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New York Times, Wednesday, Jan iv, 2023

Writer:

Laura Breiman and Tom Bachant

Editor:

Will Shortz

Nonmagical sort, in the Harry Potter universe

Total	Debut	Collabs
one	1/iv/2023	1

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
0	0	0	ane	0	0	0

Circle	Scrabble	Pw
one	1.48	1

Total	Debut	Collabs
1	1/4/2023	1

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wednesday	Thu	Fri	Saturday
0	0	0	1	0	0	0

Circle	Scrabble	POW
1	1.48	1

This puzzle:

Rows: xv, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQVZ} Spans: i This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Breiman. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Bachant. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick.

We're then excited to each make our debut and share this otherworldly puzzle! We adult the thought afterward Laura attended a very strange ... read more

We're so excited to each make our debut and share this otherworldly puzzle! Nosotros adult the thought after Laura attended a very strange and intense moon ceremony in Central Park and excitedly shared all the heavenly details with Tom. That week, primed by the talk of infinite, the phrase Celestial BODIES came into Tom's head and information technology felt like the perfect xv-letter fill to build our filigree around.

The hardest function was the cascading ASTEROID — we had to endeavour then many configurations to get a fillable grid. The pattern we ended up with is maybe not the most recognizable, but at least we were able to avoid fills similar AAARGH.

Laura is the cohost of a crossword podcast Cantankerous Talk (with Laura and Colin), a weekly evidence where we discuss the Th puzzle, our favorite constructors, and a lot of irrelevant nerd banter. Tom is a tech-y entrepreneur-y word lover who believes the globe would be better if everyone rode bikes and did crosswords (just not simultaneously). Look out for some more Laura + Tom collabs in the time to come!

There'southward a reason Will Shortz listed Joanne Sullivan's LAND FORMS puzzle every bit one of his favorites in an old collection. Each shape looks ... read more

At that place's a reason Will Shortz listed Joanne Sullivan's Land FORMS puzzle as ane of his favorites in an erstwhile drove. Each shape looks exactly like you might imagine, and at that place's then much diversity. Will might consider today's puzzle if he assembled a sequel to that 2011 book. The astronomer in me stared into the night heaven of today'southward grid for hours.

I especially loved ASTEROID in its spotted design. Took me a minute to effigy out why that was appropriate, but once I remembered their porosity, it fabricated all the sense in the universe.

ASTEROID was doubly impressive, given how hard information technology can be to make full around fixed circles in diagonal patterns. Working with viii of them in a checkerboard is like trying to contrivance a doomsday shooting star strike. Smart to isolate this into a corner, where you tin can shift the entire thing to the left or downwardly without having information technology touch on the rest of the grid. Such a smooth result, with an OREO THIN treat to boot.

COMET on the opposite side is also tough to grid around, but EPEES, ERAT, NEMEA isn't worthy of an ARG! shout. It's all worth the toll of BIG DUMMY, for this large dummy, at least.

I would have loved a spiral GALAXY instead of a circular one. That'due south also much to ask out of 6 letters, merely maybe two arms out of Screw and GALAXY? Alternatively, an ellipse could have been more evocative.

Puzzles that strike me with their visual awe come around roughly as often every bit Halley'south COMET. Stellar debut!

i M

ii U

iii G

four Yard

5 Fifty

6 E

7 A

8 C

ix C

10 Due east

11 N

12 T

13 A

K

O

R

E

South

14 D

R

O

O

L

E

R

15 S

N

O

O

T

S

16 B

I

M

D

U

M

M

Y

17 South

O

North

O

S

18 P

U

T

19 Due east

P

E

East

S

20 Thousand

A

21 Thousand

E

Northward

T

22 A

23 E

R

A

T

24 R

25 O

26 B

27 T

A

P

28 O

I

29 L

thirty A

W

A

31 Y

32 S

Southward

33 N

34 R

O

35 C

36 M

37 Due east

38 T

39 C

E

L

E

40 S

T

I

A

41 50

B

O

D

I

Eastward

South

42 E

D

I

T

O

R

43 P

U

North

44 50

A

R

K

45 10

I

46 A

47 C

B

48 S

49 S

O

S

fifty South

51 A

52 Due south

53 S

54 C

U

55 B

I

S

T

56 S

57 T

I

T

H

58 E

59 D

I

A

60 R

O

61 S

62 E

63 Northward

64 O

R

East

O

T

65 H

I

N

66 H

Eastward

R

E

T

O

67 W

E

I

R

D

O

S

68 A

Eastward

R

A

T

E

69 E

R

North

E

South

T

70 Due south

T

Y

Fifty

U

S

© 2023, The New York Times 1/4/23 ( No. 26,720 )

Across

1

Nonmagical sort, in the Harry Potter universe : MUGGLE

7

What's found in cafés but not coffee shops? : ACCENT

xiii

14

St. Bernard or mastiff, often : DROOLER

xv

Hoity-toity types : SNOOTS

16

17

Wireless speaker brand : SONOS

eighteen

19

Fencing equipment : EPEES

twenty

Shade akin to fuchsia : MAGENTA

23

Part of Q.Eastward.D. : ERAT

24

___ blind : ROB

27

Dispenser of drafts : TAP

28

"Black gold" or "Texas tea" : OIL

thirty

Out of the office : AWAY

32

Nine-digit ID : SSN

34

1 leaving its pad quickly : ROCKET

39

Astronomical objects represented by the circled letters in this puzzle : CELESTIALBODIES

42

Ane righting writing : EDITOR

43

"The lowest form of humor — when you lot don't think of it first," per Oscar Levant : PUN

44

"The Song of the ___" (Willa Cather novel) : LARK

45

First of the Chinese dynasties : XIA

47

Broadcaster of "The Price Is Right" for more than than four decades : CBS

49

Letters requesting help : SOS

50

54

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, for two : CUBISTS

57

Offering in church : TITHE

59

Noche's counterpart : DIA

threescore

Nevada senator Jacky : ROSEN

64

Low-calorie cookie spinoff : OREOTHIN

66

Adverb in a contract : HERETO

67

68

Produce oxidation in : AERATE

69

Author Hemingway : ERNEST

seventy

Down

one

Service that might be in Latin : MASS

two

"Yes, that won't work for me" : UMNO

iii

"I'm listening ..." : GOON

4

Many a wedding ceremony cake topper : GROOM

five

vi

Intro to sociology? : ESS

7

"Evita" setting: Abbr. : ARG

8

Word with taxation or cheat : Code

9

Type of motorcar whose name comes from the French word for "cut" : COUPE

x

Toon hunting for a "scwewy wabbit" : ELMER

11

Site of a mythical panthera leo slaying : NEMEA

12

Romantic rendezvous : TRYST

14

16

Patty's place : BUN

18

___ Challenge (famous taste test) : PEPSI

21

22

Some brusque-term rentals : AIRBNBS

24

Hightail it : RACE

25

Was backside : OWED

26

Isle between Java and Lombok : BALI

29

31

Equally of at present : Withal

33

Bit of shut-eye : NAP

35

450, in aboriginal Rome : CDL

36

Sorento and Telluride : KIAS

37

Amazon-owned abode Wi-Fi make : EERO

38

Scolding sounds : TSKS

twoscore

Part of some "Cerise" or "White" uniforms : SOX

41

St. ___ (Caribbean isle) : LUCIA

46

Some German language cars : AUDIS

48

50

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" author : STOWE

51

52

Oktoberfest vessel : STEIN

53

Place to wash up? : SHORE

55

Son of, in Standard arabic surnames : BIN

56

"___, non ___!" : SORRY

58

Approx. when planes have off : ETDS

61

Circus barker? : SEAL

62

"Not yous, besides!?" : ETTU

63

Disappointing R.S.V.P.due south : NOES

65

Over 100, say : HOT

66

Gives birth to : HAS

Answer summary: ane unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Shortz Era simply used previously.

Analyzing...

Assay

There are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 27 circles, 0 rebus squares, and vi cheater squares (marked with "+" in the colorized grid below.)

The grid uses 21 of 26 letters, missing FJQVZ.

It has normal rotational symmetry.

Average discussion length: 4.74, Scrabble score: 274, Scrabble average: 1.48.

Puzzle has vi fill-in-the-blank clues and 0 cross-reference clues.

This puzzle has 1 unique answer word.

It has 0 words that debuted in this puzzle and were subsequently reused:

These words are unique to the Shortz Era just have appeared in pre-Shortz puzzles:

These 30 answer words are not legal Scrabble™ entries, which sometimes ways they are interesting:

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Scrabble Score: i

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viii

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