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New York Times, Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Author:
Stella Zawistowski
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
51-Down : Back talk
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Stella Zawistowski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 24 for Ms. Zawistowski. Grid flow: 28.1 Tuesday freshness: 57%
Jim Horne notes:

Endearing theme. Summer love, alfalfa honey, media darling, and Beanie Baby are all solid phrases, sweetheart.

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© 2025, The New York Times10/14/25 ( No. 27,734 )
Across
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Awards for athletic achievements : ESPYS
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Drove like mad : TORE
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Outer arm muscles, for short : TRIS
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Talent seeker : SCOUT
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Follow instructions : OBEY
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Help for a stumped solver : HINT
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"In what season are the Olympics during leap years, sweetie?" "___" : SUMMERLOVE
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Home of the Taj Mahal : AGRA
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President Lincoln, informally : ABE
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Carnival attractions : RIDES
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Multiple-choice option akin to "None of the above" : OTHER
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Heavily edit with beauty filters, as a photo, in modern lingo : YASSIFY
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Fares and fees : COSTS
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"Which 'Little Rascals' character has a cowlick, sugar?" "___" : ALFALFAHONEY
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Head-turning spectacle : SCENE
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Puts out in public : AIRS
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Pitcher's stat, for short : ERA
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These are visible when you sport an updo : EARS
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"Got it" : NOTED
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Say if you're attending, in brief : RSVP
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Bird that can outrun the fastest human sprinters : EMU
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Stories passed down by word of mouth : LORE
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Makes more manageable : EASES
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"What are oils and watercolors examples of, dear?" "___" : MEDIADARLING
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Watermelon leftovers : RINDS
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"In all probability ..." : ODDSARE
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Skewered dish served with peanut sauce : SATAY
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Symbol of poison, often : SKULL
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What happy tails do : WAG
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Without warranty : ASIS
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"What do you call a close-fitting hat, doll?" "___" : BEANIEBABY
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Mule or moccasin : SHOE
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Cobra's tooth : FANG
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Order from the doc's office : SCRIP
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Keep up to date across multiple devices : SYNC
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Run away : FLEE
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Something a bloodhound picks up : SCENT
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Bit of writing from Joan Didion : ESSAY
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___ diver : SCUBA
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Apples, pears and quinces, botanically : POMES
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"Dee-lish!" : YUM
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Bacteria-free : STERILE
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"Should've listened to me!" : TOLDYA
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Instrument similar to a heckelphone : OBOE
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Makes go "Vroom!" : REVS
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Appreciation for design : EYE
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"Oh, really?" : THATSO
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Moral justification : RIGHTNESS
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Waiting to be used : INRESERVE
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One of seven in the Big Dipper : STAR
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Jazz lick : RIFF
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___ and aahs : OOHS
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Comic ___ (font) : SANS
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Indicator of a penalty, in soccer : CARD
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Casual farewell : LATER
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"A pox on thee!" : FIE
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Keeps talking and talking and talking : YAPS
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Come off as : SEEM
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Avoiding the limelight, say : CAMERASHY
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Quality of a scholar : ERUDITION
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Award nominations, so to speak : NODS
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Pop singer Rita : ORA
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Poverty, symbolically : RAGS
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Noble title on TV's "Bridgerton" : LADY
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Having no boundaries : ENDLESS
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"I'll be right there" : INASEC
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Room to relax in : LOUNGE
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Savory South Asian rice cake : IDLI
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Cognizant : AWARE
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Yitzhak ___, two-time Israeli P.M. : RABIN
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Country whose national soccer team is nicknamed the Pharaohs : EGYPT
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Back talk : SASS
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Circus clapper : SEAL
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"Citizen ___" : KANE
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Someone you're super-tight with, in brief : BFF
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Secretly loop in, in a way : BCC

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