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New York Times, Saturday, August 29, 2026

Author:
Rafael Musa and Kate Chin Park
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
34-Down : Former
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
2910/21/20228/29/202621
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60001166
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21.5619647.276%
Rafael Musa
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
410/2/20228/29/20262
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
00000121
ScrabDebutFlowFresh
1.451454.086%
Kate Chin Park

This puzzle:

Rows: 16, Columns: 15 Words: 69, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQVXZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. Musa. This is puzzle # 4 for Ms. Park. Grid flow: 73.8 Saturday freshness: 77%
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© 2026, The New York Times8/29/26 ( No. 28,053 )
Across
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Main characters for an early reader : ABCS
5
They get rings for hoops : NBACHAMPS
14
Skin-care brand known for its pore strips : BIORE
15
Large restaurant vessel shaped like another vessel : SUSHIBOAT
16
Conference handout : IDTAG
17
Dubious sighting in the night sky : ALIENSHIP
18
Started to boil : GOTMAD
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Work, as a joke : LAND
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Romance author Huang : ANA
22
They might be rehabbed with knee flexion : ACLS
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His #33 was retired by the Knicks in 2003 : EWING
25
Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, with "The" : PITT
26
Personne canonisée: Abbr. : STE
27
___ Capital, investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney : BAIN
28
Hits the mark, in a way : PARS
29
Many people climb it : SOCIALLADDER
33
Naturally concluded : RANITSCOURSE
35
Ones giving a toast at an outdoor party? : PATIOHEATERS
37
Court session, perhaps : TENNISLESSON
39
Like much of Libya : ARID
41
Depicting the world bleakly and cynically : NOIR
42
Put your back into it : TRY
43
"Sweet dreams are made of cheese / Who am I to dis a ___?" (parody lyrics) : BRIE
44
Is immersed : SOAKS
46
Fair trade, say : SWAP
47
"It is not easy for a ___ to balance himself on a ladder": "Animal Farm" : PIG
48
A word in closing : THUS
49
Relative of house music : TECHNO
51
Inverse of an exponential function : LOGARITHM
54
Vikings' offense? : RAIDS
55
What a supposed bug is often revealed to be : USERERROR
56
Grant : ALLOT
57
Deftly evades : SIDESTEPS
58
Come off as : SEEM
Down
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Nonhuman provider of medical advice : AIDOCTOR
2
Neck topper : BOTTLECAP
3
Shoves (in) : CRAMS
4
Sonic system : SEGA
5
Org. featured in 1998's "Enemy of the State" : NSA
6
Breaking character? : BULLINACHINASHOP
7
Like parts of Istanbul : ASIAN
8
Romanization of the common Chinese surname 程 : CHENG
9
___ legs : HIND
10
Stability aids, informally : ABS
11
Soft, silky material : MOHAIR
12
Depicts stylishly : PAINTS
13
Green day star, for short : STPAT
14
Humongous, slangily : BIGASS
19
Stocked and sold, as goods : DEALTIN
24
August ___, "Fences" playwright : WILSON
25
Makes sense of : PARSES
27
Deliberately exasperated : BAITED
28
More sassy : PERTER
30
Indecisive way to end : INATIE
31
Gets by : DOESOK
32
Binary, in a way : DUALIST
34
Former : ERSTWHILE
36
"Wow ... what are the chances?!" : SORANDOM
38
Publisher of the front-page headline "This sport is stupid anyway" after a U.S. loss at the World Cup, in brief : NYPOST
39
Half-spoken, half-sung passages of an opera : ARIOSI
40
Not fair : RIGGED
43
Nearly 90 : BPLUS
44
It goes on top : SHIRT
45
Shockingly unconventional : OUTRE
46
Stepped-on instrument : SCALE
48
"___ chic!" : TRES
50
Time divisions : ERAS
52
"___ You That Somebody?" (1998 Aaliyah hit) : ARE
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Half of a couple : MRS

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

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