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Heavenly Voices

New York Times, Sunday, August 3, 2025

Author:
Jeremy Newton
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
17-Across : Seemingly forever
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Jeremy Newton

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 82 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 2 Grid has mirror symmetry. Scrabble average: 1.72 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Newton. Grid flow: 36.1 Sunday freshness: 32%
Will Shortz notes:
Jeremy Newton, of Austin, Tex., is an engineering manager for a mobile games company. This is his 29th crossword for The Times since 2008. He calls it "100% a love letter" for the ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

The circled squares in each column, reading upwards, spell the names of Star Trek characters. The shaded squares represent the shape of the USS Enterprise.

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© 2025, The New York Times8/3/25 ( No. 27,662 )
Across
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Final act of a play? : BOW
4
Iconic sci-fi setting spelled out in this puzzle's shaded squares : THEE
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Skyrocket : RISE
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"Reckon so!" : YUP
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Working without ___ : ANET
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Seemingly forever : AEONS
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Some spa jobs, in brief : PEDIS
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Manner of speaking : TONE
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Like used BBQ pits : ASHY
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Member of this puzzle's shaded squares who might say "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!" : MISTERSCOTT
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Like being late or cutting in line : RUDE
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Something clicked to add an attachment : STAPLER
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Take up space : EXIST
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Kind of protagonist in "Lethal Weapon" or "Die Hard" : HEROCOP
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Swear : AVOW
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Digital investment choices, informally : CRYPTOS
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Not much, as of wasabi : ADAB
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Narrowly get (by) : EKE
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"Now that we're all here, please proceed" : OKGO
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Lab reports? : ARFS
41
Overzealous sort : NUT
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Got acquainted : MET
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D.M.V.-issued card authenticated by airport security : REALID
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Build a stockpile : SAVEUP
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Didn't go fast? : ATE
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Employee's status meaning "I'm currently away" : OOO
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Take down a notch : DEMOTE
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Purveyors of provocative posts : TROLLS
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8.5" x 11": Abbr. : LTR
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Kris Kross #1 hit with the lyric "How high? Real high, 'cause I'm just so fly" : JUMP
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El presidente ousted in a 1955 coup : PERON
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Danger : PERIL
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Cry from a victor : IWON
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Type that tends to be right-leaning : ITALICS
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Like quality vocals : ONKEY
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Looks inside? : CTSCANS
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Drug-busting unit : KILO
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City whose Fushimi Inari shrine features 10,000+ red torii gates : KYOTO
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Brother of Disney's Louie and Dewey Duck : HUEY
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Something hit to get fit : THEGYM
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Hands-on professional? : MASSEUR
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Baseball team whose mascot is Wally the Green Monster : REDSOX
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Seeing romantically : WITH
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Humble hold 'em holding : PAIR
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"The Bear" streamer : HULU
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Cold War weapon inits. : ICBM
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Beethoven's No. 8? : ACHT
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Line of luxury hotels : OMNIS
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Takes to school, in a way : BUSES
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Cosmic explosion : NOVA
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It goes on the run : SKI
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Be a wingman, e.g. : ASSIST
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False : ERSATZ
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Inits. for this puzzle's shaded squares : USS
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Move like a supermodel : STRUT
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Unit of purity : KARAT
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Lower oneself : DEIGN
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They study how knights move : SQUIRES
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Canyon's edge : RIM
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On the ___ (raging) : WARPATH
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Gone skinny-dipping, e.g. : SWUM
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Significant stretch : ERA
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Mr. Turkey : TOM
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Some window installations, informally : ACS
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Warp-driven device : LOOM
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Major exporter of mangoes : HAITI
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One giving the highlights? : DYER
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By dawn's early light? : EAST
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Intending to, casually : GONNA
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Bring upon oneself : INCUR
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Wordlessly indicate "Please give me a hand" : ANTE
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"___ a broken heart" (Emily Dickinson poem) : UNTO
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Iron Man's suit, e.g. : ARMOR
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"Fire away!" : ASKME
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False : MOCK
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Docking station : PIER
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Some draft picks : BEERS
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Some farm sounds : BAAS
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Camped nearby and surveilling, in police jargon : ONSTAKEOUT
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"Our window is closing for escape w-elocity!," as [circled letters] might say : WEHAVETOMAKETHISQUICK
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Hardly spicy : TAME
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Next in line : HEIR
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Goddess of daybreak : EOS
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Fill in : ENTER
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Direct opposite of verso (found hidden in this clue!) : RECTO
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It's a promise : IDO
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Enemy of the Jedi : SITH
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By Juan's early light? : ESTE
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"Any time! I'm a doctor, not a do-nothing!," as [circled letters] might say : YOUCANALWAYSCOUNTONME
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Way back? : UNDOBUTTON
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Slight gripe, so to speak : PEEP
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Slip of the pen : TYPO
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Tantalizing : SEXY
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A low "Yo!" : PSST
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Trampled (on) : TROD
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Sound of a wardrobe malfunction : RIP
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Euphemistic expression of commitment : LWORD
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Speaks roughly : RASPS
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Cherry or lime : COLOR
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Bask in : SAVOR
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Reaction to a social media post, maybe : EMOJI
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"Logic dictates that you control your emotions," as [circled letters] might say : KEEPCOMPOSURE
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Sneakily exploits : GAMES
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Thing of the past : RELIC
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"Stepping on the gas, Captain!," as [circled letters] might say : FULLTHRUSTERS
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Seaside flock : TERNS
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"To protect my crew, the gamble was necessary," as [circled letters] might say : ITOOKARISK
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IHOP rival : DENNYS
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Florida beach town, informally : STPETE
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"We received a distress signal. Any injuries?," as [circled letters] might say : AREYOUHURT
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Tough spot : PLIGHT
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Stranded during a winter storm, say : ICEDIN
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Texter's sweet sentiment : ILY
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Big hits, in brief : KOS
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Make a case against? : SUE
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Old-fashioned contraction : TWAS
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Backwoods bumpkin : HICK
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Bite-size : MINI
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Former Wisconsin senator Feingold : RUSS
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"Clearly!," in textspeak : OBVS
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Major e-tailing season : XMAS
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World capital with 400 kilometers of bike lanes : AMSTERDAM
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He might be carrying a big picture : LEADACTOR
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This puzzle's theme : STARTREK
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"I want to come back to the ship," as everyone circled in this puzzle seems to have said to 22-Across : BEAMMEUP
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NPR journalist Shapiro : ARI
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Punch : ZIP
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Belly, in kidspeak : TUMTUM
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Carnival-themed Vegas hotel : RIO
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In spades : GALORE
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Symbols of grace : SWANS
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Object : SAYNO
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Garbage : WASTE
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"___ is more important than life" (Klingon proverb) : HONOR
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"Transformers" actor ___ LaBeouf : SHIA
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2004 landing site for Spirit : MARS
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Land west of Eng. : IRE
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"You get the gist": Abbr. : ETC
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Alt-rocker DiFranco : ANI
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Chinwag : GAB

Answer summary:
14 unique to this puzzle.

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