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New York Times, Friday, July 31, 2026

Author:
Rafael Musa
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Sex work?
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Rafael Musa

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Musa. Grid flow: 50.5 Friday freshness: 49%
Jim Horne notes:
Around 1637, French mathematician Pierre de Fermat was reading his personal copy of Diophantus's ancient Greek math text, Arithmetica ... read more
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© 2026, The New York Times7/31/26 ( No. 28,024 )
Across
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Withholding something? : TAX
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It'll pass! : FAD
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Silent type : MIME
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Sex work? : KAMASUTRA
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Screen name : IMAX
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Tennis feat involving four consecutive major tournament wins in two calendar years : SERENASLAM
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Grime : DIRT
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Honey, for example : PETNAME
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Energy source for distance runners : GEL
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World Economic Forum, e.g., for short : NGO
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Tripping : ONLSD
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Style secured with a scrunchie : PONYTAIL
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Tobiko or masago : ROE
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Twists of fate, say : UPSANDDOWNS
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Pharyngitis docs : ENTS
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Exuding joy : ALLSMILES
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Went hell for leather : TORE
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Cry when shaking hands : DEAL
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"This is too much" : ICANTEVEN
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Blind component : SLAT
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Wiseacre : SMARTYPANTS
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What a closed fist with an extended index finger represents, in A.S.L. : ONE
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Where to be above all the drama? : OPERABOX
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Pierre : French :: ___ : Russian : PYOTR
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Maryland governor Moore : WES
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Perspective, for short : POV
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Casual Friday option : SNEAKER
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Result of a shopping spree : HAUL
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Highly flexible discipline? : AERIALYOGA
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Brazilian state whose name is a unit of measurement : ACRE
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Relative of a tumbler : TRAVELMUG
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Cuisine with tom kha kai : THAI
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Business with lockers : SPA
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All good : SET
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Palm-sized pastry : TARTLET
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Assenting chorus : AMENS
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Shangri-La : XANADU
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Make one : FUSE
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Seat of Fulton County: Abbr. : ATL
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British counterpart to "Shark Tank" : DRAGONSDEN
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Just OK, in modern lingo : MID
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"Mind. Blown." : IMINAWE
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Part of Fermat's copy of "Arithmetica" where he wrote his Last Theorem : MARGINS
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Glorifies : EXTOLS
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Into : KEENON
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Tech mogul Altman : SAM
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Change for a bill : AMENDMENT
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Reproductive part of a fern : SPORE
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Youngest Bennet sister in "Pride and Prejudice" : LYDIA
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Patrick, to SpongeBob : PAL
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Rings : TOLLS
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Venue for events that guests are always on board to attend? : PARTYBOAT
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Some all-nighters : SLEEPOVERS
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"Yellow Submarine" lead vocalist : STARR
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Ready to go : ONTAP
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Censure, in a way : IMPEACH
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Formal pause in a line of poetry : CAESURA
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Certain shot, colloquially : VAX
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"Heads up!" : LOOKOUT
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Insect product in the salad yum khai mod daeng : ANTEGG
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___ incognita : TERRA
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"And ...?" : SOWHAT
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Brief periods : SPELLS
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Self-congratulation : YAYME
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Hindu deity depicted with four arms : SIVA
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Denial in Aberdeen : NAE
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Chain that can symbolize friendship : LEI
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Genre for Logic : RAP

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

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