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New York Times, Thursday, September 1, 2016

Author:
Ben Tausig
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Across : Narwhal features
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Tausig. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Thursday freshness: 32%
Ben Tausig notes:
I'm excited about this concept. The theme explains, about as well as you can in a crossword, the ambiguity at the heart of ... read more
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© 2016, The New York Times9/1/16 ( No. 24,404 )
Across
1
Part of a house : ROOF
5
Old-seeming : FUSTY
10
Laborious process : SLOG
14
Middle name of the inventor of the electrographic vote recorder : ALVA
15
Channel for college sports : ESPNU
16
Fatty tuna part, at a sushi restaurant : TORO
17
Tech expert, as it were : GEEK
18
Steamy place : SAUNA
19
Actor Wilson : OWEN
20
Ending with metal or mal- : WARE
21
Lie on a beach : SUN
22
Holistic spiritual movement : NEWAGE
24
Blowup: Abbr. : ENL
25
Narwhal features : TUSKS
27
Run off, in a way : XEROX
28
Music producer Brian : ENO
29
Inits. on a car sticker : EPA
30
"Oh gawd!" : UGH
32
AC/DC single with the lyric "watch me explode" : TNT
33
Poet who wrote of Beatrice : DANTE
35
Unleash, as havoc : WREAK
37
Having a variable identity, as suggested by four squares in this puzzle : GENDERFLUID
41
Super : DANDY
42
Final authority : SAYSO
45
Score amts. : PTS
48
Sight ___ : GAG
49
___ out (email list selection) : OPT
51
Turf : SOD
52
Get more mileage out of : REUSE
54
Hyundai model with a lot of horsepower? : EQUUS
56
Play (with) : TOY
57
Undivided : ENTIRE
59
Pac-12 athlete : UTE
60
Ending of many a firm's name : SONS
61
Topic to ask a fortuneteller about : FATE
62
Dined watching Netflix, say : ATEIN
64
Bonobos, e.g. : APES
65
Cher or Dolly Parton, e.g. : ICON
66
Cover ... or cover ___ : SHEET
67
Tough stuff to walk through : FIRE
68
Lucy Lawless role : XENA
69
Curt : TERSE
70
"Chill ..." : EASY
Down
1
Cause of some allergy flare-ups : RAGWEED
2
Mamet play inspired by the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings : OLEANNA
3
Going on and on ... and on : OVERLONG
4
Fabricate : MAKE
5
Reveal a secret, say : MESSUP
6
Patriotic chant : USAUSA
7
Mettle : SPUNK
8
Old channel with country music videos : TNN
9
Chinese money : YUAN
10
Best-selling author who was a neighbor of Twain in Hartford : STOWE
11
Kitsch, e.g. : LOWART
12
Snake's place, partly : OREGON
13
Follow : GONEXT
23
Tires : EXHAUSTS
25
One "in love" in a 1959 top 5 hit : TEENAGER
26
Roar producer : SURF
31
Lock fixer? : GEL
34
2012 comedy with a talking bear : TED
35
Not straight : WRY
36
Soul producer : KIA
38
Forensic material : DNA
39
Beat (out) : EDGE
40
"The Hunger Games" universe, e.g. : DYSTOPIA
43
Neighbors of Longhorns : SOONERS
44
Adventure : ODYSSEY
45
It's combined at the beginning : PREMIX
46
Certain pair in bridge : TENACE
47
Bank robber Willie who co-wrote "Where the Money Was" : SUTTON
49
Certain navels : OUTIES
50
Nuyorican music legend Tito : PUENTE
53
Tuscan city famous for horse races : SIENA
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Part of L.G.B.T.Q. : QUEER
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Right on the map : EAST
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Word that can precede sex : SAME
63
Not just any : THE

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