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New York Times, Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Author:
Jacob Stulberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Across : Mess up
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Jacob Stulberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Stulberg. Wednesday freshness: 46%
Jacob Stulberg notes:
Today's puzzle owes its inspiration to my fifth-grade health class, where we spent several days learning about dinner-party etiquette ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Look at all those shaded squares! They're so orderly — made me eager to find out what was going on. Neat concept, with different types ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times1/2/19 ( No. 25,257 )
Across
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Gloomy atmosphere : PALL
5
Mess up : MUFF
9
Subject of some youth sports fraud : AGE
12
What inventions start as : IDEAS
14
Actor Morales of "The Brink" : ESAI
15
Toot one's own horn : BRAG
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*Fish fork : SHARK
17
*Cocktail fork : MARGARITA
19
Vice president who became ambassador to Japan : MONDALE
21
Swapped : TRADED
22
It ends rather spookily: Abbr. : OCT
23
Last ruler of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway : OSCARII
26
Often-prewritten news article, for short : OBIT
29
Regret : RUE
30
Wide-eyed sort : NAIF
34
Unrealized : LATENT
36
Draw (out) : EKE
37
Leslie in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame : LISA
38
*Salad fork : GREEK
39
Flashlight inserts, perhaps : AAS
40
Soldier's topper : BERET
41
Well, in old Rome : BENE
42
Loos : WCS
43
Some rock coverings : MOSSES
44
"Bye!" : TATA
45
Wide shoe spec : EEE
46
___ Village (Manhattan neighborhood) : EAST
47
Russia, once : TSARDOM
50
Preschool group? : ROE
53
Estate sharer : COHEIR
56
Bespectacled canine of comics : DOGBERT
59
*Dessert fork : CHERRYPIE
62
*Fruit fork : PEACH
63
Haberdasher's array : TIES
64
"Yikes!" : OHNO
65
TV's Don Draper, for one : ADMAN
66
Abbr. on a remote : VOL
67
Fictional boy who rafted down the Mississippi : FINN
68
Big brand of petrol : ESSO
Down
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___ Beach, Calif. : PISMO
2
Makeshift : ADHOC
3
Makeshift shelter : LEANTOTENT
4
Kosher bakery no-no : LARD
5
They might go viral : MEMES
6
"Mr. Robot" network : USA
7
Partner of wide : FAR
8
What Buddha is said to have meditated under : FIGTREE
9
Barren : ARID
10
Boarding pass datum : GATE
11
"Heavens to Murgatroyd!" : EGAD
13
Genre of the band Less Than Jake : SKA
15
Idiotic : BRAINLESS
18
The Cards, on scoreboards : ARI
20
1980s-'90s N.F.L. great Ronnie : LOTT
24
Like envelope flaps : CREASED
25
Relatives of puffins : AUKS
27
Relatives of kingfishers : BEEEATERS
28
India ___ : INK
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Wind tunnel currents : AIRSTREAMS
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"Got it!" : ISEE
33
They can be saturated : FATS
34
Pride parade letters : LGBT
35
Rest ___ : AREA
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Big name in laptops : ACER
40
Fashion accessory that may be six feet long : BOA
42
No longer interested in : WEARYOF
43
An assistant might take one : MEMO
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Follower of yes or no in the military : SIR
49
Ancient arts venue : ODEON
51
Black-and-white mammals : ORCAS
52
Prefix with musicology : ETHNO
53
Security guard's viewing, for short : CCTV
54
River originating in Pittsburgh : OHIO
55
Shoe part : HEEL
57
Figure on a résumé, in brief : GPA
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Monk known as "The Father of English History" : BEDE
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Upsilon follower : PHI
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Stop on a trip : INN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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