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New York Times, Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Author:
Ross Trudeau
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Across : Be part of, as a play
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Ross Trudeau

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QVX} This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Trudeau. Tuesday freshness: 85%
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© 2018, The New York Times12/18/18 ( No. 25,242 )
Across
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Relative of Alt on a keyboard : CTRL
5
Be part of, as a play : ACTIN
10
Pull-up muscles, briefly : LATS
14
Cookie with its name on it : OREO
15
One agreeing with everything you say : TOADY
16
Sheltered at sea : ALEE
17
Proper attire for taking fingerprints? : DUSTJACKET
19
Enter : GOIN
20
Dramatic "You too?" : ETTU
21
Mauna ___ : KEA
22
Bat for hitting practice fly balls : FUNGO
23
Red, white and blue team : USA
24
Proper attire for picking up a series of clues? : TRAILBLAZER
27
Part of m.p.h. : PER
28
Took a load off : SAT
29
Hicks and Judge of Major League Baseball : AARONS
30
Conveyance for Calvin and Hobbes : SLED
32
Sushi garnish : ROE
34
Accomplished : DID
35
Wearers of 17-, 24-, 50- and 59-Across? : FASHIONPOLICE
40
Whose tomb was opened in 1923 : TUT
41
Stop (up) : DAM
42
Weaponizes : ARMS
44
Psychological wound : TRAUMA
47
Cry made with a fist pump : YES
49
Job listing abbr. : EEO
50
Proper attire for detaining a perp? : HOLDINGTANK
53
More of an ___ than a science : ART
54
Barely beat (out) : EDGED
55
Massage : RUB
56
Vittles : EATS
58
Sign gas : NEON
59
Proper attire for shadowing a suspect? : FOLLOWSUIT
62
Reynolds of "Boogie Nights" : BURT
63
Gary who played Buddy Holly : BUSEY
64
Wedge, for one : IRON
65
"Planet of the ___" : APES
66
"You can skip me" : IPASS
67
Outbox folder : SENT
Down
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Cousin of a pollock : COD
2
Unvarnished identity : TRUESELF
3
Pull-off spot : RESTAREA
4
Former senator Trent : LOTT
5
___ loss : ATA
6
Parrot with a showy crest : COCKATOO
7
George who played Sulu on "Star Trek" : TAKEI
8
It can't be improved upon : IDEAL
9
W.S.J. competitor : NYT
10
Alternative to John F. Kennedy : LAGUARDIA
11
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Mourning : ALONZO
12
Model Chrissy who wrote the best seller "Cravings" : TEIGEN
13
Titles with tildes : SENORS
18
Sticks (out) : JUTS
22
Thrash about : FLAIL
23
Co. with brown trucks : UPS
25
New Jersey river or bay : RARITAN
26
Black cat running across your path, it's said : BADOMEN
31
Ones far from the honor roll : DSTUDENTS
33
Caboose, e.g. : END
36
Like summers in Washington, D.C. : HUMID
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Balance sheet heading : PAYABLES
38
Word with comfort or feature : CREATURE
39
Reappearance above water, as for a submarine : EMERSION
43
Wino, e.g. : SOT
44
Sports org. since 1946 : THENBA
45
Became uncomfortable, as some underwear : RODEUP
46
"An Inconvenient Truth" author : ALGORE
48
Distort : SKEW
51
Put into categories : GROUP
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Arkansas River city : TULSA
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"No guarantees" : ASIS
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"Freeze! ___!" : FBI
60
Jewish cries : OYS
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Prop for Wile E. Coyote : TNT

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