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Sam Ezersky
Sam Ezersky

NY Times, Sun, May 05, 2019 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

50-Down : 'Eavenly instruments

Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Across
1
Testified about Wooster : SWORETO
8
Inhabit all but one bit of Seattle : SETTLE
14
Spare doc for recording points : SCOREPAD
15
Some, er, women's wear : UMBRAS
16
For each church feature : PERSPIRE
17
One with aims to communize China : MAOIST
18
NORAD conjunction : ANDOR
19
Ponder in mature fashion : RUMINATE
21
"100 smackeroos" : SEENOTE
24
License requirement for a library : SILENCE
25
Start to get : MID
26
{Case, carton, package, parcel} : BOXSET
28
EMIT, e.g. : GAM
29
Like any thousands of complaints : NAGGY
30
Clinton's paper money : BILLS
32
American TV pal of the Avengers : CAPTAINMARVEL
36
Iridescent crane material : NACRE
37
Describing an apple's center : COREY
38
___ to the throne (make a royal mistake) : ERR
39
Onetime destination of USAir's flights : RUSSIA
41
Lawman : OHM
44
Great : G + rate :: Britain : B + ___ : WRITTEN
47
How to turn a teacher into Cher : TAKETEA
49
Fatal flaw of Mata Hari : HAMARTIA
51
Puerto Rican stone landmark : CAIRN
52
Commercial for artificial intelligence : ADONAI
53
Pasta for a rioting group : RIGATONI
56
Bringing inside : RINGIN
57
Dad rock, e.g. : POPMUSIC
58
Auto whose horn ya toot : TOYOTA
59
Quick and clever, by the sound of it : SNAPPEA
Down
1
When nieces appeared in the play : SCENEI
2
Stated whom Rod needs, oddly : WORDED
3
"Daughter ___?" (birth question) : ORSON
4
Top bearer of unprincipled behavior : REPROBATE
5
2.71828 + 3.14159 : EPI
6
Backup singer : TAR
7
Author of praiseful poetry : ODER
8
___ up (recap a mountain-climbing adventure) : SUMMIT
9
Everyday messages accessed in laptops, initially : EMAIL
10
Tibia or talus : TBONE
11
Integral part of a percussion ensemble : TRIANGLE
12
"Yer out!" "Yer out!" --> "Yer out!" <-- : LASTCALL
13
Meets up between two directions : ESTEEMS
14
Spams uncontrollably : SPASM
20
U U U : USE
22
Attire for a goat : TOGA
23
Retiree from Squadron 9, e.g. : EXGI
27
Audibly goes down : SYNCS
29
News presenter in Hunan Province : NPR
30
BIVO UAC : BREAKCAMP
31
Line heard by a hospital bed : IVY
32
Player of tunes on air or a CD while driving : CARRADIO
33
One acronym for bitterness : ACRIMONY
34
Great majority around Mount Everest : MOST
35
Part of "Ave Maria" that's sung : ARIA
36
Result of a cardiac transplant, so to speak : NEWHART
39
The optic nerve is near it : RETINA
40
Deal opener : UNI
41
N__ __ serv__ng a purp__ __ __ : OTIOSE
42
That woman, Ms. Vardalos : HERNIA
43
Like the crazed man I see : MANIC
45
Dance that's got an Argentine origin : TANGO
46
Extra-itchy interior quality : TRAIT
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Really like taupe : EATUP
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'Eavenly instruments : ARPS
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One on a chemistry test : ION
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Connector of moving parts : GPA
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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