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New York Times, Friday, February 14, 2025

Author:
Sarah Sinclair
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
25-Down : Move slowly
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Sarah Sinclair

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {BQXZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Ms. Sinclair. Friday freshness: 48%
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© 2025, The New York Times2/14/25 ( No. 27,492 )
Across
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No pro : ANTI
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Rectitudinous : JUST
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Sleep ___ : APNEA
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Clean energy? : GOODKARMA
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___ Alexander, author of the fantasy series "The Chronicles of Prydain" : LLOYD
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"Everything's fine with me" : IMDOINGOK
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Bad things to blow : FUSES
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Word with "at" or "not in the" : LEAST
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Made (out), but barely : EKED
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Parcel : METE
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D.C. winter hrs. : EST
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Nice chunk of change : TIDYSUM
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___ Faire : REN
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Mickey Mantle's retired jersey : SEVEN
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Classic Gustav Klimt painting made during his "Golden Period" : THEKISS
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Completely fluid : INCASH
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Al ___ : DENTE
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Develop emotions (for) : CATCHFEELINGS
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"Ragtime" role for which Audra McDonald won a Tony : SARAH
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Body of Jewish law : TALMUD
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Classic ska song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right" : ONELOVE
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Affaire de coeur : AMOUR
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___ lecithin (chocolate additive) : SOY
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Amazon, e.g. : WARRIOR
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Fútbol stadium cry : GOL
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Romances : WOOS
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Lose liquidity, in a way : CLOT
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Peak performance : AGAME
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Elicit : EDUCE
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Bewitched : INATRANCE
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"Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" poet : ELIOT
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Second Commandment subject : FALSEIDOL
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People put down stakes for them : TENTS
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Singer who wrote the Oscar-nominated song "May It Be" for "The Fellowship of the Ring" : ENYA
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Title that translates to "highest principle" : LAMA
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Nimble : AGILE
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Unrealistic claim on the packaging of a kid's craft : NOMESS
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As of yet : TODATE
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Promising words : IDOS
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Renaissance painter ___ van Eyck : JAN
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Pressed : URGED
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Like a sultry eye shadow look : SMOKY
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Accepts defeat, in slang : TAKESTHEL
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1980s TV title character : ALF
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Desirable and profitable, as an assignment : PLUM
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Symbol of social status in ancient Mesopotamia : NOSERING
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They might involve a Snellen chart : EYETESTS
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Google platform for website monetization : ADSENSE
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Protein-packed Purina product : KITTENCHOW
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"Thanks, Captain Obvious" : DUH
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Move slowly : INCH
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A little unwell? : MEDIUMRARE
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___ signs : VITAL
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Martial art whose name means "sword way" : KENDO
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Where the ka and ba reunite, in Egyptian mythology : AFTERLIFE
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Beach body? : SEA
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Neck : CANOODLE
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"Willing to join our endeavor?" : AREYOUIN
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"So-o-o-o funny!" : LMAO
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"That's kind of you!" : SOSWEET
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Little sucker? : VAC
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Its national dish, matoke, is made from green bananas : UGANDA
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"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" or "10 Things I Hate About You" : ROMCOM
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Saoirse of 2019's "Little Women" : RONAN
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Setting for the films "Life Is Beautiful" and "Call Me By Your Name" : ITALY
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One-eyed "Futurama" character : LEELA
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One sporting a sporran, maybe : SCOT
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___ Carson Levine, author of "Ella Enchanted" : GAIL
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9-Down and his family : ETS
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Grp. using biometric cameras : TSA

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