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New York Times, Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Author:
Vasu Seralathan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
One who makes a lasting impression while just scratching the surface
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Vasu Seralathan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 41 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Seralathan. Grid flow: 35.7 Tuesday freshness: 50%
Jim Horne notes:

Indian wedding puns!

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© 2026, The New York Times8/4/26 ( No. 28,028 )
Across
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"Handy" kitchen item : MITT
5
Smears with goo : SLIMES
11
Music genre with offbeat rhythms : SKA
14
So-called "servebot" in tennis, essentially : ACER
15
Action on the front lines : COMBAT
16
Hunk of cash : WAD
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Words uttered while sorting potential gowns for an Indian wedding? : SARINOTSARI
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Word aptly hidden in "moldy" : OLD
20
Some marksmen : SNIPERS
21
Stringed instruments of old : LYRES
23
Inc. alternative : LLC
24
Kind of whale : BALEEN
27
Wedding feast delivery from India's capital? : DELHIPLATTERS
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Unwelcome responsibility : ONUS
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Rawboned : GAUNT
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"Deadline" for a rush order : NOW
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Bit of tailoring : HEM
36
Writer Rand : AYN
38
Great Leap Forward leader : MAO
39
Longoria with three Screen Actors Guild awards : EVA
40
Celestial sphere : ORB
41
Hold power, as a ruler : REIGN
43
"You said it!" : AMEN
44
Tying the knot during a colorful Hindu festival? : HOLIMATRIMONY
48
One who makes a lasting impression while just scratching the surface : ETCHER
49
Part of NATO: Abbr. : ORG
50
When repeated, "You get the gist" : YADDA
52
Enter furtively : CREEPIN
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Mysterious sight at night : UFO
57
"Esteemed reception guests, we regret to report that we've run out of flatbread," e.g.? : NAANAPOLOGY
61
Scratch the surface of, say : MAR
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Like the physicist Niels Bohr and the astronomer Tycho Brahe : DANISH
63
Stock market unveilings, for short : IPOS
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"___ you done?" : ARE
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Luxury transports : YACHTS
66
Common workout target : CORE
Down
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The "m" in many a physics equation : MASS
2
Self-assured words : ICAN
3
Actress Polo : TERI
4
Toughest hits to get when hitting for the cycle in baseball : TRIPLES
5
Sear : SCORCH
6
"___ of luck!" : LOTS
7
Quick communications, in brief : IMS
8
Postgraduate deg. with management courses : MBA
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Musician's asset : EAR
10
Stylish shoe feature : STILETTO
11
Someone you will never stop despising : SWORNENEMY
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Green smoothie staple : KALE
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Tosses in : ADDS
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"Little" Dickens girl : NELL
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Up to this point : YET
24
___-free (plastics label) : BPA
25
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vis-à-vis "Saturday Night Live" : ALUMNI
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Singer ___ Del Rey : LANA
27
Longtime Hogwarts headmaster : DUMBLEDORE
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Set aflame : IGNITE
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Wander : ROVE
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Graceful bird : SWAN
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"Pick me! Pick me!" : OHOH
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Infamous Roman ruler : NERO
36
Attractive plus-one : ARMCANDY
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"You said it!" : YEAH
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Canine warning : GRR
43
Like a cherub : ANGELIC
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"___ be a real honor" : ITD
46
Transforms : MORPHS
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Cookie with an "enrobed" variety in the U.K. : OREO
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Arizona city or county : YUMA
51
At a distance : AFAR
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Film information on IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes : CAST
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Cops, in slang : POPO
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Iconic lab assistant of film : IGOR
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Where Anheuser-Busch is "BUD" : NYSE
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Battery for a mouse : AAA
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Anti-apartheid org. : ANC
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U.S. medical research agcy. : NIH

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