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New York Times, Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Author:
Philippe Monfiston
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale?
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Philippe Monfiston

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 79, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QX} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Monfiston. Grid flow: 35.3 Wednesday freshness: 76%
Jim Horne notes:

Music puns!

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© 2026, The New York Times4/8/26 ( No. 27,910 )
Across
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"I'm afraid not," quaintly : ALASNO
7
Food brand for Fido : ALPO
11
Like major-city airports, typically: Abbr. : INTL
15
Cash in : REDEEM
16
Avocado dip, informally : GUAC
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Take a risk : DARE
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Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale? : CODASILENCE
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Keenly interested : AVID
21
Shakespearean "soon" : ANON
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That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven's "Moonlight"? : SONATATHING
24
Commotion : DIN
25
Measure of college readiness, for short : PSAT
26
Knuckled rub to the scalp : NOOGIE
27
Publishing house workers: Abbr. : EDS
28
Goal : AIM
29
Wood-shaping hand tool : RASP
31
Tagging symbols : ATS
32
___-Magnon : CRO
33
Vegas opener? : LAS
34
Perry of pop : KATY
36
Opportunity for a choral understudy? : STANZACHANCE
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Belgrade native : SERB
40
"Beats me," in a text : IDK
41
Caviar, essentially : ROE
42
Miss Piggy, for one : SOW
43
Assns. : ORGS
45
Extended comedic riff : BIT
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Hindi for "rule" : RAJ
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Chant heard at the start of "Hot Hot Hot" : OLEOLE
51
Girl in Glasgow : LASS
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Alias initialism : AKA
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When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis? : FORZAMOMENT
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"Groovy, man" : IDIG
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Popular flavor of bubble tea : TARO
58
"What's Opera, Doc?," e.g.? : ARIAKIDDING
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Volunteer's offer : ICAN
61
Hits hard : RAMS
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Respond, as a pupil might : DILATE
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Ending with kitchen : ETTE
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Painter Paul : KLEE
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Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4 : EMINOR
Down
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Covered passageway : ARCADE
2
Meteor in a November shower : LEONID
3
Enhancing accessories : ADDONS
4
Actor Astin of the "Lord of the Rings" films : SEAN
5
Original Super Mario Bros. console : NES
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Oversight : OMISSION
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Author's representative : AGENT
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Moon over Managua : LUNA
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Treaty : PACT
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What Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are both believed to have : OCEANS
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The Gem State : IDAHO
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Find one's way : NAVIGATE
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Dublin college founded in 1592 : TRINITY
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Apartment planter sites, perhaps : LEDGES
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Good gardening soil : LOAM
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Traditional samurai hairstyles : TOPKNOTS
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Graph of y = ax2 + bx + c, for example : PARABOLA
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Frame for a game of pool : RACK
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Forehead marking at the start of Lent : ASH
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Convention bldg., in a mailing address : CTR
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Dudes, in British English : LADS
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Big name in hardware stores : ACE
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Underground scurrier : SEWERRAT
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Half of a darting motion : ZIG
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Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader : ARISTIDE
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One-man band, for example : SOLOACT
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Sentimental sort : SOFTIE
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Comment : REMARK
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Make ___ (earn vast sums) : BANK
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Unit of angular measurement : RADIAN
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Like : AKINTO
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Rolling Stones frontman : JAGGER
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Absorber of UV light : OZONE
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Charter : LEASE
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Word with cavity or contraceptive : ORAL
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One acting rather quiet? : MIME
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Savory South Asian rice cake : IDLI
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Lower, as lights : DIM

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