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New York Times, Thursday, April 24, 2025

Author:
Kathleen Duncan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Killer Sundae"
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Kathleen Duncan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQX} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Duncan. Grid flow: 14.3 Thursday freshness: 33%
Jim Horne notes:

Genres bend around corners.

I adore the Thursday Murder Club novels. The audio books are even better.

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© 2025, The New York Times4/24/25 ( No. 27,561 )
Across
1
"Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns" : DARKFANTASY
6
"Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap" : MOCKUMENTARY
14
Like some experimental music : ATONAL
16
Deferential : OBEISANT
17
Valentine's Day sentiment : BEMINE
18
More than a mere grudge : VENDETTA
19
They might be all over the map : STATES
21
Animal known for freezing under pressure : DEER
22
Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017 : ELCHAPO
25
Locale for a cochlea : EAR
28
Deadpan : DRY
29
"You Come ___" (Robert Frost collection) : TOO
30
___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator : STU
31
Kind of cucumber that isn't a vegetable : SEA
33
Dither : TIZZY
35
"Lady Bird" and "Stand By Me" : COMINGOFAGE
39
Actress ___ Taylor-Joy : ANYA
40
Bundle of paper or grain : SHEAF
41
Some : AFEW
46
Eponymous Italian designer Mario : PRADA
47
Prefix with soul or classical : NEO
48
Spanish letter before te : ESE
50
One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt : GIG
51
Atlanta sch. : GSU
54
"Get that away from me!" : EWW
56
Grid lines, perhaps : STREETS
58
Mythical forge locale : ETNA
60
Get : OBTAIN
62
Second calling? : NICKNAME
65
Items that gather lather : LOOFAS
69
Person with the shift after a long one of yours : RELIEVER
70
1980s New York mayor : EDKOCH
Down
1
Dollop : DAB
2
Verb that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward : ATE
3
CD follower : ROM
4
Potato turnover : KNISH
6
"Outta my way!" : MOVE
7
Overly big : OBESE
8
One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr. : CEN
9
Josh : KID
10
Put to work : USED
11
Like some socks and chess players : MATED
12
Return to a PC keyboard? : ENTER
15
Sprang (at) : LEAPT
20
"Nice one, you got me" : TOUCHE
22
Singer James : ETTA
23
Selection at the butcher's : LOIN
24
"The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Killer Sundae" : COZYMYSTERY
26
Cher's catchphrase in "Clueless" : ASIF
27
The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in "Star Wars" : REN
32
Food thickener : AGAR
34
One-named singer who's a former member of One Direction : ZAYN
36
Poetic contraction that omits a "v" : OER
37
Might, to Shakespeare : MAYEST
40
Stash : STOW
42
Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022 : EDIT
43
Jokesters : WAGS
45
Go out with : SEE
46
""Downton Abbey" and "Shogun" : PERIODPIECE
49
Far from fresh : STALE
51
Mixing thematic elements and tropes ... or a feature of this puzzle? : GENREBENDING
52
Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays : STIEB
53
Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre : UNCLE
55
People celebrated worldwide on March 8 : WOMEN
57
Skinny white mushroom : ENOKI
59
Similar : AKIN
61
Floating mass : BERG
63
Subject of Homer's loathing on "The Simpsons" : NED
64
Bird-related prefix : AVI
66
One of "them" : FOE
67
Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough : ACC
68
"There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's) : SHE

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

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