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New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 2025

Author:
Blake Slonecker
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
52-Across : Colorful knit top with Scottish origins
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Blake Slonecker

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 25 Missing: {JQVXYZ} Spans: 8, (4 double stacks) Grid has supersymmetry. This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Slonecker. Saturday freshness: 23%
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© 2025, The New York Times6/7/25 ( No. 27,605 )
Across
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Collect : AMASS
6
Shortening for bakers : TSP
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Triangular bones that fuse in adulthood : SACRA
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Assembles : GATHERSTOGETHER
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"You didn't fool me" : IKNEWITALLALONG
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___-Assyrian Empire, once the world's strongest military power : NEO
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Annoyance in the middle of a season, perhaps : SPOILER
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Top suit : CEO
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Generational disconnects : GAPS
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First Muppet to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 : ERNIE
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Takes the field? : MOWS
25
Package filler, often : FOAM
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Yahoo rival : MSN
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Leaves aside? : PILE
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Spiral-shelled mollusks : TRITONS
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Spanish city that's home to the Alhambra : GRANADA
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Declining late in life : SENILE
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Beef cut in Santa Maria-style barbecue : TRITIP
36
Likely lobby locale in D.C. : KSTREET
38
Restaurant option that lacks options : SETMENU
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Makes haste : HIES
40
In-network grp. : HMO
42
Channel : DUCT
43
Phisher's collection, for short : SSNS
44
Doozy : BEAUT
46
What one of the letters in the luxury conglomerate LVMH stands for : MOET
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Baseball's "Master Melvin" : OTT
49
Corruption below deck, perhaps : WOODROT
51
___-ace (queer identity) : ARO
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Colorful knit top with Scottish origins : FAIRISLESWEATER
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Board game variant used as a last-resort tiebreaker : ARMAGEDDONCHESS
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Fumes : STEWS
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Are, in Spanish : SON
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Couldn't not : HADTO
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Natural process we all go through : AGING
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Leave everything behind : MAKEAFRESHSTART
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Never ever : ATNOPOINTINTIME
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___Believes Cup, annual women's soccer tournament : SHE
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Finalizes, with "up" : SEWS
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Some concerning forecasts, in weather-speak : TSTORMS
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Coffee rings, e.g. : STAINS
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Campaign activity : POLLING
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Directive in many a stovetop recipe : SEAR
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N.L. East rival of NYM : ATL
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Like Junior Mints and Raisinets : CHOCOLATECOATED
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What a retrospective aims to produce : RENEWEDINTEREST
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One side in ancient Greece's Battle of the 300 Champions : ARGOS
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Mature : RIPE
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"Euphoria" synonym that, like "Euphoria," is also the name of a hit TV show : GLEE
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Sendups : SATIRES
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"Bare" bottom? : MINIMUM
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Infiltrators of a sort : MOLES
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Medicare component : PARTD
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Oft-repeated bit of onomatopoeia : TSK
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Once named : NEE
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Pike, for instance: Abbr. : RTE
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Longtime animated TV character who hasn't had a speaking role since 2017 : APU
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One's parents, in modern slang : THEOLDS
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Stops digging : SOURSON
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Got by : MADEDO
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Change seats? : SOFAS
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"Better sound through research" brand : BOSE
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Gown go-with : TOWN
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Core location : TORSO
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Freaks (out) : WIGS
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Lighting, sound production, etc. : TECH
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Unprocessed : RAW
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___ moment : AHA

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

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