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New York Times, Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Author:
Adam Aaronson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
17-Across : Noiseless?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
141/4/20202/4/20254
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Adam Aaronson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {YZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Aaronson. Tuesday freshness: 94%
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© 2025, The New York Times2/4/25 ( No. 27,482 )
Across
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Wandering soul : NOMAD
6
"Dónde ___ la biblioteca?" : ESTA
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Monster akin to a Japanese oni : OGRE
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"Your concerns matter to me" : ICARE
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Little crack : QUIP
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Cook the surface of : SEAR
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Noiseless? : QUITEQUIET
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N.Y.C. home of Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans" : MOMA
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What one size might fit : ALL
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Completely wreck : RUIN
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Rock and roll, but not rhythm and blues : VERBS
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The Crimson Tide : BAMA
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View of Earth from heaven? : ANGELANGLE
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Newly decorated : REDONE
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First-rate : TOPTIER
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Grandma : NAN
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Guy's name that's old slang for "OK" : JAKE
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Podcaster's income stream : ADS
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Gymnastic feats ... or what the two halves of the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across do? : BACKFLIPS
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TNT's sister channel : TBS
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Blue feeling : FUNK
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Animal hidden in this clue, if you read it aloud : EWE
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Warm drink served from a tokkuri : HOTSAKE
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Hyundai electric cars : IONIQS
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"There are ways to leave"? : EXITSEXIST
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Dog that's not a purebred : MUTT
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Railroad station : DEPOT
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Post-it, e.g. : NOTE
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Good name for a long-term investor? : IRA
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___ fees : USER
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Spite over an incomplete mobile payment? : VENMOVENOM
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Eat in style : DINE
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Olympic equipment with body contact detection technology : EPEE
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Dwindle, as support : ERODE
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Oft-unwanted bread pieces : ENDS
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Teri of "After Hours" : GARR
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One section of a big band, informally : SAXES
Down
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Face covering with an opening around the eyes : NIQAB
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Eye-related : OCULAR
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Guys whose profession sounds redundant : MAILMEN
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"Making money is ___ and working is ___ and good business is the best ___": Andy Warhol : ART
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State animal of Illinois : DEER
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Like donkeys and zebras : EQUINE
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Taking action against : SUING
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Cause for overtime : TIE
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Like the names of the track athletes Usain Bolt and Lisa Lightfoot : APT
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Actress Emily of "Hannah Montana" : OSMENT
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Only U.S. state whose Wikipedia article has a "(U.S. state)" disambiguator : GEORGIA
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Went on and on : RAMBLED
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Writers' blocks? : ERASERS
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Actor Ke Huy ___ of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" : QUAN
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Puff piece? : VAPEPEN
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Not much, as of mayonnaise : ADAB
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Abbr. that might go after a list of authors : ETAL
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Norse god capable of shape-shifting into animals : LOKI
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Not eating anything : ONAFAST
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One hub for Delta and American Airlines, in brief : JFK
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Common crudités veggie : CUKE
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Toy set that can be used to build roller coasters : KNEX
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Do some strokes : SWIM
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Nickname for filmdom's Jeffrey Lebowski : THEDUDE
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Pens : BOXESIN
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Fixed regular allowance : STIPEND
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Start to fall? : EQUINOX
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Mall units : STORES
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Molecule that shares its formula with another : ISOMER
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Palindromic Italian number : OTTO
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Walked purposefully : STRODE
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Word with tube or circle : INNER
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Tones down : TAMES
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Holidays that aren't typically federal holidays : EVES
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Chillax : VEG
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Org. that regulates "forever chemicals" : EPA
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Historic stretch : ERA

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle.

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