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New York Times, Saturday, April 11, 2026

Author:
Kareem Ayas
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Rued remark?
TotalDebutLatest
1012/27/20234/11/2026
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2103301
RebusCircleScrabDebutFlowFresh
231.566720.046%
Kareem Ayas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Ayas. Grid flow: 25.8 Saturday freshness: 10%
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© 2026, The New York Times4/11/26 ( No. 27,913 )
Across
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"How telling" : THATSAYSALOT
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Rued remark? : WHATHAVEIDONE
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Question to one who's down : WHYTHELONGFACE
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There's a Black, White and Red one : SEA
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"Such a blast!" : SOFUN
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Buff bros : HEMEN
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Maintained, as a position : HELD
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Part of E.S.T.: Abbr. : STD
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Downed : ATE
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They have sticking points in competition : EPEES
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Some gaming centers, in brief : PCS
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"Darn it!" : MAN
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Arboreal symbol in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" : POPLARTREE
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Fulfill ... or fill : SATE
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Give a very wide berth : AVOIDATALLCOSTS
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Heading in a wine list : REDS
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A significant accomplishment : NOMEANFEAT
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House and Howser: Abbr. : DRS
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___-eared : LOP
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Figures in a speed trap? : NARCS
40
Something most people have memorized : PIN
41
Iowa college : COE
44
Writer of "Esmé" and "The Open Window" : SAKI
45
Not a good way to run? : AFOUL
48
Old Syrian political party whose name means "resurrection" : BAATH
50
X : TEN
51
Flip remark? : CALLITINTHEAIR
54
"Saturday Night Live" features that aren't live : DIGITALSHORTS
55
Term for an ambiguously worded news headline : CRASHBLOSSOM
Down
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Your of yore : THY
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They're tipped out of respect : HATS
3
Alexandre Dumas's Count de la Fère : ATHOS
4
It's a steal! : THEFT
5
Spanish blessing : SALUD
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Big publisher of romance novels : AVON
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Hunger : YEN
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Aiming mechanisms on bows : SIGHTS
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Plug amount : ADFEE
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Moldable soil : LOAM
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At some time : ONCE
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___ idol : TEEN
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Groups studied by cetologists : WHALEPODS
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Become inconsolable about : WEEPOVER
15
"True West" playwright Sam : SHEPARD
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Providers of chops and chips : DELIS
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Line running roughly parallel to Interstate 95 : ACELA
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Disconsolate : SAD
24
"The King of Football" : PELE
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Cars with a trident logo : MASERATIS
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Person playing forward : ATTACKER
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Calls home, as a bird might : NESTSIN
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Gabbed, gabbed, gabbed : RANON
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Car roof with removable panels : TTOP
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Farm male : RAM
32
Remote locations : SOFAS
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TV channel that has received a Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech : CNN
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Adam's first wife, in Jewish myth : LILITH
40
Hungarian sheepdogs : PULIS
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Schoolyard retort : CANSO
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Vows you may stand for : OATHS
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Spirit of an era : ETHOS
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Down Under band with 10 multiplatinum albums : ACDC
46
All right : FAIR
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___ Tokarczuk, 2018 Literature Nobelist : OLGA
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Unwanted bit of mail : BILL
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"Show me a ___ and I'll write you a tragedy": F. Scott Fitzgerald : HERO
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Something you owe : TAB
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Producer of notes : ATM

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

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