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New York Times, Saturday, May 18, 2019

Author:
Andy Kravis and Erik Agard
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
53-Across : "What a jerk!"
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2711/3/20137/26/202416
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
51374331
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
151.6218059%
Andy Kravis
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
7811/6/20123/22/202441
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
118791014181
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
281.6054562%
Erik Agard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Kravis. This is puzzle # 38 for Mr. Agard. Saturday freshness: 60%
Constructor notes:
As always, Erik and I had a blast working together. We had a tough time cluing HANGMAN, but the editing team came up with the superb ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times5/18/19 ( No. 25,393 )
Across
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Jets are found in it, for short : AFC
4
Rep : AGENT
9
Photo framer's offering : MAT
12
Tough person to get information from : CLAM
14
Like southern Israel vis-à-vis northern Israel : DRIER
15
Porter of note : COLE
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Acclaimed 1942 film banned in Germany until after W.W. II : CASABLANCA
18
Alma mater of N.B.A. M.V.P. Russell Westbrook : UCLA
19
It's found just south of the White House's South Lawn : ESTREET
20
Stadium divertissement : KISSCAM
22
Often-braised cut of beef : SHORTRIB
24
Language of South Asia : NEPALI
25
Home of the Unesco World Heritage Site of Palmyra : SYRIA
26
"It's futile" : NOUSE
28
Ending of eight U.S. presidents' names : SON
29
Quad bike, e.g. : ATV
31
Drawing : ENTICING
33
Measures taken to make golf courses tougher in the early 2000s : TIGERPROOFING
36
"Let me demonstrate" : HERESHOW
37
Hard core : PIT
38
Sports star who once declared "I am America" : ALI
39
Like some barbecue : TEXAN
41
Guitar accessories : CAPOS
45
Arizona rival : NESTEA
47
Empathize with : RELATETO
49
Some guitar basics : GCHORDS
51
Salt : MARINER
52
Bryophytic growth : MOSS
53
"What a jerk!" : SOMEPEOPLE
55
NASA's ___ Research Center : AMES
56
Walt Disney's middle name : ELIAS
57
Singer of the song "Shadowland" in "The Lion King" : NALA
58
Subj. of the 2017 memoir "Working on the Dark Side of the Moon" : NSA
59
British weight : TONNE
60
Something to build on : LOT
Down
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Reach : ACCESS
2
Ostentatious : FLASHY
3
___ oil : CASTOR
4
Richard who composed the music for "Damn Yankees" and "The Pajama Game" : ADLER
5
Cheesy crust : GRATIN
6
"___ feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Bach cantata) : EIN
7
Narrow part : NECK
8
Station : TRAINSTOP
9
Venomous snake : MOCCASIN
10
The whole time : ALLALONG
11
Joining, with "up" : TEAMING
13
Subject of the Supreme Court cases Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell v. Hodges : MARRIAGE
15
Edge : CUSP
17
One looking for bugs : BETATESTER
21
"Go right ahead!" : SEEIFICARE
23
Conflict that saw the sieges of Ladysmith and Kimberley : BOERWAR
27
One overseas : UNO
30
Modern game equipment : VRHEADSET
32
That's the ticket! : CITATION
33
Sprint and such : TELECOMS
34
Home of the Isle of Man : IRISHSEA
35
Cow or chicken follower : POX
36
Bad choices in it might cost you an arm and a leg : HANGMAN
40
Like the lion slain in Hercules' first labor : NEMEAN
42
Foreign correspondent, maybe : PENPAL
43
Classic opera set in Cyprus : OTELLO
44
Cross with : SOREAT
46
Have trouble sleeping, say : TOSS
48
Run out : LAPSE
50
Daring way to fly : SOLO
54
Calculus calculation, for short : MIN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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