NY Times Puzzle No. 0312
ACROSS
Paid off
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Pinky swear, e.g.
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Pause in the
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middle of a line of poetry Creature also
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known as a greenfly Substitute for
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coffee
Baptisms by fire
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Palmed, say
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Prefix with
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consciousness Last word of the
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first sentence of Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” Pick
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“Don’t Look Up”
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star, in tabloids Parts of
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baseballs and mines
Country with two
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official languages — Guaraní and Spanish
Move from side
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to side, as a ship 2000 Sisqó hit
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with a rhyming title
1924 tale of
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derring-do
New Jersey’s
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“unofficial rock theme of our State’s youth” Something
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picked up by a silent butler Minions
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Basic technique
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in skateboarding Nitwit, to a Brit
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“What do you
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want me to do about it?” Be plucky?
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Hollywood, with
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“the”
Astronaut
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Jemison
Didn’t cause
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trouble
“Golly!”
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It might work on
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a block
They might work
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on a block
Floor
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Europe’s oldest
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capital
DOWN
Lumbering tool
1
Turn in
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Musician who
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helped save Carnegie Hall from demolition Put up
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Muffs
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“Against the
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___” (Thomas Pynchon novel) On equal footing,
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in Latin
Mirrored
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Tea, in Mandarin
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Result of a
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poor audio connection, perhaps
Part of the body
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first successfully transplanted in 1905
Exponential ___
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(function in physics)
Like many
14 street-level apartments
Juice boxes?
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Rumpus
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Danced to the
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music of Carlos Acuña, say
“We / Jazz ___”
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(line in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool”)
Popular dishes
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in Québécois cuisine
Went round and
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round in circles
Record holder
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for the most M.L.B. All-Star selections
Spell
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Attire at some
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academies Exams for British
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18-year-olds Jewelry store
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tools
Minds
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Mentally worn
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out
Mount with
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facility
Vegan sandwich,
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for short Enforcement
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mechanisms, metaphorically Where to pick
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sides?
Handful, say
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Overly rehearsed
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Occupation of
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Leo Bloom in “The Producers,” for short