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New York Times, Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Author:
Dan Caprera
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
29-Across : Singer of "Despacito," which has more than eight billion views on YouTube
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Dan Caprera

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Caprera. Tuesday freshness: 47%
Jim Horne notes:
Eight billion is a lot of views. Original: And here's the remix with Justin Bieber. ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times1/21/25 ( No. 27,468 )
Across
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Gobble : SNARF
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English pop duo with the 1984 hit "Last Christmas" : WHAM
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First book after the four Gospels : ACTS
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Slicker, as a winter road : ICIER
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Name of Sporty Spice in the Spice Girls : MELC
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TV host Trevor with the memoir "Born a Crime" : NOAH
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Convenient source of tinctures and tonics : CORNERDRUGSTORE
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Bit of workout apparel, informally : TEE
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Dish with a Cantonese counterpart called egg foo yong : OMELETTE
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Tool that may be used as a hoe : ADZ
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Needs for in vitro fertilization : OVA
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Prefix with liberal : NEO
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Actor McShane : IAN
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Singer of "Despacito," which has more than eight billion views on YouTube : LUISFONSI
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Exploitative ones : USERS
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Mardi Gras follower : LENT
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Fish also called a nishikigoi : KOI
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Surreptitiously let in on an email : BCC
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Popular camp activity … or, literally, what the circles are creating four times in this puzzle : SCAVENGERHUNT
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Kettle component : LID
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Figure painted by Warhol : MAO
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Skip out of a party : BAIL
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Canine welcomes : BARKS
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Item with hinged legs : CARDTABLE
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Salt Lake City-to-Minneapolis dir. : ENE
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___ Jordan, a.k.a. the Green Lantern : HAL
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Neither's partner : NOR
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Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom : SEX
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Piece of blackboard chalk, geometrically : CYLINDER
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Stir-fry accessory : WOK
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"That's not even the half of it ..." : OHYOUHAVENOIDEA
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Body personified by the Greek Titan Selene : MOON
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Walkie-talkie word : OVER
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Cultivates, in a way : PLOWS
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So, so, so long : EONS
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"Barbie" actor Michael : CERA
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Like Pittsburgh's Canton Avenue, famously : STEEP
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[as printed!] : SIC
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Cpl. or sgt. : NCO
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Word with open or central : AIR
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Monthly budget item : RENT
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No longer burdened by : FREEOF
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Nuke, for one : WMD
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Hoagie : HERO
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Reunion attendees : ALUMNI
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Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby ___" : MCGEE
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It may be a chip or two : ANTE
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Playground pathogen : COOTIE
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Dental detritus : TARTAR
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Glosses : SHEENS
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Annulled, as a license : REVOKED
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Sit non-ergonomically : SLOUCH
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100% : ALL
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Union requirements : DUES
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Brass component : ZINC
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In a bit, to a poet : ANON
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Celery component : STALK
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Greek letter that represents summation : SIGMA
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Marine photographer's aid : SCUBA
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Hang with the boys, slangily : BRODOWN
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God whose avatars restore cosmic order : VISHNU
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Net : EARN
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Catches in the act : NABS
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Rummikub piece : TILE
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Superman foe ___ Luthor : LEX
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"2 ___ 1" (Spice Girls song) : BECOME
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"O.K. ... moving on!" : ANYHOO
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Have as support : RELYON
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Use an ax on, perhaps : CLEAVE
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Military force : TROOPS
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Like some committees : ADHOC
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+ or – bits : IONS
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One vacationing in a camper, informally : RVER
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Bagpiper's wear : KILT
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Big time : ERA
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Fawn's mother : DOE
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Lamb's mother : EWE
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Snake created by Medusa's blood, in myth : ASP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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