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New York Times, Friday, August 29, 2025

Author:
Jesse Cohn
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
High-quality flavoring for salad dressings, in brief
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Jesse Cohn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXYZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Cohn. Friday freshness: 25%
Jim Horne notes:

EVOO stands for Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

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© 2025, The New York Times8/29/25 ( No. 27,688 )
Across
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Coaster, usually : DISC
5
Start of some temple names : BNAI
9
Bug spray ingredient : DEET
13
Kind of rover : LUNAR
14
Figure with two tails : BELLCURVE
16
Habitation : ABODE
17
Queen's guard? : KILLERBEE
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Language whose name consists of four consecutive U.S. state postal abbreviations : MANDARIN
20
Genre for 5-Down : BLUES
21
Certain graph shape : PIE
22
Word with Man or can : TIN
23
Per ___ : DIEM
24
Places where it's OK to push someone at school : SWINGSETS
27
Evidence of a fire : ASH
30
Christmas story villain : HEROD
31
Plot device in many a rom-com : MEETCUTE
33
Samurai with no master : RONIN
34
Big bust : DUD
35
Little pieces : IOTAS
36
Welcome sight for a business : CUSTOMER
38
What fan fiction is not : CANON
39
"Odds" follower : ARE
40
Loaded with excitement : FUNFILLED
42
Blow off steam, say : RANT
43
Start to do? : DEE
44
Some Slack convos : IMS
47
Happiness and excitement, for two : MOODS
49
Four-star review, say : ILOVEDIT
51
Spitting contest? : RAPBATTLE
53
Manage to lose : EVADE
54
Some workplace perks : FREEMEALS
55
"Seriously!," in slang : NOCAP
56
Fighters on the beach in 2023's "Barbie" : KENS
57
Old car concern : RUST
58
Preschoolers, e.g. : TOTS
Down
1
Home to the torus-shaped Museum of the Future : DUBAI
2
By some measure : INONESENSE
3
Safety org. for young people : SADD
4
Painting on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, with "The" : CREATIONOFADAM
5
"The Thrill Is Gone" musician, 1970 : BBKING
6
Kant's "no" : NEIN
7
Even more than most : ALL
8
"OK, now you've got me intrigued ..." : ILLBITE
9
Macaroni wheat : DURUM
10
Kathryn of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" : ERBE
11
Anticipatory times : EVES
12
Anger, with "off" : TEE
13
Lantern, e.g. : LAMP
15
Eclipse, for one : CELESTIALEVENT
19
Peel : RIND
23
Proof of a plot : DEED
25
Order in the court : WRIT
26
1980s cartoon foe of Gargamel : SMURF
27
Library regular, perhaps : AUTODIDACT
28
Eminem song that samples Dido : STAN
29
"___ a real nowhere man ..." : HES
30
Billing unit : HOUR
32
Dog's post-op wear : CONE
33
Label that sold the first 33 1/3 r.p.m. records : RCA
34
Make an impression on : DENT
37
Member of a 1960s TV family : MUNSTER
38
Geppetto's pet goldfish in Disney's "Pinocchio" : CLEO
41
Least active : IDLEST
42
They might hang out in a hotel room : ROBES
45
Big name in mufflers : MIDAS
46
Bit of a how-to : STEP
47
Stable mate : MARE
48
Move the first pawn, say : OPEN
49
Troubles : ILLS
50
High-quality flavoring for salad dressings, in brief : EVOO
51
Inits. of the statesman who said "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly" : RFK
52
Time constant symbol in physics : TAU

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

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