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New York Times, Thursday, September 25, 2025

Author:
Jesse Goldberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Show that you think something isn't important
TotalDebutLatest
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Jesse Goldberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Goldberg. Grid flow: 44.6 Thursday freshness: 97%
Jim Horne notes:

In the Down answers below the grid, I added the FIRST TWO LETTERS that had been skimmed off the top. (They come from the first two letters of the clues.)

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N
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M
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L
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D
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L
M
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T
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O
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R
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I
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V
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S
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U
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M
E
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O
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L
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A
G
S
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B
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T
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P
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W
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O
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R
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B
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N
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F
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N
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D
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T
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K
S
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F
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S
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© 2025, The New York Times9/25/25 ( No. 27,715 )
Across
1
Onetime capital of the Mughal Empire : AGRA
5
Dad on "Family Guy" : PETER
10
Word after long or before paper : TERM
14
Film unit : REEL
15
"Pardon me," in Padua : SCUSI
16
Home of Minor League Baseball's SeaWolves (more than 350 miles from the ocean!) : ERIE
17
Airline known for tight security : ELAL
18
Continental products : TIRES
19
Disney character who asks "Have you ever met a shark?" : NEMO
20
Illegally siphon funds : SKIMOFFTHETOP
23
Grand Ole ___ : OPRY
24
Subj. studied with the help of telescopes : SETI
25
Property owner subject to a legal claim : LIENEE
28
Law derived from the Quran : SHARIA
32
"Not interested" : IPASS
33
Snitch : RAT
36
Savanna antelope : ELAND
37
Common street name : ELM
38
Quivers : TREMORS
41
Android alternative : IOS
42
Some necklines : VEES
44
"I'm here to help" : USEME
45
Look greedily : OGLE
46
Livestock identifiers : EARTAGS
48
Bit of fraternity party headgear : BEERHAT
50
Actress Garr : TERI
51
Final stroke of most rounds : PUTT
52
What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense : FIRSTTWOLETTERS
59
Big name in laptops : ASUS
60
Only president not born in the continental U.S. : OBAMA
61
"I'll handle that!" : ONIT
62
Beginning of every Washington State ZIP code : NINE
63
Steakhouse choice : FILET
64
Like John Lennon on a 1981 Rolling Stone cover : NUDE
65
Disapproving sounds : TSKS
66
Celebratory events : FESTS
67
Tore : SPED
Down
1
Blast loudly : BLARE
2
Anaheim ballplayers : ANGELS
3
String of wins or losses : STREAK
4
Studs : STALLIONS
5
Apple shop : APPSTORE
6
Spell out : SPECIFY
7
Replace the sod of : RETURF
8
Programs in advance : PRESETS
9
Pastors' concerns : PARISHES
10
Possibility : POTENTIAL
11
Standard music equipment : STEREO
12
Scratch and save : SCRIMP
13
Carved part of a piece of jewelry : CAMEO
21
Terrible storm : TEMPEST
22
Sees red : SEETHES
25
Replace on the mound : RELIEVE
26
Traveler's aid, familiarly : TRIPLEA
27
Storage item on some ocean voyages : STEAMERTRUNK
29
Stop slouching : STRAIGHTENUP
30
Shoe polish brand : SHINOLA
31
Determined : DEADSET
33
Strain's partner : STRESS
34
Freeze-___ : FRAME
35
Enter into a plot? : ENTOMB
39
Show that you think something isn't important : SHRUGITOFF
40
The Chicago Bulls had a pair of them in the 1990s : THREEPEATS
43
Hors d'oeuvre servers, maybe : HOSTESSES
45
Shipping weight units : SHORTTONS
47
Stop's opposite : START
49
Alaska native : ALEUT
52
Incubator occupant in a neonatal unit : INFANT
53
Crucial difficulty to get through : CRISIS
54
Neophyte : NEWBIE
55
Shipwreck locales, often : SHOALS
56
Headgear for a bicyclist : HELMET
57
Step with confidence : STRIDE
58
Beat in competition : BESTED

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

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