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New York Times, Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Author:
Joseph Gangi
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Perform dreadfully, so to speak
TotalDebutLatest
43/16/20227/23/2025
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Joseph Gangi

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQV} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Gangi. Wednesday freshness: 3%
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© 2025, The New York Times7/23/25 ( No. 27,651 )
Across
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Hogwarts headmaster ___ Dumbledore : ALBUS
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Province : AREA
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Followed move-for-move : APED
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Japanese automaker named for a river : ISUZU
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Ground transportation option : TAXI
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Ripped : TORE
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A, B and C, but not X, Y and Z : MUSICNOTES
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Where Bengali and Burmese are spoken : ASIA
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Barely scrapes the surface : SKIMS
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Bore up : LASTED
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Persistently bother, with "at" : NAG
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Actress Wong of the Netflix series "Beef" : ALI
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James of jazz : ETTA
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Ham-handed : INEPT
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Onetime CBS forensic drama : CSI
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"I don't mind ___ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels": Ogden Nash : EELS
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Sicilian landmark : ETNA
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Seyfried of "Mean Girls" : AMANDA
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Tragic ending? : CEE
40
He and I, but not she and you : CHEMICALSYMBOLS
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Suffix with rocket : EER
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Highlands cryptid, affectionately : NESSIE
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Praiseful verses : ODES
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Fast-swimming shark : MAKO
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Disappointing : SAD
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Villainous animal in "The Lion King" : HYENA
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Add color to : TINT
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She's a woolly one : EWE
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"What ___ you?" : SAY
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"Beats me!" : NOIDEA
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Toss from the game : EJECT
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"That's my cue!" : IMON
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A+ and B-, but not F : BLOODTYPES
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Forgetful actor's request : LINE
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Part of a chain : LINK
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___ coffee (whiskey drink) : IRISH
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Crafty website : ETSY
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"We will make amends ere long; / ___ the Puck a liar call": Shak. : ELSE
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Day's harvest, for a fisher : CATCH
Down
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Objective : AIM
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Sch. on the banks of the Mississippi : LSU
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Ground transportation option : BUS
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Commando weapons : UZIS
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Perform dreadfully, so to speak : SUCKAT
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Figure that roughly equals protons plus neutrons : ATOMICMASS
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"Aw, phooey!" : RATS
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PC file extension : EXE
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Congressional divide, literally as well as metaphorically : AISLE
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Just the slightest bit : ATASTE
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MA and MS, but not BA and BS : POSTALCODES
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Canal with a "low bridge" ("Everybody down!") : ERIE
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Out of juice : DEAD
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Zilch : NIL
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Starting squad : ATEAM
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Many a godchild : NIECE
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Something to stand for : ANTHEM
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X, Y and Z, but not A, B and C : GENERATIONS
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"The Office" role : PAM
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Taco topper : SALSA
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Something only some of us will get : INSIDEJOKE
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Pop star Gomez : SELENA
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Top gun : ACE
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Word aptly hidden in "turned yellow" : DYE
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Writing assignment : ESSAY
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Hole-___ (singular feat) : INONE
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"Whew!" : BOY
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Organ with a distinctive shape : KIDNEY
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Overwhelmingly busy : HECTIC
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Postpone for now : TABLE
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Exchanged rings with : WED
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River through Khartoum : NILE
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Leave out : OMIT
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A seeming eternity : EONS
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Banks of "America's Next Top Model" : TYRA
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___ Nas X : LIL
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Place to retire? : PIT
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Corner keyboard key : ESC
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"Keep it down!" : SHH

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