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New York Times, Monday, August 26, 2019

Author:
Erik Agard
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
55-Down : Some spiritual advisers
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Erik Agard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 80, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQVZ} Spans: 1 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is puzzle # 44 for Mr. Agard. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Monday freshness: 71%
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© 2019, The New York Times8/26/19 ( No. 25,493 )
Across
1
Groups of actors in plays : CASTS
6
Protective wear for lobster eaters : BIBS
10
Summa cum ___ : LAUDE
15
Outdo : ONEUP
16
Soothing ointment ingredient : ALOE
17
Neighbor of Hertfordshire : ESSEX
18
Start of a nursery rhyme on a farm : BAABAABLACKSHEEP
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Outer part of a crater : RIM
22
Feel sorry about : RUE
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Indent key on a keyboard : TAB
24
Sport with kicking and boxing, for short : MMA
25
Claim without evidence : ASSERT
27
Superlatively kind : NICEST
29
Bow-tie-wearing cub in Jellystone Park : BOOBOOBEAR
34
"You're telling me!" : IKNOW
37
Stitch's human pal, in film : LILO
38
Singer Minaj : NICKI
42
Cookie that's 29% cream : OREO
43
Pass along : SENDON
45
___ fides : BONA
46
Clock sound : TICK
47
Grow fond of : TAKETO
48
Skyline-obscuring pollution : SMOG
49
Bring up in a Q. and A. : ASK
50
Spanish for "south" : SUR
51
Falsehood : LIE
53
Palindromic kitchen brand : OXO
54
1963 musical that was Dick Van Dyke's film debut : BYEBYEBIRDIE
59
What dogs do when they're hungry : DROOL
61
Former attorney general Holder : ERIC
62
Photo-sharing app, colloquially : INSTA
65
Place for driving lessons (the golf kind) : RANGE
66
The "sun" in sunny-side-up eggs : YOLK
67
N.B.A. phenom Jayson : TATUM
68
Didn't venture out for dinner : ATEIN
69
Competitive advantage : EDGE
70
Put into law : ENACT
71
Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You" : TESSA
72
Bucks and does : DEER
73
Students sit at them : DESKS
Down
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Fearsome snake : COBRA
2
Nin of erotica : ANAIS
3
Bursting at the ___ : SEAMS
4
Bathroom fixture : TUB
5
Bird that "His eye is on," in a hymn : SPARROW
6
Term of endearment : BABE
7
Sick : ILL
8
Snaky scarf : BOA
9
Result of a religious schism : SECT
10
The "L" of L.G.B.T.Q. : LESBIAN
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Volcanic detritus : ASH
12
"I'm at your disposal" : USEME
13
Judges to be : DEEMS
14
Person living abroad, informally : EXPAT
19
Modern prefix with correct : AUTO
20
"Citizen ___" : KANE
26
Virtual volume : EBOOK
28
Places infants sleep : CRIBS
30
Having trouble seeing in the morning, perhaps : BLEARYEYED
31
Sound from a piggery : OINK
32
Adjective after "Ye" in many a pub's name : OLDE
33
Suck-up : BOOTLICKER
34
Littlest bit : IOTA
35
___ Kringle (Santa Claus) : KRIS
36
Pork dish of Southern cuisine : NECKBONES
39
"How goes it?," in Spanish : COMOESTAS
40
Fort ___, home of the U.S. Bullion Depository : KNOX
41
"Othello" villain : IAGO
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What's left of a ticket after it's been used : STUB
44
Pinot ___ : NOIR
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One-named queen of Tejano music : SELENA
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Made revisions to : EDITED
55
Some spiritual advisers : YOGIS
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Gradually disappear, as support : ERODE
57
Nonsense : BILGE
58
Nonsensical : INANE
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"Tarnation!" : DRAT
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Apt rhyme for "evaluate" : RATE
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Hide, as shirttails, with "in" : TUCK
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Quantities: Abbr. : AMTS

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

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