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New York Times, Monday, October 13, 2025

Author:
Katherine Xiong
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Dorm room meal in a cup
TotalDebut
110/13/2025
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1.63229%
Katherine Xiong

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Xiong. Monday freshness: 76%
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© 2025, The New York Times10/13/25 ( No. 27,733 )
Across
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Image floating above the pyramid on a dollar bill : EYE
4
Now : TODAY
9
Cook's garment : APRON
14
Note after fa : SOL
15
Beamed : SHONE
16
Easily fooled : NAIVE
17
Microwaveable breakfast staple : QUICKOATS
19
Frighten off : DETER
20
Sephora competitor : ULTA
21
Uno + dos + tres : SEIS
23
Give temporarily : LEND
24
Raise up : ELEVATE
27
___-Aid (drink whose mascot is a walking pitcher) : KOOL
29
Dorm room meal in a cup : INSTANTRAMEN
34
Taste, metaphorically : PALATE
37
Emotional state : MOOD
38
Letters before an alias : AKA
39
In ___ (unborn) : UTERO
40
Tree whose name comes phonetically between "tee" and "vee" : YEW
41
Back street : ALLEY
43
The "S" of E.S.T.: Abbr. : STD
44
Bright, as highlighter colors : NEON
46
Open green areas : FIELDS
47
Thick porridge referenced in "Yankee Doodle" : HASTYPUDDING
50
Give off : EMIT
51
Baby announcement, as on some blue balloons : ITSABOY
55
Graceful bird in a pond : SWAN
58
Sci. class in a lab : CHEM
60
Title of a list : TODO
61
Flower in a Chinese pond : LOTUS
63
Fares at McDonald's and KFC … or a literal description of 17-, 29- and 47-Across : FASTFOODS
66
Elephant tusk material : IVORY
67
Normal : USUAL
68
"Whatevs" : MEH
69
Viral internet jokes : MEMES
70
Helpful theorem, in math : LEMMA
71
___ Lanka : SRI
Down
1
Suffix with Kafka or Roman : ESQUE
2
"___ thank me later!" : YOULL
3
Like Stanford and Harvard : ELITE
4
Cluck of disapproval : TSK
5
"Well, looky here!" : OHO
6
Complete one round of reps : DOASET
7
Poker buy-in : ANTE
8
"That's not news to me" : YESIKNOW
9
Furthermore : AND
10
Spanish rice dish : PAELLA
11
Bar mitzvah, e.g. : RITE
12
Chamber under a stovetop : OVEN
13
Bookish type, stereotypically : NERD
18
Eggs that can cost $1,000 per ounce : CAVIAR
22
Explorer Hernando de ___ : SOTO
25
All, for nothing, e.g. : ANTONYM
26
China's Mao ___-tung : TSE
28
Decrees : ORDAINS
30
Revise : AMEND
31
The largest one in the U.S. is in Bloomington, Minn. : MALL
32
Scraped (out) : EKED
33
Opposing votes : NAYS
34
Pull's opposite : PUSH
35
"___ girl!" : ATTA
36
Certain electric bulbs, in brief : LEDS
40
Energetic, perhaps : YOUTHFUL
42
Smoothly, in music : LEGATO
45
More than awesome : EPIC
46
In good physical shape : FIT
48
Assistant professor's goal : TENURE
49
Chinese small plates : DIMSUM
52
Prosperous periods : BOOMS
53
More bizarre : ODDER
54
Nintendo dinosaur : YOSHI
55
Like your chances of winning the lottery : SLIM
56
Made a rug, e.g. : WOVE
57
Molecule bit : ATOM
59
Simplicity : EASE
62
The "S" of GPS: Abbr. : SYS
64
Scottish cap : TAM
65
Miami's home: Abbr. : FLA

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