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Mark My Words

New York Times, Sunday, March 30, 2025

Author:
Simeon Seigel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
19-Across : Hole-boring tool
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Simeon Seigel

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Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 134, Blocks: 80 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Seigel. Sunday freshness: 21%
Will Shortz notes:
Simeon Seigel, of Brooklyn, is a partner at The Turett Collaborative, an architecture and design firm in New York City. He sees a similarity between his professional work and crossword ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times3/30/25 ( No. 27,536 )
Across
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Choose not to take part : PASS
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Style of hip-hop : TRAP
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"Like, duh!" : OBVS
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Settles, as the stomach : CALMS
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High in the Andes : ALTO
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Hole-boring tool : AUGER
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Feature of a safe landing, perhaps : RAIL
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Architectural projection : ORIEL
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Hit the ___ : ROOF
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Stiletto feature : BLADE
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Fraudster Sorokin profiled in Netflix's "Inventing ___" : ANNA
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Mere pittance : PENNY
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. [Not this] : THATSBESIDETHEPOINT
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Film attire for George Clooney and Christian Bale : BATSUITS
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The Emmy statuette depicts a winged woman holding one : ATOM
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Jordan's most-visited tourist site : PETRA
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. . . Ancient : PREHISTORICPERIODS
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Returns a call, in a way : ECHOES
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Comprehension : KEN
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Facilitates : AIDS
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Sch. whose student newspaper is The Reveille : LSU
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Kid who's a handful : BRAT
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Utter : SAY
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Pickles might be in them : JARS
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Dollar, informally : CLAM
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# Believes : BUYSBYTHEPOUND
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Useless : NOHELP
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Stack in an office cabinet : REAM
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1960s diplomat Dean : RUSK
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Hold together : COHERE
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* Composed * : WRITTENINTHESTARS
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Canadian dollar, informally : LOONIE
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Stimulant crop of South America : COCA
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Pricing level : TIER
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Dishes out : SERVES
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Feasts - - - : DINESANDDASHES
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Fairy ___ : TALE
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Put-down : DISS
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Modern love? : BAE
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Elegant and luxurious : POSH
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Translation of "fin" : END
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Target for a Mighty Patch : ACNE
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Something searched for in vein? : ORE
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Soak : DRENCH
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Alumnus º : POSTGRADUATEDEGREE
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Leader who wrote "The Discovery of [96-Down]" : NEHRU
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Feed at a trough : SLOP
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Steep decline : NOSEDIVE
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— Peruse — : READBETWEENTHELINES
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Do a millworker or barista's job, maybe : GRIND
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Its southernmost point, Pamana Island, is more than 750 miles below the Equator : ASIA
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Group in "a pension fund" : AEIOU
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Mark one's words? : EDIT
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Classification on a B.M.I. chart : OBESE
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Having a certain strong flavor, as meat : GAMY
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Fine print, often : TERMS
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___ wave : SINE
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Entries in a passport : VISAS
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Makes liable for libel, say : SUES
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Average killers? : DEES
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Actor Diggs who made his film debut in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" : TAYE
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Medicare section : PARTB
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Literally, "love," "peace" or "mercy" : ALOHA
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Weasel family member : STOAT
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Special sympathies : SOFTSPOTS
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Garfield and others : TABBIES
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Hath dominion o'er : RULETH
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Eight-time Grand Slam tournament winner from 1992 to 2003 : AGASSI
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Spa treatment, informally : PEDI
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Keynote figure : ORATOR
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Baguette in Vietnamese cuisine : BANHMI
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Wall climber : VINE
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Apply haphazardly, with "on" : SLAP
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Reproductive systems? : COPIERS
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Question of self-reflection : ARENTI
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Items helpful for removing pet hair : LINTROLLERS
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Chess pieces : MEN
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Furtive : SLY
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Fix, as a logbook entry : REDATE
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"If you say so!" : SURE
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School for some royal offspring : ETON
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Piece of one's mind? : OPED
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Bit of media revenue : ADSALE
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Terrier type from Scotland : SKYE
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Joker … or jokester : CARD
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Detectives, for short : PIS
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Home drainage option : SUMP
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Recede : EBB
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Vin classification : CRU
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Something a pitchfork might go into : HAY
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What a star may represent : STATE
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"Alas …" : AHME
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In the same way that : JUSTAS
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Egyptian symbol of life : ANKH
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Only solo artist with Billboard #1 singles in seven consecutive decades : CHER
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Curing liquid : BRINE
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Cryptids of the Himalayas : YETIS
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Proteins hypothetically responsible for mad cow disease : PRIONS
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Small scale amount : OUNCE
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"Point taken!" : NOTED
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"Schitt's Creek" co-star Catherine : OHARA
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Third part of a double album : CSIDE
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Diamond jubilee? : WORLDSERIES
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Get around : ROVE
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TV franchise spun off from "JAG" : NCIS
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Big Sicilian smoker : ETNA
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Apply pressure to : LEANON
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You might be told to watch yours : STEP
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Broke down : DIED
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Sleeping, quaintly : ABED
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First to the finish line : SPEEDIEST
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Sweetie : HON
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"Exit" key : ESC
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"Don't tell anyone!" : SHH
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Fiber of one's being, so to speak : DNA
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Top marks : AGRADES
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"Aw, rats!" : CRUD
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Tribe headquartered in Red Rock, Okla. : OTOE
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Music player button : REPEAT
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Author who originally intended his pen name to rhyme with "voice," though Americans pronounced it differently : DRSEUSS
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Walk unsteadily : REEL
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Org. whose budget is classified : THENSA
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Period that a couple dedicates to themselves : USTIME
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Invariably : ALWAYS
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Not partial : ENTIRE
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Order after closing time : GOHOME
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Country once led by 93-Across : INDIA
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Like a bodybuilder's arms : VEINY
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Much-lauded Lauder : ESTEE
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Features of sleepy eyes : BAGS
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Genesis brother : ESAU
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Scholarship criterion : NEED
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Whitehouse. follower : GOV
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Stat achieved after a bases-loaded walk : RBI

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