Kind of earring : HOOP
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Contacted privately on social media, informally : DMED
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No longer in use : OLD
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The World Factbook org. : CIA
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Is, to Ovid : EST

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