NY Times Puzzle No. 1009

ACROSS

Travel item

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Battle cry

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Pop group?

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Smart ___

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Its national

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animal is the beaver Sustainability

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indicator Painter whose

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cataract surgery allowed him to see and paint in ultraviolet

Knee part, for

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short

___ Richmond,

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former head of the Congressional Black Caucus and senior adviser to Joe Biden

Order in the

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court

Certain exotic

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pets

Dishevel

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Baseball team

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whose mascot is Screech the eagle, familiarly Sinking

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fastballs

Ron who played

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Tarzan

Start of a count

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Conductor’s cry

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Popular

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podcast genre Advanced

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degree

Equal

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opportunity Local legends

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Dance move

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Egglike

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Sticky candy?

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“Bam!” chef

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“That’s gotta

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hurt”

Where you

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might get the ball rolling

Arm muscle,

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slangily

Place

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The Grim,

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in the Harry Potter books Fig. often

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written with X’s Shapes of

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some dog treats

Soft or hard

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finish

DOWN

Big shot?

1

More than

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discouraged

Part of a

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Navy officer’s rotation

Luxury vehicles

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since 1986 Ephemeral

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palaces ___-o’-shanter

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Hoity-toity type

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Die out

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Some stand

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concessions Velocity, e.g.

10

___ film

11

Purpose of a

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pass

Shapes

13

Hullabaloo

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Repair

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PUZZLE BY AUGUST LEE-KOVACH

Strauss’s

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“Also ___ Zarathustra” Scales up?

28

Much-covered

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New Orleans standard based on Mardi Gras chants

Relays, e.g.

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Ripped

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Arc-shaped

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musical notation

Disney redhead

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Bit of auto

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design inspired by the jet age Easygoing

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One may be

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personal Spartan, e.g.

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Blows away

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Keep one’s

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head down Units of land,

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with or without the first letter

[I can’t

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believe what I just read] Okonkwo’s

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people in “Things Fall Apart”

Left on board,

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say

Boo-boo

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“Help!,” for

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example

It’s all over the

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papers