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New York Times, Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Author:
Adam Wagner
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
4-Down : When and where, in slang
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This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Wagner. Grid flow: 59.5 Wednesday freshness: 67%
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© 2026, The New York Times4/15/26 ( No. 27,917 )
Across
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Playbill groups : CASTS
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"He's very modest — he has a lot to be modest about," e.g. : GIBE
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Like an enthusiast : AVID
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Tokyo-based brewery : ASAHI
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Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments : OBOE
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Snackable seaweed : NORI
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Put all the bold letters in this clue together? : MAKEASTINK
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Aussie greeting : GDAY
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Paper view? : OPED
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One reason to pucker up : KISS
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Its antlers can grow up to an inch per day : ELK
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Cheese tested as cannon ammunition on "MythBusters" (it didn't work) : EDAM
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How two people might walk : ABREAST
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Put all the bold letters in this clue together? : CREATEAMONSTER
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Get into a get-up : CLOTHE
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Mamá's boy : NINO
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Gold, at the Milano Cortina Olympics : ORO
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"Dagnabbit!" : RATS
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Sheriff's backup : POSSE
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Tech review site : CNET
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"I love," in Italian and Spanish : AMO
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Veg out in a spa? : CUKE
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Works out, say : TRAINS
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Put all the bold letters in this clue together? : FORMANALLIANCE
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Russian revolutionary of the early 1900s : TROTSKY
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Longtime Yankee nickname : AROD
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"___ to the West Wind" : ODE
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Isle in Scotland's Inner Hebrides : SKYE
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"It's fun to stay at the ___" (1978 lyric) : YMCA
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Presidential power : VETO
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Put all the bold letters in this clue together? : BUILDABEAR
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Blizzard ingredient : OREO
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English singer Parks : ARLO
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Potato-based Hanukkah serving : LATKE
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Heartfelt, say : WARM
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Cat's cry : MEOW
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Parts of a copse : TREES
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Hunter's attire, informally : CAMO
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"Like, now!" : ASAP
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Drink that's often served hot in the winter : SAKE
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When and where, in slang : THEDEETS
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One-named singer with the 2022 hit "Unstoppable" : SIA
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The moment of truth : GOTIME
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Bird with a long, downward-curving bill : IBIS
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Brest besties : BONSAMIS
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"Holy cannoli!" : EEK
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Geometers' calculations : ANGLES
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Clear cocktail often served with lime : VODKATONIC
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Apt letters missing from ret_ _ement pl_n : IRA
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Like some remodels, for short : DIY
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Genre for Blink-182 and Sum 41 : SKATEPUNK
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Toy inventer Rubik : ERNO
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Bit of Morse code : DAH
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Completely beat : BONETIRED
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Like a glassy lake : SERENE
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Puts on display, with "out" : TROTS
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Tumult : CLAMOR
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Big name in plumbing : ROTOROOTER
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Photographer Adams : ANSEL
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Woodworking or glass blowing : CRAFT
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"All right, I'm convinced" : OKAYSURE
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Milky Way or Mars : CANDYBAR
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Suit, e.g. : CASE
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Indian P.M. of the 1990s : RAO
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Destination for Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings" : MTDOOM
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Tried not to draw attention : LAYLOW
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Letter between Juliet and Lima : KILO
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Dole (out) : METE
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Order for a wedding reception : CAKE
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One of the Twelve Olympians : ARES
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Promise : VOW
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Pitching stat : ERA
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Comic book onomatopoeia : BAM
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Music genre prefix : ALT

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