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Off Broadway Musicals

New York Times, Sunday, December 28, 2025

Author:
Alex Eaton-Salners
Editor:
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© 2025, The New York Times12/28/25 ( No. 27,809 )
Across
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Poet with a 1982 posthumous Pulitzer : PLATH
6
S.L.R. insert since the early 2000s : SDCARD
12
Baths in Bath : LAVS
16
Comedian Notaro : TIG
19
Host Tyler of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" : AISHA
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One sporting an article of apparel : WEARER
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Sign in a theater : EXIT
22
Droll : WRY
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Rock of Ages : ROSETTASTONE
25
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying : NEPOTISM
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Prop for a proposal : KNEE
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College credit hours : UNITS
29
Far from fore : AFT
31
Starting section : PARTA
32
Fab Four drummer : STARR
34
"I can handle that for you" : LETME
36
Swallow something hook, line and sinker : EATITUP
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Subject of some modern maps : GENOME
41
Boots out : EJECTS
43
Ending with Butler or Bard : EDU
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A Class Act : FIELDTRIP
47
A Strange Loop : MOBIUSSTRIP
50
Played a part : ACTED
51
Baldwin of "30 Rock" : ALEC
53
Ran in the rain, perhaps : BLED
54
Brig pair : MASTS
55
New Mexico skiing locale : TAOS
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Full legislative assembly : PLENUM
58
Personification of darkness, in Greek myth : EREBUS
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Shapiro of public radio : ARI
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Buds : PALS
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Chips go-with : SALSA
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Straight up : ERECT
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A Little Night Music : LULLABY
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Rent : SPLIT
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A Chorus Line : REFRAIN
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Creatures formed from the fingers of the sea goddess Sedna, in Inuit myth : SEALS
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Personal histories : PASTS
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Automatons, informally : BOTS
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Cell letters : RNA
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"___ down the hatches!" : BATTEN
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Nursery rhyme couple : SPRATS
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Cribbage markers : PEGS
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Sine's reciprocal, in trig : COSEC
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Bit of power : WATT
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Japanese noodle : SOBA
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Wave to, say : GREET
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The Producers : PROLETARIAT
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Into the Woods : OUTDOORSY
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___ Lingus : AER
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Intertwine : ENLACE
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Halloween haul : TREATS
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In tears : SOBBING
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Eschew the high road, say : GOLOW
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___ Dame : NOTRE
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Repeatedly hit hard : POUND
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Dollop : GOB
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Pop group : COLAS
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Sitar great Shankar : RAVI
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The Wiz : EINSTEIN
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Mean Girls : AVERAGEJANES
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Chess pieces : MEN
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Bombeck who wrote "At Wit's End" : ERMA
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File often installed with computer programs : README
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Do penance : ATONE
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Apply : USE
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Hurdle for a J.D.-to-be : LSAT
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Became aware of : SENSED
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"Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker : YENTE
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Playground area, often : PARK
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Fearsome felines : LIONS
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Plus : ASSET
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"One of These Nights" band : THEEAGLES
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Makeshift tip collector : HAT
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Epitome of graceful beauty : SWAN
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Arnaz of "I Love Lucy" : DESI
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Certain stock holder : CATTLEPEN
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Came about : AROSE
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Kylo ___ of "Star Wars" : REN
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Gig of a lifetime : DREAMJOB
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Advanced : LENT
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Guitar, slangily : AXE
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Front-of-the-line credential : VIPPASS
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Cousin of a mink : STOAT
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Cheep trills? : TWITTERS
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Dodger's comeuppance : IRSAUDIT
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Indoor recess locale : GYM
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Super-excited, in slang : TURNT
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One "T" of TNT : TRI
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Least hale : FEEBLEST
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Foxx of 1970s TV : REDD
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Judge pro ___ : TEM
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Piano pupil's practice piece : ETUDE
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Short boxers, e.g. : PUPS
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How some medicines are taken : ORALLY
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Apt name for a distance runner? : MILES
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Oldsmobile Cutlass model : CIERA
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Like 45-Down's flaw : FATAL
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Mythical figure undone by hubris : ICARUS
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Prima ballerina : ETOILE
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Uses an alternate account to play against easier opponents, in gamer-speak : SMURFS
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Police weapon : TASER
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Transition points : CUSPS
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Blue Ribbon brand : PABST
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Ice cream parlor offerings : MALTS
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Borscht base : BEETS
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Classic theater name : PALACE
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Struggles with sibilant sounds : LISPS
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Law, but not order : CAREER
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Hints : TINGES
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Word with record or union : LABEL
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World capital near the Andean foothills : SANTIAGO
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Give a twist : ROTATE
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Downright mean : NASTY
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Bit of wisdom : PEARL
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Founder of the Mughal Empire : BABUR
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String-plucking sound : TWANG
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Sources in etymology : ROOTWORDS
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Prone : PROSTRATE
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Some summers, in brief : CPAS
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Black-and-white desserts : OREOPIES
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Université with a Pierre and Marie Curie campus : SORBONNE
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Shell filling stations : TACOBARS
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Basic programming command : GOTO
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Chicken pieces : TENDERS
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Part of AT&T: Abbr. : TEL
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Ballet or bourrée, in Bourgogne : DANSE
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Do a diner job : BUS
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Gathering of moles : INTEL
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Setting for Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" : OCEAN
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Continued interminably : RANON
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Discus throw at the Olympics, e.g. : EVENT
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Buzzing nuisance : GNAT
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Glitzy fabric : LAME
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Like some cheese : AGED
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"Gotcha" : ISEE
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Blue-necked bird : EMU
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"___ Believer" : IMA
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Flock formation : VEE
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Blue-winged bird : JAY

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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