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New York Times, Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Author:
Adam Vincent
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Alternative to a blur or pixelation
TotalDebutLatest
612/15/20204/30/2025
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.621436%
Adam Vincent

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 43 Missing: {QVXYZ} Grid has mirror symmetry. This is puzzle # 6 for Mr. Vincent. Wednesday freshness: 75%
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© 2025, The New York Times4/30/25 ( No. 27,567 )
Across
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Leafy vegetable with a lot of vitamin K : KALE
5
Co. whose camera broadcast the first live video from space : RCA
8
Lard and tallow, for two : FATS
12
Where pandas are native : ASIA
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100% : ALL
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Evidence of a leak : DRIP
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A reason to act this very instant … or why you might 6-Down 32-Down? : THETIMEISRIPE
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Like a 1,000-piece monochromatic jigsaw puzzle : HARD
19
Least expensive way to fly : COACH
20
Spun some records, informally : DJED
22
Actress de Armas : ANA
23
Hamiltons : TENNERS
25
Hubbub : ADO
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Chance to see the big game? : SAFARI
28
Marvel supervillain : ULTRON
30
Alternative to a blur or pixelation : CENSORBAR
34
Pawn : HOCK
36
El Paso-to-Oklahoma City dir. : ENE
37
Spat : TIFF
40
Broad valleys : DALES
41
Anderson who directed "Fantastic Mr. Fox" : WES
42
Word after fruit or word : SALAD
44
Comes to a close : ENDS
45
"Saturday Night Fever" music genre : DISCO
47
Obama-era policy whose last three letters spell a different Obama-era law : DACA
48
Some printable files : PDFS
49
Rack up : INCUR
50
Nurse a grudge, say : STEW
51
Form of much of the dialogue of 2021's "CODA," in brief : ASL
52
Pirates' support group? : PEGLEGS
54
Inbox abbr. : FWD
55
Ways of the world : ROADS
57
Model's pride, informally : BOD
58
10 out of 10 : IDEAL
60
Gets under control : TAMES
61
Prefix with tourism : ECO
62
Silly ones : GEESE
63
Caveman's covering : PELT
64
Heart test, for short : EKG
65
Meat-and-potatoes diner dish : HASH
Down
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Blade sheathed in a saya : KATANA
2
___ Ghani, former Afghan president : ASHRAF
3
Prevaricated : LIED
4
Chow down on : EAT
5
___ Novarro, Hollywood sex symbol of the 1920s : RAMON
6
With 32-Down, beat an opponent soundly : CLEAN
7
Wonderland interloper : ALICE
8
First prez to appoint a woman to the cabinet : FDR
9
Like the environment in many reptile terrariums : ARID
10
Item next to a piano in a piano bar : TIPJAR
11
Certain form-fitting swimsuit : SPEEDO
16
Trap by freezing : ICEIN
17
Apt anagram for "brush" : SHRUB
18
Possesses : HAS
21
Put on, as a costume : DON
23
Arduous walks : TREKS
24
Bedframe boards : SLATS
27
It's granted by a security clearance : ACCESS
29
Three-note chords : TRIADS
31
Stitchers' gathering : SEWINGBEE
32
See 6-Down : ONESCLOCK
33
Sheltie from a shelter, e.g. : RESCUEDOG
34
Bottleful that might 6-/32-Down? : HANDSOAP
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Love of the past : OLDFLAME
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Fixed costs : FLATFEES
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Bottleful that might 6-Down/32-Down? : FACEWASH
40
Head out : DEPART
43
Lollygag : DAWDLE
45
One of two in Monopoly : DIE
46
Assn. : ORG
52
"Hey, I've got a secret to tell you" : PSST
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[Ah, woe is me!] : SIGH
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Neighbor of N.J. : DEL
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"Breaking Bad" investigatory grp. : DEA

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

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