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New York Times, Thursday, November 10, 2022

Author:
Dan Caprera
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Across : Zeal
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Dan Caprera

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 73, Blocks: 62 Missing: {GJQ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Caprera. Thursday freshness: 4%
Jeff Chen notes:
A NINE … hit! N TWO … Bingo! You sunk my battleship? My gaming PLOT arc is all bent out of shape. Using the coordinate ... read more
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© 2022, The New York Times11/10/22 ( No. 26,665 )
Across
1
Out of one's gourd : LOCO
5
Zeal : ARDOR
10
"Nixon in China" role : MAO
13
Its behavior is described by quantum physics : ATOM
14
Info on an invitation : WHERE
15
Finsteraarhorn, e.g. : ALP
16
Lucy Lawless had one on "Xena: Warrior Princess" : STUNTWOMAN
18
One given to fawning : DOE
19
Brown shade : SEPIA
20
Giedroyc of "The Great British Bake Off" : MEL
21
Many a Disney channel star : TEEN
22
Smelter's supply : ORE
23
Instrument that superseded the ophicleide : TUBA
25
MSN competitor : AOL
26
Fangs : CANINETEETH
30
Brunch beverage : MIMOSA
33
Former : ONETIME
34
"Too true!" : AMEN
35
Beekeeper Shavitz, who lent his name to a popular lip balm : BURT
37
All over again : ANEW
38
2012 Oscar-winning role for Daniel Day-Lewis : LINCOLN
40
Becomes less green, say : RIPENS
42
Rupiah spenders : INDONESIANS
44
Prefix with hotel : ECO
45
Like some insensitive remarks, for short : UNPC
46
Sham : ACT
49
Hide : PELT
51
Uglúk or Gorbag in "The Lord of the Rings" : ORC
52
Actor/comedian Eric ___ : ANDRE
54
Big feller? : AXE
55
Neither wins nor loses : BREAKSEVEN
57
"American ___" : PIE
58
Kind of layer : OZONE
59
Gofer, say : AIDE
60
Suzuki product, in brief : ATV
61
Bighearted sort : SOFTY
62
What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters : PLOT
Down
1
Rodeo ring? : LASSO
2
Animal with webbed feet : OTTER
3
Sporty car : COUPE
4
Radisson competitor : OMNI
5
"How adorable!" : AWW
6
Diamonds, geometrically : RHOMBI
7
Outward behavior : DEMEANOR
8
Mouthy? : ORAL
9
Kylo ___ of "Star Wars" films : REN
10
Small shell-shaped confection : MADELEINE
11
Medicinal succulent : ALOE
12
Word with French, British or Australian : OPEN
17
Farewells : TATAS
21
Core-strengthening floor exercises : TOETAPS
24
Not up to it : UNABLE
25
Apt letters missing from assimil_ _ _d : ATE
26
Cook up : CONCOCT
27
Set up, in a way : ENTRAP
28
Eliot Ness and co. : TMEN
29
Swings a 54-Across at, say : HEWS
30
Timbuktu's locale : MALI
31
"Let's do it!" : IMIN
32
Dmitri ___, formulator of the periodic law : MENDELEEV
36
Not confident about : UNSUREOF
39
Strawberry Fields underwriter : ONO
41
The emperor's people, in the 2000 Disney comedy "The Emperor's New Groove" : INCAS
43
Recite ritually : INCANT
46
Aleve alternative : ADVIL
47
Doctrine : CREDO
48
Part of a doctrine : TENET
49
Smurf with a red cap : PAPA
50
Often-backlit sign : EXIT
51
Grain-shaped pasta : ORZO
53
Kind of tide : NEAP
55
A.L. East team, on scoreboards : BOS
56
Enter, for one : KEY

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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