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Eric Berlin
Eric Berlin

NY Times, Sun, Jan 24, 2010 GOING TOO FAR

5-Across : Deep divide

Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38
Notepad: Many of the answers in this crossword are one letter 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 John Updike.

The quote: "America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

— John Updike

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Across
1
Brownish tint : SEPIA
5
Deep divide : SCHISM
10
Lustful one, in slang : LECH
14
Offer one's view : OPINE
15
Answered the alarm, say : AROSE
16
Fix, as laces : RETIE
17
Refusals : NOES
18
European peninsula : IBERIA
19
Chair person? : CANER
20
No. on a check? : ACCT
21
Commander on Apollo 14 : ALANSHEPARD
23
Scientific proposals : THEOREMS
25
Charged bits : IONS
26
Very, in Versailles : TRES
27
"Is that a fact?" : OHREALLY
31
Quiet and dignified : SOLEMN
34
Insurance grps. : HMOS
36
Absolut alternative, briefly : STOLI
37
Significant span of time : ERA
38
Stew ingredients, often : POTATOES
41
Supermodel from Somalia : IMAN
42
Toiling hard : ATIT
44
Don't merely call : RAISE
45
With : ALONG
47
Soap ingredient : LANOLIN
49
Kind of soap : LYE
50
Behaved : RULY
51
Old-fashioned heater : OILSTOVE
56
Ad campaign honors : CLIOAWARDS
60
Mex. titles : SRAS
61
Ga. neighbor : TENN
62
Expensive bar : INGOT
63
Stilettos, e.g. : HEELS
64
Grammer class taboo : AINT
65
Chest pain : ANGINA
66
"Gay" city : PAREE
67
Busybody : SNOOP
68
James Stewart title role : DESTRY
69
Little ones : TOTS
Down
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Many a Beethoven piece : SONATA
2
Significant span of time : EPOCH
3
Gun, slangily : PIECE
4
About to occur : INSTORE
5
Some furs : SABLES
6
Best part, metaphorically : CREAM
7
Big band section : HORNS
8
Fertility goddess : ISIS
9
Fish that swims upright : SEAHORSE
10
Doesn't hesitate to accept : LEAPSAT
11
Site for Sicilian hikers : ETNA
12
Old Oldsmobile : CIERA
13
Group that gets driven : HERD
22
Compass point: Abbr. : ENE
24
San ___ : REMO
27
Tommyrot : HOOEY
28
Option for a sportscast director : SLOMO
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Grassy expanse : LLANO
30
Trying to win : VYING
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Close up : SEAL
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"Not quite, but close" : SORTA
33
Singer Frankie : LAINE
34
Sequence : CHAIN
35
Geog. high points : MTS
39
You may want to have this behind you : TAILWIND
40
Authority : SAYSO
43
City in Canada's Golden Horseshoe : TORONTO
46
"Dinner time!" : LETSEAT
48
Certain feast : LUAU
49
Top-notch, as an athlete : ALLSTAR
51
Welsh dogs : CORGIS
52
"___ believe it!" : IDONT
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He might throw his hat in a ring : TORERO
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Upscale restaurant employee : VALET
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Pigsties : MESSES
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Stand in for : ACTAS
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Political columnist Joe : KLEIN
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Words before time or hurry : INNO
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Haloed one, in France : ANGE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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