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New York Times, Sunday, March 9, 2025

Author:
Michael Schlossberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Footwear for a sharp dresser?
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Michael Schlossberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 70 Missing: {JQZ} This is puzzle # 14 for Mr. Schlossberg. Grid flow: 27.5 Sunday freshness: 26%
Will Shortz notes:
Michael Schlossberg is an internist and self-described "history nerd" in Bend, Ore. "Most of what I read," he says, "is historical fiction or nonfiction." This is Michael's 14th ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

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© 2025, The New York Times3/9/25 ( No. 27,515 )
Across
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First lady McKinley : IDA
4
Common saltwater baitfish : SHAD
8
Letters before Q : LGBT
12
Become crunchy in the oven : CRISPUP
19
Image of Mickey, maybe : CEL
20
___ Nostra : COSA
21
Lake that's largely fed by the Detroit River : ERIE
22
"Red telephone," historically : HOTLINE
23
Breakfast order request : OVEREASY
25
London Herald, 4/16/1912 : TITANICSINKS
27
The New York Times, 8/9/1974 : NIXONRESIGNS
29
"Scarface" : ALCAPONE
30
Schedule : SLATE
31
Drives off : SHOOS
32
"Catch ya later!" : ADIOS
33
Wee one : TOT
34
Frankincense or myrrh : RESIN
36
T-E-A-M doesn't have one, so they say : ANI
37
Plantain lily, by another name : HOSTA
39
Chicago Daily Tribune, 11/3/1948 : DEWEYDEFEATSTRUMAN
47
Company once called the California Perfume Company : AVON
48
Wrap one's head around : GET
49
Popular Hawaiian dish : POKE
50
Driest country in sub-Saharan Africa : NAMIBIA
54
They're below par : BIRDIES
56
Choice words : ORS
57
Footwear for a sharp dresser? : STILETTOS
59
"___ Mouse," Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972 : SENOR
60
Toward the opposing goal, in hockey : UPICE
62
Geometry calculation: Abbr. : VOL
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"How ya doin'?" : SUP
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Variety, 10/30/1929 : WALLSTLAYSANEGG
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___ Dhabi : ABU
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Alliance since 1948, in brief : OAS
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Golf's Slammin' Sammy : SNEAD
75
Bouquet : AROMA
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Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed : CASSANDRA
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Poorly : ILL
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Headwear that's stereotypically red : FIREHAT
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Breakout performer? : ESCAPEE
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It's blowin' in the wind : VANE
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___ thruster (physics lab device) : ION
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Corrin of "Nosferatu" : EMMA
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New York Daily News, 10/30/1975 : FORDTOCITYDROPDEAD
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"The rubber people," in Nahuatl : OLMEC
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"Biting" characteristic : WIT
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Big name in health care : AETNA
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Trouble : WOE
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Fleet : RAPID
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Where people typically go to the mat? : PORCH
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Attempt to tear : RIPAT
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Fool around : LOLLYGAG
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With 115-Across, New York Post, 4/15/1983 : HEADLESSBODY
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See 113-Across : INTOPLESSBAR
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"Jeez Louise!" : AWCOMEON
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Boils : SEETHES
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Latin "Look" : ECCE
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Filmmaker Johnson : RIAN
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Degree held by only one U.S. president (George W. Bush) : MBA
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Drink after a race, say : HYDRATE
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Signaled : CUED
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Wraps up : ENDS
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The Second vis-à-vis the First, say : SON
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Cher and Madonna, e.g. : ICONS
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Old Scratch, with "the" : DEVIL
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Baby name whose popularity plummeted after 2015 : ALEXA
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It might be chewed in a theater : SCENERY
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Frost : HOAR
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Taxpayers : ASSESSEES
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9 to 5, e.g. : DAYSHIFT
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Release : LETGO
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Beams : GRINS
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Parts of comedy routines : BITS
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Serving at a Chinese restaurant : TEA
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Carolina Reaper, for one : CHILI
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Good name for a geologist? : ROCCO
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"How sad" : ITSASHAME
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Lapse : SLIP
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Some red or white wines : PINOTS
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Pull some strings? : UNKNOT
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Old Spanish coin : PESETA
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Waste away : ROT
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Bottom : NADIR
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Actress Skye : IONE
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Payments made at a table : ANTES
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Leg up : EDGE
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Query : ASK
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"I'll get to work right now" : ONIT
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Dollops : DABS
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___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023's "The Lost Bookshop" : EVIE
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Threadbare : WORN
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Fund, as a college : ENDOW
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They're known to open with some jokes : APRILS
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Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra : TOSCANINI
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The "U" of 60-Down : UNION
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"Damage" director Louis : MALLE
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K-pop septet : BTS
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Short note? : IOU
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Creature in the final scene of "Cleopatra" : ASP
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Long-term deposit, in brief : IRA
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Go (for) : OPT
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Certain spot : TVAD
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It once shared a land border with 16 countries : USSR
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Drawstring place : EYELET
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Hardly the social butterfly : LONER
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Stowed : LADED
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___ soda : SAL
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Needlefish : GAR
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Monopolist's trait : GREED
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One-pointer in cribbage : ACE
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Some undergrad degs. : BAS
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Trojans' sch. : USC
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"Jeez, I can't catch a break" : OHME
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Call from a crib : MAMA
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Slightly : ATAD
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Umpire's ruling : SAFE
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Writings of dubious authenticity : APOCRYPHA
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Eschew : AVOID
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"Victory is mine!," in modern lingo : FORTHEWIN
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Privy to : INON
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Make a scene : ACT
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"My heavens!" : IDECLARE
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They can support a nest egg : TWIGS
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48-oz. beer glass : YARD
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Service providers? : PARSONS
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Wise-appearing : OWLISH
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___ Tunes : LOONEY
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Like the cheese in a grilled cheese : MELTED
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Protective tip on a lace : AGLET
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Bel ___ cheese : PAESE
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Informal goodbye : PEACE
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Made some waves? : OARED
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Tech giant whose initials are its N.Y.S.E. symbol : IBM
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Some have meters : POEMS
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Mexican marinade : ADOBO
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"The Seduction of Joe ___" (1979 Alan Alda film) : TYNAN
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Tolkien trilogy, for short : LOTR
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Morehouse or Howard, in brief : HBCU
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Whole bunch : SCAD
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Instant : SEC

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

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