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New York Times, Saturday, August 23, 2025

Author:
Ryan Judge
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
"I've helped all I can"
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Ryan Judge

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 34 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Judge. Saturday freshness: 24%
Ryan Judge notes:
Welcome back to edition 4 of Ryan Judge Saturday! This puzzle has a couple baseball clues which is turning into a hallmark of mine, ... read more
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© 2025, The New York Times8/23/25 ( No. 27,682 )
Across
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Relative of upward dog, to 50-Down : COBRAPOSE
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Many Intuit employees, for short : CPAS
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Noted line in Buddhism : DALAILAMAS
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International grocery chain founded in Germany : ALDI
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Galaxy program, e.g. : ANDROIDAPP
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Break : REST
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Rapper whose father is the jazz musician Olu Dara : NAS
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Certain tray's contents : ASH
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Country whose name is an anagram of a common means of getting there : NEPAL
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Makes rapidly, with "out" : CRANKS
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Mutually accepts : AGREESON
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M.L.B. All-Star closer ___ Díaz : EDWIN
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Staple at a car wash : RAG
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One might be fragile : EGO
31
Product pitched by a pitcher : KOOLAID
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Drew Carey once called it "crossword puzzle cheese" on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" : EDAM
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"I've helped all I can" : MYJOBHEREISDONE
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Steven ___, Best Actor nominee for 2020's "Minari" : YEUN
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Field goal announcement : ITSGOOD
42
___ Hill : SAM
43
Bit of drag attire : BOA
44
Hands, humorously : MITTS
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Hit list : TOPFORTY
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Eye up and down : LEERAT
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Japanese healing technique : REIKI
53
Medical lead-in to -scope : OTO
55
Type of alcoholic beverage that originated in the U.K., despite its name : IPA
56
Overturn : UNDO
57
Plant-based meat alternative that sizzles : VEGANBACON
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One's primary character, in video game lingo : MAIN
62
Criminal mastermind : EVILGENIUS
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Very vocal avian : MYNA
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Purr-fect adoptee : RESCUECAT
Down
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Unfounded rumor : CANARD
2
Tired expression : OLDSAW
3
Something that can be raised or passed : BAR
4
Mexico's ___ Conchos : RIO
5
Literally, "at another time" : ALIAS
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Artificially inflates : PADS
7
City where the Men's College World Series takes place : OMAHA
8
Stuff boiled in sugar shacks : SAP
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Place to hear game results and analysis : ESPNRADIO
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"___ noctem" (motto meaning "go enjoy the night") : CARPE
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"By all means, go ahead!" : PLEASEDO
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Jingle accompaniment : ADSLOGAN
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Remain untouched : SIT
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Take a series of steps? : DANCE
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Hosp. test : EEG
23
Japanese company whose products click with customers : NIKON
24
Dresser part : KNOB
26
Composer of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" : GRIEG
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Destination of an annual race since 1973 : NOME
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It's formed in Pittsburgh : OHIORIVER
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Allowed to strike : LETAT
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Horace's "___ Poetica" : ARS
35
Boy on "The Munsters" : EDDIE
36
Island in a classic video game : MYST
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"What's your decision?" : YEAORNAY
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Joined enthusiastically : JUMPEDIN
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Word before how or where, but not who : SOME
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___ choy : BOK
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White House daughter of the 1960s-'70s : TRICIA
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Have no more money to bet : TAPOUT
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Is really into, in slang : STANS
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Animated princess of film : FIONA
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1-Across teachers : YOGIS
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Cute sound? : LONGU
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Mineral with a Mohs hardness of 1 : TALC
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"Lemme think ..." : UMM
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Night to remember, perhaps : EVE
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Busy ___ : BEE
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Anti-apartheid party, in brief : ANC

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