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New York Times, Friday, June 20, 2025

Author:
Adrianne Baik
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"Looks like it's settled!"
TotalDebut
16/20/2025
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.55461%
Adrianne Baik

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 28 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 6, (2 triple stacks) This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Baik. Friday freshness: 22%
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© 2025, The New York Times6/20/25 ( No. 27,618 )
Across
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"Looks like it's settled!" : THATANSWERSTHAT
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Cultural attraction in London's Covent Garden neighborhood : ROYALOPERAHOUSE
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Campaign reminder : EVERYVOTECOUNTS
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Brief moment in time : SEC
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Medical drama sites, for short : ERS
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Queen Elizabeth II owned over 30 of them : CORGIS
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Sound from a crib : RATTLE
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Concave cooking items : WOKS
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One side of a list : PROS
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K : THOU
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___ Jung-jae, Emmy-winning star of "Squid Game" : LEE
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Sci-fi droid, familiarly : ARTOO
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Crux : MAINPOINT
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Go about : ROAM
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Loose items in a purse, perhaps : COINS
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Reddit rule enforcers : MODS
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Retro means of communication : FLIPPHONE
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Variety of violet : PANSY
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Jaden Smith, to Will Smith : SON
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Torn : RENT
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Hairstyles that can be "messy" : BUNS
43
Leaning : BIAS
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Like Greenland : DANISH
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Part of many a car's dashboard : CDSLOT
49
"You can no more win a ___ than you can win an earthquake": Jeannette Rankin : WAR
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Trendy : HIP
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Nonchalant comeback : HATERSGONNAHATE
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Very, very close : ONINTIMATETERMS
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Everybody's talking about it : WORDONTHESTREET
Down
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"___ jolie!" : TRES
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Appear overprotective, say : HOVER
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Mate's reply : AYECAPTAIN
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Natural pitch : TAR
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Olympian Raisman : ALY
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They're long stories : NOVELS
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Mushroom-to-be : SPORE
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Makes slick : WETS
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Before, in a poem : ERE
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Masked bandits? : RACCOONS
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In a state : SHOOKUP
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Offerings at colleges and museums : TOURS
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Was suspended : HUNG
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Bubbly option : ASTI
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Model Holliday : TESS
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Trudge : TROMP
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What "2" can stand for : TOO
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Puppy's plaint : WHINE
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Spoil : TAINT
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This is the greatest part! : LIONSSHARE
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Winds up : ENDS
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Its first sale was a flamingo-print zip pouch for $8 : ETSY
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Pet sayings? : ARFS
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Caramel-filled sweet : ROLO
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Idly dreams : MOONS
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Dweller near Dubai : OMANI
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Moves slightly closer, as a baseball fielder : CHEATSIN
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Preceding : PRIORTO
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"I was reading a book about mazes ... I got lost in it," e.g. : PUN
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Big name in bookstores : BARNES
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Coffee roaster's creation : BLEND
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Writer with a monument in Florence's Piazza Santa Croce : DANTE
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Request by those under 21 : HITME
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Munch : CHOW
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Actor Paul of "12 Years a Slave" : DANO
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Mix up : STIR
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"OMG!," in a modern spelling : WOAH
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Little annoyance : PEST
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Clock standard: Abbr. : GMT
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T-Mobile competitor, for short : ATT
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Old what's-___-name : HER

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

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