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In the Rearview

New York Times, Sunday, February 23, 2025

Author:
Daniel Grinberg and Rafael Musa
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
100-Down : Rip off
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88/28/20193/20/20251
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Daniel Grinberg
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21.5411173%
Rafael Musa

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JZ} Scrabble average: 1.70 This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Grinberg. This is puzzle # 16 for Mr. Musa. Sunday freshness: 52%
Will Shortz notes:
Daniel Grinberg, of Philadelphia, researches user experience for an energy company. Rafael Musa, of San Francisco, is a software engineer at Airbnb. They met last year at a crossword ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

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© 2025, The New York Times2/23/25 ( No. 27,501 )
Across
1
Dazzling display : ECLAT
6
Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif. : APPLE
11
Plant with bugs? : SPY
14
Formation of rugby players : SCRUM
19
Queendom in the Bible : SHEBA
20
Hint at L.G.B.T.Q.+ story lines to generate buzz : QUEERBAIT
22
Give an address : ORATE
23
What a tight deadline might require … or what's found in 30-Across? : QUICKTURNAROUND
25
Viennese "please" : BITTE
26
Attacked : MADEWAR
27
Do perfectly : ACE
28
Hound or dog : PESTER
29
What's-___-name : HIS
30
Question when leaving a grocery store, perhaps : WHEREDIDIPARK
34
Inaugural : MAIDEN
38
Unwanted event at a speakeasy : RAID
39
Spot for a pin : MAT
40
Lyricist Gershwin : IRA
41
Halls that may have glass ceilings : ATRIA
42
Improvise : WINGIT
44
"Everything ___ Changed" (Taylor Swift song) : HAS
45
Scheme : PLOT
46
Tolerate misbehavior … or what's found in 56-Across? : LOOKTHEOTHERWAY
49
Collectors of signatures? : CASTS
50
___ of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII : ANNE
51
Newspaper section : ARTS
52
Tuna variety : AHI
53
Word with lock or pocket : AIR
54
Second printings, e.g. : REISSUES
56
Source of some public funding : FEDERALGRANT
62
Boiling state : IRE
63
Author of the 1964 artist's book "Grapefruit" : ONO
64
Legal tender : MONEY
65
When doubled, a dance : CAN
66
Home of the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally : RIO
67
Totally the wrong way … or what's found in 79-Across? : ASSBACKWARDS
70
"Really! Check for yourself!" : ITSAFACT
72
Radar gun inits. : MPH
73
Philosophy : ISM
74
It may be on the chopping block : LOIN
75
"Uh-huh, whatever you say!" : IBET
76
Distorts : SKEWS
79
"It'd be my pleasure" : IMHAPPYTOOBLIGE
83
Mates : PALS
84
1/96 of a pint: Abbr. : TSP
85
It comes with a hefty bill : TOUCAN
86
Happen over and over : RECUR
87
Beehive State athlete : UTE
88
Coalesce : GEL
89
11, literally : ONES
90
Occasions for self-indulgence : MEDAYS
91
Completely change one's position … or what's found in 104-Across? : REVERSECOURSE
96
Intimidate : COW
97
Wild goats of the Alps : IBEXES
98
Delta hub: Abbr. : ATL
99
Reality competition show with quickfire challenges : TOPCHEF
103
Smidgen : OUNCE
104
Gift-wrapping supplies : SCOTCHTAPEROLLS
109
Formal "you," in Uruguay : USTED
110
Americans who live in their own time zone : HAWAIIANS
111
Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion : ESSAY
112
In a bashful manner : SHYLY
113
Sweetie : HON
114
Part of a wheel : SPOKE
115
Detaches from a source of dependence : WEANS
Down
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Lawyer's title: Abbr. : ESQ
2
Fish bait : CHUM
3
Leader of filmdom's Rebel Alliance : LEIA
4
Options on some tests : ABCD
5
Receive severe criticism : TAKEHEAT
6
Blue-green shades : AQUAS
7
Sound of a smooth-running engine : PURR
8
Pig's digs : PEN
9
Locale where clovers bloom : LEA
10
Forget to finish writing a clue, mayb : ERR
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Secret ___ : SAUCE
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Felt longing (for) : PINED
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Since Jan. 1 : YTD
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"C'est la vie" : SOBEIT
15
Potato chip, to a Brit : CRISP
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Coiffure parts that are sometimes braided : RATTAILS
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Complete nonsense : UTTERROT
18
Small mongooses : MEERKATS
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Creature that sounds like a snooze : BOAR
24
Scarlett Johansson, Rami Malek or Vin Diesel (did you know?) : TWIN
28
PalmPilots, e.g., for short : PDAS
30
Wish list items : WANTS
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Like some heels and hopes : HIGH
32
Marriage equality activist Windsor, familiarly : EDIE
33
"Perhaps. That's something that interests me" : IMAY
34
Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902) : MALARIA
35
Yom Kippur observers, e.g. : ATONERS
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Amusingly incongruous outcomes : IRONIES
37
Flood preventers : DIKES
38
Hoots : RIOTS
42
"Don't worry about us" : WEREOK
43
Lines of work : TRADES
44
What locks are made of : HAIR
45
Catherine ___, wife of Henry VIII : PARR
47
Horse's behind : HAUNCH
48
Protein powder ingredient : WHEY
49
Aetna alternative : CIGNA
53
"Unfortunately, that's incorrect" : ALASNO
55
Many long-running TV shows : SOAPS
56
Word processing selection : FORMAT
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Close : END
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Director's directive : ACTION
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Most common coffee bean variety : ARABICA
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Love interest in a Hallmark movie, maybe : NICEGUY
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Walks unsteadily : TOTTERS
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"Monster ___" (1962 #1 song) : MASH
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i5 and X5 : BMWS
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Fraidy-cat : WIMP
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Soupçons : IOTAS
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Organized in a cabinet, say : FILED
74
School before l'université : LYCEE
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Not to be relied upon : SPURIOUS
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Singer whose 1985 song "Running Up That Hill" became a top 10 hit in 2022 after being featured on "Stranger Things" : KATEBUSH
78
110, facetiously : ELEVENTY
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Barbuda or Barbados : ISLE
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Shoddy : POOR
81
Most dad jokes : PUNS
82
Nickname for Milwaukee's baseball team : BREWCREW
84
Ocean in "Ocean's Eleven" : TESS
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Like King Midas, notably : GREEDY
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Have a pity party : MOPE
92
Google Sheets alternative : EXCEL
93
Supply at the Hershey Company : CACAO
94
City near Disney World, informally : OTOWN
95
___ Beauty : ULTA
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Small wood : COPSE
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Fail ignominiously, as at the box office : TANK
100
Rip off : HOSE
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"Lohengrin" soprano : ELSA
102
Custardy treat : FLAN
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"Quiet!" : SHH
105
Gender identity prefix : CIS
106
With it : HIP
107
Confucian concept : TAO
108
Part of iOS: Abbr. : SYS

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

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