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New York Times, Saturday, September 13, 2025

Author:
Alex Jiang
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father"
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19/13/2025
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Alex Jiang

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 29 Missing: {FQ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Jiang. Saturday freshness: 48%
Jim Horne notes:
Ludovico Einaudi. Powerful and passionate, or predictable and smarmy? You decide. ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times9/13/25 ( No. 27,703 )
Across
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Student's plan : ACADEMICPROGRAM
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Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father" : LUDOVICOEINAUDI
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Sort of habitat in a bottle garden : CLOSEDECOSYSTEM
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Gumbo ingredients : OKRAS
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Top : APEX
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California's ___ Nuevo State Park : ANO
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Contests : VIES
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Contents of Pandora's box : EVILS
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Some baseball stats : RBIS
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The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary : END
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Bad way to make a group decision : ALONE
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Batman : Bruce :: Wonder Woman : ___ : DIANA
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Stray : ROGUE
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Place for driving : RANGE
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Rolled chip brand from Mexico : TAKIS
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MX-5 and CX-50 maker : MAZDA
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Province in the names of many Chinese restaurants : HUNAN
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Great volumes : TOMES
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Petunia's partner, in cartoons : PORKY
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Rounded, in a way : DOMED
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Jazz form : BOP
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Botanical bristles : AWNS
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Origin of "The Tale of Genji," considered by many to be the world's first novel : JAPAN
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Mountain West campus city : RENO
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Network : WEB
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious : AONE
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Beer alternative to a 38-Down : LAGER
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Completely at ease : ASLOOSEASAGOOSE
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"I mean, duh!" : WELLITSNOWONDER
Down
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Hollow, of a sort : ALCOVE
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Actor Kieran of "Succession" : CULKIN
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Found darling : ADORED
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South Asian crepes : DOSAS
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What are ahead of their times? : EVES
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Prefix with point : MID
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Much of a comet, typically : ICE
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The solution referred to in Sherlock Holmes's "seven-per-cent solution" : COCAINE
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You and me both! : PEOPLE
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Stops lying, say : RISES
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Jet-black stone : ONYX
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Much of Jupiter : GAS
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Vegetable also called a Swedish turnip : RUTABAGA
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DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A : ADENINE
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Pink-flowered tree : MIMOSA
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Basketball Hall-of-Famer Baylor : ELGIN
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Who you would be in France? : VOUS
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Watermelon detritus : RINDS
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Fine : AOKAY
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Out of it : DAZED
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Octet on a chessboard : RANKS
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Instant ___ : RAMEN
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Former Australian prime minister Malcolm : TURNBULL
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Home to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, in brief : MOMA
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"What's the alternative?" : HOWELSE
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Like about 4% of the citizens of Kansas : TOPEKAN
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Soft, yellow fruit : PAWPAW
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Salsas, e.g. : DANCES
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"No acting up!" : BEGOOD
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Like paper napkins : ONEUSE
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Beer alternative to a 44-Across : PORTER
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Tilt : JOUST
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___ test (home inspection component) : RADON
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Yours, in Tours : ATOI
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Whose business is just around the block? : LEGO
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Chemistry class unit: Abbr. : MOL
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"___ Beso" : ESO
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Unprocessed : RAW

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

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