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New York Times, Thursday, September 11, 2025

Author:
Gia Bosko
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Vices that are best abandoned
TotalDebutLatest
62/28/20239/11/2025
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
0130110
RebusScrabDebutFlowFresh
11.552140.249%
Gia Bosko

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 40 This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Bosko. Grid flow: 41.6 Thursday freshness: 47%
Jim Horne notes:

Rebus entries work as normal for Down clues, so 1-Down in NEWT. Across clues use each letter one at a time, so 15-Across is WALKIE TALKIE.

1
N
2
A
3
P
4
L
5
E
6
S
7
TW
8
E
9
E
10
N
11
S
12
Y
13
E
L
A
I
N
E
14
W
E
N
T
A
P
E
15
WT
A
L
K
I
E
16
N
E
E
D
A
N
A
P
17
I
E
D
S
18
A
L
D
A
19
B
20
I
N
D
21
T
22
E
S
T
23
S
24
U
25
M
26
T
27
O
28
L
S
D
29
R
O
U
T
30
S
H
R
I
E
K
31
M
A
R
32
G
E
33
L
Y
34
M
E
35
I
C
E
S
36
D
O
U
B
37
L
E
H
E
A
38
D
E
R
S
39
R
O
M
A
40
O
R
A
L
41
A
L
O
H
42
A
43
A
R
E
N
44
O
T
45
B
O
46
W
S
47
S
O
T
48
M
A
S
O
N
49
T
I
N
A
50
C
C
T
V
51
C
52
A
I
T
53
S
54
H
O
O
55
B
56
A
57
D
58
L
A
N
D
S
59
HD
U
M
P
60
T
61
Y
62
A
A
M
I
L
N
E
63
A
M
P
E
R
E
64
RD
A
Z
Z
L
E
65
Y
E
S
S
I
R
© 2025, The New York Times9/11/25 ( No. 27,701 )
Across
1
City with a view of Mount Vesuvius : NAPLES
7
Minuscule, in cutesy lingo : TEENSYWEENSY
13
"Seinfeld" role : ELAINE
14
Came unglued : WENTAPE
15
Hand-held communication device : WALKIETALKIE
16
Get cranky with fatigue, maybe : NEEDANAP
17
Dangers in "The Hurt Locker," for short : IEDS
18
Longtime portrayer of TV's Captain Pierce : ALDA
19
Jam : BIND
21
Check out : TEST
23
Total : SUMTO
28
Microdosing substance : LSD
29
Blowout : ROUT
30
Sound in a horror film : SHRIEK
31
Simpson née Bouvier : MARGE
33
Tick-borne affliction, informally : LYME
35
Treats, as a sprain : ICES
36
Back-to-back sporting events ... with a hint to the answers to the italicized clues : DOUBLEHEADERS
39
Marinara tomato : ROMA
40
Kind of surgeon : ORAL
41
HI hi : ALOHA
43
Pair of words that are usually contracted : ARENOT
45
Curved shapes : BOWS
47
Lush : SOT
48
One laying a foundation : MASON
49
Turner of rock : TINA
50
Video surveillance letters : CCTV
51
"I Am ___," onetime reality TV spinoff : CAIT
53
"Out!" : SHOO
55
Region of South Dakota : BADLANDS
59
Nursery rhyme character known as Lille Trille in Denmark : HUMPTYDUMPTY
62
Creator of Heffalumps and Woozles : AAMILNE
63
Current measure : AMPERE
64
Flashiness : RAZZLEDAZZLE
65
Answer with a salute : YESSIR
Down
1
Semiaquatic amphibian : NEWT
2
Resembling : ALA
3
Mom, dad and sis, but not bro : PALINDROMES
4
Took a shine to : LIKED
5
City WNW of Tulsa : ENID
6
Handles : SEESTO
7
Material with a coarse weave : TWEED
8
Long hyphen : ENDASH
9
H : ETA
10
Grandma, in Gloucester : NAN
11
Steamy place : SPA
12
"You betcha" : YEP
14
Lash mark : WELT
16
Vices that are best abandoned : NASTYHABITS
19
Antiracist movement since 2013, for short : BLM
20
Dance pioneer Duncan : ISADORA
22
Leonhard who helped develop calculus : EULER
24
Archangel in "Paradise Lost" : URIEL
25
Powerful ones have resolutions less than 0.1 nanometer : MICROSCOPES
26
Something one might slice : TEESHOT
27
Approves : OKS
29
Graycoat in the Civil War : REB
30
Briny : SEA
32
Organic fertilizer : GUANO
34
Casaba, e.g. : MELON
37
Plethora : LOT
38
Courtroom figs. : DAS
39
Butter from a farm : RAM
42
Dune buggy, e.g., in brief : ATV
44
Ready for an emergency, say : ONCALL
46
Time for a trip to the laundromat : WASHDAY
49
Alternative to Gain : TIDE
50
Guest freebies : COMPS
52
Youngest of the Brontë sisters : ANNE
54
Philosopher David who wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" : HUME
55
Medieval entertainer : BARD
56
Good rating for a bond : AAA
57
Noncombat region, in brief : DMZ
58
Cheney of politics : LIZ
60
Prefix with lingual or lateral : TRI
61
"___ Blues" (song on the Beatles' "White Album") : YER

Answer summary:
1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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