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New York Times, Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Author:
Rich Proulx
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"They're creepy and they're ___" (start of the "Addams Family" theme song)
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQW} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Proulx. Jeff Chen's Puzzle of the Week pick. Wednesday freshness: 84%
Rich Proulx notes:
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Jeff Chen notes:
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© 2020, The New York Times10/14/20 ( No. 25,908 )
Across
1
Lab test : ASSAY
6
View from Liechtenstein : ALP
9
Square : PLAZA
14
Water slide : CHUTE
15
Word that becomes its own opposite if its first letter is removed : SHE
16
Hall's partner : OATES
17
So much, in music : TANTO
18
*1st and 5th : HANGLOOSE
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"Count me in" : IMGAME
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Garment often made of silk : SARI
23
Kid-centric org. : PTA
24
*1st separate, 2nd and 3rd together, and 4th and 5th together : VULCANSALUTE
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Tied in ___ : AKNOT
28
Encourage : EGGON
32
Spongy growth : MOSS
34
Potent strain of marijuana : KUSH
37
Chateaux-lined river : LOIRE
38
Sanctions : OKS
39
*2nd and 3rd separated : VICTORY
41
Irk : VEX
42
Response to "Am not!" : ARESO
44
Newswoman Phillips : KYRA
45
Spot for a sitting duck : NEST
46
101 : BASIC
47
Some natural hairstyles : AFROS
49
55
"The Simpsons" shopkeeper : APU
58
Four-time Grammy winner Lovett : LYLE
59
Display contempt for, in a way : SPITON
60
*2nd and 3rd crossed : HOPEFULLY
63
Adult insect stage : IMAGO
64
___ and wiser : OLDER
65
Playbill part, informally : BIO
66
What each number in the starred clues represents : DIGIT
67
"They're creepy and they're ___" (start of the "Addams Family" theme song) : KOOKY
68
Dot follower : EDU
69
14 pounds, in Britain : STONE
Down
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When Aida dies in Verdi's "Aida" : ACTIV
2
Former performing orca : SHAMU
3
Popular beachwear : SUNGLASSES
4
Charges : ATTACKS
5
Extra on "Star Trek" : YEOMAN
6
Outcome of being fired? : ASH
7
Capital at an elevation of 12,000 feet : LHASA
8
Disciplinary : PENAL
9
With "please" or "if I may," say : POLITELY
10
Language with more than 25 vowel sounds : LAO
11
Perched on : ATOP
12
Soap that comes in blue-green bars : ZEST
13
Far from harbor : ASEA
19
Minions' leader in "Despicable Me" : GRU
21
Long-stemmed mushroom : ENOKI
25
Unable to answer any more clues, say : STUCK
26
___ trip : EGO
29
Tries something : GIVESITAGO
30
Gold and silver have them, but not bronze : ORES
31
"Step right up!" : NEXT
32
Biblical kingdom in modern-day Jordan : MOAB
33
Cajun cooking staple : OKRA
35
Pen that's full of oink? : STY
36
Goddesses of the seasons : HORAE
39
Low, creaky speaking register : VOCALFRY
40
Traverses 48-Down, in a way : RAFTS
43
[Not my error] : SIC
45
High rollers' preference, perhaps : NOLIMIT
48
Water hazards : RAPIDS
50
Where Ross taught paleontology on "Friends," for short : NYU
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"Goodness me!" : ILLBE
52
Extremely cold : GELID
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Strand at an airport, maybe : FOGIN
54
Govt.-backed security : TNOTE
55
"Well, I guess so" : AHOK
56
Word with shirt or grounds : POLO
57
Off-the-neck style : UPDO
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Apt rhyme for "shriek" : EEK
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This puzzle's solver : YOU

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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