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New York Times, Monday, May 16, 2016

Author:
Sam Buchbinder
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
24-Down : Cry in a game of tag
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Sam Buchbinder

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Buchbinder. Grid flow: 25.5 Monday freshness: 76%
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© 2016, The New York Times5/16/16 ( No. 24,296 )
Across
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Picking out of a lineup, informally : IDING
6
Magazine with a "Person of the Year" : TIME
10
Former "Meet the Press" host Marvin : KALB
14
Craze : MANIA
15
Freshly : ANEW
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French lady friend : AMIE
17
Reason for a cast : BROKENBONE
19
Spanish newborn : BEBE
20
Period after dark, in poetry : EEN
21
Fifth-century pope known as "the Great" : LEOI
22
Impressionist Claude : MONET
23
Ugandan tyrant Idi ___ : AMIN
25
Piece of sports equipment that's spiked : VOLLEYBALL
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Grand ___ National Park : TETON
30
Pie ___ mode : ALA
31
Insect with a stinger : BEE
32
Cozies keep them hot : TEAPOTS
36
Cutlass or 88, informally : OLDS
37
Family gathering place : DINNERTABLE
39
Leopard's marking : SPOT
41
Starts liking : TAKESTO
42
Skillet, e.g. : PAN
43
It's thinner as you go up : AIR
44
City-related : URBAN
48
Device with a snooze button : ALARMCLOCK
53
Idiot : DOPE
54
"I agree" : METOO
55
Emmy winner Perlman : RHEA
57
Call of Duty: Black ___ (video game) : OPS
58
Hermes' mother : MAIA
59
"Ready to go!" ... or a description of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across? : WEREALLSET
62
Tesla co-founder Musk : ELON
63
Opera part : ARIA
64
Tin or titanium : METAL
65
Scouting groups : DENS
66
Something rising in a gentrifying neighborhood : RENT
67
Choice plane seating : AISLE
Down
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"Man, what a day!" : IMBEAT
2
Comment after "You think I'm chicken?" : DAREME
3
Part of a prank, say : INONIT
4
Suffix with peace or neat : NIK
5
Certain Scotsman : GAEL
6
Off-limits : TABOO
7
How foods are often fried : INOIL
8
All Supreme Court justices until 1981 : MEN
9
Ram's mate : EWE
10
Meat on a skewer : KABOB
11
Willing to go along : AMENABLE
12
Defamed in print : LIBELED
13
Small VWs : BEETLES
18
Home to Vegas: Abbr. : NEV
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R&B singer with the hit "It's All About Me" : MYA
24
Cry in a game of tag : NOTIT
26
Foamy coffee order : LATTE
27
"___ Dream" (63-Across from "Lohengrin") : ELSAS
29
Former All-Star closer Robb : NEN
33
Shenanigan : ANTIC
34
Gem whose authenticity can be checked by rubbing it against the teeth : PEARL
35
Mork's birthplace, on TV : ORK
36
Prayer starter : OLORD
37
Gift to a nonprofit : DONATION
38
A/C measure, for short : BTU
39
Sent millions of emails, say : SPAMMED
40
Brew with a rhyming name : PALEALE
43
___, amas, amat : AMO
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Raises : BOOSTS
46
Take to a higher court : APPEAL
47
Snuggle : NESTLE
49
Speckled horses : ROANS
50
Utah's Sen. Hatch : ORRIN
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Have an affair : CHEAT
52
Mauna ___ (Hawaiian peak) : KEA
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___ mater : ALMA
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Card game that can go on and on : WAR
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Before, to a bard : ERE
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Gift given while saying "Aloha!" : LEI

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