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New York Times, Saturday, July 12, 2025

Author:
Katie Hoody
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JKQZ} Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Hoody. Saturday freshness: 5%
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© 2025, The New York Times7/12/25 ( No. 27,640 )
Across
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"That was fun!" : WHATABLAST
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Actress Diana of "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020) : RIGG
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One might start fermenting in the kitchen : HOMEBREWER
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Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title : ITOO
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It features high wind movements : OBOESONATA
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Latin for "goodbye" : VALE
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What might be seen around a star : POSSE
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Shape of Saturn's rings : DISC
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Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned" : ALDA
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Spot for newborn care : NEST
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Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing : ELLIES
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Earth's crust and others : STRATA
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Shade akin to bone or eggshell : ECRU
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"No preference" : ANY
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Snobby sort : PRIG
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Bring up to date, perhaps : REDO
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Terms of a trade : LINGO
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With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one's favorite band : EAGERLY
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Quinta of "Abbott Elementary" : BRUNSON
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Lose, as a tail : EVADE
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Build up : RISE
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Its official languages are Chamorro and English : GUAM
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"Dese ___ Dose" (Glenn Miller composition) : DEM
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Mideast port with a natural harbor : ADEN
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Faint : FEEBLE
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Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award : CLAIRE
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Symbol of defiance and solidarity : FIST
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Period ender : HORN
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Waste : BLOW
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Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan : HYENA
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Big ones can be difficult to manage : EGOS
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One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day : ROBODIALER
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___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines : SULU
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Convention challenger : ICONOCLAST
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Look : SEEM
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Adjunct faculty? : SIXTHSENSE
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Smack : WHOP
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Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway : HOBO
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Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "an extremist for justice" in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail" : AMOS
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Youth baseball supporters : TEES
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Skipping music, say : ABSENT
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"Amigo!" : BRO
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Spots, so to speak : LENDS
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See 38-Across : AWAITED
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Staging areas : SETS
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Detective, at times : TRACER
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Sooner, to a Longhorn : RIVAL
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Order that might include mortadella and capicola : ITALIANSUB
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First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer : GOLDENGOAL
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"I'm ready, but be nice" : GOEASYONME
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Rap's ___ Sweatshirt : EARL
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Doozy : LULU
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Rush to find a mate? : SPEEDCHESS
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Many a book by Paul Theroux : TRAVELOGUE
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Series of hoops and hurdles : RIGAMAROLE
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Went from 0 to 60? : AGED
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Cylindrical grain holders : COBS
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Jane who says "Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation" : EYRE
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Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer : INGE
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Buns : REAR
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Enforcers of rules, informally : REFS
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Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia : INFOBOX
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Waste : DEBRIS
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Important subject in law school : ETHICS
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"What it boils down to is this …" : INSUM
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[stomps foot down] : IWONT
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Spots : LOCI
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Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor : YALE
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Zip : ELAN
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Wit's end? : NESS
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Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo : ARTE
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"I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" ("The Simpsons" episode) : DOH

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

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