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New York Times, Saturday, March 22, 2025

Author:
Katie Hoody
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
It's not as random as it seems
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Katie Hoody

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {FJQX} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Hoody. Saturday freshness: 7%
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© 2025, The New York Times3/22/25 ( No. 27,528 )
Across
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Style of Duchamp's so-called "readymades" : DADA
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Overlook? : GAWK
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Voted for : CHOSE
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___ blue (original team color of the Chelsea Football Club) : ETON
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Royal adversary : TWIN
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Accident reminders : DENTS
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It's not as random as it seems : CONTROLLEDCHAOS
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Elevated, as a ballet movement : ONTOE
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Long-lived being in Buddhist cosmology : DEVA
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Dish sometimes served with lomi-lomi salmon : POI
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Telepathic connections : MINDMELDS
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Ashanti Anderson's "___ to Black Skin" : ODE
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Surrealist painter Carrington : LEONORA
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Set units : REPS
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Modern initialism for Black dialect : AAVE
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On the topic of : ADDRESSING
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"Colors" rapper (1988) : ICET
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[Here we go again] : GROAN
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Classic Langston Hughes poem quoted on a wall of the National Museum of African American History and Culture : ITOO
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"Enough!" : THATDOESIT
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Like the Muddy Waters album "At Newport 1960" : LIVE
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Excellent, average or bad, depending on the context : MEAN
44
Ornate water heater : SAMOVAR
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The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. : KSU
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Massive hockey arena in St. Petersburg, Russia : ICEPALACE
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PC discourse? : IMS
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Pop : SODA
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Company that owns Words With Friends : ZYNGA
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Plot device in some suspense thrillers : TICKINGTIMEBOMB
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English actress Bamber : ELLIE
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Cream alternative : ECRU
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Angled for attention?: Abbr. : ITAL
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Collection in an herbarium, say : SEEDS
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This is unreal! : SHAM
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Bird whose diet includes berries that grow on lava : NENE
Down
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Style influenced by Cubism, informally : DECO
2
Volumes : ATON
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"Stay still!" : DONTMOVEAMUSCLE
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___ of Bourbon, grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots : ANTOINETTE
5
Car seen in the opening scene of "Dazed and Confused" : GTO
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Shoemaker's tool : AWL
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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" poet : WILDE
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Show obeisance, in a way : KNEEL
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They protect some software purchases : CDCASES
10
Snicker bit : HEH
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Prelude to good news : ONAPOSITIVENOTE
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Rose : STOOD
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Australian actress Davis : ESSIE
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The Aces of Triple-A baseball : RENO
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Early Netflix offering : DVDRENTAL
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Annual Atlanta gathering of sci-fi/gaming fans : DRAGONCON
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One of la familia : MADRE
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Bébé's breakfast : LAIT
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Per : EACH
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The "magic" in some mushrooms : PSILOCYBIN
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Configurations of locks : DOS
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Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev : RAISA
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Cosmic explosion : NOVA
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Concert ending? : GOER
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Links in a certain chain : DAISIES
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Way-out fun? : MAZE
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They come with strings attached : KITES
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Cry before a shot : SMILE
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Pentagon quintet : EDGES
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Fix (up) : PATCH
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2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover : GMAN
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Up to something? : ABLE
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You might sit for one : KID
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Certain plan for the future, in brief : IRA
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Close-lipped : MUM

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