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Other answers seen for this clue

• SEMINAL7 letters

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  Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between February 2010 and January 2012.
• PRIMAL6 letters

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  Appeared in 1 New York Times Crossword: Saturday, July 13, 1996.
• MASTER6 letters

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  Appeared in 1 New York Times Crossword: Saturday, January 22, 1994.

• Subject of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

  New York Times · Sunday, August 16, 2026 · 3 letters

• "Some rise by ___, and some by virtue fall": Shak.

  New York Times · Saturday, March 14, 2026 · 3 letters

• Yom Kippur topic

  New York Times · Saturday, February 21, 2026 · 3 letters

• Cardinal ___

  New York Times · Saturday, December 27, 2025 · 3 letters

• Sloth, e.g.

  New York Times · Wednesday, December 10, 2025 · 3 letters

• Reason to atone

  New York Times · Sunday, September 14, 2025 · 3 letters

• "The only ___ is mediocrity": Martha Graham

  New York Times · Saturday, August 9, 2025 · 3 letters

• Confession in a confessional

  New York Times · Monday, June 30, 2025 · 3 letters

• "Some rise by ___, and some by virtue fall": "Measure for Measure"

  New York Times · Friday, June 13, 2025 · 3 letters

• Topic for an evangelical preacher

  New York Times · Monday, May 26, 2025 · 3 letters

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• 33-Down Like an oboe's sound
• 34-Across Diatribe trigger
• 35-Across Official proceedings
• 35-Down Dreamboat of a guy
• 36-Down Weep
• 37-Across Attempt to block
• 37-Down Greeting in Rio
• 39-Across Make art like 53-/21-Across (as suggested by this puzzle's circled letters?)
• 40-Down "Be ___" (motto for Wikipedia contributors)
• 41-Across Suffix with quartz
• 42-Across Pat who wrote "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini"
• 43-Down Pacific food fish