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New York Times, Thursday, April 10, 2025

Author:
Adam Wagner
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Shoveling?
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Adam Wagner

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Wagner. Grid flow: 16.1 Thursday freshness: 44%
Jim Horne notes:

Shoveling is a small shove. Martini is a small mart. Bandito is a small band. Rockette is a small rock. Cute theme!

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© 2025, The New York Times4/10/25 ( No. 27,547 )
Across
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Bub : MAC
4
Rapper with back-to-back triple-platinum albums in 2000 and 2001 : JARULE
10
Meas. that becomes a third of its size if its second letter is removed : TBSP
14
Hundredths of a Swedish krona : ORE
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It might drip onto an urban sidewalk, informally : ACUNIT
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What a spooked horse might do : REAR
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"To ___ is human, but it feels divine": Mae West : ERR
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Shoveling? : GENTLENUDGE
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Show-stopping device : TIVO
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Godmother in Guatemala, perhaps : TIA
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Space for venting? : ATTIC
24
Martini? : VENDINGMACHINE
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Ancient speakers of Nahuatl : AZTEC
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Tie score ender : ALL
30
Steamed : MAD
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Country known as the "Land of a Million Elephants" : LAOS
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Ear piece : STUD
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Farm mother : EWE
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Bandito? : PINKYRING
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Letters aptly missing from "d_ _a_ state" : REM
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Like many an atrium : AIRY
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Button often pressed moments before noticing a typo : SEND
46
Mound stat : ERA
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Limo passenger, perhaps : VIP
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Following : AFTER
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Sublet? : FINGERSANDWICH
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Reversal : UTURN
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Fair-hiring inits. since 1964 : EEO
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Some victories, for short : TKOS
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Rockette? : GRAINOFSAND
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Parisian boulevard : RUE
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Ursula's lackeys in "The Little Mermaid" : EELS
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Cry of joy : HOORAY
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"What's the ___?" : USE
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Jet stream direction : EAST
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"My bad!" : OOPSIE
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___ E. King, "Stand by Me" singer : BEN
Down
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___ Hennessy Louis Vuitton, French luxury goods holding company : MOET
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What a car service might await : ARRIVAL
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Corona o Dos Equis : CERVEZA
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Jacksonville N.F.L. player, familiarly : JAG
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Vinegary : ACETIC
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Testy chance encounter : RUNIN
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Remove some metadata from, on social media : UNTAG
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Diminutive, diminutively : LIL
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Bastille Day season : ETE
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Gospel : TRUTH
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It might be pushed back by "just one more story" : BEDTIME
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Michigan city in Simon & Garfunkel's "America" : SAGINAW
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Opposite of follow : PRECEDE
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It dissolves in H2O : NACL
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Good way to come out : ONTOP
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Member of the South Asian diaspora : DESI
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Tabloid talk show host Povich : MAURY
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International grocery chain founded in Germany : ALDI
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Moves in a left-left-right-right footstep pattern : SKIPS
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Norse god of war : TYR
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Brand that rhymes with what it helps remove : NAIR
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Internet equivalent of an R rating : NSFW
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"Understand?" : GETIT
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Asylum seeker : REFUGEE
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Country whose name comes from the Latin phrase for "Red Sea" : ERITREA
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Cars with clutches : MANUALS
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Act of pleasant stress relief : NECKRUB
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Titular solver of many a medical mystery in 2000s TV : DRHOUSE
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___ diagram : VENN
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Hebrew for "My Lord" : ADONAI
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Grain milled into flour : GRIST
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Fabled storyteller : AESOP
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Gets "warmer" : NEARS
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In view : SEEN
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"Well, well, well!" : OHO
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Rock's ___ Fighters : FOO
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New do hue? : DYE

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