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New York Times, Thursday, June 5, 2025

Author:
Timothy Gaetz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?
TotalDebut
16/5/2025
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.51419%
Timothy Gaetz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 82, Blocks: 44 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 Grid has mirror symmetry. This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Gaetz. Thursday freshness: 9%
Jim Horne notes:
Have you been solving crosswords long enough to remember this puzzle from 1997? No IFs, ANDs, or BUTs means that: VERY → ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times6/5/25 ( No. 27,603 )
Across
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Toggle on a digital clock : AMPM
5
Leader of brothers : ABBOT
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Gillette razor : ATRA
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*Confirm to be true : VERIFY
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Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025 : PRIME
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*Someone who knows how the sausage gets made? : BUTCHER
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Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece : ODES
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Goliath : TITAN
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Coach's charge : TEAM
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Rainwater clearer : WIPER
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Unwanted "ingredient" when assembling s'mores, say : ASH
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___ love : PUPPY
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Mr. Spock, e.g. : ALIEN
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Clamorous : AROAR
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Cunning sort : SLYFOX
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"Finally!" : ATLAST
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Li'l belly : TUM
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*Formal expressions of praise : TRIBUTES
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Diminutive suffix in Spanish : ITO
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Like some coffees and mob targets : ICED
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Nickname for Louis Armstrong : SATCH
42
Activist Brockovich : ERIN
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Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad : NINE
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Supporting : FOR
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Stir up : RILE
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The Forbidden City's Meridian ___ : GATE
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*One who's conspicuously excellent : STANDOUT
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One standing near a pond, maybe : REED
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Animal symbol of innocence : DOE
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Biblical beast : ASS
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Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France's Lascaux Cave : ART
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Companionship? : ARK
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A club might be seen on one : ACE
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General name on a Chinese menu : TSO
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Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? : NOIFSANDSORBUTS
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Flat sign : TOLET
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Alley ___ : OOP
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Clichéd : BANAL
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Cluster in an archipelago : ISLES
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*Street urchins : WAIFS
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Professional writer of a sort : STENO
Down
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Proclaim : AVOW
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Lead-in to care : MEDI
3
Necessity for a reservation, perhaps : PREPAYMENT
4
Word that can redundantly follow "I" : MYSELF
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Inclined : APT
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Actor Cox of "Succession" : BRIAN
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*Armed thieves : BANDITS
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Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections : OMAHA
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This clue's number + one : TEN
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Not approximate, say : ACTUAL
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Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series : THEPRAIRIE
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Garner : REAP
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Huge fan club, so to speak : ARMY
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"Blame It on ___" (1984 Michael Caine rom-com) : RIO
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Shoot into the pocket, in snooker : POT
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Telephone no. add-ons : EXTS
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Hasty : RASH
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*Removing lumps from, in a way : SIFTING
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Saint in the Caribbean : LUCIA
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Barrier to entry : STILE
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*Like dress shirts, typically : BUTTONED
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Emergency item on a ship : RAFT
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Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance : ITOO
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Light shade : ECRU
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*Showed for the first time : DEBUTED
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*Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc. : ERRANDS
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Antidotes, perhaps : SERA
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Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it's a sandwich : TACO
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Kilns for hops : OASTS
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Neighbors of Croats : SERBS
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Not supporting : ANTI
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Down Under bounders : ROOS
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Cultivate : TILL
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Have down : KNOW
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What Indiana Jones famously isn't fond of : ASPS
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Get ready to hit all the right notes? : TUNE
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1970s tennis champ Smith : STAN
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Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace : OSLO
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Cost of doing business, maybe : FEE
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Doomed from the get-go, for short : DOA
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Cave dweller : BAT

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

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