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New York Times, Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Author:
Adrianne Baik
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Child's living room hideaway
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Adrianne Baik

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Baik. Grid flow: 27.6 Tuesday freshness: 66%
Jim Horne notes:

GO HAM, meaning go all out, was popularized by the 2011 Kanye West and Jay-Z song H•A•M. (NSFW)

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© 2025, The New York Times10/28/25 ( No. 27,748 )
Across
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Six years, for a U.S. senator : TERM
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Portable speaker? : SIRI
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Is behind : OWES
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___ jelly, popular boba tea topping : ALOE
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Beginning : ONSET
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Orbit, e.g. : PATH
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Little guys in striped coats : ZEBRACOLTS
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What a booth in a recording studio shouldn't have : ECHO
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Build-your-own breakfast spot : OMELETBAR
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Tattoo artist : INKER
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$$$ set aside for old age : IRA
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Child's living room hideaway : SOFAFORT
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Leftover piece : REMNANT
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Santa ___, Calif. : ANA
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___ Max, singer with the 2018 hit "Sweet but Psycho" : AVA
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Vessel with a spout : TEAPOT
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Hook or Cook: Abbr. : CAPT
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Alternative cut to a bob : PIXIE
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Comedian Margaret : CHO
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Style of a room : DECOR
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Word before chance or pickings : SLIM
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Plea before an impulsive act : STOPME
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Singer Grande, to fans : ARI
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Plop yourself down : SIT
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Melodramatic crying : SOBBING
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Beverage containers for people on the move : TOGOCUPS
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A/C measure : BTU
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Adam of "The O.C." : BRODY
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Reason why : RATIONALE
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Eight, in Spain : OCHO
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Personal treasure chest ... or what each of the five groups of shaded letters illustrates? : JEWELRYBOX
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Tandoori-baked bread : NAAN
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Businesswoman Lauder : ESTEE
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German-based international supermarket chain : ALDI
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"Twilight" vampire Cullen : ESME
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General ___ shrimp : TSOS
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Russian denial : NYET
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Tea brand once owned by Starbucks : TAZO
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Kind of sch. for grades one to six : ELEM
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Bit of spa attire : ROBE
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Magician of Arthurian legend : MERLIN
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Sort who's too good for everyone else : SNOB
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Cuba y Puerto Rico : ISLAS
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Fashionably old-fashioned : RETRO
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"___ a date!" : ITS
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Like some sandwiches : OPENFACE
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Super-silly sort : WACKO
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Thin air : ETHER
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Brief : SHORT
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It may be in the low 90s : OCTANE
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Make fizzy : AERATE
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McKellen who played Gandalf : IAN
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The 2% in 2% milk : FAT
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Performs like Playboi Carti, say : RAPS
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The dark side : EVIL
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Longer than midi : MAXI
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Diplomat's skill : TACT
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Vietnamese soup : PHO
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"That was clumsy of me!" : OOPS
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Smoothie "superfruit" : ACAI
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NSFW stuff : PORN
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Calc prerequisite : TRIG
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"Get me out of here!" : IMSODONE
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Person who's in the red : DEBTOR
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Good name for a chef? : STU
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Hanging over a baby's crib : MOBILE
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Very cold and wet : ICY
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John who wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress" : BUNYAN
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Certain steak : TBONE
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Deep-sea predators : ORCAS
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Give extreme effort, in slang : GOHAM
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"Any ___ is good ___" (public relations saying) : PRESS
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Managed : SAWTO
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Informal shirts : TEES
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With dexterity : ABLY
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Ore deposit : LODE
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Opposite of entrance : EXIT
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Hot tub nozzle : JET

Answer summary:
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