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New York Times, Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Author:
Jared Cappel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
66-Across : Spooky-sounding lake
TotalDebut
13/11/2025
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.59240%
Jared Cappel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Cappel. Tuesday freshness: 75%
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© 2025, The New York Times3/11/25 ( No. 27,517 )
Across
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U.S.'s oldest continuous women's professional sports org. : LPGA
5
Sample sake, say : SIP
8
___ salmon : SMOKED
14
They're mined, all mined! : ORES
15
Kissing on a park bench, e.g., for short : PDA
16
"Fingers crossed!" : HOPESO
17
Gives a thumbs-up : VOTESYES
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Take to the sky : AVIATE
20
Vex : EATAT
21
Pollen producer : STAMEN
23
Texter's "I can't believe this" : SMH
24
Made a scene? : ACTED
26
"I cannot ___ anybody anything; I can only make them think": Socrates : TEACH
30
"Hijack" actor Idris : ELBA
32
"Nope!" : UHUH
34
Middling mark : CEE
35
Recruit successfully, as a reluctant participant : ROPEIN
37
Signs of spring : ROSEBUDS
39
At the moment : ASOFNOW
41
Finger foods served on a toothpick, maybe : CANAPES
42
"Taste the rainbow" candy : SKITTLES
44
Perplex : BEMUSE
45
Sunbather's goal : TAN
46
First-person shooter video game franchise : HALO
47
99% fat-free, say : LEAN
48
Jazz legend Shaw : ARTIE
50
Gave it a go : TRIED
52
Surveillance device, informally : CAM
55
Followed the leader : OBEYED
57
Plenty o' : LOTSA
59
Road sign with a unidirectional arrow : ONEWAY
62
Compliment on the green : NICEPUTT
64
The Blenheim in England, for one : PALACE
65
"___ soon?" : TOO
66
Spooky-sounding lake : ERIE
67
Reeks : STINKS
68
"Wowza!" : OMG
69
Bears' lairs : DENS
Down
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Is nuts for : LOVES
2
Type of event run by the 1-Across : PROAM
3
Grasp a central idea : GETTHEPOINT
4
Sailing, say : ASEA
5
Ian Fleming figure : SPY
6
"I.e.," spelled out : IDEST
7
Frenchman who developed an anthrax vaccine : PASTEUR
8
Decorative pillowcase : SHAM
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Make noticeable progress : MOVETHENEEDLE
10
Offer a thought : OPINE
11
Hawaii's Mauna ___ : KEA
12
Fig. at a body shop : EST
13
A deer, a female deer : DOE
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Betray : STABINTHEBACK
22
Like some temporary committees : ADHOC
25
Common cooking oil : CANOLA
27
Traditional Chinese medicine component ... in which a practitioner might 3-, 9- and 18-Down? : ACUPUNCTURE
28
Relinquishes : CEDES
29
Hermann who wrote "Siddhartha" : HESSE
31
One side of the political aisle, with "the" : LEFT
33
Functional : USABLE
35
Believer in Jah, familiarly : RASTA
36
Herr Schindler in "Schindler's List" : OSKAR
38
"Roll Tide!" school, in brief : BAMA
40
Eudora ___, Pulitzer-winning author for "The Optimist's Daughter" : WELTY
43
Kia S.U.V. : SORENTO
49
Sioux City native : IOWAN
51
"A pain in the neck," e.g. : IDIOM
53
Actor Sean of "Stranger Things" : ASTIN
54
Aussie buds : MATES
56
So-called "windows to the soul" : EYES
58
Take in the paper? : OPED
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Photo ___ : OPS
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Revolutionary Turner : NAT
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Horror director Roth : ELI
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Gear tooth : COG

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

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