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New York Times, Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Author:
Joe Deeney
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Dentist, colloquially
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Joe Deeney

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {GQX} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 24 for Mr. Deeney. Grid flow: 39.4 Tuesday freshness: 98%
Jim Horne notes:
A LIST of four two-word entries starting TO___ and DO___. If you know a little about music, you probably guessed G-MAJOR for "Key ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times11/18/25 ( No. 27,769 )
Across
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First female musical artist to have a simultaneous #1 film and #1 album, familiarly : JLO
4
Rebound, as a pool shot : BANK
8
Requirement for domestic air travel starting in 2025 : REALID
14
Body part that might "pop" : EAR
15
Words of understanding : ISEE
16
___ State, nickname for New York : EMPIRE
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Soften, as a message : TONEDOWN
19
Kitchen strainers : SIEVES
20
"Don't go!" : STAY
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Appear gradually from the black, as a film image : FADEIN
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Industrialist Lilly : ELI
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Native led by Montezuma : AZTEC
26
A very high price, so to speak : TOPDOLLAR
28
Cereal variety from Switzerland : MUESLI
30
Lead female character : HEROINE
31
Summer temp, say : INTERN
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River's bottom : BED
35
Dentist, colloquially : TOOTHDOCTOR
38
Actress Long of "Boyz N the Hood" : NIA
39
Gets back together : REUNES
40
Shipped without prepaid postage, for short : SENTCOD
42
Much of Mauritania and Mali : SAHARA
47
Japanese stadium that has hosted M.L.B. and N.F.L. games : TOKYODOME
50
Martian explorer : ROVER
51
Last number in a countdown : ONE
52
Surgical stitch : SUTURE
54
Used a loom : WOVE
55
Related to spiritual cause and effect : KARMIC
57
Collection of tasks … or what 17-, 26-, 35- and 47-Across comprise? : TODOLIST
59
Timeless, to a poet : ETERNE
60
Small vortex : EDDY
61
"Thanks, Captain Obvious!" : DUH
62
Best-of-seven games, say : SERIES
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Make airtight : SEAL
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Fancy hotel amenity : SPA
Down
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Material that's been deliberately thrown overboard : JETSAM
2
Philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching" : LAOTZU
3
Fancy and elaborate : ORNATE
4
Auction action : BID
5
Since : ASOF
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Just getting started with : NEWAT
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Martial art with bamboo swords : KENDO
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Places to live : RESIDENCES
9
Key with one sharp : EMINOR
10
Subject of much Jane Goodall research : APE
11
More alert and energetic : LIVELIER
12
Limerick's locale : IRELAND
13
Fancy : DESIRE
18
They wink and blink : EYES
22
Filmmaker Nora : EPHRON
25
Advertising award : CLIO
27
Southwestern wolf : LOBO
29
Presents : INTRODUCES
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Punctual people are said to arrive on this : THEDOT
33
End of an academic address : EDU
35
One fiddling around in a workshop : TINKERER
36
Like granola bars, typically : OATY
37
Onetime leader in St. Petersburg : TSAR
38
Newborn child : NEONATE
40
Excites : STOKES
41
Trigonometry ratio : COSINE
43
Coyote's cry : HOWL
44
Steers clear of : AVOIDS
45
Excites : REVSUP
46
First name of the Queen of Soul : ARETHA
48
Quiets on Zoom : MUTES
49
Wear away : ERODE
53
Classic Icelandic saga : EDDA
56
Scanner whose field strength is measured in teslas, for short : MRI
58
Toondom's Olive : OYL

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

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