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New York Times, Friday, April 11, 2025

Author:
Jesse Guzman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
39-Down : Some real estate deals
TotalDebutLatest
29/26/20244/11/2025
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0000110
ScrabDebutFresh
1.51476%
Jesse Guzman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Guzman. Friday freshness: 64%
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C
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O
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A
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C
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B
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D
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© 2025, The New York Times4/11/25 ( No. 27,548 )
Across
1
Some pops : COCACOLAS
10
Line accompanying a doorbell ring : ITSME
15
Richard Nixon or Mao Zedong, in a 1987 premiere : OPERAROLE
16
Moved in bounds : LOPED
17
Activity with pints and points : BARTRIVIA
18
Not straight : LYING
19
Ones in a war of words? : SLAMPOETS
20
Like Iceland's weather most of the year : WINDY
21
Longtime email provider : AOL
22
They're high-pressure at their low points : OCEANS
24
Action figures from Hasbro : GIJOES
27
Japanese "thank you" : ARIGATO
30
Morris who directed "The Thin Blue Line" : ERROL
31
It's one step down from an F : EFLAT
33
"Uh-huh" : YUP
34
Vulgarian : BOOR
35
What ice skaters might turn into? : AXELS
36
"Sort by" option in a credit card history : DATE
37
Messy ___ (hairstyle) : BUN
38
Liquid-Plumr alternative : DRANO
39
Pilot returning to the air, e.g. : RERUN
40
Popeye's fare : SPINACH
42
Passionate tributes : PAEANS
44
Screen mover : CURSOR
46
Dose of unreality? : LSD
47
Sign of romantic chemistry : SPARK
49
Dropped, as a touchy subject : LEFTALONE
54
Sign of vitality : PULSE
55
Neptune, e.g. : ICEPLANET
56
French city whose last three letters are a French article : ARLES
57
Simple question written with two question marks : COMOESTAS
58
Private affair : TRYST
59
Certain ephemeral social media post, informally : SNAPSTORY
Down
1
Makings of some homemade pipes : COBS
2
Fitting name for a girl born in October : OPAL
3
Michael who played Allan in "Barbie" : CERA
4
One into modeling at school : ARTMAJOR
5
Go on a full ride, say? : CARPOOL
6
Maryland's state bird : ORIOLE
7
What crossing your hands in front of your chest means in American Sign Language : LOVE
8
Bush nominee to the Supreme Court : ALITO
9
Creature with over 200 tiny eyes along its shell : SEASCALLOP
10
"Finish what you're doing" : ILLWAIT
11
Futzing (with) : TOYING
12
Fabulizes : SPINSAYARN
13
On the ___ : MEND
14
Pushing boundaries : EDGY
23
Things sometimes named after kings and queens : ERAS
24
Party : GROUP
25
How Romeo dies, in the eyes of the audience : IRONICALLY
26
Ones lost in lust : SEXAHOLICS
28
Some attire worn with tights : TUTUS
29
P.G.A. Tour event : OPEN
30
Wanes : EBBS
32
Boggy land : FEN
35
Characters' trajectories : ARCS
36
At the absolute back of the pack : DEADLAST
38
Like the night right before dawn, proverbially : DARKEST
39
Some real estate deals : RESALES
41
Tends to : NURSES
43
Music genre that's experimental yet radio-friendly : ALTPOP
45
Means of intel gathering : RECON
47
Minor disagreement : SPAT
48
[Please keep scratching me!] : PURR
50
Org. that's busy after disasters : FEMA
51
"You're ___ something!" : ONTO
52
Word with mint or miss : NEAR
53
Site with shops from around the world : ETSY

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

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