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New York Times, Sunday, July 5, 2026

Author:
Rich Katz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
What has flatter feet?
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Rich Katz

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 136, Blocks: 82 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Katz. Grid flow: 29.7 Sunday freshness: 19%
Will Shortz notes:
Rich Katz, of San Francisco, does freelance work in corporate restructuring. He believes crossword constructing scratches a similar itch to his job of solving complex problems in the world ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

32-Down: What has flatter feet = ODE
What a great clue! "Feet" as metrical units, and an ode as something that flatters/praises.

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© 2026, The New York Times7/5/26 ( No. 27,998 )
Across
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Firm up : STIFFEN
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Capital city on the Gulf of Guinea : ACCRA
13
Gamer's pursuit : ESPORT
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Aid for a violin player : CHINREST
20
Crocs and mocs : SHOES
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Kind of costume that includes a round hat and kerchief : SAILOR
22
{Elijah, Ruth, Natalie} : BABEINTHEWOODS
24
"Send a quick reminder" : PINGME
25
"___ it and rip it!" (aggressive golfer's mantra) : GRIP
26
Org. for those leaving the workforce : AARP
27
Product displays seen at entrances to store aisles : ENDCAPS
28
{Kerouac, Dubya, Ginsberg} : BEATSAROUNDTHEBUSH
35
Colored : HUED
36
Org. that accepts returns : IRS
37
Grinders : HEROS
41
{WC, AC, DC} : POWERBEHINDTHETHRONE
49
Jewish mysticism, in one spelling : KABALA
50
Love, in Lima : AMOR
51
Card game whose name is shouted : UNO
52
Knee part often torn by athletes, in brief : ACL
53
At any time : EVER
54
Small test subjects : LABRATS
57
Enforcer of traveling restrictions, informally? : NBAREF
60
"The Second Coming" poet, 1919 : YEATS
62
Ragú competitor : PREGO
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The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a couplet : SONNET
66
{Bonnie, Oscar, Clyde} : HONORAMONGTHIEVES
70
Some salon tasks : RINSES
71
"Hammerin' Hank" of baseball : AARON
72
Allow someone to pass : YIELD
75
30-ounce Starbucks size : TRENTA
78
Old Testament patriarch : ABRAHAM
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Close by : NEAR
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Early email provider : AOL
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Rightmost hour on a grandfather clock : III
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Neighbor of an Estonian : LETT
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Evening that a couple spends together, say : USTIME
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{Larry, Sue, Emma} : TWOBIRDSWITHONESTONE
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Mexican mister : SENOR
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Veer, as a ship : YAW
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Org. concerned with plants : OSHA
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{Cinnabon, Kool-Aid, Hi-C} : ROLLWITHTHEPUNCHES
107
Powerhouse in English football : ARSENAL
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Home to Waikiki Beach : OAHU
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California's ___ Linda : LOMA
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Rested atop : LAIDON
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{Landfill, goose feathers, junkyard} : DOWNINTHEDUMPS
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Pay no mind to : IGNORE
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Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with "the" : ODEON
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Thousands of binary digits : KILOBITS
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Was overflowing : TEEMED
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Van Halen of Van Halen : EDDIE
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Extended voyage : ODYSSEY
Down
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Angel's ___ (distiller's term for the whiskey that evaporates during aging) : SHARE
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Shinbone : TIBIA
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Completely incompetent : INEPT
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Time for Sat. prep? : FRI
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Marshland : FEN
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Suffix for superlatives : EST
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Unspecified member of a series : NTH
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Nile dam : ASWAN
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Triad, e.g. : CHORD
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Assume : COOPT
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Lead-in to River or Rover : RED
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Dummkopf : ASS
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Broadcaster of many an N.C.A.A. game : ESPNU
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Called for quiet : SAIDSHH
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Penny ___ (miser) : PINCHER
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Lingerie brand with a Slavic-sounding name : OLGA
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Fun time : ROMP
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"___ bon!" : TRES
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Bygone N.Y.C. music venue with rhyming initials : CBGB
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Wisconsin's ___ Claire : EAU
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Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies" : EBSEN
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Apt name for a conchologist? : SHEL
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Ear-related : AURAL
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Yank's Civil War foe : REB
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What has flatter feet? : ODE
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Achieve success, so to speak : HIT
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Chinese instrument with two strings : ERHU
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Sound of an approaching subway train : ROAR
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Start of a reminiscence : ONCE
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Word with confidence or checkout : SELF
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Do some roadwork on : PAVE
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Folk religion akin to voodoo : OBEAH
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Battered by battle : WARTORN
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Women's areas in old Muslim palaces : HAREMS
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Last stage of an insect's development : IMAGO
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"No way, no how!" : NOTONABET
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Neurosurgeons, e.g.: Abbr. : DRS
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Metric unit of weight : TONNE
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Map legend : KEY
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Figs. related to car loans : APRS
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Scottish hill : BRAE
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Big bunch : BEVY
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Eroded : ATEINTO
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Pouty mood : SNIT
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Lead-in to sphere, in the atmosphere : STRATO
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"Hey! I know the answer!" : OHOH
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Atlantic crosser of 1492 : NINA
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Sign outside a broadcast booth : ONAIR
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Wayne's buddy in "Wayne's World" : GARTH
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Admit : SEEIN
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Really weak, as an excuse : LAME
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Beats by ___ (audio brand) : DRE
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They might be up in arms, informally : TATS
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T. ___ Price (investment firm) : ROWE
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"I bought this before ___ went crazy" (rueful bumper sticker on a Tesla) : ELON
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He was né Clay : ALI
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___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant) : MUSHU
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Tale of rustic life : IDYLL
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"Vidi," in Caesar's boast : ISAW
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Satirist Freberg : STAN
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You won't actually die of it : BOREDOM
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Rocks smelted to make steel : IRONORE
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Conflict sparked by an archduke's assassination: Abbr. : WWI
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San Francisco's ___ Valley : NOE
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Madrid's land, in the Olympics : ESP
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Like Olympic pools : LANED
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Like some cars parked next to "No Parking" signs : TOWED
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Vietnam's capital : HANOI
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Old-fashioned "your" : THINE
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Soldier for Attila : HUN
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Black suit : CLUBS
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Good pal : HOMIE
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Out of gas : EMPTY
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Lip : SASS
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Settled down, in a way : ALIT
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All the ___ : RAGE
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Kind of wave : SINE
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Last name for an unnamed person : DOE
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Curious : ODD
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Ring result, in brief : TKO
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Secreted away : HID
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Ron who played Tarzan : ELY
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Two in Tijuana : DOS

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

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