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New York Times, Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Author:
Jeff Stillman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Clergy house
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Jeff Stillman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Stillman. Wednesday freshness: 58%
Jeff Stillman notes:
This puzzle theme depended on finding four individuals with H-E-R-E initials in their name, but aside from titans of industry, ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
I chuckled at WILLIAM MACY, imagining the crossworld outrage. He never goes by that name! It's officially WILLIAM H MACY! People love ... read more
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© 2022, The New York Times9/28/22 ( No. 26,622 )
Across
1
Coveted Michelin designation : STAR
5
Quinoa or oats, for short : CARB
9
Six-pack unit : CAN
12
Mitigates : EASES
14
Closer to the finish line, say : AHEAD
16
Shout of support : OLE
17
"Fargo" actor : WILLIAMMACY
19
Italian pronoun : MIO
20
Mad magazine symbol : ALFREDNEUMAN
22
Clergy house : RECTORY
25
Wife, in Spanish : ESPOSA
26
Et ___ (and others) : ALII
27
Easy mark : SAP
30
Site with tech reviews : CNET
31
Switches gears, as in a business strategy : PIVOTS
34
Word that commentators may extend to five or more seconds : GOAL
37
Chicago-to-Miami dir. : SSE
38
Contract directive … or a hint to what's missing from 17-, 20-, 58- and 62-Across : INITIALHERE
41
Scale note : SOL
43
Growth under the skin : CYST
44
Flea market sights : STANDS
47
On Sunset Blvd., say : INLA
49
Sparkle : PEP
51
"My word!" : ISAY
52
Yellow Teletubby with a curly antenna : LAALAA
55
"What's the latest?" : ANYNEWS
58
Pioneering journalist who helped expose McCarthyism : EDWARDMURROW
61
Bill blocker : NAY
62
Rodent with a restaurant chain : CHUCKCHEESE
66
Number after due : TRE
67
Casual greeting : HOLLA
68
Place to get a date, maybe : OASIS
69
According to : PER
70
Court material : CLAY
71
Easy win : ROMP
Down
1
Wrap (up) : SEW
2
___ chi : TAI
3
In which crossing one's fingers makes the letter "R," in brief : ASL
4
No ___ (what Mary Tyler Moore is to Dudley Moore) : RELATION
5
Accord competitors : CAMRYS
6
Sighed words : AHME
7
___ the room : READ
8
Breakout caused by a sweaty uniform, perhaps : BACNE
9
Not standing in an open field during a lightning storm, say : COMMONSENSE
10
BTS's V, Suga and RM, e.g. : ALIASES
11
Recent arrival : NEONATE
13
Large storage site : SILO
15
Eschews gray, say : DYES
18
Where Igbo and Kanuri are spoken: Abbr. : AFR
21
Proof-of-purchase letters : UPC
22
Sound at the door : RAP
23
Yale student : ELI
24
One handling personal injury claims, e.g. : CIVILLAWYER
28
Marble material : AGATE
29
D.C. dealmaker : POL
32
Idiosyncratic behavior : TIC
33
Good place to wallow : STY
35
Sounds of satisfaction : AHS
36
Gave the OK : LET
39
Spectrum or Xfinity, for short : ISP
40
Slicker, e.g. : RAINWEAR
41
Psalm beginning? : SILENTP
42
How some regrettable actions are done : ONADARE
45
Bird in the crow family : DAW
46
Part of CBS: Abbr. : SYS
48
___ mode : ALA
50
Margarine whose ads once featured a talking tub : PARKAY
53
Part of a foot : ARCH
54
Makeshift : ADHOC
56
Reactor oversight org. : NRC
57
Pirate chant opener : YOHO
59
Ponder : MULL
60
Team that signed to join the Big Ten in 2024 : UCLA
63
"Cómo es ___?" (Spanish for "How come?") : ESO
64
Kind of card : SIM
65
Psychic's claim : ESP

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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