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New York Times, Monday, November 17, 2025

Author:
Rena Cohen
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof
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Rena Cohen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QZ} This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Cohen. Grid flow: 41.1 Monday freshness: 35%
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© 2025, The New York Times11/17/25 ( No. 27,768 )
Across
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Vegas attraction, with "the" : STRIP
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Bitter-smelling : ACRID
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Cell signal unit : BAR
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Pleasant smell : AROMA
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Heavyweight African animal, informally : RHINO
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Application : USE
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Circle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle : FIGUREEIGHT
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So-so, in modern slang : MID
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Scrapes (out), as a living : EKES
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Mental slip-up : LAPSE
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Univ. degrees for executives : MBAS
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Many a prom tuxedo : RENTAL
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Train track part : RAIL
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Airheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers : SWEETSIXTEEN
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Growth in a fish tank : ALGAE
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Steaming mad : IRATE
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Girlfriend or boyfriend, informally : BAE
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Gruesome : GORY
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Cooks just the outsides of : SEARS
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Nuisance : PEST
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A narcissist has a big one : EGO
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Giving the go-ahead : OKING
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Keto and Paleo, for two : DIETS
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Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof : DOUBLEOSEVEN
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In one's birthday suit : NUDE
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Skeptic's remark : IFEVER
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Home of a "500" race, familiarly : INDY
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Great ___ National Park (Nevada attraction) : BASIN
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Shoe's bottom : SOLE
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Play-___ : DOH
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Andrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall : JACKSONFIVE
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Musical Yoko : ONO
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With everything on the line : ALLIN
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Like a pyramid or sphere : SOLID
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Femur and fibula site : LEG
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Not sharp, as a pencil : BLUNT
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Vulgar : CRASS
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Less risky : SAFER
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Tot's three-wheeler : TRIKE
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Comic actor Seth : ROGEN
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"If you want me to be honest ..." : IMUSTSAY
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Golfing standard : PAR
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Region : AREA
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Intel product : CHIP
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Makes unfair, in a way : RIGS
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Receives from a will : INHERITS
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Nickname for Dorothy : DOT
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Insect that stings : BUMBLEBEE
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Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong : ASIA
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Cincinnati team : REDS
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___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist : ELLE
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Sch. with a T station : MIT
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Amazement : AWE
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Lumberjack's tool : AXE
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Letters before "And on that farm ..." : EIEIO
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The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ : TRANS
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Platoon V.I.P. : SARGE
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Sunrise direction : EAST
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Ping-Pong dividers : NETS
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Like most cheeses with rinds : AGED
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Nike's swoosh, e.g. : LOGO
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Punxsutawney Phil, for one : GROUNDHOG
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Classic arcade game with bull's-eye rings : SKEEBALL
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Strongly desires : PINESFOR
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Like a centenarian : OLD
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"For suresies" : DEF
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Purchase : BUY
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Bottle served at a trattoria : VINO
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Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat : VOILA
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The King of Rock and Roll : ELVIS
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Marsh plants : REEDS
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Object of adoration : IDOL
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Zero : NONE
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Rights advocacy org. since 1920 : ACLU
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Dermatologist's focus : SKIN
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"It ___ that simple ..." : ISNT
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Quick punch : JAB
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Foreign policy grp. : NSC

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

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