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New York Times, Friday, November 7, 2025

Author:
Kelly Morenus
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
16-Across : Charge
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Kelly Morenus

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JQWXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Morenus. Grid flow: 56.9 Friday freshness: 35%
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© 2025, The New York Times11/7/25 ( No. 27,758 )
Across
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Pain reliever : HEATINGPAD
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Promote shamelessly : FLOG
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Synthetic upholstery material : ULTRASUEDE
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Charge : LEVY
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Noted feature of Paris's Parc de Bagatelle : ROSEGARDEN
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Hot pair : ITEM
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Bygone office assistant : STENO
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Illustrator of the Tammany tiger : NAST
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Spare things? : PINS
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Milk source : TEAT
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Mesh : GEL
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Word with sweet or blind : SPOT
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Tell : SAYTO
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Dwellings for nomads : YURTS
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Shipping container : MAILER
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Beverage featured in "A Christmas Story" : OVALTINE
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Nostalgic tune : OLDIEBUTAGOODIE
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Domesticated insect entirely dependent on humans for reproduction : SILKMOTH
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The Brady household, including Alice, e.g. : ENNEAD
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Material refined through the Bessemer process : STEEL
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A long, long time : AEONS
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A vacationer might hope to catch them : RAYS
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Muscleman of 1980s TV : MRT
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"Help," e.g. : PLEA
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Victuals, informally : GRUB
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Washington notes : ONES
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Time sheet calculation : HOURS
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Long way to go? : LIMO
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Modern identification method : RETINASCAN
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Obstacles to peace, sometimes : EGOS
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Lying across : TRANSVERSE
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Elephant ___ (pastries) : EARS
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Pursuit after a breakup : SOLOCAREER
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Novelist Fannie who wrote "Imitation of Life" (1933) : HURST
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Mexican street corn : ELOTE
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Bamboozled : ATSEA
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Site of a Counter-Reformation council, 1545-63 : TRENT
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Speaker of the line "… your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs" : IAGO
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Code-breaking grp. : NSA
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It might bring a patient to surgery : GURNEY
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"Step on it!" : PEDALTOTHEMETAL
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Fruity beverages : ADES
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Jobs for body shops : DENTS
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Lose all patience with : FLIPOUTON
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Leave one's winnings on the table for another bet : LETITRIDE
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Tandoor, e.g. : OVEN
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Elliptical areas : GYMS
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"The Mysterious Lady" actress, 1928 : GARBO
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Wire holders : PYLONS
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Decorous : SEEMLY
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Cells that can be vitrified and preserved for future use : OVA
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" actress ___ Miller : TNIA
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Very start, as of an idea : SEED
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Kind of floor covering : MOSS
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Settled down : ALIT
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Bit of wanton gossip : IDLERUMOR
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In an awesome way, slangily : LIKEABOSS
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Professional negotiator : AGENT
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Hagen of Broadway : UTA
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Shakespearean duke : ORSINO
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Arranges : SORTS
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Phony one : POSER
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Riches : LUCRE
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Clear one's name, say? : ERASE
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Seven-time Emmy winner Ed : ASNER
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Jouissance : GLEE
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World capital on both banks of the Daugava River : RIGA
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Focus of the historians Tacitus and Suetonius : NERO
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"___ Nagila" : HAVA
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Pres. advisory grp. : NSC

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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