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New York Times, Monday, May 11, 2026

Author:
Joel Woodford
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Canapé or deviled egg, for example
TotalDebutLatest
28/28/20255/11/2026
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Joel Woodford

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 37 Missing: none – this is a pangram. Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 2 for Mr. Woodford. Grid flow: 18.9 Monday freshness: 71%
Jim Horne notes:

Oh, dear! Across answers with circles highlight O and kinds of DEER.

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D
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R
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W
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Q
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C
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H
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P
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J
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© 2026, The New York Times5/11/26 ( No. 27,943 )
Across
1
___ Spiegel (German magazine) : DER
4
Animal that ranges around Peru : LLAMA
9
Pointed, as a weapon : AIMED
14
Lumberjack's tool : AXE
15
Cameroon neighbor : GABON
16
Yell "#$%!" : SWEAR
17
Rankings of song popularity used as the music industry standard : BILLBOARDCHARTS
20
Swells up : BLOATS
21
Number in a septet : SEVEN
22
Pb, in chemistry : LEAD
23
Own (up) : FESS
24
Freeze's opposite : THAW
28
Whirling water : EDDY
29
Up to, as a certain time : TIL
30
Take fowl foully : POACH
31
Canapé or deviled egg, for example : HORSDOEUVRE
34
Clears of charges : ACQUITS
38
A million gazillion : UMPTEEN
39
Movie production facilities with controlled acoustics : SOUNDSTAGES
41
Leave stunned : AMAZE
42
Monk's counterpart : NUN
43
Cut of pork or lamb : CHOP
47
Spa service on the toes, in brief : PEDI
48
"Please, no more!" : STOP
50
"That is so funny" : HAHA
51
Braid : PLAIT
53
Helping for someone very, very hungry : THIRDS
55
Insignificant amount : DROPINTHEBUCKET
59
Tired from overexposure : JADED
60
"It was the ___ I could do" : LEAST
61
Big part of an elephant : EAR
62
Storage places for lawn mowers : SHEDS
63
Go kaboom, as a volcano : ERUPT
64
Deadpan : DRY
Down
1
Practice casually, with "in" : DABBLE
2
Kicked out, as from a country : EXILED
3
Fill with more ammunition : RELOAD
4
Pride letters : LGBT
5
Vientiane is its capital : LAOS
6
Lawyers' org. : ABA
7
Tasty little bites : MORSELS
8
Peruvian mountains : ANDES
9
Tennis star Arthur : ASHE
10
"Don't involve me anymore" : IWANTOUT
11
French for "sea" : MER
12
Gobble down : EAT
13
Medical pros: Abbr. : DRS
18
Noblewoman : LADY
19
Rival of Walgreens : CVS
23
Winning a blue ribbon : FIRST
25
Possess : HAVE
26
Unit initially conceived as the amount of land that can be plowed in a day : ACRE
27
"___ in doubt ..." : WHEN
29
Pre-K enrollees : TOTS
30
Enlivens, with "up" : PEPS
31
___-and-seek : HIDE
32
Unearthed : DUGUP
33
Rain clouds, to some : OMEN
34
Rapper ___ Rocky : ASAP
35
"___ as you are" : COME
36
College courtyard : QUAD
37
Opened, as a fly : UNZIPPED
40
Request from someone craving more : ANOTHER
43
Fashionable : CHIC
44
Listened, poetically : HARKED
45
"Goodness me!" ... or a phonetic hint to 17-, 31-, 39- and 55-Across : OHDEAR
46
Croissant, éclair or Danish : PASTRY
48
The "S" of S.F. : SAN
49
Mr., Ms. or Mrs. : TITLE
52
Tube tops? : LIDS
53
Recipe amt. : TBSP
54
Jabba the ___ ("Star Wars" villain) : HUTT
55
Party pros playing tunes : DJS
56
"Go team!" : RAH
57
Poem of praise : ODE
58
Contents of l'océan : EAU

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

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