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New York Times, Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Author:
Rich Proulx
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
48-Down : Have a loan from
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Rich Proulx

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {XZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Proulx. Wednesday freshness: 98%
Rich Proulx notes:
I had been wanting to do a puzzle about SEVEN WONDERS for quite a while. I just couldn't figure out how to squeeze "Mausoleum at ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
That feeling of déjà vu … I liked today's execution better than the FOURTEEN / POINTS one. Enough theme density to feel solid, ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
Until Jeff highlighted the theme answers, I didn't realize they were distributed symmetrically in the grid. Nice touch. In 1989, ... read more
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C
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V
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U
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O
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O
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F
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N
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M
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C
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T
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D
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B
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P
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J
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N
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D
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L
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D
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© 2019, The New York Times6/5/19 ( No. 25,411 )
Across
1
Variety show lineup : ACTS
5
Home shopping channel : QVC
8
Longtime product with a "Classic White" variety : BREAD
13
Weight of an empty container : TARE
14
Mideast federation, for short : UAE
15
Ancient source of prophecy : ORACLE
16
Exceed the capacity of : OVERFILL
18
Doze : NODOFF
19
2005 dystopian novel adapted into a 2010 film : NEVERLETMEGO
21
Pastries with a portmanteau name : CRONUTS
22
Intoned : CHANTED
26
Tick off : ENRAGE
27
Not backing, in the backwoods : AGIN
28
Loan letters : APR
29
Arp and Duchamp output : DADAART
31
In ___ of : LIEU
32
Place for a pin : LAPEL
35
Popular lingerie item owned by HanesBrands : BRA
36
Co-owner of the Pequod : PELEG
37
Word with rain or rock : ACID
38
Mellow R&B tune : SLOWJAM
40
Range org. : NRA
41
"I'd consider ___ honor" : ITAN
42
Legal rights, in France : DROITS
46
Graffitist, e.g. : DEFACER
48
Expanse far from ports : OPENSEA
49
Monuments of classical antiquity ... or what literally is missing from this puzzle : SEVENWONDERS
51
The People's Princess, familiarly : LADYDI
54
English churchyard flora : YEWTREES
55
Title girl in a 2001 Oscar-nominated French comedy : AMELIE
56
Beehive State native : UTE
57
River of northern France : OISE
58
Big superhero film of 2017 : WOMAN
59
It's divided by the 38th parallel: Abbr. : KOR
60
Some fund-raising grps. : PTAS
Down
1
Without delay : ATONCE
2
Setting for a Pirates of the Caribbean ride : CAVERN
3
___ Noah, host of "The Daily Show" : TREVOR
4
Wooed à la Don Giovanni : SERENADED
5
Participated in a bee : QUILTED
6
Low-lying areas : VALES
7
European of the Iron Age : CELT
8
Heavy ankle-high shoe : BROGAN
9
Danger in a uranium mine : RADON
10
Prefix with conscious or catastrophe : ECO
11
Landon who lost to F.D.R. in 1936 : ALF
12
Surely, informally : DEF
15
Bad artist to re-sign to a record deal : ONEHIT
17
Thrifty : FRUGAL
20
Quick Draw ___ (Hanna-Barbera character) : MCGRAW
23
Follow : TAIL
24
Blade with a bell guard : EPEE
25
Miraculously effective medicine : DRUG
27
Brother of Moses and Miriam : AARON
30
Loud, as trumpets : ABLARE
31
Sour candy : LEMONDROP
32
Domain of the Queen of Hearts : LAND
33
Subdivision of a subdivision : ACRE
34
"La Vie en Rose" singer : PIAF
36
Raise : PARENT
38
He said "Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision" : STEVIE
39
Big name in customer satisfaction surveys : JDPOWER
41
Stranded during the winter, say : ICEDIN
43
Response to "Look!" : ISEEIT
44
Mother of Calcutta : TERESA
45
Gives some lip : SASSES
47
Havens : ASYLA
48
Have a loan from : OWETO
50
Three Stooges laugh sound : NYUK
51
Counselor's subject : LAW
52
"I love," to a Latin lover : AMO
53
Like F.D.R.: Abbr. : DEM

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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