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New York Times, Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Author:
Kevin Curry and Daniel Bodily
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Across : "Down the ___!" ("Bottoms up!")
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0020200
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1.631538%
Kevin Curry
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113/17/20229/10/20245
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3131300
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131.674235%
Daniel Bodily

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 41 Missing: {JQ} Grid has mirror symmetry. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Curry. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Bodily. Tuesday freshness: 46%
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© 2023, The New York Times11/7/23 ( No. 27,027 )
Across
1
N.L. East team for which Tom Seaver pitched : METS
5
"Down the ___!" ("Bottoms up!") : HATCH
10
Wild guess : STAB
14
Pop band with a palindromic name : ABBA
15
Pouch of fluid in an E.R. : IVBAG
16
Site with "Place bid" buttons : EBAY
17
When repeated, slogan of 1-Down : ZOOM
18
"I ___ what I said" : MEANT
19
Tirade : RANT
20
Torus-shaped treat : DONUT
22
Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle : MRT
23
∼ : TILDE
24
Michelle ___, FIFA Female Player of the Century : AKERS
25
Not just some : ALL
26
Treads on Keds : SOLES
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Plopped down : SAT
28
"Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand" (Duran Duran lyric) : RIO
29
Common airport greeting : HUG
30
Attempt to cool, in a way : STIR
31
Conditions : IFS
32
Aruba, Bonaire or Curaçao : ISLE
34
Astronaut Jemison : MAE
35
Nonspecialist : AMATEUR
38
Mars … or a marble : ORB
40
Old man's old man : GRAMPA
42
"Little" Wonder : STEVIE
44
Goes the distance : MAKESIT
46
Mandated : DECREED
47
Mama's mama : NANA
48
___ Apollo, Grammy-nominated singer : OMAR
49
One of five in a Shakespeare play : ACT
52
Like items unveiled in a tech show, colloquially : NEXTGEN
54
Boxer who received a Liberty Medal for being a "champion of freedom" : ALI
57
Foreboding feeling : DREAD
59
Wee one : TOT
60
List in an etiquette book : NONOS
62
Fitness program originally called "Rumbacize" : ZUMBA
63
Market launch, for short : IPO
64
Come clean : OWNUP
65
Cast out : EXPEL
66
First music artist to have a video with a billion YouTube views : PSY
67
Impoverished : NEEDY
Down
1
Miata maker : MAZDA
2
Kindle item : EBOOK
3
*Chophouse choice : TBONESTEAK
4
One required by a 1629 law to wear two swords : SAMURAI
5
"To Know ___ Is to Love ___" (1958 #1 song) : HIM
6
Mass recitation : AVEMARIA
7
*Skier's support : TBARLIFT
8
Surefire : CANTLOSE
9
Driver's license fig. : HGT
10
"No joke!" : SERIOUS
11
*Miniature mitt : TBALLGLOVE
12
"Storage Wars" network : AANDE
13
Memory units : BYTES
21
*Article of summer footwear : TSTRAPSANDAL
23
*Launcher sometimes used during halftime at a sports event : TSHIRTCANNON
30
Singer Bareilles : SARA
33
Canal written about by Twain and Melville : ERIE
34
Studio with an iconic lion : MGM
36
Home of Acadia National Park : MAINE
37
"I'm at your disposal" : USEME
39
One of the B's in B&B : BED
41
Chess pieces : MEN
43
Make a typo, say : ERR
45
Bit of advice from a C.P.A. : TAXTIP
46
Slobbery tennis ball, e.g. : DOGTOY
49
Woodworking tool : ADZE
50
Main point : CRUX
51
Office sub : TEMP
53
With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have : TTOPS
54
Name shared by two wives of Henry VIII : ANNE
55
Noisy : LOUD
56
Words preceding "with my little eye" : ISPY
58
$5 bill, slangily : ABE
61
Have bills due : OWE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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