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New York Times, Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Author:
Daniel Britt
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
5-Down : Gentlemen's club, colloquially
TotalDebut
17/15/2025
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.70212%
Daniel Britt

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Britt. Tuesday freshness: 23%
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© 2025, The New York Times7/15/25 ( No. 27,643 )
Across
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Neighbor of Vt. and N.H. : MASS
5
Canceled, as a mission : NOGO
9
Debt to equity, for example : RATIO
14
Longer of the two lower arm bones : ULNA
15
Word with monetary or military : UNIT
16
Option on a popular car service : UBERX
17
Porn : SMUT
18
"Designing Women" co-star of 1980s-'90s TV : DELTABURKE
20
Japanese theatrical genre : KABUKI
22
The new oil, it's said : DATA
23
Yahoo alternative : MSN
24
Snorkeling site : REEF
26
Nonspecific cash quantities : WADS
28
Player of the middle son on TV's "The Partridge Family" : DANNYBONADUCE
33
Egg cells : OVA
34
Dress in Delhi : SARI
35
Readies, as a fishing line : BAITS
38
Blowout game, in sports headlines : ROMP
40
Auto-___, setting for many subscription services : RENEW
43
American city in the Sonoran Desert : MESA
44
Work on with the hands, as dough or tired muscles : KNEAD
46
First corner square after Go on a Monopoly board : JAIL
48
Author Fleming : IAN
49
"E.T." actress : DREWBARRYMORE
53
One of the life sciences: Abbr. : ECOL
54
Dry, as the Sonoran Desert : SERE
55
Dr. whose "lab" is a studio : DRE
58
Bad way to run : AMOK
60
First basic cable show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series : MADMEN
64
Singer who starred in "Labyrinth" (1986) and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976) : DAVIDBOWIE
67
Shakespearean conspirator : IAGO
68
Nimble : AGILE
69
Rips in a review : PANS
70
"Later!" : CIAO
71
Carolers' celebrations : YULES
72
Sound of either weariness or relief : SIGH
73
One place to find 18-, 28-, 49- and 64-Across ... or, parsed differently, how these people might introduce themselves : IMDB
Down
1
Cologne scent : MUSK
2
Heroine of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke" : ALMA
3
Give the cold shoulder : SNUB
4
What NASA's Cassini probe orbited for 13 years : SATURN
5
Gentlemen's club, colloquially : NUDIEBAR
6
Point value of 68% of Scrabble tiles : ONE
7
Coat with a thin auric layer : GILD
8
Capital city on the banks of the Rideau River : OTTAWA
9
Nonsense syllables one might say in a tub : RUBADUB
10
___ Dhabi : ABU
11
Contract clause : TERM
12
Ticks off : IRKS
13
Yoked team : OXEN
19
Slightly : ATAD
21
Ivories, on a piano : KEYS
25
Cry from a klutzy golfer : FORE
27
Grift : SCAM
28
Socially awkward sort : DORK
29
Stratford-on-___ : AVON
30
Christened : NAMED
31
Stealthy assassin with a sword : NINJA
32
Farmyard refrain in a children's song : EIEIO
36
Ruler opposed by the Bolsheviks : TSAR
37
Levelheaded : SANE
39
Remove the skin from : PARE
41
Notable features of elves and basset hounds : EARS
42
Latticed metal used in construction and fencing : WIREMESH
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Divisions in some history books : DECADES
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Constellation resembling a musical instrument : LYRA
50
Development center? : WOMB
51
Arcing baseball hits : BLOOPS
52
House of ___ (old Italian banking family) : MEDICI
55
June 6 remembrance : DDAY
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Competitor of Rao's : RAGU
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Diabolical : EVIL
59
Title river in an Oscar-winning movie : KWAI
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Severely injure : MAIM
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Antiquated "OMG!" : EGAD
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Modern greenhorn : NOOB
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___ de la Cité : ILE
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Verb suffix : ING

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