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New York Times, Friday, January 3, 2025

Author:
Colin Adams
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
30-Down : "Couldn't have said it better myself"
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Colin Adams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Adams. Friday freshness: 24%
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© 2025, The New York Times1/3/25 ( No. 27,450 )
Across
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Out of whack : ASKEW
6
Rock group behind 2024's Power Up Tour : ACDC
10
What a bodybuilder builds during a bulk cycle : MASS
14
Sudden weather phenomenon : FLASHFLOOD
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Closing on Sundays? : AMEN
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Cocktail that's called a French 75 if you use Champagne instead of soda water : TOMCOLLINS
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Mulligan : REDO
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Eponymous tourist destination in Belgium : SPA
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Basis of some admissions : GUILT
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Strength, poetically : SINEW
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Area between the ribs and the round : LOIN
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Heaps of dressing? : LAUNDRY
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Responded identically to : ECHOED
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On the ___ : FENCE
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Early synthesizers : MOOGS
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Ringing nuisance : PRANKCALL
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Like a face telling a spooky campfire story, maybe : UPLIT
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Give juice to : REV
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"Ditto" : SODOI
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Words before someone finally snaps? : SAYCHEESE
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Bridge support : TRUSS
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Stool at a counter, e.g. : PERCH
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Woody's crush in "Toy Story" : BOPEEP
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Member of a warrior class : SAMURAI
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Small stretches, perhaps : FIBS
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Cherish : PRIZE
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Much-sought-after commodity in "Dune" : SPICE
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Singer Rita : ORA
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Ice skating move : LUTZ
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Postgame photo op between two opposing players : JERSEYSWAP
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First person to die, according to the Bible : ABEL
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They're part of the story : PLOTPOINTS
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Set back to zero, in a way : TARE
58
Press rooms? : GYMS
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Wipe from one's visual memory, so to speak : UNSEE
Down
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Common nap times, in brief : AFTS
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Subpar dining hall food : SLOP
3
Hindu god of love : KAMA
4
F1 neighbor : ESC
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Challenge to an intruder : WHOGOESTHERE
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Like a fearless bettor at a casino : ALLIN
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Spring : COIL
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Command to stay : DONTLEAVE
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Items harmed when they're scratched, but not when they're burned : CDS
10
Group whose band is the oldest professional music ensemble in the U.S. : MARINECORPS
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Change : AMEND
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Meal before the 15th of Nisan : SEDER
13
White out, say : SNOWY
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Not set in stone : FLUID
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"That's rather unfortunate," dismissively : SUCKSTOBEYOU
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Exercise in deduction : LOGICPUZZLE
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___ Taylor (fashion chain) : ANN
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Australia declared "war" on them in 1932, in an attempt to stop them from destroying crops : EMUS
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Where Lola was a showgirl, in song : COPA
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Deified, say : HOLY
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Farm-to-table, say : FRESH
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"Couldn't have said it better myself" : PRECISELY
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For two musicians : ADUE
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Ditch : LOSE
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Aristotle purportedly spoke with one : LISP
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Word often after a president's name : ERA
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Curling target : BICEP
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Bad sound to hear by a kitchen counter : SPLAT
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Dutch constituent in the Caribbean : ARUBA
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Bishop's headwear : MITER
45
Hitmakers? : FISTS
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Simple question on a high schooler's hand-drawn poster : PROM
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Dominates : OWNS
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Power or frequency, essentially : RATE
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Church part : APSE
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PNG alternative : JPG
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Motif in 1995's "Se7en" : SIN

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