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Alex Eaton-Salners
Alex Eaton-Salners

NY Times, Sun, Sep 08, 2019 GOING TOO FAR

9-Down : Passed along, as a story

Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34
Notepad: Many of the answers in this crossword are one letter 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. 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 a quote by 53-Down.

The quote: "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

— Milton Berle

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J
2
A
3
R
4
S
5
S
6
A
7
D
8
O
9
R
10
R
11
A
12
N
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C
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I
D
A
H
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O
P
I
N
E
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E
D
A
L
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H
O
M
E
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P
L
A
N
E
T
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A
U
T
O
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A
R
I
A
L
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R
E
C
O
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R
D
L
O
W
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D
E
F
R
O
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S
T
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A
L
E
E
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E
D
E
M
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A
S
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P
R
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I
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S
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S
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N
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O
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T
D
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P
E
C
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F
A
S
T
E
N
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T
R
E
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B
O
N
E
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D
R
Y
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A
M
E
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W
A
R
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C
R
Y
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T
R
E
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P
L
E
A
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O
H
I
O
A
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A
Y
E
S
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H
A
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N
C
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A
N
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S
H
E
C
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R
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A
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B
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E
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L
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E
V
E
N
T
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H
S
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W
H
O
M
E
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A
T
R
I
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W
H
I
T
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E
T
I
G
E
R
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C
R
O
C
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A
R
L
I
N
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S
E
L
L
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H
A
S
T
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R
O
L
E
S
67
I
N
S
E
© 2019, The New York Times

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Across
1
Jam holders : JARS
5
Man's name often shortened to Izzy : ISADOR
10
Swiss currency : FRANC
14
Neighbor of Montana : IDAHO
15
Think out loud : OPINE
16
Brake, e.g. : PEDAL
17
Mars, to Martians : HOMEPLANET
19
Product of Detroit : AUTO
20
Typeface akin to Helvetica : ARIAL
21
Minus 80°F in Alaska in 1971, temperaturewise : RECORDLOW
23
Take out of the freezer : DEFROST
25
Away from the wind : ALEE
26
Swellings : EDEMAS
28
Fussy sort : PRISS
32
Avoid : NOTDO
35
Chest muscle, for short : PEC
36
Strap on, as a seatbelt : FASTEN
37
Uno + dos : TRES
38
Like a cracked riverbed : BONEDRY
40
Top line on an envelope : NAME
41
"Chaaaaaaaarge!," e.g. : WARCRY
43
Arduous journey : TREK
44
Guilty, perhaps : PLEA
45
Buckeye : OHIOAN
46
Wife of Muhammad : AYESHA
48
Like natives encountered by Pizarro : INCAN
50
Southern seafood soup ingredient : SHECRAB
54
Slices of a hendecagon : ELEVENTHS
58
Cry of feigned innocence : WHOME
59
Heart chambers : ATRIA
60
Albino zoo animal from Bengal : WHITETIGER
62
Nile predator, briefly : CROC
63
Sweetums : DARLIN
64
Order in a bear market : SELL
65
Must : HASTO
66
Eddie Murphy has seven different ones in "The Nutty Professor" : ROLES
67
Mouthwash instruction : RINSE
Down
1
Holy war : JIHAD
2
Cherish : ADORE
3
Branch out : RAMIFY
4
Clipped, as wool : SHEARED
5
How Lindbergh flew to Paris in 1927 : SOLO
6
Flat : APARTMENT
7
Certain car on a passenger train : DINER
8
24 cans of beer : ONECASE
9
Passed along, as a story : RETOLD
10
Book club attendees : READERS
11
Minor's counterpart : ADULT
12
Brussels-based defense grp. : NATO
13
Red-nosed performer : CLOWN
18
Trudge : PLOD
22
Settle ahead of time : PREPAY
24
India's ___ Rebellion of 1857-59 : SEPOY
27
Organic group found in aspirin : ACETYL
29
Author Calvino : ITALO
30
Bill Withers hit of 1972 : USEME
31
Proceed on tiptoe : SNEAK
32
Halved : INTWO
33
Synagogue scroll : TORAH
34
Actress Hatcher : TERI
36
Certification on Rotten Tomatoes : FRESH
38
Knee support : BRACE
39
Silk accessory for a suit : DRESSTIE
42
Pen pal? : CONVICT
44
Relative of the game Sorry! : PACHISI
46
Study of human societies, briefly : ANTHRO
47
Strictly obey : HEWTO
49
Peace Nobelist Sadat : ANWAR
51
Comic actor Seth : ROGEN
52
Transports across the Sahara : CAMELS
53
Comedian Milton : BERLE
54
Place to solve a crossword in the summer, say : BEACH
55
Prefix with sound or violet : ULTRA
56
Love god : EROS
57
Washington's Capitol ___ : HILL
61
Bears' quarters : DENS
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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