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New York Times, Saturday, July 5, 2025

Author:
Tracy Bennett
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Eerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelike
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
87/21/20137/5/20251
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
30101111
ScrabDebutFresh
1.575978%
Tracy Bennett

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JWXZ} This is puzzle # 8 for Ms. Bennett. Saturday freshness: 52%
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© 2025, The New York Times7/5/25 ( No. 27,633 )
Across
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Break off : STOP
5
French musician/composer ___ Tiersen : YANN
9
Come to : REACH
14
Kind of survivor : LONE
15
Name hidden in "disobedience" : EDIE
16
Zhou of Chinese history : ENLAI
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Yard, e.g. : UNIT
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Some stain preventers : SOFACOVERS
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Challenges for management : EGOS
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Oil smugglers? : ARTTHIEVES
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Eerie phenomenon when a robot seems too lifelike : UNCANNYVALLEY
24
Newspaper in Boston or Miami : HERALD
25
Bone, in Bologna : OSSO
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Neutralize bad karma, say : ATONE
27
Bad guys : CADS
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Michigan's ___ Marquette River (waterway named for a missionary) : PERE
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It's nothing : NIL
34
*, to a typist : STARKEY
37
Babe, for one : PIG
38
Muscle named for its shape, for short : DELT
40
"What's the big ___?" : IDEA
41
Getting in one guess, as Wordle : ACING
43
Fencing option : EPEE
45
Like Brutalist architecture : BLOCKY
46
Subject of the books "Jonathan Loved David" and "Take Back the Word" : QUEERTHEOLOGY
50
Alley oops : GUTTERBALL
51
Noble title : LADY
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Rigid sort of interpreter : LITERALIST
54
Gal(lic) pal : AMIE
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Glass production : OPERA
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Brendon of Panic! at the Disco : URIE
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"99 Luftballons" singer : NENA
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Blow out : BURST
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Got a load of : EYED
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Somewhat audible disparagements : TSKS
Down
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Careen wildly : SLUE
2
Leave lost for words : TONGUETIE
3
Jewish bakery specialty : ONIONROLL
4
3-D diagnostic test : PETSCAN
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One of the pillars of improv : YESAND
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Bedeck : ADORN
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Swell : NIFTY
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It's a straight shot : NEATVODKA
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Keeps greasing that squeaky wheel? : REOILS
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Blanket : ENVELOP
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Pain relief brand : ALEVE
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Drew on a TV : CAREY
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Somewhat audible disparagement : HISS
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Dance move that slid into English as "sashay" : CHASSE
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They're not as sweet as porters : ALES
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What may be raised at a meeting : HAND
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Uniform shade : CADETBLUE
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Could be certain? : ARE
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Fortnite developer : EPICGAMES
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Small-time : RINKYDINK
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Like flans and frittatas : EGGY
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Earth : sun :: ___ : sol : TIERRA
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Colloquial collective : YALL
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Is on the brink, say : TEETERS
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Radiator fluid : COOLANT
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Squint to see : PEERAT
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Very secure, in a way : BOLTED
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Record-keeping device made of strings and knots : QUIPU
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Complete : UTTER
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Like a perilous situation : HAIRY
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Woman's name that becomes another woman's name if you reverse the third and fourth letters : ELSIE
50
Liquidy lump : GLOB
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Votes for : YEAS

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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