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New York Times, Thursday, November 13, 2025

Author:
Kyle Perkins
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
23-Across : "Uh-uh"
TotalDebut
111/13/2025
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Kyle Perkins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 35 Missing: {QX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Perkins. Grid flow: 24.4 Thursday freshness: 68%
Jim Horne notes:

Four Across entries loop around the gray squares. Answers below the grid have been untangled.

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© 2025, The New York Times11/13/25 ( No. 27,764 )
Across
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Palm Sunday remnant used on the first Wednesday of Lent : ASH
4
Milky Way maker … or Milky Way object : MARS
8
Cereal option : MUESLI
14
Word with brain … or body? : PEA
15
Company behind National Pancake Day : IHOP
16
"You can't be serious!" : OHCMON
17
La ___, Bolivia : PAZ
18
Practices on the court : SHOOTSSOMEHOOPS
20
Hose fillers : LEGS
22
"___-high by the Fourth of July" (corn farmer's adage) : KNEE
23
"Uh-uh" : NOPE
24
Isolated : SILOED
26
Deep cut : GASH
28
November honoree, informally : VET
29
Shows exasperation, in a way : ROLLSONESEYES
31
Two-cent pieces? : OPEDS
33
Burden : ONUS
34
Mega Man console, informally : NES
35
Comedian Costello : LOU
36
Pollen producer on a flower : STAMEN
38
Time off, perhaps? : JETLAG
41
Where someone might keep a tab on you? : PUB
42
Make it : TAG
43
Those in charge: Abbr. : LDRS
45
Assail : BESET
48
Bewilder : THROWFORALOOP
50
One serving a queen, perhaps : ANT
51
Spicy cuisine : THAI
53
Little squirt : SHORTY
54
Certain bra spec : DCUP
56
Sound from Peppa of kids' TV : OINK
58
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
59
Props for one's performance : ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE
62
Nonhuman source of spam : BOT
64
Like a premium plan for an account user, maybe : ADFREE
65
The Israelites' golden calf, e.g. : IDOL
66
Neckwear that can't be laundered : LEI
67
Annoy : PESTER
68
Takes from : ROBS
69
Subject discussed in — and also hidden in the name of — the 2019 documentary "Third Eye Spies" : ESP
Down
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Maps or Notes, e.g. : APP
2
They're known for their bark : SEALIONS
3
Flavor of Frangelico liqueur : HAZELNUT
4
Whiffs, say : MISSES
5
Spa sound : AHH
6
Cheat, informally : ROOK
7
Mooches : SPONGES
8
He smashed his tablets in anger : MOSES
9
Speech fillers : UHS
10
Nobel Prize category, for short : ECON
11
Actor J.B. of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" : SMOOVE
12
Cut (off) : LOPPED
13
Map miniatures : INSETS
19
Things caddies carry : TEAS
21
Freaks out : GOESAPE
24
Sign of a packed house : SRO
25
Brightest star in Cygnus : DENEB
27
Eerie forest sound : HOOT
30
Kyoto cash : YEN
32
Root on : PULLFOR
35
Some unpleasant things to step on with bare feet : LEGOS
37
Many a rescue dog : MUTT
38
Shock : JAR
39
So cute : ADORABLE
40
Caves : GROTTOES
42
What something a magician holds might disappear into : THINAIR
44
One with secrets : SPY
45
Undeserved reputation, informally : BADRAP
46
Make hard to read, in a way : ENCODE
47
Packs : STUFFS
48
Common serving of lobster : TAIL
49
What this puzzle's sets of shaded squares resemble : WHEELS
52
Optimist : HOPER
55
Word aptly filling the blanks of this verb: SE_ _ _A_E : PART
57
Bit of praise, humorously : KUDO
60
English letter that looks like the Greek rho : PEE
61
Cry, cry, cry : SOB
63
Start to fall, say : TIP

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

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