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New York Times, Friday, June 26, 2026

Author:
Spencer Leach
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
21-Across : Spanish "both"
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85/13/20236/26/20262
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Spencer Leach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Leach. Grid flow: 39.1 Friday freshness: 48%
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© 2026, The New York Times6/26/26 ( No. 27,989 )
Across
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Hectic time for JFK : XMAS
5
Bar of note? : FRET
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Texter's "Hang on a sec" : BRB
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Tightfisted sort : MISER
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Took an Uber, say : RODE
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Top banana : CZAR
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Biggest restaurant size that nevertheless is often topped? : EXTRALARGEPIZZA
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Logic gate that is only on when neither input is : NOR
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Like many films in teaser trailers : NOTYETRATED
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Spanish "both" : LOSDOS
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Top banana, for short : CEO
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Ocean-mapping instruments : SONARS
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Upper limit that cannot be exceeded : HARDCAP
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Torment : AGONY
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Symbol in the Kentucky Derby logo : ROSE
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Jazz singer Anita : ODAY
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Holders of nets : RIMS
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Schlepped : TOTED
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SCOTUS head count : NINE
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"Got it" : ISEE
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Those for : AYES
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Sing like Sinatra : CROON
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Mickey Mouse : TRIVIAL
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Jewelry fasteners : CLASPS
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___ will : ILL
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Slangy response to a knock at the door : WHODAT
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Onetime rap group whose initials spell out a synonym for "Jump Around," appropriately : HOUSEOFPAIN
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Unresponsive, maybe, for short : MIA
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Current affairs? : ELECTRODYNAMICS
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Polite request : MAYI
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Public transport option : TRAM
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Popular toys, in a plural form officially discouraged by their maker : LEGOS
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___ admin (I.T. role) : SYS
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"Look, here's the deal ..." : OKSO
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Refuses to : WONT
Down
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Group of mutants : XMEN
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Expert on cosmos? : MIXOLOGIST
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Expert on the cosmos : ASTRONOMER
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"To be," in Tijuana : SER
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Goals for those in a rush, informally : FRATS
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Golf great McIlroy : RORY
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Unlikely scenarios, in techspeak : EDGECASES
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Vacillated : TEETERED
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[WRONG!] : BZZT
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Level : RAZE
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Two-pronged fastener : BRAD
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Was used up : RANDRY
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Stan's workplace on "American Dad!," for short : CIA
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Places to go in the U.K. : LOOS
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Spur : PROD
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Third-generation Japanese American : SANSEI
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Draped garment : SARI
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Resting place : HOTEL
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Pulitzer-winning poet Aiken : CONRAD
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"Later, dude!" : ADIOSAMIGO
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Prison design that allows one guard to keep watch on all the inmates : PANOPTICON
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Chess tactic in which the king and queen are attacked simultaneously by a single piece : ROYALFORK
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Itches : YENS
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Personalize for : TAILORTO
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Like offspring in a strictly asexual lineage : CLONAL
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___ Nam : VIET
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Likely contact point of an uppercut : CHIN
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Self-driving car company started by Google : WAYMO
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Closes (in) : HEMS
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Big name in skin care : OLAY
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Some missed-exit maneuvers, informally : UEYS
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Poli-___ (certain college major, for short) : SCI
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Smartphone predecessors, for short : PDAS
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Second: Abbr. : ASST
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Copy cats? : MEW

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