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New York Times, Monday, June 29, 2026

Author:
Ginny Too and Rajeswari Rajamani
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Screen addiction, e.g.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
56/30/20246/29/20262
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1111100
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1.553334.240%
Ginny Too
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38/1/20246/29/20261
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0200100
ScrabDebutFlowFresh
1.631123.523%
Rajeswari Rajamani

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {QWXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 5 for Ms. Too. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Rajamani. Grid flow: 20.8 Monday freshness: 39%
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F
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J
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© 2026, The New York Times6/29/26 ( No. 27,992 )
Across
1
Not true : FALSE
6
N.Y.C. club that hosted Blondie and the Ramones : CBGB
10
"Scram!" : SCAT
14
Clientele : USERS
15
BTS fandom : ARMY
16
Classic TV series with asterisks separating the letters of its name : MASH
17
Screen addiction, e.g. : DEVICEVICE
19
Canyon call back : ECHO
20
Word after B or D : DAY
21
Length x width, for a rectangle : AREA
22
What food is at dinner : EATEN
23
Where boxers trade jabs : SPARRINGRING
26
Cocktail with gin and lime juice : GIMLET
29
Word before cheese or uncle : SAY
30
Hedonistic sort : ROUE
31
Medium-spicy chili peppers : JALAPENOS
37
Clever chap : INTELLIGENTGENT
40
Driving slowly in the fast lane and "replying all" to a mass email, for two : PETPEEVES
41
Vishnu avatar : RAMA
42
"Now ___ seen everything" : IVE
43
Snail's tentacle or butterfly's antenna : FEELER
45
Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr. and so on : NOBELISTLIST
51
Carne ___ (Mexican dish) : ASADA
52
Uncle's wife : AUNT
53
Long sandwich with cold cuts, maybe : SUB
56
Bouquet holder : VASE
57
"Meow, meow, meow!," e.g. : FELINELINE
60
Similar (to) : AKIN
61
Like a child in an amusement park : AGOG
62
"___, meenie, miney, mo" : EENIE
63
Young lady : LASS
64
Author Morrison who is part of the 45-Across : TONI
65
Puffs of perfume : MISTS
Down
1
Elmer who hunts "wabbits" : FUDD
2
On the ocean : ASEA
3
Impose, as a tax : LEVY
4
___ Lanka : SRI
5
Make a break from jail : ESCAPE
6
Spelunker : CAVER
7
Thorny patch : BRIAR
8
Big inits. in pickup trucks and vans : GMC
9
"Ta-ta!" : BYE
10
Spread, as cream cheese : SMEAR
11
Saguaros, e.g. : CACTI
12
Pale : ASHEN
13
Underwear that's barely there : THONG
18
The "E" in Q.E.D. : ERAT
22
Home to the Sphinx : EGYPT
23
A quarter or more of one's life, typically : SLEEP
24
Majorca and Minorca : ISLES
25
Indian bread : NAAN
26
Rubbery part of a handlebar : GRIP
27
Actress Skye : IONE
28
Mixed-breed dog : MUTT
31
Talks in an unserious way : JIVES
32
What wines and cheeses do over time : AGE
33
Wading bird : EGRET
34
Novelist Stephenson : NEAL
35
"My treat!" : ONME
36
One of seven in the Big Dipper : STAR
38
Woman's name meaning "night" : LEILA
39
___ Strauss & Co. : LEVI
43
"Adventures of Huckleberry ___" : FINN
44
Regard : ESTEEM
45
Like the force of an armada : NAVAL
46
Home to Universal Studios Japan : OSAKA
47
On a need-to-know ___ : BASIS
48
Utopias : EDENS
49
Claw : TALON
50
One of the Super Mario brothers : LUIGI
53
Pride and gluttony, for two : SINS
54
Amount of work on a college transcript : UNIT
55
Drones, e.g. : BEES
57
What puts the sizzle in bacon : FAT
58
Freudian "I" : EGO
59
Floral necklace : LEI

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

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