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New York Times, Thursday, October 16, 2025

Author:
Kareem Ayas
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
55-Across : Felt tired during the day, say
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Kareem Ayas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Ayas. Thursday freshness: 56% Grid flow: 12.3
Jim Horne notes:
In this case, NEAT means without ICE. Add ICE back in to match the clues. BENTO → BE NICE TO PRY → PRICEY SLR → ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times10/16/25 ( No. 27,736 )
Across
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"___ Talkin' 'bout Love" (Van Halen song) : AINT
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*Treat with kindness : BENICETO
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Noted works of the Roman poet Horace : ODES
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Brute : BOOR
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Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader's sword : OSCAR
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Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps : FOMO
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Unchangeable : SETINSTONE
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Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth" : FAUN
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Hungers for : CRAVES
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Early Germanic people : GOTHS
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Move around the world : ORBIT
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*Expensive : PRICEY
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Lift : HOIST
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Mardi Gras locale, informally : NOLA
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Ovarian sac contents : ROE
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Fuddy-duddies : PRUDES
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"Still ___" (2022 rap hit) : DRE
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Meander : WEND
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High lights? : AURORA
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Practice chiromancy : READPALMS
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Disappear, as a trail : GOCOLD
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"Central Park in the Dark" composer : IVES
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Music box? : AMP
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Diviner : ORACLE
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Jerry's uncle on "Seinfeld" : LEO
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Box a bit : SPAR
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Tonkatsu coating : PANKO
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*Deli device : SLICER
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Bug expert, for short : ITPRO
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Invite at the door : ASKIN
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Extreme pressure : DURESS
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El ___ : PASO
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Felt tired during the day, say : NEEDEDANAP
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Words to a betrayer : ETTU
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"The Philosophy of Right" author : HEGEL
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Like a computer with a running screensaver : IDLE
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How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues : NEAT
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*Risky endeavor, idiomatically : DICEROLL
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Onetime resident of the Winter Palace : TSAR
Down
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Bolt : ABSCOND
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Certain Windows hard drive malfunction : IOERROR
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*Conspicuous : NOTICEABLE
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Stupid stuff it's fun to know : TRIVIA
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Level-ending foe : BOSS
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Educated guess: Abbr. : EST
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Sgt., e.g. : NCO
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Like lemon curd : TANGY
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Preceder of "Bites" and "Bars" in commercial names : OREO
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*Chance to meet one-on-one with a professor : OFFICEHOURS
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"Copy me" : DOASIDO
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Runner Down Under : EMU
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Certain heir : SON
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Make in the end : NET
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Steady humming sounds : THRUMS
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Locale for catfish or carp : POND
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What allows Neo to disconnect from the Matrix : REDPILL
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Spanish 101 verb : SER
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Whom you might greet with open arms, for short? : TSA
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Novelist Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" : READE
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Prefix with botanist : PALEO
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"Sure … if you say so" : WELLOK
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Enjoys oneself uninhibitedly … or a punny title for this puzzle : ROCKSOUT
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Profess : AVER
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Something Lincoln once led, for short : GOP
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Italian time unit : ORA
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Card game with a winning score of 5,000 points : CANASTA
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*Book addenda : APPENDICES
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Chicken ___ : MARSALA
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Thrive : PROSPER
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Narrow channel : STRAIT
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Derisive look : SNEER
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OB/GYN offering : IUD
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Crisply shown, as on TV : INHD
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Wooded valley : DELL
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Coop : PEN
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Performed amazingly, in slang : ATE
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Id's counterpart : EGO
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The First State: Abbr. : DEL

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

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