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New York Times, Saturday, November 29, 2025

Author:
Adrian Johnson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Part of a make-up routine?
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Adrian Johnson

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Johnson. Grid flow: 44.9 Saturday freshness: 50%
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© 2025, The New York Times11/29/25 ( No. 27,780 )
Across
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Volume of tourists : TRAVELGUIDE
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Company that made the world's first two-nanometer chip in 2021 : IBM
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High-tech means of seeing oneself into work : RETINALSCAN
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Might : MAY
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Part of a make-up routine? : APOLOGYCARD
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Pitcher's output : ADS
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Cytologists' study : CELLS
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Preferred piece of commercial real estate : CORNERLOT
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Civil rights activist Baker : ELLA
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Drummer Peart : NEIL
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Dish of stuffed grape leaves : DOLMA
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Groan-worthy, say, as a joke : CORNY
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Know-it-all who might have a ball? : SEER
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Equilibrium : STASIS
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Nissan Stadium team : TITANS
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Viva voce : SPOKEN
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Devices for disc jockeys : FADERS
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So-called "father of macroeconomics" : KEYNES
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They're protected by scabbards : SABERS
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Minor crashes? : NAPS
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Blows a mean horn : WAILS
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1988 Best Country Song Grammy winner for "Hold Me" : OSLIN
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Staff addition : HIRE
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Word with flat or tax : RATE
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Musical production that might include grunts, groans, thwops, snorts and barks : WHALESONG
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Voguing sequence : POSES
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Babe : HON
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"Man, that's loud!" : WHATARACKET
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Valuable city-building resource in Catan : ORE
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Take it back! : TIMEMACHINE
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Jazz guitarist Montgomery : WES
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Intuitive alarm bells, informally : SPIDEYSENSE
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Leave no ___ (camping tenet) : TRACE
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Put off : REPEL
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One of 32 in the country of Kiribati : ATOLL
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Country rental : VILLA
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Biblical figure said to have fathered Kenan at age 90 : ENOS
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Gamer's frustration : LAG
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Compound in some soaps : GLYCERIN
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About half of all these are made in Philadelphia, for short : USCOINS
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Nickelodeon series whose episode titles all start with the same letter as the show itself : ICARLY
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Tend to, as some holes : DARN
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Wrapped : ENDED
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"Start talking" : IMALLEARS
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The number 4 and the gift of a clock, in Chinese culture : BADOMENS
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"Dearie me!" : MYSTARS
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Play list? : ROSTER
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Prominent features on goblin sharks : NOSES
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What sfouf is, in Lebanese cuisine : CAKE
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High-level intelligence assets? : SPYPLANES
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Neighbor of the uvula : TONSIL
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Put off : TABLE
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Midmonth marker : IDES
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Coast : SEASHORE
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It's up for grabs : FAIRGAME
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Skillfulness : KNOWHOW
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Like John, Paul or George, but not Ringo : SAINTED
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Existentialist's inquiry : WHOAMI
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Axolotl lookalikes : NEWTS
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Tamiflu manufacturer : ROCHE
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Welcome to one's home : ASKIN
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Many first-time voters : TEENS
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The "E" of the New York Stock Exchange's "EL" : ESTEE
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Transport : SHIP
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Orgs. with "war chests" : PACS
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2004 biopic for which Jamie Foxx won an Oscar : RAY

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