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New York Times, Monday, December 29, 2025

Author:
Chase Dittrich
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
62-Down : Ticked (off)
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Chase Dittrich

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QVZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Dittrich. Grid flow: 22.0 Monday freshness: 13%
Jim Horne notes:

To send a package, you might need some styrofoam packing PEANUTS, a LABEL, and some TAPE for the BOX.

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© 2025, The New York Times12/29/25 ( No. 27,810 )
Across
1
Life story, in brief : BIO
4
The "S" of NASA : SPACE
9
Where Shrek lives : SWAMP
14
Kerfuffle : ADO
15
Outer limits : EDGES
16
They're contained within books : PAGES
17
Is severely underpaid : WORKSFORPEANUTS
20
Andean animal with a long neck : LLAMA
21
Earth goddess : GAIA
22
Condé ___ (magazine publisher) : NAST
23
"Tsk! Tsk!" : SHAME
25
Humorist Bombeck : ERMA
27
Motown or RCA : RECORDLABEL
32
Particular place : SPOT
35
Stephen of "V for Vendetta" : REA
36
Country that contains the southern slope of Mount Everest : NEPAL
38
Chicago trains : ELS
39
Seating area for 12 peers : JURYBOX
42
Piece of Grubhub info, for short : ETA
43
Stringed instrument that rests on the ground : CELLO
45
Tin Man's need : OIL
46
Like the Mariana Trench : DEEP
47
Works that are heard rather than read : BOOKSONTAPE
51
Sister of Meg, Jo and Amy in "Little Women" : BETH
52
Gives the ax : FIRES
55
Soaks (up) : SOPS
58
Puppy sounds : ARFS
61
Fundamental belief : TENET
63
Description for an ideal partner ... or what the ends of 17-, 27-, 39- and 47-Across create? : THETOTALPACKAGE
66
Put on TV : AIRED
67
Molars and canines : TEETH
68
Signal for an actor to go onstage : CUE
69
Pumpkin, e.g. : GOURD
70
"Alas ..." : SADLY
71
TV's "___ Lasso" : TED
Down
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Cry like a baby : BAWL
2
Admired figures : IDOLS
3
Battle cry of the U.S. Marine Corps : OORAH
4
Kind of bagel : SESAME
5
Many a PC file : PDF
6
Really eager : AGOG
7
Actor Michael of "Arrested Development" : CERA
8
Caught sight of : ESPIED
9
Place to be pampered : SPA
10
1996 #1 hit for the Spice Girls : WANNABE
11
Water, in Colombia : AGUA
12
Team that plays at Citi Field : METS
13
"Over here!" : PSST
18
Onetime retail chain giant : KMART
19
___ Grey tea : EARL
24
Very light brown : ECRU
26
Tail-less cat : MANX
28
Above, in poetry : OER
29
Synthetic fiber : RAYON
30
Fencing sword : EPEE
31
Not on time : LATE
32
"Gimme a ___!" : SEC
33
Commoner : PLEB
34
Norway's capital : OSLO
37
Two lengths of a pool : LAP
39
What a punch line may end : JOKE
40
Part of a drill assembly or comedy routine : BIT
41
"Frozen" snowman : OLAF
44
Seafood with claws : LOBSTER
46
Jeter in the Baseball Hall of Fame : DEREK
48
Rushing yards, e.g., informally : STAT
49
"Well, dang it!" : OHRATS
50
Slightly out of tune : PITCHY
53
Put into law : ENACT
54
Move smoothly to another topic : SEGUE
55
Without a date : STAG
56
River past Cincinnati : OHIO
57
Lima's land : PERU
59
Tiny canine pest : FLEA
60
Drove over the legal limit : SPED
62
Ticked (off) : TEED
64
Peculiar : ODD
65
The Falcons, on a scoreboard : ATL

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