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Sam Ezersky
Sam Ezersky

NY Times, Sun, Jul 26, 2020 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

56-Across : Start of a tangle

Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35
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O
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© 2020, The New York Times
Across
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__ri__d, __ __ teet__ : GNASH
6
See 49-Down : DEAL
10
Kissing outside of one's pad, for short : PDA
13
Shaky fighter : ROCKY
14
Belief, at heart : ELIE
15
Kind of exam in vector algebra : ORAL
16
Like the children of laborers in Exodus : ISRAELBORN
18
Ask "Whose work is 'The Raven'?" : POSE
19
Ref. work read back to front : DEO
20
Word a pen might scratch on a tide table : NEAP
21
Cash container for J.P. & Rita : TIPJAR
23
Psychoanalysis patients get theirs checked : IDS
24
Something to stare at in a garden : ASTER
26
Spanish train to cross an English river : TRENT
27
Freedom of speech : RITE
29
Green site for wildebeests : SERENGETI
31
Bottle ___ (Dracula's alcohol purchase) : OVINE
33
"Apologies" : SARIS
34
Sweet drinks for trances : NECTARS
37
Spacers in outer space : PARSECS
41
Zero m.p.g., say : ORATE
43
Long "o" in "passcode" : LOGON
44
U FULLFULLFULL P : STUFFEDUP
48
Capital where "love" is "amor" : ROMA
49
Did he run for office in India? : NEHRU
50
They sound like hassles for window washers : PANES
52
Tee or polo, initially : TOP
53
Shaq with 50 (it's a tie!) : ONEALL
55
Where philosopher John Stuart cuts wood : MILL
56
Start of a tangle : REC
57
Spiel's conclusion : BERG
58
Like the samurai in training : AMATEURISH
61
"That makes sense" : ICEE
62
Very much my sort of look : SOME
63
Tapes body parts : SEPTA
64
$1,000 commercial : GAD
65
__urr__ __ __ : HIED
66
What a Twitter username does : HASAT
Down
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Where QBs are 'roiding : GRIDIRON
2
Go straight down the side oven : NOSEDIVE
3
An angry little sucker, by the sound of it : ACROSTIC
4
Alaskan interior : SKA
5
Hey, an African animal! : HYENA
6
Contents of de tackle box : DEBATE
7
Followers of Dev : ELOPERS
8
Hairdryers are full of it : AIR
9
Temporarily gave up before Easter : LENT
10
Anti-Giant, in a New York sports rivalry : PROJET
11
Brand that competes with Aquafina and is a product of Coca-Cola : DASANI
12
Later warning : ALERT
15
Proposer's tyrant : OPPRESSOR
17
Word seen in sales signs : LESS
22
Ida Tarbell or Ivana Trump : ITGIRL
25
Get food to pare : REAP
28
Group from Ga. en route : ENTOURAGE
30
Gun range org., in part : NRA
32
Amount of corn per cob : EARFUL
35
Rising in the distance : RAF
36
Raising cats and dogs : STEP
38
Does a priest go on them? : EGOTRIPS
39
Foreign-language question for the comatose : COMOESTA
40
TA LK : SNAPCHAT
42
Made me a Japanese appetizer : EDAMAME
44
Role in a scene from "Quo Vadis" : SENECA
45
___ need to be more revenue to get out of ___ : THERED
46
Together at the airport : UNITED
47
A su__ __rstar ath__ __te : PELE
49
With 6-Across, result of a contract dispute : NOBIG
51
'S quite luxurious : SLUSH
54
What's taken from a flashlight for a flight : LASH
59
Who heard a French kiss : MOI
60
Concerning a star of "The Crying Game" : REA
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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