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New York Times, Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Author:
Boaz Moser
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Across : Input for a fax machine
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Boaz Moser

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXYZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Moser. Tuesday freshness: 91%
Jim Horne notes:
In most songs you hear on the radio in any genre, the CHORUS is the part that repeats multiple times, that carries the main theme of ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times6/3/25 ( No. 27,601 )
Across
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Angry Birds and Snapchat, for two : APPS
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Session at the pool : SWIM
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Cheery goodbyes : TATAS
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Gentle : MEEK
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Goal of some bodybuilding exercises : TONE
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Delete : ERASE
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Place to keep safe during an emergency : PANICROOM
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Tickle : AMUSE
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Input for a fax machine : SHEETOFPAPER
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Hosp. hookups : IVS
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Ref. work with definitions for "colour" and "aluminium" : OED
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Expensive theater boxes : LOGES
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Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans," e.g. : POPART
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Each star on the American flag represents one : STATE
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Layer that a hovercraft floats on : AIRCUSHION
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Sound heard in a stalactite cave : DRIP
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Sings nonsense syllables : SCATS
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Pointy-eared inhabitant of Middle-earth : ELF
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Mexican marinade : ADOBO
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Grp. sending radio signals into space : SETI
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Measure of how much sky is visible : CLOUDCOVER
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Alternatives to essays : ORALS
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"Wow, cool!" : OHNEAT
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Secondary area of study : MINOR
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Modern filmmaking tech, for short : CGI
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Texting format, in brief : SMS
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Easily awakened individual ... whose bed may feature a 20-, 31- and 41-Across? : LIGHTSLEEPER
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Plastic bit on the end of a shoelace : AGLET
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Disappointing awards season outcome for a critically successful movie : OSCARSNUB
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Beach : SHORE
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Villainous hideout : LAIR
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Documentation for a foreign traveler : VISA
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Rose : STOOD
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Smooth as ___ : SILK
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Word with floor or flight : PLAN
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Electric guitar attachment : AMP
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Vegetable often added to fried rice : PEA
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Author : PEN
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Hits the slopes : SKIS
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Mean ___ (rough urban area) : STREETS
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Sought the favor of : WOOED
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How tied games may be settled, informally : INOT
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Office note : MEMO
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It may be left holding the bag : TEAPOT
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Site of an apocalyptic final battle in the Bible : ARMAGEDDON
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Brownish shade : TAUPE
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Stubborn animals : ASSES
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Prognosticator : SEER
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Where most songs use their titular lyrics : CHORUS
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Custardy dessert : FLAN
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"No bid" : IPASS
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Raise, as a concern : VOICE
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Jack who ate no fat : SPRAT
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Zorro, Superman or Indiana Jones : ACTIONHERO
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Grain storehouses : SILOS
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Vegan protein source : TOFU
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"___ if I know!" : HELL
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Wanders : ROVES
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Skyscraper construction piece : IBEAM
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Long Beach, Charleston and Baltimore : PORTS
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More sore : ACHIER
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Pixar film that revived the song "Life Is a Highway" : CARS
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Place for boxers to exercise : DOGPARK
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Decomposed : ROTTED
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Alt-rock band They ___ Be Giants : MIGHT
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Shelter in a chilly landscape : IGLOO
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"The Ten Commandments" director ___ B. DeMille : CECIL
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Lad's counterpart : LASS
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Online chuckles : LOLS
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Actor Morales : ESAI
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Invitation initialism : RSVP
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Zero : NIL
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Country with the most Olympic medals : USA
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Prohibit : BAN

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

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