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New York Times, Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Author:
Michael Schlossberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Across : Prove appropriate for
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Michael Schlossberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQVXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Schlossberg. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Grid flow: 24.8 Tuesday freshness: 42%
Jeff Chen notes:
I love getting cleverly stymied in "Name That Theme." NUTS AND BOLTS. AN ARM AND A LEG. Clearly, it's X AND Y phrases. Let's figure ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

It's tough to find new clues for ALB, but as someone who spent half his life in Edmonton, I'm not sure anyone there would recognize it as an abbreviation for Alberta.

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© 2021, The New York Times10/26/21 ( No. 26,285 )
Across
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Off-the-cuff remarks : ADLIBS
7
London TV inits. : BBC
10
Dark wines : REDS
14
Place for daisies : MEADOW
15
Fair-hiring letters : EEO
16
Treat with a 71%-to-29% cookie-to-cream ratio : OREO
17
Microscopic life form : AMOEBA
18
Looks for web content about oneself : EGOSURFS
20
Basic, practical details : NUTSANDBOLTS
22
"___ Poetica" : ARS
23
Connery who played 007 seven times : SEAN
24
Catbird seat? : PERCH
28
Crystal ball gazers, e.g. : SEERS
31
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
33
"Well, what a surprise!" : OHO
34
What expensive things cost : ANARMANDALEG
38
Brings home with a hit, as a base runner : BATSIN
41
Treble symbols : GCLEFS
42
Magnet for criticism : LIGHTNINGROD
46
"What ___, chopped liver?" : AMI
47
Vicinity : AREA
48
Sniffed (around) : NOSED
52
Prove appropriate for : BEFIT
55
Has a part to play : ACTS
57
Mahmoud Abbas's grp. : PLO
58
Doctor whose shopping list might include 20-, 34- and 42-Across? : FRANKENSTEIN
62
Prowling kitty : ALLEYCAT
65
Virtual payment with a bank routing number : ECHECK
66
"Star Wars" princess : LEIA
67
"East" on a grandfather clock : III
68
Band's hired hand : ROADIE
69
Brewski : BEER
70
Beats by ___ (headphones brand) : DRE
71
Full of S curves : TWISTY
Down
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Alternatives to Maytags : AMANAS
2
Modest and shy : DEMURE
3
Chinese philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching" : LAOTSE
4
Fateful day for Caesar : IDES
5
Word before tea or Fett : BOBA
6
What some ugly ducklings turn into : SWANS
7
Flowering plant also known as horsemint : BEEBALM
8
Colorful garden perennial : BEGONIA
9
"Suh-weet!" : COOL
10
Awaken : ROUSE
11
Goof : ERR
12
___ Jam Recordings : DEF
13
Castaway's "Help!" : SOS
19
Canful at a gas station : STP
21
Venison : DEER
25
Something played that's not a game : ROLE
26
___ Boyardee : CHEF
27
Harleys, in slang : HOGS
29
Poison ivy eruption : RASH
30
Fit of irritation : SNIT
32
Head of a train: Abbr. : ENGR
35
Tennis's Kournikova : ANNA
36
Big name in pesticides : DCON
37
___ Ray, 1950s-'70s leading man : ALDO
38
Spill the beans : BLAB
39
"Je t'___" (French words of endearment) : AIME
40
End-of-the-week shout : TGIF
43
Carrier based in Tehran : IRANAIR
44
Item left at home on casual Fridays : NECKTIE
45
Place for a guard : GATE
49
Goes 60 in a 30- m.p.h. zone, say : SPEEDS
50
Draw out : ELICIT
51
Shrek's companion in "Shrek" : DONKEY
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Worrier's opening words : IFEAR
54
Urging for a reluctant person : TRY
56
Hägar the Horrible's dog : SNERT
59
Battery liquid : ACID
60
Trash-hauling ship : SCOW
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Kind of cuisine offering tom yung goong and tom kha kai : THAI
62
Edmonton's prov. : ALB
63
Spike or Gypsy Rose : LEE
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"Tuesday is the hardest crossword of the week," e.g. : LIE

Answer summary:
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