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New York Times, Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Author:
Ross Trudeau
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
35-Across : Lotion additive
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Ross Trudeau

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JKQX} This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Trudeau. Grid flow: 31.8 Tuesday freshness: 69%
Ross Trudeau notes:
I submitted this puzzle on February 24th, 2018, the day Team USA curling won men's gold at the Winter Olympics. Do not miss this event ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
If you've never seen curling in the Olympics, you need to experience it. At first glance, it may look ridiculous. And at second ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times10/8/19 ( No. 25,536 )
Across
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Home squatters? : UMPS
5
Air-quality org. : EPA
8
Supposed makers of Keebler cookies : ELVES
13
Remove the peel from : PARE
14
Like most sushi fish : RAW
15
Mark who won the 1998 Masters : OMEARA
16
Spray-painting tools : STENCILS
18
Looked hard (at) : PEERED
19
Info on an airline website, for short : ETA
20
Skirt's edge : HEM
21
Artist Matisse : HENRI
22
Pace : TEMPO
24
Employee of the Month, e.g. : AWARD
26
Local govt. official : ALD
29
Flavor : SAPOR
30
It's not everything, per a saying : SIZE
31
Letter-shaped girder : HBAR
32
Translation of "je suis" or "yo soy" : IAM
34
After all expenses : NET
35
Lotion additive : ALOE
36
Items guided by brooms in the Winter Olympics ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme : CURLINGSTONES
40
[Gasp!] : OHNO
41
Note between fa and la : SOL
42
___ Taylor (clothing chain) : ANN
43
Engrossed : RAPT
44
Alternatives to Levi's : LEES
46
Utter, biblically : SAYST
50
"Buen ___" (Spanish greeting) : DIA
51
First extra inning : TENTH
52
"Fingers crossed ..." : IHOPE
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Repeated lyric in a 1987 Michael Jackson #1 hit : IMBAD
55
Back, in a boat : AFT
57
"___ got it!" : YOU
58
Sentence ender : PERIOD
60
Give the heebie-jeebies : CREEPOUT
62
Entertainers Miller and Close : GLENNS
63
Archery asset : AIM
64
"Are not!" comeback : AMSO
65
Helped : AIDED
66
Plaint during shearing : BAA
67
Battle of Normandy locale : CAEN
Down
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Underdog's feats : UPSETS
2
Kathy with the #1 country hit "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" : MATTEA
3
Speaker booster : PREAMP
4
Many a pres. candidate : SEN
5
The "E" in HOMES : ERIE
6
Las ___, Canary Islands : PALMAS
7
Cries meaning "How cu-u-ute!" : AWS
8
Fix, as text : EMEND
9
Sinister look : LEER
10
The "x" or "y" in 2x + 3y = 15 : VARIABLE
11
Before, to a bard : ERE
12
Bummed : SAD
15
Many a Gilbert and Sullivan work : OPERETTA
17
Beethoven's "___" Symphony : CHORAL
21
Puts through a cruel initiation : HAZES
23
"Murder on the Orient Express" detective : POIROT
25
It turns up at the edge of a plane : WINGLET
27
Vietnam neighbor : LAOS
28
"The Chronic" rapper, informally : DRE
31
"___ Montana" : HANNAH
33
Isn't totally straight with : MISLEADS
36
Tea variety : CHAI
37
Matchless : UNPAIRED
38
What a Möbius strip has : NOEND
39
Like some job training : ONSITE
40
Chicago airport code : ORD
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Islamic law based on the Quran : SHARIA
47
Cellist at Obama's first inauguration : YOYOMA
48
Other half : SPOUSE
49
Early German : TEUTON
51
Long-term security, for short : TBOND
54
Not yours : MINE
56
Disaster relief org. : FEMA
58
Org. offering member instruction, of course! : PGA
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___ Lilly (pharmaceutical giant) : ELI
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One in line at an airport : CAB
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Campaign-funding grp. : PAC

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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