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New York Times, Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Author:
Hal Moore
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Station set up in a kitchen
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Hal Moore

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQVZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Moore. Grid flow: 40.5 Tuesday freshness: 58%
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© 2026, The New York Times4/28/26 ( No. 27,930 )
Across
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Sore : ACHY
5
Nail polish brand : OPI
8
Some cantina fare : TACOS
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"Hip hip hooray!," e.g. : CHEER
15
Sink-or-swim competition? : WATERPOLO
17
Handles a few unresolved issues : TIESUPLOOSEENDS
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Like tears : SALINE
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Site to build on : LOT
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Gossip, slangily : TEA
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Build on : ADDTO
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Welcome at the door, say : ASKIN
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Linguist's concern : GRAMMAR
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Serious in manner : STERN
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Bagel topping : LOX
32
Not perfect, but acceptable : CLOSEENOUGH
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Bickering : ATIT
38
Blade that's pulled : OAR
39
Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin : CIAO
40
Station set up in a kitchen : MISEENPLACE
45
Bit of intel : TIP
46
Coins of Cuba : PESOS
47
Ingredients in some tropical smoothies : PAPAYAS
49
Foreign Service assignments : POSTS
50
Madrid mister : SENOR
51
Church seat : PEW
52
Promise to pay : IOU
54
Journalist, informally : SCRIBE
58
Like children, ideally, in an old adage ... or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across : SEENANDNOTHEARD
62
Rigorous : STRINGENT
63
Astronomer Carl : SAGAN
64
Irritable : TESTY
65
[As written] : SIC
66
Civil rights activist Parks : ROSA
Down
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Play parts : ACTS
2
Kind of seed or pet : CHIA
3
Sometimes-raised part of a shoe : HEEL
4
Emphatic confirmation : YESIAM
5
Nocturnal hooter : OWL
6
Painter Veronese : PAOLO
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Langston Hughes poem : ITOO
8
Due + 1 : TRE
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Mimic : APE
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Script supervisor's concern : CONTINUITY
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___ days : OLDEN
12
Slugger Sammy : SOSA
14
"Raising Hell" rap trio : RUNDMC
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Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project) : ESTATE
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Part of a piano or loom : PEDAL
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Boots on the ground : TROOPS
25
Rep.'s counterpart : SEN
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Ray of McDonald's : KROC
27
Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally : GLAM
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Naan alternative : ROTI
29
Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II : AXISPOWERS
30
Mexican wrap : SERAPE
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Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail : SAL
34
Greek goddess of the earth : GAIA
35
Brewing need : HOPS
37
They help you drive farther : TEES
41
Ballpark fig. : EST
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Snooping (around) : NOSING
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"___ thou not minister to a mind diseased ...?": Macbeth : CANST
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Significant periods : EPOCHS
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Overdue debt : ARREAR
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Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney : PEETE
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Islam's largest branch : SUNNI
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Alternative to a tap on the shoulder : PSST
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Works of praise : ODES
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"Othello" villain : IAGO
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Some supports : BRAS
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___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" : EDNA
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Minor complaint : NIT
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Unspecified amount : ANY
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Not Rx : OTC

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

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