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New York Times, Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Author:
Nathan Hale
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Across : Some privately held businesses: Abbr.
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Nathan Hale

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 81, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FKQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Hale. Grid flow: 26.6 Wednesday freshness: 82%
Jim Horne notes:

Play ball! Baseball themes are crossword gold. Here's one from 2007.

ALL THE BASES are COVERed by black squares.

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© 2025, The New York Times3/26/25 ( No. 27,532 )
Across
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"Mama" of the Mamas & the Papas : CASS
5
Swallows nervously : GULPS
10
Motown song played at many a wedding : SHOUT
15
"That's hysterical!," online : LMAO
16
Paragon : IDEAL
17
Keats and Yeats : POETS
18
Tiny amount : IOTA
19
"I've done this before" : NOTMYFIRSTRODEO
21
It doesn't pay, they say : CRIME
23
Short retirement? : NAP
24
Lighter giant : BIC
25
Not so sure about a wedding, say : HAVINGSECONDTHOUGHTS
31
She, in São Paulo : ELA
32
N.L. East or A.F.C. West : DIV
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Some privately held businesses: Abbr. : LLCS
35
Pale : WAN
37
Yearned (for) : JONESED
39
You might have one to pick : BONE
40
Take care of everything ... or a hint to what four squares in this puzzle do : COVERALLTHEBASES
45
Hand or foot : UNIT
46
Faces : VISAGES
47
Sleep with : BED
48
Image format, familiarly : JPEG
50
Road repair goo : TAR
51
Alternative to a Stella or Sam Adams : PBR
54
Thoroughly interrogates : GIVESTHETHIRDDEGREE
59
Portfolio holding, for short : IRA
60
Popular R&B group composed of T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli : TLC
62
Kind of pole : TOTEM
63
Rave over, metaphorically : WRITEHOMEABOUT
68
Polo of "Meet the Parents" : TERI
69
Pre-covenant name for a biblical father : ABRAM
70
Up on : HIPTO
71
West African staple crop : YAMS
72
Frivolous : SILLY
73
Prepare, as tea : STEEP
74
Campus site for 30,000+ Iowa students : AMES
Down
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Hackneyed : CLICHE
2
Lacking all scruples : AMORAL
3
Cannabis variety : SATIVA
4
"Likewise" : SOAMI
5
Juniper-flavored spirit : GIN
6
Noodle variety : UDON
7
Set loose on : LETAT
8
Handouts from street preachers : PAMPHLETS
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Like a fox : SLY
10
Portions of parsley : SPRIGS
11
Bootleg booze : HOOCH
12
Ref. work that's been available electronically since 1988 : OED
13
Great Basin tribe : UTE
14
Historic Chinese general : TSO
22
Forested moon in "Return of the Jedi" : ENDOR
24
Tampa Bay N.F.L.er : BUC
26
Actress Rodriguez of "Jane the Virgin" : GINA
28
Timeworn : OLDHAT
29
"Terrible" ages : TWOS
30
Not mad : SANE
33
Fabric that George Costanza said he'd drape himself in if it were socially acceptable : VELVET
36
Pioneering game console, for short : NES
37
747 or A380 : JET
38
Tad : SLIGHTBIT
39
___-relief : BAS
40
Baby bear : CUB
41
Downward force on earth, informally : ONEG
42
"I saw," to Caesar : VIDI
43
"My stars!" : EGAD
44
Headwear for Emily in Paris : BERET
48
British politico Corbyn : JEREMY
49
Ad Council production, in brief : PSA
51
Spin doctors : PRTEAM
52
"I'd like a brewski" : BEERME
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Negligent : REMISS
55
Like some signs : VITAL
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Run away (with) : ELOPE
58
Cry after pranking someone : GOTYA
61
Adorable : CUTE
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"Time ___ ..." : WAS
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Slugger's stat : RBI
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Not online, online : IRL
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Sounds in spas : AHS
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Blouse, e.g. : TOP

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