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New York Times, Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Author:
Ilana Levene and Scott Hogan
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"Work on your enunciation, bro!"
TotalDebutCollabs
15/21/20251
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.60558%
Ilana Levene
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
57/10/20225/21/20255
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4001000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.604654%
Scott Hogan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Levene. This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Hogan. Wednesday freshness: 88%
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© 2025, The New York Times5/21/25 ( No. 27,588 )
Across
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Word with chocolate or computer : CHIP
5
Thompson or Stone of 2021's "Cruella" : EMMA
9
Fragment : SHARD
14
Sci-fi novel with giant sandworms : DUNE
15
Help for a faltering business : LOAN
16
Type of hunter-gatherer diet : PALEO
17
"Smile for the photo, dude!" : CHEESEDOG
19
Able to bend smoothly : LITHE
20
Fragment : SLIVER
21
Mythological instruments of vengeance : FURIES
22
Contractor's pipe material, for short : PVC
24
"Work on your enunciation, bro!" : DELIVERYMAN
26
Omen : PORTENT
28
Little bit of work : ERG
29
"The most beautiful deception of all," per Debussy : ART
30
Tedious work : SLOG
31
Much social media humor : MEMES
33
"That is messed up, girl!" : TWISTEDSISTER
39
___ and foremost : FIRST
40
Origin crossers : AXES
42
Marshland : FEN
45
Org. whose officers train at Camp Peary : CIA
46
Cause to jump, say : STARTLE
49
"Protect the quarterback, buddy!" : BLOCKBUSTER
52
Pupil's place : EYE
53
Best way to sing : INTUNE
54
What "sostenuto" means in music : LONGER
56
Cuba ___ (drink) : LIBRE
57
"That's unbelievable, love!" : WILDHONEY
60
Diarist Nin : ANAIS
61
Leave out : OMIT
62
Finger : NAME
63
Seems to point to : BODES
64
"Damned if ___ …" : WEDO
65
Put on a schedule : SLOT
Down
1
Atlanta-based govt. agency : CDC
2
"Come again?" : HUH
3
How some funds are held : INESCROW
4
What old paint might do : PEEL
5
Smallest three-syllable number : ELEVEN
6
Tin lizzie : MODELT
7
Language in which "Kia ora" means "Hello" : MAORI
8
Director Lee : ANG
9
Goes for the expensive option, say : SPLURGES
10
Sticky, as a situation : HAIRY
11
Nissan sedan : ALTIMA
12
Try again : REHEAR
13
"That ___ ring a bell" : DOESNT
18
One of two on a record : SIDE
21
Physicist Enrico : FERMI
22
Afterthought's afterthought: Abbr. : PPS
23
Plug-in Chevy : VOLT
25
Geese formations : VEES
27
Cry near quittin' time : TGIF
31
Colorado summer hrs. : MDT
32
Classic cookie cutter shape : STAR
34
Something feigned by Ferris Bueller to get out of school : SICKNESS
35
Shoshone, e.g. : TRIBE
36
Biblical birthright barterer : ESAU
37
Not from within : EXTERNAL
38
Depend (on) : RELY
41
"Get it?" : SEE
42
Forensics HQ in Quantico, Va. : FBILAB
43
Cause of some turbulent weather : ELNINO
44
"That's halfway decent!" : NOTBAD
46
Like a good poker face : STOLID
47
Look after : TENDTO
48
Cry of frustration : ARGH
50
Marie who is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different science fields : CURIE
51
Ectoplasmic residue : SLIME
55
Many ages : EONS
57
"Mind. Blown." : WOW
58
Brooding music genre : EMO
59
So far : YET

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