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New York Times, Thursday, September 15, 2022

Author:
Ruth Bloomfield Margolin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
53-Across : Beaux-___
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Ruth B. Margolin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQXZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Ms. Margolin. Thursday freshness: 78%
Ruth B. Margolin notes:
I enjoy puzzles that play with idioms — often by making them literal and thereby skewing their meaning entirely — so I look for idioms ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
Jim here, sitting in for Jeff Chen, who is counting the number of puppeteers needed to manipulate Topo Gigio, in Italian! I think I ... read more
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© 2022, The New York Times9/15/22 ( No. 26,609 )
Across
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Wanes : EBBS
5
Clark with the #1 country hit "Girls Lie Too" : TERRI
10
___ fide : MALA
14
Title dog in a 1981 thriller : CUJO
15
Like the creator deity Viracocha : INCAN
16
Declaration after getting a hand : IMIN
17
Stagger : REEL
18
What a red flag at a beach may signify : NOSWIMMING
20
Pops, in a way : UNCORKS
22
Computer correspondent : EMAILER
23
Name on a Chinese menu : TSO
24
Mötley ___ : CRUE
25
"Fabulous!" : YAY
26
Prefix with center : EPI
28
Flour in Indian cuisine : ATTA
31
Something a game may have, for short : MVP
33
"Which do you want to hear first?" option : GOODNEWS
35
Like some upholstery : WELTED
39
Used up : GONE
40
"Schitt's Creek" matriarch : MOIRA
42
Top-of-the-line : AONE
43
Praise for a zinger : OHSNAP
45
Downside : NEGATIVE
47
Number of puppeteers needed to manipulate Topo Gigio : TRE
48
Walkie-talkie word : OVER
49
River of France and Belgium : LYS
50
Big D cager : MAV
53
Beaux-___ : ARTS
55
Word in "___ or no ___?" : ICE
57
Product made by smelting : IRONBAR
59
Like accommodations for friars and nuns, typically : SPARTAN
63
Totally out : SOLASTYEAR
65
Spot on a map : ISLE
66
Self-satisfied : SMUG
67
Savory sensation : UMAMI
68
Seven ___ : SEAS
69
Thanksgiving dish : YAMS
70
The Shroud of Turin, e.g. : RELIC
71
History, with "the" : PAST
Down
1
Neutral hue : ECRU
2
Good, in Guadalajara : BUEN
3
Make one's opposition known, literally : BJECTIONS
4
Goes it alone : SOLOS
5
Protest, literally : TINK
6
Slaughter in Cooperstown : ENOS
7
Alternatives to Cokes and Pepsis : RCS
8
Pinker or greener, perhaps : RAWER
9
Alleviate income insufficiency, literally : INIMUMWAGE
10
"La Bohème" seamstress : MIMI
11
See children through to adulthood, literally : AMILY
12
Top of an I.R.S. form : LINEA
13
More than miffed : ANGRY
19
Binchy who wrote "Circle of Friends" : MAEVE
21
Horse of a certain color : ROAN
24
Where $50 bills and crossing your legs may be considered bad luck : CASINOS
26
Toaster waffle : EGGO
27
Fictional character who says "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside" : POOH
29
De-escalate tension, literally : TEMPERATUR
30
Helium, on the periodic table : TWO
32
City planner's map : PLAT
34
Job for an auto shop : DENT
36
Demonstrate a bit of bathroom etiquette, literally : TOILETSEA
37
Major theme of "Othello" : ENVY
38
Defend borders? : DEES
41
M.L.K. Jr., for one : REV
44
Dubai denizens : ARABS
46
One of five in "La Bohème" : ARIA
50
Rapper Elliott : MISSY
51
Bakery product that can't be purchased : AROMA
52
Show respect to one's neighbors late at night, literally : VOLUM
54
"You might be surprised" : TRYME
56
Potato chip, in England : CRISP
58
Pesters : NAGS
59
Finno-Ugric language group : SAMI
60
Put on sale, literally : PRIC
61
[Sigh] : ALAS
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Fit together, as mixing bowls : NEST
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Ending with arbor : EAL

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

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