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New York Times, Monday, January 6, 2025

Author:
Rena Cohen
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
31-Across : Recovered from a fall
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Rena Cohen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Cohen. Monday freshness: 85%
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© 2025, The New York Times1/6/25 ( No. 27,453 )
Across
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Supersonic speed number : MACH
5
Cookies that are sometimes dunked in milk : OREOS
10
Whole lot : SCAD
14
Cousin of a clarinet : OBOE
15
What "duty-free" means : NOTAX
16
Westover with the best-selling memoir "Educated" : TARA
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Theatrical description : CHARACTERSKETCH
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Position of greatest stress : HOTSEAT
21
"Campbell's Soup Cans" painter : WARHOL
22
"___ longa, vita brevis" : ARS
23
Iditarod entries : SLEDS
26
Follower of double-you, ex, wye : ZEE
27
Dog crossbreed known for its teddy bear appearance : GOLDENDOODLE
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Recovered from a fall : GOTUP
34
Modern anxiety source, in brief : FOMO
35
Small cove : RIA
36
Applications : USES
37
Sandwiches that often contain tuna : MELTS
39
Overnight ___ (breakfast option) : OATS
40
Brewery offering : ALE
41
Crimson Tide univ. : BAMA
42
Large cove : INLET
43
Track exposures to a disease, as an epidemiologist might : CONTACTTRACE
47
Hosp. V.I.P.s : DRS
48
Note on a failed test, maybe : SEEME
49
Ball club V.I.P.s : GMS
52
Valiant : HEROIC
55
Amy who voiced Joy in "Inside Out" : POEHLER
57
Use deductive reasoning ... or a hint to what 17-, 27- and 43-Across all have : DRAWCONCLUSIONS
60
Proctor's cry at the end of a test : TIME
61
South Korea's second-largest city : BUSAN
62
Actor Esparza : RAUL
63
Calf's meat : VEAL
64
Stretch of work : STINT
65
Custom gift site : ETSY
Down
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Chocolaty coffee drink : MOCHA
2
Despise : ABHOR
3
Nail polish layers : COATS
4
His and ___ : HERS
5
Available if needed : ONCALL
6
Went bad : ROTTED
7
Saison of the 2024 Paris Olympics : ETE
8
Rower's blade : OAR
9
Annual festival in Austin, Tex. : SXSW
10
Sound system : STEREO
11
Paris's Notre-Dame, for one : CATHEDRAL
12
West Coast gas brand : ARCO
13
Roald who wrote "Matilda" and "The BFG" : DAHL
18
"The Tortoise and the Hare" author : AESOP
19
Instrument that may be included in a birthday goodie bag : KAZOO
24
Take down, as a bouncy house : DEFLATE
25
Arrogant sort : SNOT
27
"Gloomy" fellow : GUS
28
Chats with on Insta : DMS
29
Lo-cal : LITE
30
Toward the sunrise : EAST
31
One layer in a seven-layer dip, informally : GUAC
32
Norway's capital : OSLO
33
"Riverdale" or "XO, Kitty" : TEENDRAMA
37
___ and cheese : MAC
38
Ambulance personnel, in brief : EMTS
39
Start of a count : ONE
41
>7 on the pH scale : BASIC
42
Colorful summer drinks : ICEES
44
Gardener's tool : TROWEL
45
Come up with a new schedule : REPLAN
46
Quantity : AMOUNT
49
Show bad sportsmanship, in a way : GLOAT
50
Kids might be given these with crayons : MENUS
51
"r u kidding?!" : SRSLY
52
Flat-screen, say : HDTV
53
Scary-sounding Great Lake : ERIE
54
Corn waste : COBS
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Bring on, as workers : HIRE
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Pecan or pistachio : NUT
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CBS procedural that ran for 15 seasons : CSI

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