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Arranged Marriages

New York Times, Sunday, July 27, 2025

Author:
John Kugelman
Editor:
Will Shortz
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John Kugelman

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Rows: 21, Columns: 22 Words: 141, Blocks: 72 Missing: {JQYZ} Spans: 5 This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Kugelman. Grid flow: 52.4 Sunday freshness: 30%
Will Shortz notes:
John Kugelman, of Gainesville, Va., is a software engineer specializing in cybersecurity. This is his 13th crossword for The Times. It has five carefully chosen, elegantly clued theme answers ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times7/27/25 ( No. 27,655 )
Across
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Maintains, as a superstition : CLINGSTO
9
Subject of the 2017 musical film "The Greatest Showman" : BARNUM
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"Same with me" : ASAMI
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Not funny : HUMORLESS
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Ralph Ellison novel about a nameless protagonist's journey in racist America : INVISIBLEMAN
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Forgiving middle-aged dads for their dad jokes, say? : EXONERATINGGENERATIONX
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Picket line? : FENCE
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Bud in Cooperstown : SELIG
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Dorm room staple food : RAMEN
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Cross-country conveyances : SKIS
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Darth Vader's childhood nickname : ANI
32
Inflexible : RIGID
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Have away with words? : EDIT
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Muppet of Mexican descent : ROSITA
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Knows just when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, maybe : CHEATS
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Gives lip : SASSES
47
Attire for Larry Page and Sergey Brin when visiting Google incognito? : TECHNOCRATSTRENCHCOATS
51
Columbus sch. : OSU
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Carnage : GORE
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Down Easter : MAINER
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One with a set of pipes : ORGAN
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Come out of one's shell : MOLT
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Sherlock's sister on TV : ENOLA
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___ bag : SWAG
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Much-maligned 2019 movie about which one review said "It's 'Battlefield Earth' with whiskers" : CATS
63
One of classical music's Three B's : BRAHMS
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Landscaper's supply : MULCH
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Tundra or taiga : BIOME
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"You think that hunk of junk'll pass inspection? Please!"? : STREETLEGALLETSGETREAL
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Trademarked refrigerant : FREON
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Uncle Sam's land, informally : USOFA
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Lithe : SVELTE
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+/- : ORSO
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Drink mixed in mixed drinks : SODA
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Handy : UTILE
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Avatar of Vishnu : RAMA
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Back in, in a way : RETRO
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Try to hit in laser tag : FIREAT
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Older sister of Rachel, in Genesis : LEAH
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Basic BASIC statements : IFS
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Real chess playa? : CHECKMATINGCHICKMAGNET
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Contemporary of Gauss and Faraday : AMPERE
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James who played Scotty on "Star Trek" : DOOHAN
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"No ___, Bob" : SIRREE
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Part of une pièce de théâtre : ACTE
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Plunderers of Rome : GAULS
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Hindu honorific : SRI
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Clock toggle : AMPM
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Hollowed out, as an apple : CORED
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Hogwarts's "Half-Blood Prince" : SNAPE
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Burnt pigment : UMBER
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Greeting from a famous Italian character to a famous Italian American actress? : MARISATOMEIITSAMEMARIO
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DC power player in the late 1800s? : THOMASEDISON
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Good thing to play in a trick-taking game : TRUMPCARD
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Magical symbol : SIGIL
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Dispensing, with "out" : METING
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Art lovers : ESTHETES
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One always cooking up new ideas? : CHEF
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Ritzy : LUXE
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"That's my cue" : IMON
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___ compensation (stock options, for instance) : NONCASH
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Revegetation, e.g. : GREENING
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Canon option, in brief : SLR
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They may be Thai or chai : TEAS
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Cuisinart competitor : OSTER
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Noted rapper with an oxymoronic name : BIGGIESMALLS
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Director Lee : ANG
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Traveler in no need of hotels, for short : RVER
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Columbian caravel : NINA
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"I'm your guy" : USEME
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Bogged down : MIRED
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___-right (political category) : ALT
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Twice tres : SEIS
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Out of control : AMOK
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Nail salon request, familiarly : MANI
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1980s band among Australia's all-time best-selling groups : INXS
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Quartz compound : SILICA
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Cast out : BANISH
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When doubled, "Sleep well" : NIGHT
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Langston Hughes poem that begins "___, sing America" : ITOO
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Word with mine or dump : DATA
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___ the Town (punny fast-food restaurant name) : TACO
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Vacation package offerer, perhaps : RESORT
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Visionary? : OCULAR
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Lot unit : ACRE
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Prefix with angular : TRI
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D.C. 100: Abbr. : SENS
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Mickey Mouse's boss in "Fantasia" : SORCERER
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Whale of a tale : SAGA
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Géorgie, par exemple : ETAT
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Identity thief's acquisitions, in brief : SSNS
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The pyramids, essentially : TOMBS
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Stimpy's TV pal : REN
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Rookies : NEWBS
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Bond's man? : CRAIG
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Skill taught to Luke Skywalker : THEFORCE
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Texter's gasp : OMG
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Feast with kalua pig : LUAU
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Skedaddles : GOES
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___ de Glace (glacier in the French Alps) : MER
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Fr. holy women : STES
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Desperate pursuit of fame, in modern lingo : CLOUTCHASING
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Weight : HEFT
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Channel that popularized video jockeys : MTV
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Shower scrubber : LOOFA
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Split : ENDIT
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Mai ___ : TAI
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TV friend of Jerry, George and Kramer : ELAINE
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Money for your money : ATMFEE
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Slightest : LEAST
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Black-and-white hunter : ORCA
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Longtime NPR host Diane : REHM
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Part of a flight : STEP
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Bone-dry : ARID
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Business entity inits. : LLC
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Shrill cries : EEKS
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Slimy veggie : OKRA
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Brian who co-founded the Long Now Foundation : ENO
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In awe : AGOG
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Chums, in Chamonix : AMIS
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"Bah, humbug!" : HARRUMPH
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Nashville and New Orleans, for musicians : MECCAS
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Stomping ground : HAUNT
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Bringing up the rear : INLAST
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[Yuck!] : GRIMACE
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Sacred object : TOTEM
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Lose ground? : ERODE
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Slash on a scoresheet : SPARE
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Qtys. : AMTS
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When repeated, a tropical fish : MAHI
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___ rock (genre for Pink Floyd and Dream Theater, familiarly) : PROG
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Apt name for a narcissist? : MIMI
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Release : EMIT
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He loved Lucy : DESI
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Nesting pair in the Outback : EMUS
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Army ___ : BRAT
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The Emerald Isle : EIRE
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Photosensitive cells : RODS
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Seasoning for una margarita : SAL
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Bit of plasma : ION
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One whose uniform bears the Star of Life, for short : EMT

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