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New York Times, Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Author:
Kareem Ayas
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Healthier version of a breakfast side dish
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Kareem Ayas

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 81, Blocks: 42 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Ayas. Grid flow: 16.1 Wednesday freshness: 17%
Jim Horne notes:
I'm not aware of more than one Hydra (26-Down) in Greek myth. The famous Lernaean Hydra was the child of Typhon and Echidna, two primordial ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times12/10/25 ( No. 27,791 )
Across
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"___ been had!" : WEVE
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Shoo away, in a way : SWATAT
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Thunderbolt wielder : ZEUS
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First name in daring jumps : EVEL
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City NE of Olympia : TACOMA
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Familiar with the tricks of : ONTO
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Emulates a dog around the family dinner table : BEGS
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Like voice mail messages, for example : PRERECORDED
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Red "Inside Out" character : ANGER
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OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 PAPER TRAY REQUIRES MAINTENANCE! : PRINTER
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J.F.K. Library architect : PEI
25
Verbal hesitations : UHS
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"No ___!" : DOUBT
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Like some boarding school attire : PREPPY
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Green dispensaries? : ATMS
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Iconic repeated Keanu Reeves role : NEO
38
Bit of condensation : BEAD
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Type of flooded field : RICEPADDY
42
Protected lands for plants and animals : NATURERESERVES
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OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE STAIRS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE! : ESCALATOR
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One who is acting? : DOER
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Corp. money bigwig : CFO
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Some pearls of wisdom : SAWS
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Third-party holding : ESCROW
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Used to have : OWNED
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___ Chinmoy, 20th-century Indian spiritual leader : SRI
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Time piece? : ERA
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Hole in the wall : RATTRAP
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Rapper who co-starred in 1994's "Above the Rim" : TUPAC
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Love poem opener : ROSESARERED
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Article of pool equipment : RACK
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Children's author Carle who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" : ERIC
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OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE SECOND-FLOOR BATHROOM INSTEAD! : TOILET
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Corn container : SILO
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Release steam : VENT
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Diocese assemblies : SYNODS
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Final boss in the game God of War : ARES
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Software accessed via an online browser : WEBAPP
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Game-tying goal : EVENER
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Healthier version of a breakfast side dish : VEGGIEBACON
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"Or ___ what?" : ELSE
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Longtime NASCAR sponsor : STP
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Alters the shape of : WARPS
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Dell competitor : ACER
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Singer Amos : TORI
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"You can say that again!" : AMEN
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Sensitivity : TACT
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Secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega : ZORRO
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Ax, so to speak : END
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Beehive State athlete : UTE
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Grassy section : SOD
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Source of 3.5 million quotations, for short : OED
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Performer of the 1992 dance song "Supermodel (You Better Work)" : RUPAUL
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Greek figures with multiple heads : HYDRAS
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Status of 23-, 44- and 69-Across, as indicated by their clues and placement in the grid : UNDERREPAIR
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Trampoline mats : BEDS
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Elf product : TOY
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Org. opposed to "speciesism" : PETA
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Common street sign symbol : ARROW
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Several things in a pagoda : TIERS
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Party starters, in brief : MCS
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Sowing machine : SEEDER
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"To your health!," in Germany : PROSIT
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___ gaz (carbonated: Fr.) : AVEC
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[Don't open this at the office!] : NSFW
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One of four rhyming letters : ETA
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Modern prefix with village : ECO
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"The Matrix" character, with "the" : ORACLE
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Nuts : WACKOS
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Standing : ERECT
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Aachen article : DAS
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"There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi : SPEED
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Some needle work, in brief : TATS
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"Community" character played by Donald Glover : TROY
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Apt letters missing from _ _stra_ _ : REIN
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Songwriter Guthrie : ARLO
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___ Minor : URSA
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Fire up : REV
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Prize that a prospector pries : ORE
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Sloth, e.g. : SIN
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Some N.F.L. linemen : DTS

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