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New York Times, Thursday, May 21, 2020

Author:
Andrew Kingsley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
60-Down : Modern term of endearment
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Andrew Kingsley

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Kingsley. Thursday freshness: 3%
Andrew Kingsley notes:
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© 2020, The New York Times5/21/20 ( No. 25,762 )
Across
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Bountiful : AMPLE
6
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
10
Something that might be kept in a bar : TAB
13
Like O negative vis-à-vis O positive : RARER
14
Turn over : CEDE
15
You, long ago : THEE
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*Sycophant : BROWNNOSER
18
Let (out) : RENT
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Condition for Jack Nicholson's character in "As Good as It Gets," in brief : OCD
20
Arias, usually : SOLOS
21
Less coarse : FINER
22
All things considered : ATTHAT
24
Oil-rich region : ARABIA
25
Before : UPTO
27
*Classic gin-and-grenadine cocktail : PINKLADY
29
Entrepreneur's goal : GROWTH
32
Pieces that can go left or right : OPEDS
33
One of L.B.J.'s presidential dogs : HER
34
___ milk : OAT
36
Pitch in : AID
37
Lip : RIM
40
Metaphor for experience : RODEO
42
Alternative to O : TYPEAB
44
*Military medal : PURPLEHEART
48
___ Lewis, "The Taste of Country Cooking" writer : EDNA
49
Sonata closers : RONDOS
50
1996 hit with the lyric "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" : IRONIC
53
Good trait : ASSET
54
TV executive Arledge : ROONE
55
Rich source of omega-3 fatty acids : ROE
58
"Gotcha!" : ISEE
59
*Annual Florida football game : ORANGEBOWL
61
Mine layer : SEAM
62
Biographer Leon : EDEL
63
Fix for shortsightedness : LASIK
64
Playful suffix with "best" : EST
65
Egg ___ : TOSS
66
Three of the last seven words in Joyce's "Ulysses" : YESES
Down
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Ship that Athena helped build, in myth : ARGO
2
Podcaster Maron : MARC
3
Tyrannosaurus rex, for one : PREDATOR
4
"BlacKkKlansman" director, 2018 : LEE
5
Physicist Mach who lent his name to a measure of speed : ERNST
6
Measure opposed to strip mining, e.g. : ECOLAW
7
Landlocked African country : LESOTHO
8
Day in ancient Rome : IDES
9
Suffix with rocket : EER
10
Jazz group : THENBA
11
Classic work famously translated by John Dryden : AENEID
12
Sell out : BETRAY
15
Pre-Olympic events : TRIALS
17
Japanese theater : NOH
21
Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts : FREDDY
23
Lug : TOW
24
Faceplanted, say : ATEIT
25
"Bleah!" : UGH
26
Canada's Grand-___ National Historic Site : PRE
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Alternative to a pilsner : IPA
30
Scalding : TOOHOT
31
Land down under? : HADES
35
Bagged leaves? : TEA
37
Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes ... or what "corrects" the answer to each of the starred clues : REDCROSS
38
Actor McKellen : IAN
39
New corp. hire, maybe : MBA
40
Cash in : REDEEM
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Team named after its official state bird : ORIOLES
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J.F.K. Library architect : PEI
44
Prepare, as a pot roast : BRAISE
45
Sports column : LOSSES
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Vote out : UNSEAT
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Online troublemakers : TROLLS
51
Singer whose name sounds like a cry of horror : ONO
52
Just : NEWLY
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Overhaul : REDO
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Boo-boo : OWIE
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Cougars' prey : ELKS
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Until now : YET
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Modern term of endearment : BAE

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