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New York Times, Friday, April 10, 2026

Author:
Erica Hsiung Wojcik
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Phrase said indignantly before a citation
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Erica Hsiung Wojcik

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JWXZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 9 for Ms. Wojcik. Grid flow: 64.6 Friday freshness: 30%
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© 2026, The New York Times4/10/26 ( No. 27,912 )
Across
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Phrase said indignantly before a citation : ANDIQUOTE
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Place with flasks and alcohol : LAB
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Nested birds? : TURDUCKEN
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"___ Atardecer," Bad Bunny song whose name means "Another Sunset" : OTRO
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"Argh! What is happening?" : AMILOSINGMYMIND
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Philosopher Descartes : RENE
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Worried : FEARED
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French word in the middle of a name : NEE
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Annoy : IRK
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The flying fox is a type of one : BAT
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Site with a monument that gets around 7 million ticketed visitors a year : AGRA
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Totally down (for) : SOIN
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Topical application : BALM
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Like the glass in many a Dale Chihuly sculpture : FUSED
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Win-win : NOLOSE
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California's San ___ Island : MIGUEL
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Drift off : DIGRESS
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Beatles song with the lyric "I tried to telephone / They said you were not home / That's a lie" : NOREPLY
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Privileged groups : ELITES
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Hot spot : DESERT
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Unacceptable : NOTOK
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Remove, as from a cluttered container, with "out" : FISH
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Title derived from the Persian for "king" : SHAH
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Anora's husband in "Anora" : IVAN
44
Sat ___ (GPS, to Brits) : NAV
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History unit : ERA
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One that's hard to catch : EEL
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Church congresses : SYNODS
50
Foe of Wonder Woman : ARES
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Cold shoulder, so to speak : SILENTTREATMENT
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___ bar : TIKI
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Get used to it : ACCLIMATE
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Backup for a trapeze artist : NET
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Popular antibiotic ointment : NEOSPORIN
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Pop-punk band named after a video game company, with "The" : ATARIS
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Once, e.g. : NUMERO
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Fully appreciating something : DRINKINGITALLIN
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Wait for a passenger, perhaps : IDLE
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Status ___ : QUO
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Bay Area sch. : UCSF
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"___ From Muskogee" (Merle Haggard song) : OKIE
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Within the realm of reason : TENABLE
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"Storage unit" of memory in the brain : ENGRAM
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W.N.B.A. star Jewell ___ : LOYD
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C-store offering : ATM
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Comes in last : BRINGSUPTHEREAR
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Like the original Looney Tunes shorts, lengthwise : ONEREEL
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Linked up with : MET
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Like assassins and some sins : DEADLY
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Helical tools : AUGERS
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Actor Edward of "A Complete Unknown" : NORTON
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Big cheese : BOSS
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Nincompoop : ASS
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Awesome, in slang : FIRE
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Key ingredient in Bridget's blue soup, in "Bridget Jones's Diary" : LEEK
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Dance wildly, in a way : MOSH
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Ixnays : DENIES
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"Yas queen!" : ILOVEIT
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Legend of Zelda console inits. : NES
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Split decision? : DIVORCE
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Chinese gambling game invented during the Northern and Southern dynasties : FANTAN
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"That's true about me, right?" : ARENTI
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Expedite : HASTEN
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Big Apple media inits. : NYT
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Mini-tantrum : SNIT
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Empire State Building's style, informally : DECO
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Pizza shop in "Do the Right Thing" : SALS
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Snowballs, sometimes : AMMO
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Squeeze (out) : EKE
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Q follower : TIP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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