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New York Times, Monday, May 21, 2018

Author:
Hannah Slovut
Editor:
Will Shortz
53-Across : Squirrel's stash
TotalDebut
15/21/2018
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ScrabbleFresh
1.6633%
Hannah Slovut

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 39 Missing: {QZ} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Slovut. Monday freshness: 82%
Hannah Slovut notes:
I'm super excited to have a crossword published in the New York Times! I've only been solving crosswords for about a year and a half—I ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Progression, from BABY to CHILD to TEEN to ADULT to SENIOR to … GHOST? What an unexpected and funny conclusion to the series! I've ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times5/21/18 ( No. 25,031 )
Across
1
Levi's material : JEAN
5
Coconut tree : PALM
9
Lacks, in brief : HASNT
14
The sun and the moon : ORBS
15
___ facto : IPSO
16
Women's golf star Lorena : OCHOA
17
Holder of some precious memories : BABYALBUM
19
Transports between airport terminals : TRAMS
20
Position for a baseball batter : STANCE
21
What sending someone to Mars would be : AFIRST
22
Wunderkind : CHILDPRODIGY
26
Recede, as the tide : EBB
29
1960s-'70s Ford named for an Italian city : TORINO
30
Fashion magazine spinoff : TEENVOGUE
33
"Here's to you!," e.g. : TOAST
38
Turn at high speed : CAREEN
39
"As American as apple pie," for example : SIMILE
40
Jokes and such : HUMOR
41
Popular Cartoon Network programming block : ADULTSWIM
44
The "M" of NASA's LEM : MODULE
46
Smartphone download : APP
47
Temporary mental lapse : SENIORMOMENT
53
Squirrel's stash : ACORNS
54
___ Herman (Paul Reubens character) : PEEWEE
58
Insinuated : GOTAT
59
Place where no one lives anymore : GHOSTTOWN
62
Bring joy to : ELATE
63
Actress Hatcher : TERI
64
Crucifix : ROOD
65
Philadelphia N.B.A. player, informally : SIXER
66
Plow pullers : OXEN
67
Inquires : ASKS
Down
1
Steve who once headed Apple : JOBS
2
The "E" of Q.E.D. : ERAT
3
Swedish pop quartet that won the 1974 Eurovision contest : ABBA
4
Justin Timberlake's original group : NSYNC
5
Assign two projects, a long reading and several writing assignments, say : PILEITON
6
Police alert, for short : APB
7
Baton Rouge sch. : LSU
8
Dad's partner : MOM
9
Run fast : HOTFOOTIT
10
Having a burning smell : ACRID
11
Puppeteer Lewis : SHARI
12
Request to a waiter : NOMSG
13
Yummy : TASTY
18
German's "Oh!" : ACH
21
Prince Valiant's son : ARN
23
Item in a grate : LOG
24
___ Hill (R&B group) : DRU
25
Chart type : PIE
26
Write on metal, say : ETCH
27
Lover boy : BEAU
28
Road shoulder : BERM
31
Prefix with liberal : NEO
32
Bernie Sanders, for one : VERMONTER
34
Meditation sounds : OMS
35
Onetime electronics giant : AIWA
36
Lose one's footing : SLIP
37
Worker hired for the day : TEMP
39
Has a lazy Sunday morning, say : SLEEPSIN
41
Naval chief: Abbr. : ADM
42
Batman and Robin are a "dynamic" one : DUO
43
Einstein's birthplace : ULM
45
Where surgeons do surgery, for short : ORS
47
Wise ones : SAGES
48
Bacterium that can help or hurt : ECOLI
49
Levy-free : NOTAX
50
Furious : IRATE
51
Alternative to .com : NET
52
Prefix with -hedron : TETRA
55
Tries to win, as a damsel : WOOS
56
Furry "Star Wars" creature : EWOK
57
Kills : ENDS
59
Sporty Pontiac : GTO
60
Bewitch : HEX
61
It's mined : ORE

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3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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