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New York Times, Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Author:
Alex Vratsanos
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : What's gained or lost with daylight saving time
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Alex Vratsanos

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQYZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Vratsanos. Tuesday freshness: 94%
Alex Vratsanos notes:
I came up with this idea in late 2015, being inspired by two prior Tuesdays: May 1, 2007, and November 16, 2010. It struck me that ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
JOINTs represented in the grid, showing them as they're bent. REEFER, DOOBIE, FATTY, BLUNT … oops! That's something ... read more
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© 2019, The New York Times2/26/19 ( No. 25,312 )
Across
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River that formed part of the border between East and West Germany : ELBE
5
Cold and moist, as a cellar : DANK
9
Brewery in the Nikkei 225 : ASAHI
14
MGM symbol : LION
15
Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar (1928) : EMIL
16
Put in a crate : BOXUP
17
British term for a row of houses converted from stables : MEWS
18
Chess ending : MATE
19
Ω : OMEGA
20
What's gained or lost with daylight saving time : ONEHOUR
22
What a psychic may read : PALM
24
Dublin's land : EIRE
25
Italian port on the Adriatic Sea : TRIESTE
29
Rope fiber : SISAL
32
Deux + un : TROIS
34
"Open ___ ..." (store sign) : TIL
35
Bronze coin in the Harry Potter books : KNUT
36
Flight board posting, for short : ETA
37
Is obliged to : SHOULD
39
1/12 of a foot : INCH
40
What each set of shaded letters in this puzzle represents : JOINT
42
Entr'___ : ACTE
43
Challenge to a bully : MAKEME
45
Confucian philosophy : TAO
46
Classic Chrysler product : KCAR
47
"The ___ Club" (1970s-'80s televangelist show) : PTL
48
Bygone Apple messenger : ICHAT
50
Coagulates : CLOTS
51
View, as the future : SEEINTO
53
___ Reader : UTNE
55
Biblical verb with "thou" : DOST
56
Not pay for each drink individually, say : RUNATAB
60
Sorrowful bell sound : KNELL
63
Legal order : WRIT
65
Barn topper : VANE
66
Say hello to : GREET
67
Religious setback? : APSE
68
Emergency operation, for short : EVAC
69
Raft-making wood : BALSA
70
Any sacrament : RITE
71
Smooth sheet material : SILK
Down
1
"Tickle me" doll : ELMO
2
Protection for a lender : LIEN
3
Ring champ Riddick : BOWE
4
Cover, as a knife : ENSHEATHE
5
Take exception to something : DEMUR
6
Liqueur whose name is Italian for "a little bitter" : AMARETTO
7
Critical point? : NIT
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Prefix with -mania : KLEPTO
9
Formally end : ABOLISH
10
French river in fierce W.W. I fighting : SOMME
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Green Knight's weapon in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" : AXE
12
What an "O" means in XOXO : HUG
13
Bitter beer, briefly : IPA
21
Shell's industry : OIL
23
Blue-blooded Brit : ARISTO
26
Stone face? : STUCCO
27
Clash with : TILTAT
28
Tribal chiefs, typically : ELDERS
29
Economizes maybe too much : SKIMPS
30
God-given, as abilities : INNATE
31
Nurse, as a newborn : SUCKLE
33
Indian yogurt dip : RAITA
36
Kicks out of the game : EJECTS
38
Cluster around an acorn : OAKLEAVES
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Believer in nudism : NATURIST
44
Former competitor of Nikon and Canon : MINOLTA
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Active conflict : HOTWAR
50
Channel founded by Ted Turner : CNN
52
Wastes gas, maybe : IDLES
54
Student with a private teacher : TUTEE
57
Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-___" : TAVI
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Obsessive about details : ANAL
59
Partner of call : BECK
60
C.I.A.'s Soviet counterpart : KGB
61
Org. whose monthly magazine advertises magazines : NRA
62
Sushi bar fish : EEL
64
Upstate N.Y. school : RPI

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

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