NY Times Puzzle No. 0121
ACROSS
Major Indian
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tourist site Comes down
5
hard
“This isn’t good
10
at all!”
Word with
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round or head Tippy-tops
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Sore spot
15
Part of La-La
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Land
“It’s ___ real”
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Charles
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Schwab offering Transition
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effect famously used in “Star Wars” films Their sales rose
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in 2021 and 2022, after two decades of decline Medicinal amt.
22
Gnats and curs,
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e.g.
Title of respect
25
Off! ingredient
26
Simu ___, star
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of “Shang-Chi and the
Legend of the Ten Rings” End-of-week
29
greeting Tourist-spots,
32
maybe?
On the struggle
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bus, it might be said
Result of being
34
fired?
QB stats
35
Comic actor
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who co-created “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” Like Turkish
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coffee
Wear and tear
39
Quick pick-meup?
40
Nitwit
43
Bordelaise, for
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one
Box with a view
47
Home country,
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poetically Top-notch
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Top-notch
50
Electrically
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flexible
Web portal
52
released the same day as Windows 95 Elizabeth of
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“WandaVision” Fancy-y-y
54
DOWN
Top story
1
Drudgery
2
Pickled
3
watermelon parts Place for a
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prayer
Brother from
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another mother, maybe
Make a scene,
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aptly
Comment
7
following a cue Blue
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ID on a filing
9
Part of a cold
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shower, maybe Alternative to
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bread crumbs in some gluten-free recipes
Earring Magic
12
___ (1990s doll that developed a cult following) Some
15
PUZZLE BY DAVID DISTENFELD
Touchdown
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follower, often Quarter Pounder
20
qualifier
Playoff format
23
Aggregate
24
Fitted with
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footwear
Georgia team, to
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fans
Column on an
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airport flight board, informally
First winner of
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the Canadian Comedy Awards’ Person of the Year (2008) Disposition
30
Sea line?
31
Some fellows,
32
informally “Illmatic” rapper
33
Words of
38
encouragement Join forces
39
Kaley ___,
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co-star of “The Big Bang Theory” They’re far from
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basic
Natural gas
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emission? Feature of the
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial “Really?”
45
Memo letters
46
Flight
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It has a new
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meaning