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New York Times, Thursday, April 10, 2025

Author:
Adam Wagner
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Shoveling?
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
234/20/20214/10/20255
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7151900
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
281.6315759%
Adam Wagner

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Wagner. Thursday freshness: 45%
Jim Horne notes:

Cute theme.

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© 2025, The New York Times4/10/25 ( No. 27,547 )
Across
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Bub : MAC
4
Rapper with back-to-back triple-platinum albums in 2000 and 2001 : JARULE
10
Meas. that becomes a third of its size if its second letter is removed : TBSP
14
Hundredths of a Swedish krona : ORE
15
It might drip onto an urban sidewalk, informally : ACUNIT
16
What a spooked horse might do : REAR
17
"To ___ is human, but it feels divine": Mae West : ERR
18
Shoveling? : GENTLENUDGE
20
Show-stopping device : TIVO
22
Godmother in Guatemala, perhaps : TIA
23
Space for venting? : ATTIC
24
Martini? : VENDINGMACHINE
28
Ancient speakers of Nahuatl : AZTEC
29
Tie score ender : ALL
30
Steamed : MAD
31
Country known as the "Land of a Million Elephants" : LAOS
32
Ear piece : STUD
34
Farm mother : EWE
35
Bandito? : PINKYRING
39
Letters aptly missing from "d_ _a_ state" : REM
42
Like many an atrium : AIRY
43
Button often pressed moments before noticing a typo : SEND
46
Mound stat : ERA
47
Limo passenger, perhaps : VIP
48
Following : AFTER
49
Sublet? : FINGERSANDWICH
53
Reversal : UTURN
54
Fair-hiring inits. since 1964 : EEO
55
Some victories, for short : TKOS
57
Rockette? : GRAINOFSAND
61
Parisian boulevard : RUE
62
Ursula's lackeys in "The Little Mermaid" : EELS
63
Cry of joy : HOORAY
64
"What's the ___?" : USE
65
Jet stream direction : EAST
66
"My bad!" : OOPSIE
67
___ E. King, "Stand by Me" singer : BEN
Down
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___ Hennessy Louis Vuitton, French luxury goods holding company : MOET
2
What a car service might await : ARRIVAL
3
Corona o Dos Equis : CERVEZA
4
Jacksonville N.F.L. player, familiarly : JAG
5
Vinegary : ACETIC
6
Testy chance encounter : RUNIN
7
Remove some metadata from, on social media : UNTAG
8
Diminutive, diminutively : LIL
9
Bastille Day season : ETE
10
Gospel : TRUTH
11
It might be pushed back by "just one more story" : BEDTIME
12
Michigan city in Simon & Garfunkel's "America" : SAGINAW
13
Opposite of follow : PRECEDE
19
It dissolves in H2O : NACL
21
Good way to come out : ONTOP
25
Member of the South Asian diaspora : DESI
26
Tabloid talk show host Povich : MAURY
27
International grocery chain founded in Germany : ALDI
32
Moves in a left-left-right-right footstep pattern : SKIPS
33
Norse god of war : TYR
36
Brand that rhymes with what it helps remove : NAIR
37
Internet equivalent of an R rating : NSFW
38
"Understand?" : GETIT
39
Asylum seeker : REFUGEE
40
Country whose name comes from the Latin phrase for "Red Sea" : ERITREA
41
Cars with clutches : MANUALS
44
Act of pleasant stress relief : NECKRUB
45
Titular solver of many a medical mystery in 2000s TV : DRHOUSE
47
___ diagram : VENN
48
Hebrew for "My Lord" : ADONAI
50
Grain milled into flour : GRIST
51
Fabled storyteller : AESOP
52
Gets "warmer" : NEARS
56
In view : SEEN
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"Well, well, well!" : OHO
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Rock's ___ Fighters : FOO
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New do hue? : DYE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle.

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