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New York Times, Saturday, December 13, 2025

Author:
Gene Louise De Vera
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Gluttonous request ... or what this puzzle has vis-à-vis the possible answer lengths?
TotalDebutLatest
64/29/20255/22/2026
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1010112
ScrabDebutFlowFresh
1.653961.278%
Gene Louise De Vera

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 62, Blocks: 37 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 1 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. De Vera. Grid flow: 105.6 Saturday freshness: 90%
Jim Horne notes:

Click the Analyze button below the clues. A chart shows that every length from 3 to 15 is included at least once. This is the only 15x15 in NYT history with that property.

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© 2025, The New York Times12/13/25 ( No. 27,794 )
Across
1
Possible turnoff on a first date : BADBREATH
10
Spicy shellfish dish : CURRIEDCRAB
12
Yellow 5 and Red 40, for two : FOODADDITIVES
14
City SE of Chicago : GARY
15
"Cool beans!" : NEATO
16
Grub : EATS
18
"Knowing" without really knowing, for short : ESP
19
Shade of the gay pride triangle : HOTPINK
21
Cry in many a horror film : RUN
22
Actress Birch of "Hocus Pocus" : THORA
24
Robert Byrd was one for 51 years: Abbr. : SEN
25
Abstain from : NOTDO
27
Philippic : TIRADE
29
Connect to the internet via mobile hotspot, as a device : TETHER
30
Subs : HOAGIES
32
Home heating component : OILTANK
33
Dub : ENTITLE
34
Board of creatives? : PALETTE
35
Countenance : MIEN
36
Ready to dive in, say : EAGER
38
Streamlet : RILL
39
Ticker tape?: Abbr. : ECG
40
First, second or third : ORDINAL
42
"___ won't!" : NOI
43
Shift shape : MORPH
45
They travel through tubes : OVA
46
"Dang it!" : AWMAN
48
Gluttonous request ... or what this puzzle has vis-à-vis the possible answer lengths? : ONEOFEVERYTHING
51
Obtain : SECURE
52
Morning prayer : MATINS
53
Doorbell sounds : DONGS
54
Weapon that killed Medusa, in myth : SWORD
Down
1
Harbor bobber : BUOY
2
Wiz end? : ARD
3
Alternative to a snake : DRANO
4
Fancy hotel amenities : BIDETS
5
Orangutan, by another name : REDAPE
6
Include later, as video footage : EDITIN
7
Heed : ACTON
8
Part of TNT : TRI
9
Order at a restaurant : HAVE
10
Creator of some bubbles : CORPORATEGREED
11
"Remember ..." : BEARTHATINMIND
12
Audrey Hepburn and Princess Diana, for two : FASHIONICONS
13
Some of them may be forgiven : STUDENTLOANS
14
Be looped in : GETTHEMEMO
17
School viewing? : SNORKELING
19
Lost all patience : HADIT
20
Mourning peal : KNELL
23
___ Cajun (Creole sauce with a rhyming name) : RAGIN
26
Cousin of a wolverine : OTTER
28
Pot user? : EELER
29
Article of regalia worn by both Elizabeth II and Pope Paul VI : TIARA
31
Birds also known as "little auks" : SEADOVES
32
Sign of good reception? : OPENARMS
37
Present : GIVE
40
"Well, whoop-de-doo!" : OHFUN
41
Rapper with the 2022 hit "Big Energy" : LATTO
44
Not mucho : POCO
47
Sound from fans : WHIR
49
A little work : ERG
50
Pitch, roll and ___ (rotations along the three-dimensional axes) : YAW

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

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