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Alex Eaton-Salners
Alex Eaton-Salners

NY Times, Sun, Apr 19, 2020 GOING TOO FAR

39-Down : Postmaster?

Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 31
Notepad: Many of the answers in this crossword are too long and won't fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it (or both). When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell out an aphorism sometimes attributed to 41-Down.

The quote: A day without laughter is a day wasted.

— [Charlie] Chaplin (attributed)

1
Z
2
A
3
P
4
P
5
B
6
A
7
T
8
C
9
H
10
E
11
C
12
A
13
B
14
O
S
L
O
15
C
C
R
U
A
L
16
O
D
A
17
O
P
E
R
18
C
H
I
R
R
S
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P
O
D
20
T
H
A
T
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I
S
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P
E
D
E
23
S
T
A
L
24
O
A
T
E
N
25
A
S
A
G
26
K
E
N
O
27
P
L
E
N
T
28
I
F
U
L
29
T
U
R
N
S
30
I
T
D
31
H
T
T
P
32
F
A
L
S
I
E
33
A
R
I
S
34
B
U
I
L
35
A
36
L
37
S
T
O
N
38
F
I
L
L
39
B
40
I
41
C
42
S
T
E
E
P
43
B
I
L
L
W
44
A
L
S
H
45
H
E
A
R
46
D
A
R
L
47
A
G
O
R
A
48
A
R
M
A
49
M
E
N
T
50
A
G
E
G
A
P
51
N
I
A
52
A
T
H
R
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O
B
54
N
G
E
L
55
T
O
P
56
D
E
M
E
R
I
57
D
E
L
I
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I
R
S
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E
R
I
E
S
T
60
A
R
I
N
© 2020, The New York Times
Across
1
Frank in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame : ZAPPA
5
Sorted into groups : BATCHED
11
Something city people hail : CAB
14
Capital near the 60th parallel : OSLO
15
Increase over time : ACCRUAL
16
"Star Wars" sage : YODA
17
Telephone keypad abbr. : OPER
18
Cricket sounds : CHIRRS
19
Portable music player : IPOD
20
In other words : THATIS
22
Base of support : PEDESTAL
24
Like Cheerios : OATEN
25
Tries : HASAGO
26
Cousin of bingo : KENO
27
Abundant : PLENTIFUL
29
Complete reversals : UTURNS
30
"___ be my pleasure!" : ITD
31
URL starter : HTTP
32
Fake eyelash, informally : FALSIE
33
Obtrusively bright : GARISH
34
Constructed : BUILT
35
Artist Charles of the Harlem Renaissance : ALSTON
38
Longtime PBS news presenter Gwen : IFILL
39
Pen name : BIC
42
Unexpectedly high, as prices : STEEP
43
Winning coach of Super Bowls XVI, XIX and XXIII : BILLWALSH
45
Got wind of : HEARD
46
"Our Gang" girl : DARLA
47
Meeting place in ancient Greece : AGORA
48
Weapons of war : ARMAMENT
50
Difference in years : AGEGAP
51
Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" : NIA
52
Like a beating heart : ATHROB
54
Child who always behaves : ANGEL
55
Whirling toys : TOPS
56
Mark off? : DEMERIT
57
Pastrami purveyor : DELI
58
Abbr. with a return address? : IRS
59
Most ghostly : EERIEST
60
Bobby of 1950s-'60s pop : DARIN
Down
1
2016 animated film whose main characters are a fox and a rabbit : ZOOTOPIA
2
Driveway material : ASPHALT
3
Having folds, as a skirt : PLEATED
4
Sign that something calamitous is coming : PORTENT
5
Secretly keeps in the loop : BCCS
6
German cry : ACH
7
Tricks into making a mistake : TRIPSUP
8
Panacea : CUREALL
9
Government leader? : HARDG
10
Apart from this : ELSE
11
Choppers : COPTERS
12
"Oklahoma!" girl : ADOANNIE
13
One upset at an upset : BADLOSER
21
John who helped found Massachusetts Bay Colony : WINTHROP
23
Crania : SKULLS
25
Longtime Ohio political dynasty : TAFTS
28
1986 rock autobiography : ITINA
29
Sign of a dog's excitement : TAILWAG
32
Stuffed : FULL
33
Eschewed cooked foods : ATERAW
34
Mr. Goat : BILLY
35
One-named singer with the hits "Foolish" and "Happy" : ASHANTI
36
Like some motives : ULTERIOR
37
Nautical charts : SEAMAPS
38
"Tannenbaum," literally : FIRTREE
39
Postmaster? : BLOGGER
40
Neighbor of a Lebanese : ISRAELI
41
Comic actor with an honorary Academy Award : CHAPLIN
43
Vietnamese sandwich : BANHMI
44
Plan for a meeting : AGENDA
46
Restrain through intimidation : DETER
49
___ in U.S.A. : MADE
50
Slightly : ABIT
53
Surgery sites, for short : ORS
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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