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New York Times, Friday, July 25, 2025

Author:
Fritz Juhnke
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
19-Across : Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla
TotalDebut
17/25/2025
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Fritz Juhnke

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQXZ} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Juhnke. Friday freshness: 49%
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© 2025, The New York Times7/25/25 ( No. 27,653 )
Across
1
Whack to the head, in slang : DOPESLAP
9
Noted doomsday prepper : NOAH
13
Prognosticator's shout : ICALLEDIT
15
Game played on a grass or dirt court : BOCCE
16
Occasion to brush up together? : STUDYDATE
17
Weird Al Yankovic's "Straight ___ Lynwood" : OUTTA
18
Attention magnet, say : CELEB
19
Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla : REGNANT
21
Deal with The Devil? : TAROT
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TV program with its time of day in its name : LATESHOW
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Brit's "bog" : LOO
25
Global auction house : EBAY
26
Gain competitor : ERA
27
How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future : DAYTODAY
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Org. that may allow religious headwear in pictures : DMV
31
Planted oneself : SAT
32
Harmless growth : SKINTAG
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Issa of "Insecure" : RAE
36
Spanish diminutive suffix : ITO
37
Reduced demand for refrigerated trucking, in a way : ATELOCAL
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Illicit decampment : LAM
40
1968 live folk album : ARLO
42
When repeated, something often said to be "deep" : DOO
43
Sheer quantity of awesome : EPICNESS
45
Slacks off : IDLES
48
"Your request is denied" : NOCANDO
49
Shrub with a "staghorn" variety : SUMAC
51
Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings" : TIARA
52
Flash point? : AHAMOMENT
56
Heavenly figure, in German : ENGEL
57
One that can put a meal on ice : POLARBEAR
58
Brood : STEW
59
Abstain ... as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle : TEETOTAL
Down
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Region of a plane bounded by a circle, in geometry : DISC
2
Scorpion's legs, e.g. : OCTET
3
Abdul with the #1 albums "Forever Your Girl" and "Spellbound" : PAULA
4
Getting on : ELDERLY
5
Shifty type : SLYBOOTS
6
Was up : LED
7
Pioneering mathematician Lovelace : ADA
8
Center of a drupe : PIT
9
Meat and potatoes, e.g. : NOUNS
10
D8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g. : OCTAHEDRA
11
"Don't attract attention to yourself" : ACTNORMAL
12
When squirrels may thermoregulate by splooting : HEATWAVE
14
Extra-large storage unit : TERABYTE
15
Solving Wordle in five guesses, colloquially : BOGEY
20
H, to the Hellenes : ETA
22
Stole : TOOK
23
Rough digs : LEANTOS
27
One of many in a trend line : DATAPOINT
28
Period satirized in "Dr. Strangelove" : ATOMICAGE
29
Antibacterial product introduced in 1948 : DIALSOAP
31
"Sometimes" has two of them : SILENTES
33
German-based supermarket with about 2,500 stores in the U.S. : ALDI
34
Friendly, respectful person : GOODSORT
38
1970s "howcatchem" TV series : COLUMBO
40
Log : ANNAL
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First color that babies can see, after black and white : RED
44
Eponym of the A.L. batting title award : CAREW
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Become acquainted virtually : EMEET
47
World capital next to the Sarawat Mountains : SANAA
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One of three keys to a PC reboot : CTRL
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Sizzling : HOT
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It's off limits if you 59-Across : ALE
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West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" : MAE

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