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New York Times, Monday, June 16, 2025

Author:
Jill Rafaloff and Michelle Sontarp
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Movie marketed toward a primarily female audience, informally
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Michelle Sontarp

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Missing: {QWX} This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Rafaloff. This is puzzle # 2 for Ms. Sontarp. Monday freshness: 41%
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© 2025, The New York Times6/16/25 ( No. 27,614 )
Across
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Three-player trick-taking game : SKAT
5
Supermarket tabloids, informally : RAGS
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Walkways : PATHS
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Difficult air to see through : HAZE
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Dog biter : FLEA
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Greek theater : ODEON
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Pitchers' stats : ERAS
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Short stiletto shoe : KITTENHEEL
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Voice below soprano : ALTO
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Locale for a person with a green thumb : GARDEN
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'N Sync bandmate of Justin Timberlake : JOEYFATONE
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Black Friday or Cyber Monday event : SALE
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Letters before a criminal's alias : AKA
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Vaccine-approving org. : FDA
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Finger … or what a finger dials on a phone : DIGIT
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"Affirmative!" : YES
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Floor model : DEMO
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Slanted edges, as on mirrors : BEVELS
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What a first crush might be dismissed as : PUPPYLOVE
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Author Louisa May ___ : ALCOTT
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Slugger Sammy : SOSA
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___ de Janeiro : RIO
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Like cursive handwriting, typically : LOOPY
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Yahoo alternative : AOL
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Finish : END
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Cash dispensers : ATMS
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Spot that may be affected by a charley horse : CALFMUSCLE
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Bandit at sea : PIRATE
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Small case for needles : ETUI
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Movie marketed toward a primarily female audience, informally : CHICKFLICK
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West Point, in brief : USMA
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2015 Adele hit that won three Grammys : HELLO
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Adolescent woe : ACNE
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The first word of 18-, 23-, 36-, 49- or 56-Across is one : BABY
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Swords whose points were once dipped in dye before a duel : EPEES
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Squealed, as an informant : SANG
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___ gin fizz : SLOE
Down
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"Thar ___ blows!" : SHE
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Sing-along activity at a bar : KARAOKE
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Colorful shrubs in the genus Rhododendron : AZALEAS
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In an irritable mood : TESTY
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___ Stadium, former D.C. sports venue : RFK
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Boxer who "stung like a bee" : ALI
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Outset : GETGO
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Lucifer : SATAN
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Setting for "Make Way for Ducklings" : POND
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Sticky stuff : ADHESIVE
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Like most first-year college students : TEENAGE
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Groundbreaking invention for ancient farmers? : HOE
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Longtime sketch comedy show, in brief : SNL
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Before, poetically : ERE
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Not working, as a police officer : OFFDUTY
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Bird whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet : JAY
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Skilled : ADEPT
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Pack (down) : TAMP
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Rapper ___ Nas X : LIL
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U.F.O. crew : ETS
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Lower one's estimation of : DEVALUE
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Yiddish laments : OYS
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___ buddy : BOSOM
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Treat on a stick that you lick : POPSICLE
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Bread purchase : LOAF
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Styled after : ALA
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Parking place : LOT
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Put together, as a scrapbook : COMPILE
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Disengagement due to a conflict of interest : RECUSAL
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Left hanging between two stages : INLIMBO
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Praiseful poem : ODE
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Half-___ (coffee order) : CAF
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Bronze statue in Rockefeller Center : ATLAS
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High-end German camera brand : LEICA
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Things left after tearing checks out of checkbooks : STUBS
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Some bygone theaters : RKOS
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Revolutionary Guevara : CHE
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No-longer-cool way to say "cool" : HEP
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First channel to offer 24-hour reporting : CNN
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Beer barrel : KEG
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"Affirmative!" at sea : AYE

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