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New York Times, Saturday, October 11, 2025

Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Source of great power?
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Sam Ezersky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 71, Blocks: 34 Missing: {GQXZ} This is puzzle # 62 for Mr. Ezersky. Saturday freshness: 88%
Jim Horne notes:
Thirteen debut answer words is a lot. How does Sam do it? Well, going to 16 columns helps. Six of the debuts are 12-letters long. Twelves are ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times10/11/25 ( No. 27,731 )
Across
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Source of great power? : MASTERSWITCH
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Common component of a digital watch, for short : LCD
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It snaps with a tap : IPHONECAMERA
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Symbol for electric flux, in physics : PHI
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One way to grin : FROMEARTOEAR
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What might be smelt? : ROE
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Be just right for : FIT
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Fortune : LOT
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Go to the other side : DEFECT
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Ambitious tactic in bridge : SLAMBID
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Deck deception : FALSECUT
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"My ___!" : STARS
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Food sticker? : TINE
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"___ Deo gloria" (Latin doctrine) : SOLI
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What a camper or criminal hopes to leave : NOTRACE
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Curved plumbing piece : PTRAP
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Car touted for its dual efficiency : DIESELHYBRID
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Serialized and melodramatic, as a show : SOAPY
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Black Death-era Iberian king dubbed "the Ceremonious" : PETERIV
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Initial cost of a sort : ANTE
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Speechwriter's consideration : TONE
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Put on ___ : ANACT
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Meet face to face? : HEADBUTT
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Spending quantities : OUTLAYS
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Like some protective sunglasses, in brief : ANTIUV
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Relaxed sigh : AHH
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"Longest ___ chain," 2019 Guinness feat set by a cancer awareness cause (196,000+ items, 120+ miles) : BRA
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Beam : RAY
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Youngest-ever QB to win multiple N.F.L. M.V.P. awards (by age 27) : LAMARJACKSON
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Music box? : AMP
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What magicians strive to do : BLOWYOURMIND
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Past participle of the French "naître" : NEE
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Under lines? : SUBWAYSYSTEM
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Ticks off : MIFFS
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Taxing times : APRILS
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Targeted, as a target : SHOTAT
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East Egg resident in "The Great Gatsby" : TOM
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Buffalo-to-Rochester dir. : ENE
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They see things for what they are : REALISTS
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Seafood staple of New England : SCROD
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Engineer who supposedly found inspiration while tending to a boiling kettle : WATT
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Shorthand for a stance : IMO
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Top choice? : TEE
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Birthplace, as of civilization : CRADLE
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Big hoppers : HARES
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"Wax" collectible, informally : LPRECORD
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Count out for breakfast? : CHOCULA
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Nutritionist's offering : DIETTIP
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Lollapalooza, for instance : FESTIVAL
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Job done on one's hands and feet? : MANIPEDI
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Like typical frat boys, informally : BROEY
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Johann ___, philosopher who influenced Hegel : FICHTE
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Words on either side of "for" : ANEYE
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"Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong : TALENT
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Move, as a plant : REPOT
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Forensic unit's discovery : PRINT
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String or integer, in computer science : DATATYPE
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Spot to order a witbier or hefeweizen : BRAUHAUS
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Very hot and dry : SAHARAN
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What the singer Prince Rogers Nelson famously went by : ONENAME
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With fewer than 11,000 people, the world's second-least-populous country, after Vatican City : TUVALU
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Chooses traffic over train, perhaps : CABSIT
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Lt. ___ Slothrop, main character in Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" : TYRONE
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Some spring nursery purchases : BULBS
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Sarcastic "That's just great" : OHJOY
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Dominatrix's practice, for short : SANDM
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TV sister of Sansa Stark : ARYA
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___ rule : MOB
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Reaction to something sweet, maybe : AWW
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React to something moving, maybe : CRY
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Formula 1 divisions: Abbr. : KMS

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

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