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New York Times, Friday, June 6, 2025

Author:
Adrian Johnson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
16-Across : Average guy
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Adrian Johnson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QXZ} This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. Johnson. Friday freshness: 81%
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© 2025, The New York Times6/6/25 ( No. 27,604 )
Across
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Novelist Patchett : ANN
4
Adviser to an acting president? : DRAMACOACH
14
Mouthful for the foulmouthed : SOAP
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Average guy : REGULARJOE
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One of two ingredients used to make chapati : ATTA
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"You know your voices carry, right?!" : IVEGOTEARS
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Neutralize, so to speak : DOIN
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Milestone for a baby : FIRSTWORDS
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Formally selects : ANOINTS
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Dance specialty : TAP
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Keep from being touched, in a way : ENCASE
25
Seek out : SOLICIT
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Runaway hit : SMASH
30
Meme of the star of "John Wick" looking downcast : SADKEANU
31
Row crosser: Abbr. : COL
32
___ Núñez de Balboa, Isthmus of Panama explorer : VASCO
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Means of taking a trip : LSD
35
Cultural draw of Shanghai's M50 district : ARTSCENE
38
Prove otherwise : BELIE
40
Some Halloween mischief : DEVILRY
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Not very animated : STOLID
43
Culture center? : LAB
44
Point guard's crafty maneuver : HOPSTEP
46
Flavor enhancer in many pho recipes : BONEMARROW
51
"And ... done!" : TADA
52
Split without warning : UPANDLEAVE
53
One may be picked up in the gym : ODOR
54
Support when building bridges : CANTILEVER
55
Litter pickup area? : NAPE
56
Overly warm welcome, maybe : SLOPPYKISS
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"You can count on me" : YES
Down
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Adjective on taco truck menus : ASADA
2
"That's my absolute limit!" : NOTONEMORE
3
Big game medium : NATIONALTV
4
Snow fence accumulations : DRIFTS
5
Perfect writing? : REVISE
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New ___ : AGER
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Tavern vessels : MUGS
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Mountains of work ahead : ALOTTODO
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A model way to work? : CATWALK
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Dessert with a black-and-white filling : OREOPIE
11
Mostly closed : AJAR
12
Part of a hammock : CORD
13
BP rival : HESS
15
Fails to keep cool : PANICS
22
"Hmm ... hard pass" : NAH
25
Source of a cephalopod's defensive ink : SAC
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Punch out, say : CALLITADAY
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Privileged figures, perhaps? : INSIDEDOPE
28
Sass, informally : TUDE
29
Bucketful : SCAD
30
Sioux Falls-to-Sioux City dir. : SSE
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How many consent : VERBALLY
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"Whichever one you want" : ANY
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Cupboard component : SILENTP
37
Seafood cookout bowlful : CLAMDIP
38
Charles Mingus specialty : BOP
39
___ Howard, Yankee who was the 1963 A.L. M.V.P. : ELSTON
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Propels, like a shuffleboard disk : SHOVES
42
Lookout positions : TOWERS
45
Cuts (down) : PARES
46
2003 and 2021 Super Bowl champs, informally : BUCS
47
Milky resource found in the outback : OPAL
48
Onetime iPod offering : NANO
49
Be very funky : REEK
50
Noted name in raga performance : RAVI

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

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