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New York Times, Friday, April 4, 2025

Author:
Karen Steinberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Anti-jaywalking directive
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Karen Steinberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {PQXZ} Spans: 6 Grid has double diagonal symmetry. This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Steinberg. Grid flow: 134.6 Friday freshness: 4%
Jim Horne notes:

Six interlocking grid spanners. That's using the old bean.

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© 2025, The New York Times4/4/25 ( No. 27,541 )
Across
1
It may lead to a second opinion : ALSO
5
Shape-shifters? : BLOBS
10
Shapeless stuff : MUSH
14
Its flag was solid red with a white elephant : SIAM
15
Home health risk : RADON
16
Athlete posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom : ASHE
17
One getting in online debates, colloquially : KEYBOARDWARRIOR
20
Buddhist scripture : SUTRA
21
Like some relations : STRAINED
22
First responder, to many : HERO
24
Bit of sliding glass door maintenance : OILING
25
Made a fast break? : ATE
27
Boorish sorts : SWINE
29
Duke Ellington's "___ Doll" : SATIN
32
[Just like that!] : BAM
33
Grad. student fellowship funder : NSF
34
Pioneering agriculturist Tull : JETHRO
35
"Lemme be straight with you" : ICALLEMASISEEEM
39
Turndown? : DOGEAR
40
Many a short-term rental : VAN
41
___ power trip : ONA
42
Endorse virtually : ESIGN
43
The Clintons' White House cat, so named because of its white feet : SOCKS
45
Steered : LED
46
The moon's South Pole-Aitken basin, e.g. : CRATER
48
Sign above some real estate signs : SOLD
50
"Map of China" artist : AIWEIWEI
52
Blue-blooded : NOBLE
55
Anti-jaywalking directive : CROSSATTHEGREEN
58
Emporium : MART
59
"According to reports ..." : IHEAR
60
Onetime iPod model : NANO
61
Closes : ENDS
62
Fits cozily : NESTS
63
2021 book subtitled "Workers of the World" : ANTS
Down
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Doesn't wonder, say : ASKS
2
Place : LIEU
3
"Please?" prompt : SAYTHEMAGICWORD
4
Hair color blending technique : OMBRE
5
Training ___ : BRA
6
Roman guardian spirit : LAR
7
Ones most likely to pay out : ODDSONFAVORITES
8
Pinched pasta shape : BOWTIE
9
Traffic problem : SNARL
10
Step before "bake" in certain recipes : MARINATE
11
Thinking hard, informally : USINGTHEOLDBEAN
12
Puma or pump : SHOE
13
Alpaca group : HERD
18
Rows : OARS
19
Sensitive workplace matters : RAISES
23
One of 32 in the N.F.L. : OWNER
25
Stand : ABIDE
26
Messy things to eat in a car : TACOS
28
Ending with real or social : ISM
30
Greek goddess who is the equivalent of the Roman Pax : IRENE
31
Itinerant one : NOMAD
34
High ___ : JINKS
36
Ottomans, e.g. : LEGRESTS
37
Hawaiian party settings : LANAIS
38
___ fly : SAC
43
Fume : SEETHE
44
"Every bad situation is a blues ___ waiting to happen": Amy Winehouse : SONG
47
"Life on the Mississippi" memoirist : TWAIN
49
"___ Doone," R.D. Blackmore romance : LORNA
50
Crest : ACME
51
Modern-day locale of the ancient Parthian Empire : IRAN
53
When Holy Week falls : LENT
54
1960s chimp in space : ENOS
56
Word with hard or high : HAT
57
Hesitant sounds : ERS

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

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