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New York Times, Thursday, April 17, 2025

Author:
Ilan Kolkowitz and Shimon Kolkowitz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
35-Down : Classic French sauce
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {KQVYZ} Grid is asymmetric. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Kolkowitz. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Kolkowitz. Thursday freshness: 97%
Jim Horne notes:
Click the grid to see the FOREST for the TREES. Click again to reset. Having the entries before and after the letter additions both ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times4/17/25 ( No. 27,554 )
Across
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___ bowl (healthful dish) : ACAI
5
Cellular protein : ACTIN
10
Give out : EMIT
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Expels : BANS
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Mars with bars : BRUNO
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Cold-blooded kind of monster : GILA
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"And so …" : ERGO
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Common back-to-school purchases : LUNCHBOXES
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Bit of ballet wear : TOESHOE
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2013 movie co-starring Scarlett Johansson in which she is never seen : HER
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"Going Back to Cali" rapper, 1998 : LLCOOLJ
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*Abigail Adams or Eleanor Roosevelt, informally : FLOTUS
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*Red denizen of Sesame Street : ELMO
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Advocates for : ESPOUSES
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Animal with luxurious fur : SABLE
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Consumer protection agcy. : FTC
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Muse of memory : MNEME
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See 64-Across : TREES
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*Hasty : RASH
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Become fixed : SETIN
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Santa ___ (hot winds) : ANAS
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What three is : CROWD
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"Hmm, I don't think so" : UHNO
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*"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a ___ to be kindled": Plutarch : FIRE
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Eliot protagonist : MARNER
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*Pickle or asparagus unit : SPEAR
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Bog : FEN
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Placed in an air fryer instead of a microwave, say : CRISPED
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State with 1,350 miles of coastline (second-most after Alaska): Abbr. : FLA
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*Small, embedded program : APPLET
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São ___, most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere : PAULO
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Toward that place, quaintly : THITHER
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Ancient Rome and Persia : EMPIRES
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Own : POSSESS
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Comforts : SOLACES
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Almost half of Scandinavians : SWEDES
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What you can't see due to the 38-Across in this puzzle? : FOREST
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Help with a crime : ABET
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Apt name for a December baby : CAROL
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Early investor : ANGEL
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Literally, "equal legs" : ISOSCELES
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Like many a plant in spring : ABLOOM
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Draconian : CRUEL
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Large cask for beer or wine : TUN
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Crawl (along) : INCH
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What a bad assistant might be : NOHELP
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Teamwork inhibitor : EGO
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Word with cake or trail : MIX
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Spot dans la Seine : ILE
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Many Ph.D. students : TAS
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Some Halloween "transports" : BROOMS
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Plot problems : HOLES
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ABC's first program broadcast in color, with "The" : JETSONS
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Refurbish, as an old piano : TUNEUP
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What one may have to do to destroy a Death Star : USETHEFORCE
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Original and influential : SEMINAL
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Big name in soft drinks : SCHWEPPES
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___ Presidenta, term of address for Mexico's leader beginning in 2024 : SENORA
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Wizard's weapon, maybe : STAFF
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"___ the Doughnut," start of a children's book series : ARNIE
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Classic French sauce : BEARNAISE
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Horseshoe enthusiasts? : FARRIERS
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Like one who might have to hoof it : CARLESS
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Aspire to : DREAMOF
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John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" : MCPHEE
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Brand of oversize Lego bricks : DUPLO
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Veteran's affliction, in brief : PTSD
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Yarn spinner : LIAR
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Does a certain prank on, informally : TPS
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___-to : HOW
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Some M.I.T. grads, in brief : EES
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The last one flew in 10/03 : SST

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

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