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New York Times, Monday, September 14, 2026

Author:
Andrea Carla Michaels and Dena R. Verkuil
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Crew building
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11.631527.521%
Dena R. Verkuil

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {Q} This is puzzle # 94 for Ms. Michaels. This is puzzle # 6 for Ms. Verkuil. Grid flow: 41.1 Monday freshness: 7%
Jim Horne notes:

BOAT, BREAD, SPLIT, and SLUG can all follow BANANA.

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© 2026, The New York Times9/14/26 ( No. 28,069 )
Across
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Cherokee or Wrangler : JEEP
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Omelet ingredients : EGGS
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Big noisy fight : MELEE
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Cornfield measure : ACRE
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Little flying pest : GNAT
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Dale who sang "Happy Trails" with Roy Rogers : EVANS
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Crew building : BOATHOUSE
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Assigns stars to, as on Yelp : RATES
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"Spare" things at a barbecue : RIBS
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Stately tree : ELM
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Before, in poetry : ERE
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Atlantic City attraction : CASINO
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"Is it bigger than a ___?" : BREADBOX
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911 respondent, in brief : EMT
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Latina toon explorer : DORA
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Beatles song with the lyric "She promises the earth to me" : GIRL
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Pinocchio's are easily exposed : LIES
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"Absolutely, amigo!" : SISI
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The White Stripes and the Black Keys, for two : DUOS
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Close boxing match outcome : SPLITDECISION
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Picket line crosser : SCAB
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Silverstein who wrote and illustrated "The Giving Tree" : SHEL
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Contacted on Instagram, informally : DMED
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Bills typically found in a tip jar : ONES
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Mallorca or Menorca, por ejemplo : ISLA
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Place for a piercing or a plug : EAR
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All-out boxing match : SLUGFEST
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Sarcastic : SNARKY
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"Hamilton" composer ___-Manuel Miranda : LIN
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Singer/actress Rita ___ : ORA
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It's "smashed" in a particle accelerator : ATOM
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Playful aquatic mammal : OTTER
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Flip out ... or a hint to the beginnings of 17-, 27-, 39- and 51-Across : GOBANANAS
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Word said while pointing : THERE
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"Never Have I ___" (sleepover game) : EVER
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Coldest possible temperature on the Kelvin scale : ZERO
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Informal hoops game : HORSE
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Winter road application : SALT
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Rams' mates : EWES
Down
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Quick boxing punch : JAB
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Prefix with friendly or warrior : ECO
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Slice of history : ERA
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___ dish (lab item) : PETRI
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Self-esteem builder : EGOBOOST
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African antelopes : GNUS
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Something an electric car doesn't use : GAS
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Have the reins : STEER
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Disney's Ariel and her sisters : MERMAIDS
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Youngest of the Gabor sisters : EVA
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One slow to develop : LATEBLOOMER
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Beginning of el año : ENERO
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English county NE of London : ESSEX
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Female red deer : HIND
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"Break a ___!" : LEG
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"The Simpsons" collectible : CEL
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Out of place : AMISS
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Pedometer : STEPCOUNTER
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Single, double or triple : BASEHIT
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Ancient Celtic priest : DRUID
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Clears (of) : RIDS
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Word hidden, aptly, in "teen's language" : SLANG
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Completes, as a cake : ICES
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Move stealthily : SNEAK
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Lead-in to "except after C" : IBEFOREE
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"Let me go first" : ILLSTART
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Like some humor and wine : DRY
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To be, in Barcelona : SER
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Soon, in poems : ANON
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Animal that sleeps upside down : SLOTH
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Certain art print, informally : LITHO
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Wise sorts : SAGES
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Astound : AMAZE
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Brother of Cain : ABEL
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TV medical drama settings, in brief : ERS
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Things traveling through fallopian tubes : OVA
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Previously unseen : NEW
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"Rules ___ rules" : ARE
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Abba title sung after the line "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me" : SOS

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