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New York Times, Sunday, February 16, 2025

Author:
John Kugelman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"Omigod, omigod, jackpot!"?
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John Kugelman

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 138, Blocks: 71 Missing: {JXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Kugelman. Sunday freshness: 67%
Will Shortz notes:
John Kugelman, of Gainesville, Va., is a software engineer and musician. Remarkably, this is his seventh Sunday Times crossword since January last year — by far the most of any ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
Theme answers add an SK sound to common phrases. It takes dedication to get 8 published NYT Sunday crosswords. Imagine how much work the people at the top of this Sorted by Sundays list ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times2/16/25 ( No. 27,494 )
Across
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Shopper's thrill : SPREE
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Clock part : COG
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Brand : LABEL
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___ Lakshmi, host of TV's "Taste the Nation" : PADMA
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Some computer-generated images nowadays : AIART
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The masses : HOIPOLLOI
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"Full steam ___!" : AHEAD
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"Omigod, omigod, jackpot!"? : SQUEALOFFORTUNE
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Some college students, quaintly : COEDS
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Space heater? : SUN
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___ fly : SAC
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Smart-alecky : WISE
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FaceTime alternative : SKYPE
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"Eww!" : YECH
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Instruments with large bells : TUBAS
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Great Lakes mnemonic : HOMES
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Org. whose employees wear badges : FBI
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Atlantis and others : SHUTTLES
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Hawkish : PROWAR
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Bad thing to be caught in : TRAP
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Tempest in a teapot? : GREATSQUALLOFCHINA
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Oh-so-precious : TWEE
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Journalists quote them : SOURCES
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Oniony vegetables : LEEKS
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Body of water that was once the world's fourth-largest lake : ARALSEA
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Good signs in stock reports : RISES
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Challah bread feature : BRAID
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Religious gymgoer on leg day? : HOLYSQUATTER
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Souvenir from the Sea of Tranquillity, say : MOONROCK
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Typical Passover mo. : APR
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Many clay relics : URNS
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Not just mine : OURS
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Kanga's kiddo : ROO
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Whimsically imaginative, as writing : SEUSSIAN
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Sound from some freshly cleaned floors? : PLEDGESQUEAK
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Oozes : SEEPS
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Heighten : BUILD
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Yo-yo-like toy with a devilish-sounding name : DIABOLO
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"___ mia!" : MAMMA
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Michael Jordan's nickname, with "His" : AIRNESS
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Trash : TOSS
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Money under the mattress, e.g.? : SQUIRRELLEDCAPITAL
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Meyer who directed 1965's "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" : RUSS
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Cialis alternative : VIAGRA
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Backslid, say : REVERTED
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Word before or after down : PAT
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Pasta often cut at an angle : PENNE
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Hazard cleanup, in brief : DECON
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Hindu honorifics : SRIS
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Weapon whose name is an acronym : TASER
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"___ tell" : PRAY
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Legendary bird : ROC
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Number of jurors who originally vote "Not guilty" in "12 Angry Men" : ONE
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Mean little suckers? : TICKS
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Repeat something clever, as parrots might? : SQUAWKAFINELINE
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"Gesundheit!" prompter : ACHOO
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"Diet" for the defeated : HUMBLEPIE
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Tied up : LACED
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Facebook has more than three billion of them : USERS
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Aspirations : HOPES
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"Downton Abbey" network : PBS
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Flies out of sight : SOARS
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Fresh : SASSY
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Excites … or annoys : PIQUES
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Vulgarity : RAUNCH
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Poet's palindromic preposition : ERE
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Midflight announcements, for short : ETAS
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Count seen in the breakfast aisle : CHOCULA
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Cry of cringe : OOF
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Animated file type : GIF
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Actress Singer of "Footloose" : LORI
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Elevs. : ALTS
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Deep, dark ocean caverns : BLUEHOLES
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Equivalent of a billion years, in geology : EON
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Bad thing to be caught in : LIE
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Cigarette purchases : PACKS
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Nautical greeting : AHOY
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Scrumptious but not-so-healthful carnival snacks : DEEPFRIEDOREOS
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Brought in big bucks : MADEBANK
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Elements of pay-per-click campaigns : ADS
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Punching sounds in the comics : POWS
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Coffee shop order : LATTE
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Feudal worker : SERF
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In a big way : HUGELY
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Pot growers? : BETS
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Classifies : ASSORTS
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Mice hunters : OWLS
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Great Leap Forward leader : MAO
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Bitter brews, for short : IPAS
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Lock of hair : TRESS
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Something strapped for cash? : PURSE
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Go-kart, e.g. : RACER
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Beaten at ___ own game : THEIR
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Command+Q, on a Mac : QUIT
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Family group : CLAN
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Writing cliché : TROPE
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Style sported by Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain : WALRUSMUSTACHE
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Forehead-slapping shouts : AHAS
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Outfit : EQUIP
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Mysterious qualities : AURAS
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Yawning, say : BORED
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Hollywood's Portia de ___ : ROSSI
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"Raggedy" doll : ANN
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Make faces for a camera : MUG
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Barbecue bits : COALS
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Gorilla who famously learned sign language : KOKO
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"If I had to guess …" : ODDSARE
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They're around for the long haul : SEMIS
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Scorch : SEAR
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More refined : PURER
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Loma ___, Calif. : LINDA
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Monthly util. bill : ELEC
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Host of the 2022 World Cup : QATAR
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Horseshoe-shaped pipe fasteners : UBOLTS
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Boat equipment for removing water on board : BILGEPUMP
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Car sticker no. : MSRP
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Parasailing, water polo, etc. : AQUATICS
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"Watchmen" writer Moore : ALAN
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What many freelancers work on : SPEC
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Many a road tripper, informally : RVER
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"Ich bin ___ Berliner" : EIN
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They make sounds when they're tickled : IVORIES
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Wood joint piece : TENON
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Beethoven's Third : EROICA
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What Sidney Poitier's character famously came to, in a 1967 film : DINNER
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Currency in seven American countries (and one Asian) : PESOS
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Van ___ (beard type) : DYKE
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Germs : SEEDS
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Toffee candy bar : SKOR
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Broccoli ___ : RABE
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Leatherworking tools : AWLS
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Cartoon collector's collection, maybe : CELS
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Greek letter that's the symbol for torque : TAU
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[I'm trying to watch the movie!] : SHH
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Status follower : QUO
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Slack or Zoom : APP
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Fudge the facts : FIB
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Language mutually intelligible with Thai : LAO

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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