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New York Times, Friday, October 10, 2025

Author:
Colin Adams
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
39-Across : Colonial homes?
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Colin Adams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQWXY} This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Adams. Friday freshness: 74%
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© 2025, The New York Times10/10/25 ( No. 27,730 )
Across
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Viking of cartoon fame : HAGAR
6
Claustrophobe's desire : OPENSPACE
15
Best-selling singer whose album titles are all Arabic numerals : ADELE
16
Cosmetic injection : LIPFILLER
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Charge : RUNAT
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Key ingredients in cong you bing, a savory Chinese pancake : SCALLIONS
19
Cry after a reappearing act : PEEKABOO
21
Christopher Nolan movie with a palindromic name : TENET
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Hard-to-miss shot : TAPIN
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It's pitched : TENT
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Took : SEIZED
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Someone who spends a lot of time baking? : BEACHBUM
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The emperor and his subjects in Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove" : INCAS
31
Barrage with insults, in online lingo : FLAME
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Sch. that's home to Mike the Tiger (and his 15,000-square-foot habitat) : LSU
33
Mirthless : GRIM
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We're booked! : ROOMS
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The Yankees and the Red Sox, e.g. : FOES
36
12 pgs., maybe : MOS
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Tempo between lento and adagio : LARGO
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Ecological community : BIOME
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Colonial homes? : ANTFARMS
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Packs of zombies : HORDES
42
Preceding periods : EVES
43
Verbally threw tomatoes at : BOOED
44
Star : CELEB
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The Beatles' "The End" has one at the beginning : DRUMSOLO
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Where all of your knowledge might be wasted? : BARTRIVIA
51
Excessive enthusiasm : MANIA
52
Bit of a fast-food side order : ONIONRING
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Blunt recap of a disappointing match : ILOST
54
Was totally awesome : KICKEDASS
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Longtime alternative to Altoids : CERTS
Down
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Instrument in the emblem of Ireland : HARP
2
Together, musically : ADUE
3
Expert on inheritance : GENETICIST
4
Magician's cry : ALAKAZAM
5
Treats again, in a way, as a sprain : RETAPES
6
Kaitlin of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" : OLSON
7
One-trillionth: Prefix : PICO
8
A.Q.I. measurer : EPA
9
Eagles and Ravens : NFLTEAMS
10
Hush : SILENCE
11
Base for a bust : PLINTH
12
Source of relief : ALOE
13
One out of a hundred? : CENT
14
Locales for some residents, in brief : ERS
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Offered : BID
23
Sentiment during el día de San Valentín : TEAMO
24
Greek letter that refers to a lone wolf, in Gen-Z slang : SIGMA
25
Company whose stock price cratered in the early 2000s : ENRON
26
Not-so-private diaries : BLOGS
27
A+ giver? : BLOODDONOR
28
Volunteer's suggestion : USEME
29
Nonet of Greek mythology : MUSES
31
Creates : FORMS
34
One-of-a-kind individual : RAREBIRD
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Something you might have while trying to move quickly : FIRESALE
37
Actress/activist Cox : LAVERNE
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Part of a film studio's overhead? : BOOMMIC
40
Was no longer under the weather : FELTOK
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The Rockets, on a scoreboard : HOU
43
Shares a big fish story, say : BRAGS
44
"Pretty please?" : CANI
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Rams legend Dickerson : ERIC
46
Rackets : DINS
47
One might be ticked off : LIST
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Common parfait toppings : OATS
49
___ choy : BOK
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By : VIA

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