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New York Times, Monday, July 6, 2026

Author:
Alex Eaton-Salners
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Three-part fire safety technique
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Alex Eaton-Salners

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 80 for Mr. Eaton-Salners. Grid flow: 50.1 Monday freshness: 49%
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© 2026, The New York Times7/6/26 ( No. 27,999 )
Across
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Long, detailed tales : SAGAS
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Binds together : TIES
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Russia's Peter the Great, e.g. : TSAR
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Hertz competitor : ALAMO
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Muppet with a noted feud with a pet rock : ELMO
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Jane Austen title character : EMMA
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Event that might include juggling, singing and magic tricks : TALENTSHOW
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___ wave (summer phenomenon) : HEAT
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Northern neighbor of Namibia : ANGOLA
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Eat, as cattle might : GRAZE
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Serpent seen on a sarcophagus : ASP
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Looks of total confusion : BLANKSTARES
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Calm, as a lake : PLACID
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Bard of ___, nickname for Shakespeare : AVON
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Intellectual thoroughness : RIGOR
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Olden days : YORE
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Texter's "If you ask me ..." : IMO
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Three-part fire safety technique : STOPDROPANDROLL
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Opposite of NNW : SSE
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Give the boot : OUST
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When farmers typically wake up : EARLY
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Flatbread with a palindromic name : NAAN
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Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback : MCNAIR
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2009 comedy about a bachelor party and its aftermath : THEHANGOVER
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Golf ball holder : TEE
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Colorful glows : AURAS
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Grapefruit relative : POMELO
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Some urban pollution : SMOG
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Sections of a choir .... as hinted at by this puzzle's circled letters : VOICEPARTS
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It comes and goes each day : TIDE
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"Frozen" princess : ANNA
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Hall-of-Fame hoopster Thomas : ISIAH
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Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit : EDEN
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Grammy-winning singer Lisa : LOEB
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Like the crying face emoji : TEARY
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Used a chair : SAT
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In the manner of : ALA
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Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" : GALAPAGOS
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Prayer ender : AMEN
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Nuthatch or nightingale : SONGBIRD
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Cybertruck maker : TESLA
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___ Omar, first Somali American in Congress : ILHAN
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Angsty subculture : EMO
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Piglet's mother : SOW
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Capital city between Baghdad, Iraq, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan : TEHRANIRAN
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Negative attack on a political opponent : SMEAR
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Knock the socks off : AMAZE
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Parking garage listing : RATES
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Relayed, as a story : TOLD
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1960s Pontiac muscle car : GTO
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Auto loan figs. : APRS
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Cuts open, as an envelope : SLITS
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24-___ gold : KARAT
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"Frozen" reindeer : SVEN
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European capital that's home to the Little Mermaid statue : COPENHAGEN
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Offspring : YOUNG
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Word after black or special : OPS
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Temporary suspensions : MORATORIA
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Basic skateboarding jump : OLLIE
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Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" : ROAN
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Dilapidated : DECREPIT
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Instrument played by a Muse : LYRE
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Some small batteries : AAS
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Modern lead-in to coin or stock : MEME
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One of the five senses : TASTE
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Like sticky summer weather : HUMID
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Wash away : ERODE
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Express one's thoughts : OPINE
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Words of interest to a language learner, informally : VOCAB
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Operate on using a beam : LASE
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Actor Kilmer : VAL
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The Yoko of "Dear Yoko" : ONO
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Paver's goop : TAR
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Like a shrinking violet : SHY

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

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