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New York Times, Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Author:
Joe Deeney
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : Start to rouse
TotalDebutLatest
2310/9/20173/8/2025
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RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.6014358%
Joe Deeney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {HJWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Deeney. Wednesday freshness: 32%
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© 2025, The New York Times2/19/25 ( No. 27,497 )
Across
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Destination of a walk : FIRST
6
Command to attack : SICEM
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Programming conditionals : IFS
14
What one may go by : ALIAS
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Musician's exercise : ETUDE
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Be in it to win it : VIE
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Film megahit : BLOCKBUSTER
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Old hoops org. : ABA
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Start to rouse : STIR
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Dewy-eyed heroine : INGENUE
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Foreign policy advisory grp. : NSC
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Put on, as a play : STAGE
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"Into the Wild" actor Hirsch : EMILE
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Wide-reaching green light : BLANKETAPPROVAL
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Birchbark, e.g. : CANOE
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Singer with the 2016 #1 hit "Cheap Thrills" : SIA
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Small British hunting dog : BORDERTERRIER
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Actor Stephen of "V for Vendetta" : REA
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Wile E. Coyote's undoing, frequently : ANVIL
44
Slugger's pregame warm-up : BATTINGPRACTICE
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Live : ONAIR
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Together : ASONE
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Streamer's annoyance : LAG
54
Onetime place to shop while high? : SKYMALL
56
Syllabus section : UNIT
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Didn't play : SAT
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Social sewing event ... and a hint to the starts of 17-, 29-, 34- and 44-Across : QUILTINGBEE
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History class section : ERA
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Navel type : INNIE
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Connect with : TIETO
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Utter : SAY
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Wise ones : SAGES
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In many cases : OFTEN
Down
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Terrif : FAB
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Not well : ILL
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2016 Olympics host city, familiarly : RIO
4
Biological bags : SACS
5
Orally admonished : TSKTSKED
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French pointillism pioneer : SEURAT
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Word frequently edited to insert or remove an apostrophe : ITS
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Little darling : CUTIEPIE
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Idyllic spot : EDEN
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Synergy-seeking move : MERGER
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"Terrible" czar : IVANIV
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Bone below the femur : FIBULA
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Anago, to a sushi chef : SEAEEL
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Something good for an angler, bad for a dog trainer : BITE
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Angsty music genre : EMO
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Peacock's parent : NBC
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Big chunk : SLAB
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Baseballer Robinson ___ : CANO
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Chemistry lab hookups : GASTAPS
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Neighbor of Swe. : NOR
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This is what you might expect : PAR
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Suffix with north or south : ERN
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Entertaining lavishly : REGALING
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Enter hurriedly : RACEINTO
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Football stat: Abbr. : INT
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"Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot : EVIL
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Costa ___ : RICA
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Part of a trip : LEG
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End-of-level enemies in video games : BOSSES
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World capital said to have been founded by King Midas : ANKARA
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"Shake It Off" singer, to fans : TAYTAY
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Apple's Cook : TIM
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Residents of Basra : IRAQIS
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Ways to go : ROUTES
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Years: Lat. : ANNI
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Nutrition bar brand with a moon in its logo : LUNA
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Week-ending exclamation : TGIF
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Factor in club selection : LIE
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"Wanna ___?" : BET
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Somme summer : ETE
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Ages and ages : EON

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