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New York Times, Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Author:
Dana Edwards
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
31-Down : Shocker
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Dana Edwards

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQVX} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Edwards. Tuesday freshness: 96%
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© 2025, The New York Times1/7/25 ( No. 27,454 )
Across
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Disordered state : DAZE
5
Irrefutable : SOLID
10
Ark numbers : TWOS
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List shortener : ETAL
15
UPS shipment : CRATE
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D.I.Y. website : EHOW
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Communists want to dISMantle it : CAPITALISM
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Valley in which it's easy to get a cab : NAPA
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Hochkönig, for one : ALP
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___ Szewinska, only sprinter (male or female) to hold world records in the 100m, 200m and 400m events : IRENA
22
Pushover : PATSY
23
Mexican dish similar to taquitos : FLAUTAS
25
TikTok phenomena : TRENDS
27
It's conditioned on regular payments : SUBSCRIPTION
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Ours contain about 700 megabytes of information : GENES
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Equine eats : OATS
34
Respectful title that's an anagram of another respectful title : SRI
35
House calls? : AYES
36
Pig of kids' TV : PEPPA
38
An outbuilding : BARN
39
___ Speedwagon : REO
40
Pottery making and illustration, for example : ARTS
41
2003 #1 hit with the lyric "What's cooler than being cool?" : HEYYA
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It's hard to believe : BOLDFACEDLIE
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Pity party exclamation : POORME
47
"Whoa, that's good!" : OOHBABY
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"___ my Eggo!" (bygone waffle slogan) : LEGGO
52
Island kingdom : TONGA
54
Random number generator : DIE
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Still contending : INIT
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Protest seeking a different arrangement with landlords : RENTSTRIKE
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Philippine currency : PESO
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"Di niente!" : PREGO
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Salad root : BEET
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Troll ___ : ARMY
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Kind of jar : MASON
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Contraceptive options : IUDS
Down
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After-dinner order : DECAF
2
Even a smidge : ATALL
3
Rocker Frank : ZAPPA
4
Film director Roth : ELI
5
Sacred insect in a hieroglyph : SCARAB
6
"… at most" : ORLESS
7
"How often have I ___ beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home": Faulkner : LAIN
8
Often-quoted line from "Return of the Jedi" when the Rebels are ambushed : ITSATRAP
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On the blue side: Abbr. : DEM
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One paying a flat fee? : TENANT
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"You believe me now?" : WHATDISAY
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"My mistake" : OOPSSORRY
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Clout : SWAY
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Protagonist of Shakespeare's first tragedy : TITUS
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Jazzes (up) : PEPS
24
Olive oil has many of them : USES
26
___ Skeeter, journalist/witch in the Harry Potter books : RITA
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Thicket : COPSE
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Simone who sang "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" : NINA
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Robes and such : GARB
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Shocker : EYEOPENER
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"Zoom fatigue" is a modern one : NEOLOGISM
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Baby carrier in Bath : PRAM
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"You get the picture" : ETCETERA
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U.K. channel nickname, with "the" : BEEB
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Classic Angela Davis do : AFRO
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Drum kit component : HIHAT
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Rubber bone, e.g. : DOGTOY
44
"Stay!" : DONTGO
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Starts working remotely, say : LOGSON
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Formal farewell : ADIEU
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Competed in part of a triathlon : BIKED
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Hurls forcibly, in modern slang : YEETS
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Grammy-winning Dua : LIPA
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Kind of place that's beside the point? : ONES
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Tach measure : RPM
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High stat for a heavy hitter : RBI

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