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New York Times, Thursday, December 26, 2019

Author:
Trenton Charlson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Down : Surfboard stabilizer
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Trenton Charlson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 79, Blocks: 42 Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 18 for Mr. Charlson. Thursday freshness: 23%
Trenton Charlson notes:
The theme of this puzzle bears more than a passing resemblance to that of my Battleship puzzle from approximately two years ago, although the ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
My dad wasn't around a lot when I was a kid. When it was (rarely) just the two of us, he'd sometimes ask if I wanted to go bowling. I liked ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times12/26/19 ( No. 25,615 )
Across
1
Bind : JAM
4
It's not much work : ERG
7
Short : SHY
10
Average name : DOW
13
Talk show medium : AMRADIO
15
Quite an accomplishment : COUP
17
Señora Perón : EVA
18
Secret headquarters for Bruce Wayne : BATCAVE
19
Not be oneself? : ROLEPLAY
21
"I've heard everything I need to hear" : SPAREMETHEDETAILS
23
Relative of a haddock : COD
25
Moon of Saturn named for a Titaness : RHEA
26
Instant : SEC
27
Black-and-white predators : ORCAS
29
Martin ___, "London Fields" novelist : AMIS
32
Comic strip title character who is Beetle Bailey's sister : LOIS
35
Winter D.C. setting : EST
36
Quite an accomplishment : FEAT
38
Do some underground exploring : SPELUNK
40
Find an ideal compromise : STRIKETHERIGHTBALANCE
43
Transitional zone between two biomes : ECOTONE
44
Early Cuzco resident : INCA
45
Pull : TUG
46
End notes : CODA
47
Highland tongue : ERSE
49
Aunt ___ of "Oklahoma!" : ELLER
51
Estadio exclamation : OLE
53
Pie hole : TRAP
55
Places where people may have the knives out for you, in brief : ORS
56
Classic tune often played by ice cream trucks : TURKEYINTHESTRAW
61
Adjust : REJIGGER
62
Sport that is the key to interpreting the answers to 21-, 40- and 56-Across : BOWLING
66
Consist of : ARE
67
Get to : RILE
68
Temporarily inactive : ABEYANT
69
"That really hurt!" : YOW
70
Waitress at Mel's Diner : FLO
71
Magic 8 Ball response : YES
72
Prefix with -phyte : NEO
Down
1
Snarky remark : JAB
2
Residents' org. : AMA
3
Muscleman with a mohawk : MRT
4
Eponymous Dutch town : EDAM
5
Subject of several Georges Seurat paintings : RIVERSEINE
6
Doth proceed : GOETH
7
Horror movie staple : SCREAM
8
Part of a parka : HOOD
9
Winter season : YULE
10
Place for cold cuts : DELICOUNTER
11
Like skating rinks, typically : OVAL
12
Manners : WAYS
14
Rock group from Sydney : AC/DC
16
Vets' charges : PETS
20
Dish seasoned with saffron : PAELLA
22
Uncultivated tract : HEATH
23
Bulk-purchase retailer : COSTCO
24
One who closely adheres to the Torah : ORTHODOXJEW
28
Picked locks? : AFRO
30
Some library catalog info, for short : ISBN
31
Magellan, e.g. : SPACEPROBE
33
Runs up, as expenses : INCURS
34
Surfboard stabilizer : SKEG
35
Higher-up : EXEC
37
Golden ___ : AGER
39
Carrier that offers only kosher meals : ELAL
41
Bibliographer's phrase of inclusion : ETALII
42
Levels : TIERS
48
Something no single speaker provides : STEREO
50
Menial : LOWLY
52
Certain B.S. holder: Abbr. : ENGR
54
Cornered : ATBAY
56
Letter in the NATO alphabet : XRAY
57
Prefix with -phyte : XERO
58
"What a long week!" : TGIF
59
"___ is other people": Sartre : HELL
60
Commands respect from : AWES
63
Swimming gold medalist Thorpe : IAN
64
Columbus-to-Cleveland dir. : NNE
65
Old Pontiac with a V8 engine : GTO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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