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New York Times, Thursday, August 21, 2025

Author:
Simeon Seigel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
*Person who persists in a hopeless cause
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Simeon Seigel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 16 Words: 81, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 19 for Mr. Seigel. Thursday freshness: 88%
Jim Horne notes:
To match the starred clues, answers go across to the end, and then bounce up. But since what goes up must come down, they follow the track back ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times8/21/25 ( No. 27,680 )
Across
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50 things on the Argo : OARS
5
Units equal to nine inches : SPANS
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Needing more salt, perhaps : ICIER
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Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium : KLEE
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What pronouns and their antecedents should do : AGREE
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*Person who persists in a hopeless cause : BITTERENDER
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Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony : SIVA
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*Wildlife parks : GAMERESERVES
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Layer of bricks : MASON
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Show obeisance : BOWTO
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Smart TV features : DVRS
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Eye covering : LID
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*Enjoy the moment, say : TAKEITIN
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Name on a check : PAYEE
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Porter of Broadway : COLE
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Sucker's lament : IBEENHAD
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Repeat : SAYOVER
34
Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels" : LADD
35
Bit of Q.E.D. : ERAT
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Features of some stadia : DOMES
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Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues : WHATGOESUP
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Big name in Russian ballet : KIROV
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Capital on the Mediterranean : EURO
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Blew away : AWED
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Legislative bodies : SENATES
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Old wide-screen format : CINERAMA
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Crime show extra, informally : PERP
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Lead-in to "they" : HESHE
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*Storm-tracking aid : LIVERADAR
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Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief : IPA
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Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck : ZORK
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Partner of older : WISER
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Guardian spirits : GENII
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*Musical appreciation? : TONYAWARD
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Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn : ODIN
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*Forming a union : ORGANIZING
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___ Day (April celebration) : ARBOR
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A or B, e.g. : NOTE
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Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22) : TSENG
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Score keeper? : STAND
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Peeved state : SNIT
Down
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Gives a "go" : OKS
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Fictional character with a famous opening line : ALIBABA
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Took back : REVOKED
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Sushi treatment that's also a spa treatment : SEAWEEDWRAP
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Palm starch : SAGO
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___ Tour : PGA
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What's off to the side in a selfie : ARM
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Demanding attention : NEEDY
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Waits on : SERVES
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Watson and Deep Blue, for two : IBMS
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Grp. aptly hidden in "special ops" : CIA
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"We're head over heels!" : ITSLOVE
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Prima ballerinas : ETOILES
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Melt down : RENDER
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___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 1810 : TIN
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Turns the page, say : READSON
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Up to : TIL
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Take leave of each other : PART
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Just saying? : ADAGE
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Taste tests, e.g. : COMPARISONS
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Boot : HEAVEHO
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Pronoun repeated in "___ do ___" : YOU
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Graze : TOUCH
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Above 500 on the Scoville scale : HOT
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Lake that's home to Kelleys Island : ERIE
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Best candidates for permanent relationships : KEEPERS
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Callable, say : INRANGE
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Gestured to keep moving : WAVEDON
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Some retired faculty : EMERITI
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___ es Salaam : DAR
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Tap : SPIGOT
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Certain mattresses : SERTAS
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Name that means "my God" in Hebrew : ELI
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Bit of hybrid field hockey attire : SKORT
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Criticize wittily : ZING
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District : WARD
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Holm or McKellen of "The Hobbit" : IAN
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Wizards' org. : NBA
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Over there : YON
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Mesh : NET

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

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