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New York Times, Monday, November 24, 2025

Author:
Zhou Zhang
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Comfortably well-off
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Zhou Zhang

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 Missing: {FJQZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Zhang. Grid flow: 34.1 Monday freshness: 38%
Zhou Zhang notes:
Funny story about this puzzle… I submitted this to the Times back in the days of the old Zendesk submission system, ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times11/24/25 ( No. 27,775 )
Across
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Pop music's Lady ___ : GAGA
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Kid : CHILD
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Sandwich shop : DELI
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Nerve fiber : AXON
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Product of a grapevine? : RUMOR
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Company bigwig : EXEC
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Opposite of surplus : DEBT
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Kind of acid that is the building block for a protein : AMINO
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Something you click that starts "http" : LINK
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Comfortably well-off : SITTINGPRETTY
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Dashboard reading, for short : RPM
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Top color in a rainbow : RED
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Pecan or pistachio : NUT
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Rub out : ERASE
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What you might drive while your car is in the shop : LOANER
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Cereal with "marbits" and a leprechaun mascot : LUCKYCHARMS
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Above, poetically : OER
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Like pen smudges : INKY
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Wall for an outdoor maze : HEDGE
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Italian volcano : ETNA
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A white one is a wardrobe staple : TEE
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Toy that comes out of a spray can : SILLYSTRING
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Horse with a spotted coat : DAPPLE
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What The Week puts out once a week : ISSUE
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Result of putting two and two together : SUM
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Off-roader, in brief : ATV
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What Bart Simpson sometimes calls Lisa : SIS
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Fowl play? ... or words that can follow the starts of 20-, 32- and 42-Across : DUCKDUCKGOOSE
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Universal building block : ATOM
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"Nuh-uh!" : NOWAY
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Enclose in fancy paper, say : WRAP
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Root vegetable used for poi : TARO
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Playing card better known as a jack : KNAVE
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Classroom helper : AIDE
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[I'm standing right here!] : AHEM
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Went downhill or cross-country, say : SKIED
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Cat call : MEOW
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Gallivant, with "about" : GAD
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Tool for Paul Bunyan : AXE
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Flabbergasted : GOBSMACKED
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Not pro : ANTI
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Dog-napping spot? : CRATE
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Muggy : HUMID
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"Let's do it!" : IMIN
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Yearn (for) : LONG
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Casually talk about one's connections to celebrities : DROPNAMES
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Backspace, maybe : DELETE
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On a plane, keep in mind that the nearest one might be behind you : EXIT
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Given for a time : LENT
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Gross : ICKY
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Three-point hoops shot : TREY
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Trains for a marathon, e.g. : RUNS
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Ignited again : RELIT
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It's plum dried out! : PRUNE
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"The Brain — is wider than the ___" (Emily Dickinson poem) : SKY
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Stew server : LADLE
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Bacchanalian party : ORGY
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Cooking appliance with a rotating spit : ROTISSERIE
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Alvin and his backup singers : CHIPMUNKS
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Dante divided it into nine circles : HELL
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Ho-hum feeling : ENNUI
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Reacts with violent anger : RAGES
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Triage sites, for short : ERS
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Tater : SPUD
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DVR pioneer : TIVO
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Dad's noncommittal response to a kid's request : ASKMOM
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Desert plant with many uses : AGAVE
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Played (with) : TOYED
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What some tech companies mine : DATA
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Home of Canyonlands National Park : UTAH
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Planks strengthen it : CORE
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Fall asleep, with "out" : CONK
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"The Bridge on the River ___" : KWAI
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Did some laps : SWAM
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Hoopla : ADO
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Place to pray : PEW

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