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New York Times, Monday, August 4, 2025

Author:
Patti Varol
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
21-Across : Garment from Playtex or Maidenform
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
312/4/20208/4/20251
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1.561031.653%
Patti Varol

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Ms. Varol. Grid flow: 21.1 Monday freshness: 48%
Jim Horne notes:

The theme is a vowel progression for the letter after A in the first word of each theme answer: AARON, AERIAL, AIN'T, AORTIC, AUDRE.

1
A
2
M
3
F
4
M
5
U
6
S
7
T
8
E
9
D
10
A
11
G
12
R
13
A
14
S
A
R
I
15
S
H
O
N
E
16
G
O
O
D
17
A
R
I
L
18
A
A
R
O
N
19
J
U
D
G
E
20
D
I
A
L
21
B
R
A
22
P
A
N
E
L
23
A
E
R
I
24
A
L
P
H
25
O
26
T
O
27
O
R
E
28
O
N
E
S
29
T
A
P
30
A
31
G
32
H
33
A
N
A
34
A
R
C
35
L
36
U
37
L
38
U
39
A
I
N
T
G
40
O
41
N
N
A
H
42
A
P
P
E
N
43
Y
E
A
H
44
R
E
Y
45
C
A
C
T
I
46
S
47
H
E
A
48
R
49
O
T
C
50
A
51
M
52
O
53
A
O
R
54
T
I
C
V
A
55
L
56
V
57
E
58
W
A
L
59
T
Z
60
D
D
T
61
F
A
I
L
62
A
U
D
R
E
63
L
64
O
R
D
E
65
A
N
G
I
66
I
D
E
A
67
A
D
U
L
T
68
R
A
I
D
69
T
E
R
M
70
G
E
N
E
S
71
M
I
L
E
© 2025, The New York Times8/4/25 ( No. 27,663 )
Across
1
Letters on a radio switch : AMFM
5
"Cómo está ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish) : USTED
10
Indian tourist city on the Taj Express route : AGRA
14
Garment seen in Hindi cinema : SARI
15
Glistened : SHONE
16
Like a grade of B+, say : GOOD
17
Seed covering : ARIL
18
Yankees slugger who hit a record-setting 62 home runs in 2022 : AARONJUDGE
20
Rotary phone feature : DIAL
21
Garment from Playtex or Maidenform : BRA
22
"Meet the Press" group : PANEL
23
Image from a drone : AERIALPHOTO
27
Metal from a mine : ORE
28
Bills with George Washington's face : ONES
29
Small dish served in Spain : TAPA
31
Accra's country : GHANA
34
Path of a baseball pop-up : ARC
35
Doozy : LULU
39
"Keep dreaming!" : AINTGONNAHAPPEN
43
Opposite of "nope" : YEAH
44
"Star Wars" saga heroine : REY
45
Desert plants : CACTI
46
Home of the New York Mets until 2008 : SHEA
48
College mil. program : ROTC
50
"___, amas, amat ..." (Latin 101 conjugation) : AMO
53
Outlet from the heart's left ventricle : AORTICVALVE
58
Dance to "The Blue Danube," e.g. : WALTZ
60
E.P.A.-banned pesticide : DDT
61
Get an F : FAIL
62
Poet with the essay collection "Sister Outsider" : AUDRELORDE
65
Home services app that lists local vendors : ANGI
66
Jumping-off point for an inventor : IDEA
67
Grown-up : ADULT
68
Pest control brand : RAID
69
Four years, for a U.S. president : TERM
70
Trait transmitters : GENES
71
One of 26, approximately, in a marathon : MILE
Down
1
Carne ___ (grilled meat dish) : ASADA
2
Decluttering maven Kondo : MARIE
3
Monastery resident : FRIAR
4
Very, very small fractions : MILLIONTHS
5
In working order : USABLE
6
Musical counterparts of flats : SHARPS
7
Bat mitzvah reading : TORAH
8
Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him : ENO
9
TV room : DEN
10
H2O, in Mexico : AGUA
11
Emphatic rejection : GODNO
12
Slugger Maris : ROGER
13
"Skyfall" singer : ADELE
19
Music genre from Tokyo : JPOP
24
Scrambled word: Abbr. : ANAG
25
Other: Sp. : OTRA
26
R.p.m. indicator : TACH
30
Wool-producing ranch : ALPACAFARM
31
Merry : GAY
32
Go quickly, quaintly : HIE
33
Actress de Armas : ANA
34
___ port in a storm : ANY
36
Short lines at the register? : UPC
37
Permit : LET
38
Prefix with cycle or code : UNI
40
Black-and-white cookie : OREO
41
In the neighborhood : NEAR
42
When Hamlet duels with Laertes in "Hamlet" : ACTV
47
Smog, e.g. : HAZE
48
Enigma : RIDDLE
49
Groups of eight musicians : OCTETS
50
Hang around for : AWAIT
51
"Harold and ___" (1971 black comedy) : MAUDE
52
From further in the past : OLDER
54
Successful dash to the end zone, in brief : TDRUN
55
Hawaiian porch : LANAI
56
Prayer ___ : VIGIL
57
Skip over, as the "i" in "family" : ELIDE
59
Transit option to N.Y.C.'s Roosevelt Island : TRAM
63
Fall behind : LAG
64
Beethoven's "___ to Joy" : ODE

Answer summary:
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