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New York Times, Saturday, August 30, 2025

Author:
Maddy Ziegler
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Classic warning to a knight
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18/30/2025
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Maddy Ziegler

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Ms. Ziegler. Saturday freshness: 4%
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© 2025, The New York Times8/30/25 ( No. 27,689 )
Across
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Title typically abbreviated to its first and last letters : SENOR
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Storied stargazers : MAGI
10
Another name for ESPN8, with "the" : OCHO
14
___ Perry, award-winning author of 2022's "South to America" : IMANI
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___ the Holy, canonized Norwegian king : OLAF
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Way out, say : DOOR
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Little dippers? : MINIDONUTS
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Targets for bark beetles : ELMS
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A&W or L&M : BRANDNAME
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Botanical joint : NODE
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Jerk : ASS
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Cell service inits. : LTE
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Neighbor of Baja California : SONORA
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"Funny how that works" : HEH
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Heat setting, perhaps : MEET
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"The Santa Clause" or "Legally Blonde" : PUN
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Wind up in ruin : COMETOABADEND
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Classic warning to a knight : HEREBEDRAGONS
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Kick-starter program? : KARATELESSONS
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"To All the Boys ___ Loved Before" (best-selling young adult novel) : IVE
36
Campus building : HALL
37
"Big" digit : TOE
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Not say something in jest : MEANIT
40
"Toy Story" bully : SID
41
___ tov (Jewish holiday) : YOM
44
"I'm afraid ..." : ALAS
45
Noted resident of "Little Lhasa" in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh : DALAILAMA
48
Library catalog ID : ISBN
49
What dilapidated buildings and rampant graffiti may be a sign of : URBANDECAY
50
Director Johnson : RIAN
51
Veteran of the seas : SALT
52
Prefix with musicology or linguistics : ETHNO
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Moving well over 60, perhaps? : SPRY
54
Leaves speechless : AWES
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Moving : ASTIR
Down
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Swahili for "lion" : SIMBA
2
Heads of state in Qatar and Kuwait : EMIRS
3
Grams : NANAS
4
"Come ___!" : ONIN
5
Lead-in to a puzzling question : RIDDLEMETHIS
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Janelle of "Hidden Figures" : MONAE
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'22 or '23 : ALUM
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Stadium sales : GATE
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They may or may not happen : IFS
10
Classical theater : ODEON
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Sketches that end with "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" : COLDOPENS
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Major successes, so to speak : HOMERUNS
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Spots for scrubs, for short : ORS
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Patrolling a neighborhood : ONTHEBEAT
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"I'd avoid that" : NOTAGOODIDEA
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Viola's twin brother in "Twelfth Night" : SEBASTIAN
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"Soooo …?" : AND
26
Wedding reception highlight, maybe : HORA
27
Fashion plate, maybe : MODEL
28
Old-fashioned TV antenna, jocularly : EARS
30
On-the-go breakfast option : CEREALBAR
31
Giveaway : TELL
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___ deal : DONE
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Tasteful invitation? : HAVEASIP
34
Family name of three BTS members : KIM
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One tending kids : NANNY
40
Bits of wood paneling : SLATS
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Vessel with two silent letters : YACHT
42
Like the Mideast's Bahla Fort : OMANI
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Head to town? : MAYOR
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Capture the attention of : DRAW
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Free (to) : ABLE
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"Count me in!" : LETS
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Org. concerned with reporting : IRS
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Host nation of the 2028 Olympics : USA

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