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New York Times, Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Crossword

Across

1
Many a rescue : MUTT
5
Bit of wisdom : PEARL
10
Playful sound while tapping someone’s nose : BOOP
14
Brainchild : IDEA
15
Buildup of tanks? : ALGAE
16
Atmospheric glow : AURA
17
Barrel of monkeys : DONKEYKONG
19
Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world’s flags : STAR
20
Catalog : INDEX
21
Person you might see in August? : GUS
22
Whac-A-___ : MOLE
23
Word after high or seven : SEAS
26
Rice option : PILAF
28
With 50-Across, blue streak : SONICTHE
32
Shapes up : TETRIS
35
Black, in verse : EBON
36
Barrier in certain zoo enclosures : MOAT
38
Dora the Explorer’s cousin : DIEGO
39
Bit of ink : TAT
40
Leather band used to sharpen razors : STROP
42
Landon who lost in a landslide to F.D.R. : ALF
43
Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell : UMASS
46
Eye affliction : STYE
47
Voter on a failed 2014 independence referendum : SCOT
48
Ghost in the machine : PACMAN
50
See 28-Across : HEDGEHOG
52
Partner of dreams : HOPES
54
Life-or-death : DIRE
55
Blue-green shade : TEAL
57
Florida politico Demings : VAL
59
“Toodles,” but more formally : ADIEU
63
Rip : REND
64
Knock me down with a feather : ANGRYBIRDS
67
Start of a fairy tale : ONCE
68
Actress Messing : DEBRA
69
What the fourth little piggy had : NONE
70
Batik worker : DYER
71
Like many theater camp productions : ARTSY
72
Shred the ___ (skiing slang for conquering difficult terrain) : GNAR

Down

1
Skirt covering the knees : MIDI
2
Noodles often served in broth : UDON
3
Oversee, as a flock : TEND
4
Adopts : TAKESIN
5
Insert a token, say : PAY
6
Sight at Rocky Mountain National Park : ELK
7
Excited : AGOG
8
Accumulated, as charges : RANUP
9
Goes by foot, informally : LEGSIT
10
Rice option : BASMATI
11
Unobtainable : OUTOFREACH
12
___ motor skills (baby’s development) : ORAL
13
Trim : PARE
18
C.T.O. or C.F.O. : EXEC
24
Paper pushers? : ATMS
25
They can be parting : SHOTS
27
Captained : LED
28
Sting operation, e.g. : SETUP
29
“A Promised Land” author, 2020 : OBAMA
30
“No way!” : NOTACHANCE
31
“Mostly harmless” place, per “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” : EARTH
33
Home with a dome : IGLOO
34
Giant head? : SOFTG
37
Messed (with) : TOYED
41
Spa treatment, informally : PEDI
44
Burn like embers : SMOLDER
45
Chump : SAP
47
Playoff ranking : SEEDING
49
One side of the Hoover Dam : NEVADA
51
Get, as a quick lunch : GRAB
53
More even-keeled : SANER
55
Walked (on) : TROD
56
Tiny, informally : EENY
58
Orientation inits. : LGBT
60
It makes up about a third of our planet’s mass : IRON
61
___ Mode, “no capes” advocate in “The Incredibles” : EDNA
62
Operator : USER
65
B&O and others : RRS
66
“Huzzah!” : YAY

Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle2 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.

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