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New York Times, Thursday, March 13, 2025

Author:
Rich Proulx and Simeon Seigel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
40-Down : Quick to learn
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Simeon Seigel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Proulx. This is puzzle # 15 for Mr. Seigel. Thursday freshness: 68%
Jim Horne notes:
Across answers floating above the shapes have to DIP down and pick up the letters in those shapes to match the clues. I've fixed up ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times3/13/25 ( No. 27,519 )
Across
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Give up : CEDE
5
Datum on a dating profile : AGE
8
Delivery people? : MAMAS
13
Eye part : UVEA
14
Presently, in the past : ANON
15
Choose : ELECT
16
Aired in multiple places at the same time : SIMULCASTED
18
Oil and water, to a painter : MEDIA
19
Nationalist grp. founded in 1964 : PLO
20
Collectors of forensic evidence, for short : CSIS
21
Sorts with unruly hair : MOPHEADS
22
Hit up privately on "the socials" : DMED
24
Some lighters or pens : BICS
26
Potpourri : HASH
27
Tries to win : WOOS
28
Close-up shots, of a sort : TIPINS
30
Homemade bombs, for short : IEDS
31
Lout : BOOR
32
Identity associated with a blue, pink and white flag : TRANS
37
Burning glow : FIRELIGHT
39
Toy shooter : CAPPISTOL
41
Cays, e.g. : ISLES
42
"That's my cue!" : IMUP
44
Possible sleeping spot for a partner who's in the doghouse : SOFA
45
Still to be filled, as a role : UNCAST
47
Put out : EMIT
48
"if u put it that way, however ..." : OTOH
52
Tag sale disclaimer : ASIS
53
Eye part found in the 13-Across : IRIS
54
Items for babies on board : CARSEATS
56
Night light? : STAR
58
Vital force in Taoism : CHI
60
Farmworker organizer Chavez : CESAR
61
Commit a party foul, in a way … or what five answers do in this puzzle? : DOUBLEDIP
63
Last word of the last multiple-choice option, maybe : ABOVE
64
Month with the newest federal holiday, recognized in 2021 : JUNE
65
Hyundai S.U.V. named after a region in Hawaii : KONA
66
Green : MONEY
67
Assume the lotus position, say : SIT
68
Things to brood over : EGGS
Down
1
Point of transition : CUSP
2
Bad actors : EVILDOERS
3
Try-before-you-buy option : DEMOMODEL
4
What un sachet de thé is put into : EAU
5
Bug killers? : ANTIBIOTICS
6
Hits the exchange, in Wall Street lingo : GOESIPO
7
___ around (football trick play) : END
8
Many a work message : MEMO
9
First Hebrew letter : ALEPH
10
Companion of Jason in the search for the Golden Fleece : MEDEA
11
Complements to salts and fats in the kitchen : ACIDS
12
Trove : STASH
14
Some smallish batteries : AAS
17
TV screen option, in brief : LCD
21
Windows portal, in brief : MSN
23
Big name in nail polish : ESSIE
25
Juggling chain saws on a tightrope, for instance : CIRCUSSTUNT
27
Hotel amenity : WIFI
28
"No lie ...," in texts : TBH
29
Speedway additive brand : STP
33
Stand onstage, perhaps : RISER
34
1982 George Clinton hit with the refrain "Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yay" : ATOMICDOG
35
Cautionary sign at a pier : NOFISHING
36
Blind part : SLAT
38
Atlanta sch. whose teams are the Panthers : GSU
40
Quick to learn : APT
43
"Surely!," in Orly : MAISOUI
46
Rapper for whom Harvard's Hip-Hop Fellowship is named : NAS
48
Logician who hypothesized that the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is usually the best : OCCAM
49
Kickin' cardio option : TAEBO
50
Director Welles : ORSON
51
Chuck : HEAVE
53
Online shorthand for "off-line" : IRL
55
Deuce beater : TREY
57
Face on a fiver : ABE
59
Six-pack that might be in the "Craft" section, for short : IPAS
61
Record setters? : DJS
62
Barely make, with "out" : EKE

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

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