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Making Arrangements

New York Times, Sunday, June 1, 2025

Author:
Sam Brody
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Aid-de-camp?
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Sam Brody

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 71 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 2 This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Brody. Sunday freshness: 5%
Will Shortz notes:
Sam Brody, of Brooklyn, is a research scientist and software engineer specializing in Natural Language Processing. He has been constructing crosswords since 2022. This is his first for The ... read more
Jim Horne notes:

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© 2025, The New York Times6/1/25 ( No. 27,599 )
Across
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Warm shade of brown : PECAN
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Otherwise : ELSE
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Place : STEAD
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"In that case …" : IFSO
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Warm shade of white : IVORY
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Leader of the world's smallest country : POPE
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Vice follower : VERSA
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Cambodian cash : RIEL
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LEGAL NICETY : GENETICALLYENGINEERED
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Whole lot : SLEW
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"___, so good!" (furniture store pun) : SOFA
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Example of industry in Proverbs 6:6-9 : ANT
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They might be ripe for changing : DIAPERS
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Polish language : EDIT
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Camera inits. : SLR
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Coerced (into) : PRESSED
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Magicians' cries : TADAS
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Bridge support : PYLON
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Suffers the cost : PAYS
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Substance adapted to lab use by Fanny Hesse in 1881 : AGAR
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Grow weary : TIRE
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Kind of policy that encourages transparency from leadership : OPENDOOR
49
"OMG, enough!" : TMI
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Northwestern abode : DORM
54
Rent : LET
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GLIBNESS : MIXEDBLESSING
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One "M" of the M.M.R. vaccine : MEASLES
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Inflation meas. : PSI
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"Paradise ___" : LOST
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Pepsi, e.g. : COLA
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Big Apple airport code : LGA
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Guess : TAKEASTAB
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Obvious choice : NOBRAINER
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Org. enabled by the 16th Amendment : IRS
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Smell : ODOR
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On : ATOP
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Darn, say : SEW
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Home of Morehouse College : ATLANTA
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RESIST : TWISTEDSISTER
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One may be fawning : DOE
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European capital through which the Akerselva flows : OSLO
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Chill : ICE
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Pod or husk, botanically : SEEDCASE
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Army NCO : SSGT
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Word after game or floor : PLAN
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Sweden joined it in 2024 : NATO
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Consumed : EATEN
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Peddled things : WARES
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Hawaiian song of farewell : ALOHAOE
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Meas. roughly equivalent to 10 billion 12-Downs : BTU
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Bit of equipment for a vault : POLE
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Layer : STRATUM
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Surveillance org. : NSA
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Nerve : GALL
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Give for free : COMP
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ROYAL PERMIT : TEMPORARILYOUTOFORDER
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Number after zwei : DREI
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Carbon copy : CLONE
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Weakness : FLAW
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Confident bearing : POISE
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___ Lee : SARA
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Cut down : HEWED
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Hot things, briefly : FADS
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Adjust : TWEAK
Down
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Unlikely fliers, in a saying : PIGS
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First name in stunts : EVEL
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Obstacle course element : CONE
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"Is that all you have to tell me?" : AREWEDONE
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Big Apple media inits. : NYT
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Park known as a "permanent world's fair" : EPCOT
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Take things easy : LOAF
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Ostentatious : SPLASHY
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___ sauce (condiment also called nitsume) : EEL
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Nonspeaking character in "Frozen" : SVEN
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Aid-de-camp? : TENTPEG
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Piece of work? : ERG
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Excluding : ASIDEFROM
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Bakery treat : DANISH
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"In case my message isn't landing …" : IREPEAT
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It might begin with a false alarm : FIREDRILL
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Fortuneteller : SEER
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Early automaker : OLDS
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Egyptian fertility goddess : ISIS
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Muffler material, maybe : YARN
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Comfort : EASE
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Fantasy role-playing game, for short : DANDD
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Endures : LASTS
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Way out of town, perhaps : ROAD
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Author's assistant : TYPIST
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Loss of the ability to read : ALEXIA
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Is so inclined : CARESTO
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Narrow the gap with, competitively : GAINON
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Branching diagram : TREE
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Ceremony : POMP
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Some collared shirts : POLOS
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Figures in some storied abductions, for short : ETS
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Regional divisions in Russia : OBLASTS
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It may be dropped for effect : MIC
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Lose progress, in a way : RELAPSE
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Members of a priestly caste of ancient Persia : MAGI
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German town : STADT
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Rudely revel in victory, say : GLOAT
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Japanese honorific : SAN
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Two-version marketing experiments : ABTESTS
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Rio maker : KIA
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Puzzlemaker Rubik : ERNO
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Fiddler's skill : BOWING
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Wyoming's Cheyenne Frontier Days, e.g. : RODEO
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What you will : ESTATE
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Brand with cup sizes from "minis" to "world's largest" : REESES
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Rock's Ocasek : RIC
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Small songbird : WREN
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Oft-skipped podcast parts : ADS
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Fling : TOSS
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Accessory in a Jane Fonda workout video : LEGWARMER
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He's a head of the pack : ALPHAMALE
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French upper house : SENAT
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Faultless : IDEAL
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Faux gardener, so to speak : SCARECROW
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Butter substitute : OLEO
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Popular food fish or its genus name : TILAPIA
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Fundamental building block of DNA : ADENINE
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Green often found in mixed greens : ARUGULA
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Revealer of "the man behind the curtain" : TOTO
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Center of mass? : CHURCH
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Site with a "Clothing, Shoes & Accessories" section : EBAY
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Fairy tale villain : WOLF
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Clears of snow, say : PLOWS
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Conventions: Abbr. : STDS
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Trillion: Prefix : TERA
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Runner on runners : SLED
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Somewhat : ATAD
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Slobbery cartoon pet : ODIE
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Arizona's third-largest city : MESA
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Early education option, for short : PREK
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Desirable formation for ducks : ROW
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Awry : OFF
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Elect : OPT

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

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