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New York Times, Monday, July 21, 2025

Author:
Katy Steinmetz and Rich Katz
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Their are fore of them hear in this sentance
TotalDebutCollabs
17/21/20251
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0100000
ScrabDebutFresh
1.63311%
Katy Steinmetz
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
71/29/20237/21/20253
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
4101100
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
111.633740%
Rich Katz

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 42 Missing: {FJQX} Spans: 3 This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Steinmetz. This is puzzle # 7 for Mr. Katz. Monday freshness: 38%
Jim Horne notes:

Fun theme.

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© 2025, The New York Times7/21/25 ( No. 27,649 )
Across
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K-pop supergroup : BTS
4
What an angry customer may leave : NOTIP
9
Vast Mongolian desert : GOBI
13
Google.com, e.g. : URL
14
Sound heard before "Bless you!" : ACHOO
15
One producing cakes and cookies : BAKER
16
Successful throws to the end zone : TOUCHDOWNPASSES
19
Heinie : TUSH
20
Côte d'___ (French Riviera) : AZUR
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Regular 6 p.m. broadcast of daily events : THEEVENINGNEWS
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Regretted : RUED
30
___-weenie : TEENIE
31
Big TV network in the U.K. : BBC
34
Take the ___ (acquire control) : REINS
37
Threadbare : WORN
38
Vans from hotels to terminals and back : AIRPORTSHUTTLES
42
Sports org. at the center of a 2021 antitrust ruling : NCAA
43
Ones crossing picket lines : SCABS
44
Ending with lemon or orange : ADE
45
Rejected, as an application : DENIED
48
Enjoy a book or magazine : READ
50
Their are fore of them hear in this sentance : SPELLINGERRORS
55
"Gotcha" : ISEE
56
Series of push-ups or curls at a gym : REPS
58
Slogan for the Pokémon franchise ... also appropriate for 16-, 21-, 38- and 50-Across? : GOTTACATCHEMALL
65
Actress Amy or President John Quincy : ADAMS
66
Like the boonies : RURAL
67
Abbreviation for an Army absence : MIA
68
Mercedes-___ : BENZ
69
Pluckiness : SPUNK
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Place for a pig : STY
Down
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Remainder of a cigarette : BUTT
2
Word after rainbow or steelhead : TROUT
3
Watery snow : SLUSH
4
"Gonna pass" : NAH
5
Anxiety-related condition, for short : OCD
6
Even if, informally : THO
7
Des Moines denizen : IOWAN
8
___ scheme (financial fraud) : PONZI
9
Purchase at a pump : GAS
10
Gives the go-ahead : OKS
11
"Busy" buzzer : BEE
12
Org. that orders audits : IRS
15
Flat-bottomed boat : BARGE
17
One-named singer of "If I Could Turn Back Time" : CHER
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Common fourth-and-long decision : PUNT
22
Currency in Lyon but not London : EURO
23
Swerve : VEER
24
Does some copy desk work : EDITS
25
Semiaquatic salamander : NEWT
26
___ Holmes (Sherlock's sister, on Netflix) : ENOLA
27
Overcaffeinated, colloquially : WIRED
28
Have a feeling : SENSE
31
Lineup at Woodstock or Coachella : BANDS
32
Muscle used in pull-ups, informally : BICEP
33
Basic bird made in origami : CRANE
35
Situation Room grp. : NSC
36
What two toddlers should learn to do : SHARE
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Aid in making a sandcastle : PAIL
40
Lyft rival : UBER
41
Bygone Russian ruler : TSAR
46
Man's name that is an anagram of AISLE : ELIAS
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Kind of golf that uses baskets instead of holes : DISC
49
Housing on a college quad : DORM
51
Gets closer : NEARS
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Elaborate outfit : GETUP
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Quantities of paper : REAMS
54
Treat with bananas and ice cream : SPLIT
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Kill it, in a good way : SLAY
58
Gossip, gossip, gossip : GAB
59
Positive poem : ODE
60
Something to pick up at a beach? : TAN
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Celebrity gossip website : TMZ
62
Word on a French wine label : CRU
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___ Solo of "Star Wars" : HAN
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Animal with a fraternal order named after it : ELK

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

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