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New York Times, Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Author:
Spencer Leach
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Advances from third while the pitcher is distracted, say
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Spencer Leach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38Missing: {JQZ}
Jim Horne notes:

Clever theme.

A Shot in the Dark is an underrated Pink Panther film.

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© 2025, The New York Times10/21/25 ( No. 27,741 )
Across
1
A right one is 90° : ANGLE
6
Hairstyle for Questlove : AFRO
10
___ de plume : NOM
13
Luxury watch brand : ROLEX
14
Half of a classic lunch special : SOUP
15
Donate : GIVE
16
Reward for rolling over, perhaps : TREAT
17
Redwood or cottonwood : TREE
18
Best starting hand in Texas hold 'em : ACES
19
Device for capturing thermal images : INFRAREDCAMERA
22
Little locking brick : LEGO
23
Radical religious groups : CULTS
24
Where you might dance to some underground music? : BASEMENTPARTY
30
Specialty coffee order : LATTE
31
Make a speech : ORATE
32
Buck's mate : DOE
35
Valuable Minecraft blocks : ORES
36
Entertain : AMUSE
37
Postseason college football game : BOWL
38
Fig. on a college transcript : GPA
39
Latin phrase that's often abbreviated : IDEST
40
Big name in briefs : HANES
41
Venue for combatants wearing vests with sensors : LASERTAGARENA
44
Maki or temaki : SUSHI
46
Belgrade resident : SERB
47
Wild guess ... or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take? : ASHOTINTHEDARK
53
Bobber in a lake : BUOY
54
Peeved : SORE
55
Nut-brown hue : ACORN
57
Head-butts : RAMS
58
"Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival : SOUL
59
Cone or sphere : SOLID
60
Pub order : ALE
61
The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?" : ABEL
62
It might be picante : SALSA
Down
1
The "A" of MoMA : ART
2
Seaweed wrap for maki : NORI
3
Secluded valley : GLEN
4
Some info sheets : LEAFLETS
5
Radical : EXTREME
6
One doing stellar work? : ASTRONOMER
7
Golfer's warning : FORE
8
Regretted : RUED
9
Major oil cartel, in brief : OPEC
10
"Bravo!" : NICELYDONE
11
Blatant : OVERT
12
Flat-topped landforms : MESAS
15
Full range : GAMUT
20
Tinder account datum that can't be edited : AGE
21
The Hundred ___ Wood (storybook setting) : ACRE
24
Post to an online journal : BLOG
25
Org. for seniors : AARP
26
Advances from third while the pitcher is distracted, say : STEALSHOME
27
What team-building activities are designed to build : TRUST
28
Noodle that might be stuffed : PASTASHELL
29
Dined : ATE
33
Actor Wilson : OWEN
34
"Frozen" queen : ELSA
36
Suffix with lemon or stock : ADE
37
Slow-cooked taco filling : BARBACOA
39
"___ just me, or ...?" : ISIT
40
Rigorously demanding sort : HARDASS
42
Nautical greetings : AHOYS
43
"Gosh!" : GEE
44
Popular hummus brand : SABRA
45
Run-of-the-mill : USUAL
48
Rae of "Barbie" : ISSA
49
Inexperienced gamer, informally : NOOB
50
Factual : TRUE
51
What "maki" means in Japanese : ROLL
52
Kardashian matriarch : KRIS
56
Contract enforcing secrecy, for short : NDA

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