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What's It All About?

New York Times, Sunday, February 9, 2025

Author:
Rich Katz and Jeff Chen
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
51-Across : Broadway offering titled with dots and dashes?
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This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 76 Missing: {FJXZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Katz. This is puzzle # 160 for Mr. Chen. Sunday freshness: 2%
Will Shortz notes:
Rich Katz, of Park City, Utah, does freelance work in corporate restructuring and bankruptcy liquidations. Jeff Chen, of Seattle, is a professional puzzlemaker and editor who's a frequent ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

Parse the theme answers by considering RE to be a separate word, meaning "about", or "concerning".

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© 2025, The New York Times2/9/25 ( No. 27,487 )
Across
1
Dressed (in) : CLAD
5
Facial cream amount : DAB
8
Harriet Tubman was one for the Union : SPY
11
Place in a pyramid, say : ENTOMB
17
Site of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial : OAHU
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Head of a noted animal rescue project : NOAH
20
Prospectors' targets : ORES
22
"Take me to your ___" (alien demand) : LEADER
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TV's "Search for the Titanic," for one? : SPECIALREQUEST
26
Fifth-century conqueror who tried (and failed!) to take Rome : ATTILA
27
Charcuterie assortment : MEATS
28
It's hard to see : BLUR
29
Champagne name : MOET
31
Honk : TOOT
32
Chestnuts : OLDSAWS
35
Instructions for slaying Dracula? : MANUALRECOUNT
38
Tibetan beasts : YAKS
40
Realm : DOMAIN
41
Concern in data transmission : LOSS
42
Shoppers' conveniences : ATMS
46
Tributary of the Colorado River : GILA
48
Bit of Rasta headwear : TAM
49
Tribe along the Missouri River : OTOE
51
Broadway offering titled with dots and dashes? : SHOWREMORSE
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Ones moving with the music? : ROADIES
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High-protein diet : PALEO
59
Nat ___ (channel) : GEO
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Prove untrue : DEBUNK
63
Farm call : MOO
64
Belfry locale : STEEPLE
67
Indian dish featuring potatoes and cauliflower : ALOOGOBI
69
Rear : HIND
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TED Talk about neuropsychology? : SPEECHRECOGNITION
73
Syllables of reproof : TSKS
75
"So is this our plan or not?" : SHOULDWE
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Ones whistling while they work? : KETTLES
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"May Day is ___ Day in Hawaii" (holiday slogan) : LEI
80
Like tightwads : STINGY
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Poetic tribute : ODE
83
Lose ground, say : ERODE
84
Scout's container : CANTEEN
86
U-Haul ad? : SPOTREMOVER
89
Sister of Hades : HERA
90
Picture of Pluto, for instance : CEL
92
Org. holding an annual basketball championship since 1939 : NCAA
93
Metaphorical bit of progress : DENT
94
Spiced quaff : CHAI
96
Bud after Jack, perhaps? : CHASER
99
___ mind : HIVE
101
Email thread with a "Donate now!" message? : CHAINREACTION
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"Chow time!" : LETSEAT
109
Chuck : HURL
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"I solemnly swear …," for one : OATH
111
Longtime restaurant critic ___ Greene : GAEL
113
Feature of the Niña, but not the Pinta : TILDE
114
Milan fashion house : ARMANI
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Giddiness at completing this crossword puzzle? : HIGHRESOLUTION
120
Flattened, in a way : IRONED
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Contribution to a pot : ANTE
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Reason someone might go streaking : DARE
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To be, in Gay Paree : ETRE
124
Common sonata enders : RONDOS
125
Pluto, e.g. : GOD
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Airer of the game show "The Cube" : TBS
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Off to someone's inbox : SENT
Down
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Pink drink, for short : COSMO
2
Place for a flag pin : LAPEL
3
Up : AHEAD
4
Cable channels? : DUCTS
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It's stranded in a cell : DNA
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Early ISP : AOL
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Spike : BARB
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Bad thing to end on : SOURNOTE
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Lead-in to approval : PRE
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Polite affirmation : YESMAAM
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Put over the moon : ELATE
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Something that, if you cut a hole in it, actually has fewer holes than before : NET
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Inked up : TATTOOED
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Just awful : ODIOUS
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Offerings in some fruit bowls : MELONS
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Actor Benjamin of "Miss Congeniality" : BRATT
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Position of authority : HELM
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Vodka brand, informally : STOLI
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"My goodness!" : ISAY
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Thigh muscle, informally : QUAD
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Toy inventor with a background in sculpture and architecture : ERNORUBIK
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Living ___ : WAGE
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Take off the top : SKIM
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Thurman of film : UMA
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Partner of dagger : CLOAK
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Hardly a romp : SLOG
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Wrigglers by the Nile : ASPS
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"Like ___," rap hit fueling the Drake/Kendrick Lamar beef of 2024 : THAT
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Fabric similar to suede : MOLESKIN
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___ week (TV ratings period) : SWEEPS
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Cover for a hardwood floor : AREARUG
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This evening, in commercialese : TONITE
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Climber's aid : ROPE
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Alone : SOLELY
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😍😍😍 : IMINLOVE
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Long, long time : EON
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Roll of green : SOD
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Harmonic R&B subgenre : DOOWOP
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Goaded : EGGEDON
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When doubled, chocolate treat : BON
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Journalist Holt : LESTER
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Herbal supplement used as a cold remedy : ECHINACEA
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Condition that may involve repetitive behaviors, for short : OCD
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Dragster : HOTROD
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Term of endearment : HON
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It's a thing : ITEM
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R&B trio with the 1999 #1 hit "No Scrubs" : TLC
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Something blue that follows Black or Red : SEA
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Adam's apple locale : EDEN
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Spanish muralist whose "American Progress" is in the lobby of 30 Rockefeller Center : SERT
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Welcome at the door : SEEIN
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Imprint, as a lasting memory : ETCH
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Home of Si Racha, where the hot sauce was invented : THAILAND
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Did some winter riding : SLEIGHED
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The third one is often dangerous : RAIL
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Roof overhang : EAVE
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Computers' process of storing data : CACHING
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Superlative suffix : EST
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Cylindrical Mexican pastry : CHURRO
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Actor Mark of "NCIS" : HARMON
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Yoga type : HATHA
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Crowd noise : ROAR
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"Oh, you're in on this, too?" : ETTU
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Be in charge of, as a committee : CHAIR
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Substances in sports scandals, familiarly : ROIDS
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Require : NEED
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Listings on a blogroll : SITES
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In the 1% : ELITE
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Decorate : ADORN
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Believe it! : TENET
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It's passed on the way to the bar, for short : LSAT
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Keanu's role in "The Matrix" : NEO
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Classic muscle car : GTO
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Ball : ORB
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Tous ___ jours (every day, in French) : LES

Answer summary:
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