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Brendan Emmett Quigley
Brendan Emmett Quigley

NY Times, Sun, Mar 06, 2022 GOING TOO FAR

12-Down : Common opening bridge bid, informally

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40
Notepad: Many of the answers in this crossword are too long and won't fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it. When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell out a quote by the comedian Mitch Hedberg.

The quote: "Every book is a children's book if the kid can read."

— Mitch Hedberg

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Choreographer Bob : FOSSE
5
Blah : HOHUM
10
Bravery : VALOR
14
When repeated, a classic of garage rock : LOUIE
15
Speaker : ORATOR
16
Swimmer's assignment : LANE
17
Diarist Frank : ANNE
18
Superman's birth name : KALEL
19
With: Fr. : AVEC
20
Gives approval : SAYSOK
22
Marathoner's trait : STAMINA
24
Bra parts : STRAPS
27
Spray can : AEROSOL
28
Emulate Benjamin Franklin doing some experimenting : FLYAKITE
31
Entertainer Lil ___ X : NAS
32
Regretted : RUED
33
Sister of Mary on "Downton Abbey" : EDITH
35
Superiors of viscounts : EARLS
39
Director DuVernay : AVA
40
Find and remove : ROOTOUT
43
Chimney coating : SOOT
44
Immunologist's quest : CURE
46
Classic baby shower gift : ONESIE
47
Troop-entertaining grp. : USO
48
Enemies : FOES
51
Heart-tugging 1960 #1 hit by Mark Dinning : TEENANGEL
53
Egyptian "king of the gods" : AMENRA
56
Drum in a drum kit : SNARE
57
1979 hit for the Police : ROXANNE
59
Common imaging tests : CTSCANS
63
Musical set in Buenos Aires : EVITA
64
Enter quietly : SLIPIN
67
Zeno of ___ (philosopher) : ELEA
68
Silent screen star Naldi : NITA
69
Come back again and again : REECHO
70
Stopped : ENDED
71
Car with Models S, X and Y : TESLA
72
Similarly : INKIND
73
Grimm story : TALE
Down
1
Pocket hooch container : FLASK
2
Actress Chaplin : OONA
3
Sch. with campuses in Albany and Buffalo : SUNY
4
Afternoon nap : SIESTA
5
Japanese island that is home to Sapporo : HOKKAIDO
6
60 minuti : ORA
7
Circle overhead? : HALO
8
Team in Salt Lake City : UTES
9
Like lava : MOLTEN
10
Colorado city on the Rio Grande : ALAMOSA
11
Sumptuously rich : LAVISH
12
Common opening bridge bid, informally : ONENO
13
Auto safety measure : RECALL
21
New ___ (Empire State resident) : YORKER
23
Silent screen star Theda : BARA
25
Opportunity to buy, maybe : OPTION
26
Some sofas : SETTEES
28
Extract gas from, as shale : FRACK
29
Valentine's Day candy message : ILUVU
30
Almanac's span : YEAR
34
Selected : CHOSEN
36
Cheek reddener : ROUGE
37
"You beat me" : ILOSE
38
Casual vodka order : STOLI
41
Complete destruction : RUINATION
42
Signs of sadness : TEARS
45
Just born : NEONATAL
49
Switzerland's capital : BERN
50
Descendant of Japanese immigrants : SANSEI
52
A penny : ONECENT
53
"You ___ kidding!" : ARENT
54
Apple video editing software : IMOVIE
55
Signs at interchanges : EXITS
58
___ of Troy : HELEN
60
Actor receiving lots of "M*A*S*H" notes : ALDA
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Position oneself to pray : KNEEL
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Marquis de ___ : SADE
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Detective, in slang : DICK
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Letter after upsilon : PHI
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle.

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