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New York Times, Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Author:
Jeremy Newton
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Food item placed in Egyptian tombs, as its layers symbolized eternity
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Jeremy Newton

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 39 Missing: {FJQVX} This is puzzle # 31 for Mr. Newton. Grid flow: 12.5 Wednesday freshness: 68%
Jim Horne notes:

Traversing the symmetrically and evenly spaced NOs around the circle, each rotates 90 degrees in the same direction. That's a significant constraint on this grid.

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© 2025, The New York Times11/19/25 ( No. 27,770 )
Across
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Dazzle : AMAZE
6
Unspoken "yes" : NOD
9
Creep into a creek, say : WADE
13
Establishment whose name means "lounge" in French : SALON
14
Gun in an action flick : UZI
15
"We're innocent of wrongdoing" : NOTUS
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Times noted in Captain Kirk's logs : STARDATES
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Foreboding signs : OMENS
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Poet Pound : EZRA
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Topaz and turquoise : GEMS
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Spanish island with a lively club scene : IBIZA
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Holland in Hollywood : TOM
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Some loud dogs … or food critics : YELPERS
25
Fiddle (with) : TOY
26
Fancy spirals in calligraphy : CURLICUES
28
Place to say "I do" : ALTAR
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Does something about it : ACTS
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Crave, with "for" : ACHE
36
Straight-shooting … or a punny title for this puzzle? : NOSPIN
38
Sexually excite … or another punny title for this puzzle? : TURNON
40
Harness for oxen : YOKE
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Kindergarten basics : ABCS
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Watch an entire season in one day, say : BINGE
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Increases in pricing : RATEHIKES
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"Man, I tell ya!" : BOY
52
Set up panels for renewable energy, informally : GOSOLAR
53
Fish for fish sticks : COD
56
Conductor Seiji of the Boston Symphony : OZAWA
58
Three-point shot, in slang : TREY
59
Rice lookalike : ORZO
60
"That makes two of us" : SODOI
61
The Syracuse Mets vis-à-vis the New York Mets : MINORTEAM
63
Food item placed in Egyptian tombs, as its layers symbolized eternity : ONION
64
Earliest drug approved to treat H.I.V. : AZT
65
___ Dame : NOTRE
66
Computer memory units, in brief : MEGS
67
"Right this minute!" : NOW
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Quests for : SEEKS
Down
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It's a good thing : ASSET
2
Flatbread eaten during Passover : MATZO
3
Nap interrupter, maybe : ALARM
4
Author ___ Neale Hurston : ZORA
5
Wrap up : END
6
Chocolaty spread : NUTELLA
7
Antidiabetes drug taken by many for weight loss : OZEMPIC
8
Cut up in a lab, perhaps : DISSECT
9
Something shown in a sonogram : WOMB
10
Fell down hard, in slang : ATEIT
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Finito or kaput : DUNZO
12
Lit class assignment : ESSAY
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Squeak or squeal : NOISE
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Golden ___ (many a retiree) : AGER
23
Space race cosmonaut Gagarin : YURI
24
Fall into disrepair over time : RUST
26
Playful prank : CAPER
27
Some outfits for Bollywood films : SARIS
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"___ news?" : ANY
29
Potty, to Potter : LOO
30
"Naughty, naughty" : TSK
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"Inside Politics" channel : CNN
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Monopolize : HOG
35
Austin-to-Boston dir. : ENE
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Its alphabet starts with Alfa and ends with Zulu : NATO
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Business that's picking up? : UBER
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Toast giver at a wedding, often : BESTMAN
43
Spanish sausage : CHORIZO
44
Intro to writing? : SILENTW
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"Encore!" : AGAIN
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Big hit in the ring : KAYO
49
___ buddy : BOSOM
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Layer wrapping Earth : OZONE
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"Get me?," to beatniks : YADIG
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Center of the ancient Minoan civilization : CRETE
54
Netflix crime drama set in rural Missouri : OZARK
55
Some stadium toppers : DOMES
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Showers with flowers and sweets, say : WOOS
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Great Plains native : OTOE
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I.C.U. staffers : RNS

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

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