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New York Times, Saturday, January 25, 2025

Author:
Michael Lieberman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
28-Across : Felt in the Christmas spirit?
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Michael Lieberman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {BJQ} This is puzzle # 26 for Mr. Lieberman. Saturday freshness: 39%
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© 2025, The New York Times1/25/25 ( No. 27,472 )
Across
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Undesirable airplane seatmate : ARMRESTHOG
11
Sound from a hedge clipper : SNIP
15
"This is a waste of my time" : WHYAMIHERE
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Strike one! : POSE
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Body shops? : MORTUARIES
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"Combats ___ tes défenseurs!" ("La Marseillaise" line) : AVEC
19
Poet Bradstreet : ANNE
20
Abbr. in some job titles : ASST
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Coward of the theater world : NOEL
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Largest U.S. union, with about three million members, in brief : NEA
23
Funding source for the Great Wall of China : SALTTAX
26
Org. in 2015's "Bridge of Spies" : CIA
27
Brass : GALL
28
Felt in the Christmas spirit? : ELFHATS
30
"The Way," in Islam : SHARIA
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A, B, and C, but not T and V : VITAMINS
34
Under control : TAMED
35
One working on a column? : CPA
36
Sight in Monet's "Boating on the River Epte" : CANOE
37
Current events : RIPTIDES
39
Spreads : STREWS
40
Novel technology? : EREADER
41
Jam : SPOT
42
Old atlas inits. : SSR
43
In the 80s or 90s, say : OVERPAR
45
Take another direction : ZIG
48
It's fit for a king : SASH
50
Classic novel of the South Seas : OMOO
51
Some photomontage art : DADA
52
___ Mountains, Kyrgyz/Tajik border range : ALAI
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They'll show you a thing or two : TOURGUIDES
56
Weight of an adult elephant, very imprecisely : TONS
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Initiative : ENTERPRISE
58
Segments of curling matches : ENDS
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Holders of orbs : EYESOCKETS
Down
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"Ugh, that's the worst!" : AWMAN
2
It passes through many Swiss banks : RHONE
3
Loy of filmdom : MYRNA
4
Thing of interest? : RATE
5
Foe in a 1932 Australian "war" : EMU
6
"Cheap Thrills" pop star : SIA
7
Clutches : THRALL
8
Job that might require a fence : HEIST
9
Aeschylus trilogy of tragedies : ORESTEIA
10
The forest, in a metaphor : GESTALT
11
Extend across : SPAN
12
Number at filling stations? : NOVOCAINE
13
"Oh-h-h-h, that makes sense" : ISEEITNOW
14
They support many student movements : PECLASSES
23
Joined a union : SAIDIDO
24
___ nage (cooked in a broth) : ALA
25
Certain something : XFACTOR
27
"Barbie" director Gerwig : GRETA
29
Asian grocery chain : HMART
30
Consumed with grief? : STRESSATE
31
Where locks are picked? : HAIRSALON
32
S&P 500 part : AMPERSAND
33
Some corp. execs : VPS
35
Confirmation, e.g. : CEREMONY
38
Ardent supporter : DEVOTEE
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Place whose name has an appropriate final vowel sound : SPA
41
Reproductive cells : SPORES
44
Dispatch (toward) : ROUTE
45
___ Smith, "The Autograph Man" novelist : ZADIE
46
Namely : IDEST
47
Sublimation products : GASES
49
Indicator of deflation : HISS
51
Long-bladed thrusting dagger : DIRK
54
Miracle-___ : GRO
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Lines at a grocery store : UPC

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