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New York Times, Saturday, October 25, 2025

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
46 years?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
11011/23/200110/25/202515
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1412393717
RebusCircleScrabDebutFlowFresh
321.591,30951.394%
Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 22 Missing: {QWZ} Spans: 4, (2 double stacks) This is puzzle # 110 for Mr. Walden. Grid flow: 76.4 Saturday freshness: 91%
Jim Horne notes:

Outstanding clues today.

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R
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A
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M
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A
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D
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A
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N
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B
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P
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L
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U
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S
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E
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S
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I
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A
V
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B
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B
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S
A
L
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H
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G
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H
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O
N
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D
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M
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C
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T
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F
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P
O
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I
C
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N
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T
A
L
K
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B
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O
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S
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H
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G
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O
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D
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A
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C
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Y
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B
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N
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S
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E
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D
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S
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K
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B
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M
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P
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O
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G
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R
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J
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R
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© 2025, The New York Times10/25/25 ( No. 27,745 )
Across
1
Calendar month between Sha'ban and Shawwal : RAMADAN
8
Some solid marks : BPLUSES
15
"Here's the hard truth …" : IHAVETOBEHONEST
17
46 years? : BIDENPRESIDENCY
18
Sudden movement : START
19
Pinched : STOLE
20
___ Maroni, Gotham City mobster in the DC Comics universe : SAL
21
Runs superbly : HUMS
22
Bug : GETTO
23
Word on either side of "against" : HOPE
24
1992 U2 hit inspired by German reunification : ONE
25
Busby Berkeley musical film that introduced "I Only Have Eyes for You" : DAMES
26
Printing mark whose name is from the Latin for "is lacking" : CARET
27
Financial reporter? : TAXFILER
29
Balances : POISES
30
"You've called at a bad time" : ICANTTALK
32
Heads : BOSSES
35
Shiva, for example : HINDUGOD
39
Suffix meaning "rule" : ARCHY
40
Combinations with numbers and sets : BANDS
41
24-Across co-producer, whose name is the song title spelled backward : ENO
42
Climax of operational planning : DDAY
43
Brand for which General Foods distributed orange-handled coffeepots to restaurants : SANKA
44
Core supporters : BASE
45
Ferrer who co-starred in "War and Peace," 1956 : MEL
46
Shot-putter? : NURSE
47
Baba ghanouj, e.g. : PUREE
48
Where gold "beaver coins" were used as currency : OREGONTERRITORY
51
Green suit? : JUNIOREXECUTIVE
52
Pricey catering option : OPENBAR
53
Scuffled, in dialect : RASSLED
Down
1
Sharp blow to the chest : RIBSHOT
2
Staple in a poke bowl : AHITUNA
3
Titular figure in a scandalous John Singer Sargent portrait : MADAMEX
4
Maintains : AVERS
5
Negative impression : DENT
6
Sports org. in the 2024 film "Challengers" : ATP
7
Longship builders : NORSEMEN
8
Intoxicates : BESOTS
9
___ Farnsworth, inventor dubbed "The Father of Television" : PHILO
10
Treasure hunter's find : LODE
11
La ___ (leading Belgian French-language TV channel) : UNE
12
Mocap suit components : SENSORS
13
Break character? : ESCAPEE
14
Slender hospital tools : STYLETS
16
Especially gratifying, so to speak : BETTERTHANSEX
22
Done-up dos : GALAS
23
Eastern lines : HAIKU
25
Very iffy : DICEY
26
They might go faster with zinc : COLDS
28
Suspect : FISHY
29
British slang for a police car : PANDA
31
Improviser at a workbench : TINKERER
32
Cursed vibe : BADMOJO
33
Call at the plate? : ORDERUP
34
Geometry term from the Greek for "uneven" : SCALENE
36
Application for smoother shifting : GEAROIL
37
Even, or nearly so, at Wimbledon : ONSERVE
38
Naïve-looking, in a way : DOEEYED
40
Transaction with no money down : BARTER
43
Leader of the Afrofuturistic jazz collective Arkestra for almost four decades : SUNRA
44
Seat fillers : BUTTS
46
Greenhorn, informally : NOOB
47
Oldest four-letter papal name : PIUS
49
Call in a card game : GIN
50
Early major producer of vacuum tubes : RCA

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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