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New York Times, Friday, May 9, 2025

Author:
Willa Angel Chen Miller and Erik Agard
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Cooking byproduct sometimes called "liquid gold"
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Willa Angel Chen Miller
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8111/6/20125/9/202542
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281.6056261%
Erik Agard

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 30 Missing: {QXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Miller. This is puzzle # 81 for Mr. Agard. Friday freshness: 31%
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© 2025, The New York Times5/9/25 ( No. 27,576 )
Across
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Walks softly : PADS
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Impossible to contact by ordinary means : OFFTHEGRID
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"___, sing America" : ITOO
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Feature focused on investigation and resolution : CRIMEDRAMA
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Turf : LAND
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Downward-facing dog? : CANISMAJOR
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___ text (label for a screen reader) : ALT
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___ Robert Jr., 2020 Gold Glove Award winner : LUIS
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Encrust : CAKE
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What might be caught Red-handed? : FLYBALL
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Cracker topper : BRIE
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Raise : HOIST
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Popular vacation spot : SEASHORE
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Talks up : TOUTS
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It's not worth what it seems : PLAYMONEY
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Kick out : OUST
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Roughly 62% of its claimed territory is in Antarctica : CHILE
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Fine-textured wood used in musical instruments : PEAR
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Unfettered flow of goods : FREETRADE
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It might turn up a turnip : SPADE
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Software clients : USERBASE
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Minuscule : TEENY
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"That's my opinion, too" : SAME
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Components of some makeovers : HAIRDOS
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Boatload : SLEW
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First-rate, in slang : BOSS
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R&B's ___ Hill : DRU
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"Be kind!" : HAVEAHEART
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First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature : TONI
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What holding one's thumb up might indicate : INEEDARIDE
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"How could ___?" : INOT
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Cooking byproduct sometimes called "liquid gold" : PASTAWATER
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Rescues, maybe : PETS
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Fragrant rice dish : PILAF
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Day and night : ATALLHOURS
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"Must I spell it out further?" : DONTYOUSEE
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Turf : SOD
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Like practices associated with pentacles : OCCULT
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Enfeebled : FRAIL
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Some scuba diving gear : FINS
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"OMG, I didn't need to know that!" : TMI
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"She's everything. ___ just Ken" (2023 movie tagline) : HES
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Genre heard at many raves, for short : EDM
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Pioneer in computer science who has a college at Yale named after her : GRACEHOPPER
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Asian royal : RAJA
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"Don't worry about me" : IMOK
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Have the audacity : DARE
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Colleen : LASS
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Emotionally complex, in a way : BITTERSWEET
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James Baldwin's "If ___ Street Could Talk" : BEALE
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One-named singer in the 2023 hit "Prada" : RAYE
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What one might subscribe to : ISM
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"I'll let that ___ …" : SLIDE
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Not to be repeated : ONEANDDONE
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Seeking comment? : READYORNOT
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Title heroine who says "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you" : EYRE
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Stir-fry protein option : TOFU
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This, too, shall pass : PHASE
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Squeeze : CRAM
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Not yet final, in brief : TBA
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Number of kings en España named Felipe : SEIS
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Position at a food company : TASTER
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Throng : HORDE
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Boardroom group : SUITS
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Mail : SHIP
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Superboy's crush : LANA
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Holiday lead-ins : EVES
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Entice : BAIT
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Antidiscrimination legis. of 1990 : ADA
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___ flakes (fruity Chinese snack) : HAW
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Long period : ERA
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What a boat shouldn't do : TIP

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