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New York Times, Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Author:
Jacob Stulberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
*Serves, as soup or ice cream
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Jacob Stulberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {QXZ} Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 35 for Mr. Stulberg. Tuesday freshness: 10%
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© 2025, The New York Times9/23/25 ( No. 27,713 )
Across
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Some cookbook measurements: Abbr. : TSPS
5
Teacher for just a day, informally : SUB
8
Cannon sound : BLAST
13
Holly locales, in a Christmas carol : HALLS
15
Passover mo., usually : APR
16
Iliac artery feeder : AORTA
17
Inbox contents : EMAIL
18
*Serves, as soup or ice cream : SPOONSOUT
20
Line dance : CONGA
21
Whole lot : HEAP
22
Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay : EDNA
23
*Gymgoer's goal, perhaps : WASHBOARDABS
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Org. taking X-rays : TSA
27
Hollywood's Janet or Vivien : LEIGH
30
Shambles : MESS
33
Some Rhode Island Reds : HENS
37
Elite squad : ATEAM
39
Go ___ over : APE
40
*Where the starts of the answers to the five starred clues can all be found : JUGBAND
42
Detergent brand : ERA
43
"On the Road Again," for one : TITLE
45
Go ___ over : GAGA
46
Bias : SKEW
47
Treasure holder : CHEST
49
Nov. 11 honoree : VET
51
*Accessory for Abraham Lincoln : STOVEPIPEHAT
58
Slaughter in the Baseball Hall of 61-Across : ENOS
61
See 58-Across : FAME
62
Eyewear, informally : SPECS
63
*Refreshes one's knowledge of : BONESUPON
65
Biggest city in Nebraska : OMAHA
66
Forthright : BLUNT
67
Flesh-eating creature in "The Lord of the Rings" : ORC
68
Worker with a van : MOVER
69
Giving back talk : SASSY
70
Alternative to white : RYE
71
Pharmaceuticals, for short : MEDS
Down
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"Superman & Lois" airer : THECW
2
Country that dropped "Western" from its name in 1997 : SAMOA
3
Things that rain might ruin : PLANS
4
Doesn't give proper respect : SLIGHTS
5
One of the Obama daughters : SASHA
6
Word before deck or hand : UPPER
7
Like generalizations : BROAD
8
Excommunicate, e.g. : BAN
9
Flies off the handle : LOSESIT
10
Onetime nickname on the Yankees : AROD
11
Bowl over : STUN
12
"Bye!" : TATA
14
Units of concrete : SLABS
19
Gem that's much mined in Australia : OPAL
24
Waikiki Beach locale : OAHU
25
Necklace or anklet bit : BEAD
28
Many a character on "The Big Bang Theory" : GEEK
29
Long-eared leaper : HARE
30
Gym sight : MAT
31
"Paradise Lost," e.g. : EPIC
32
Son of Adam : SETH
34
Mayo ingredient : EGG
35
Org. for the Knicks and Mavericks : NBA
36
Fail to hold, in a way : SAG
38
Gaping opening : MAW
40
It's not said seriously : JEST
41
Blue-skinned race in "Avatar" : NAVI
44
Decreases : LESSENS
46
Camilla vis-à-vis William and Harry, informally : STEPMOM
48
Staple of vegan cooking : TOFU
50
___ salt : EPSOM
52
Humidifier's output : VAPOR
53
Atlanta university : EMORY
54
British coins : PENCE
55
Emit, as a large sigh : HEAVE
56
Hurt : ACHED
57
Peter the Great and others : TSARS
58
Goes down : EBBS
59
The Big Easy : NOLA
60
Burden : ONUS
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Place for wallowing : STY

Answer summary:
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