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New York Times, Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Author:
Hanh Huynh
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
14-Across : Nincompoop
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97/13/20239/29/20261
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Hanh Huynh

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QWZ} This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Huynh. Grid flow: 28.5 Tuesday freshness: 69%
Jim Horne notes:

Each half of four two-word theme answers can precede HAND.

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© 2026, The New York Times9/29/26 ( No. 28,084 )
Across
1
Big ones can be difficult to manage : EGOS
5
Urge : PROD
9
British John : ELTON
14
Nincompoop : DOPE
15
Surrounding glow : AURA
16
Who "wants to be defeated" in "Beat It" : NOONE
17
Where some monster home runs land : UPPERDECK
19
Language of the Vikings : NORSE
20
Rich deposits of ore : LODES
21
Home of the Buckeyes, for short : OSU
23
Muslim holiday, informally : EID
24
Scoped out with intent to rob : CASED
25
Pretty long time, in an idiom : HOTMINUTE
28
Battery fill : ACID
29
Capital of Yemen : SANAA
30
Copied : APED
31
"You ___!" ("Absolutely!") : BET
32
Terse : CURT
33
"I ___ U" (candy heart message) : LUV
35
Another plateful from the buffet, say : SECONDHELPING
40
Deposit/withdrawal site, in brief : ATM
41
Board appointee, for short : EXEC
42
Work unit : ERG
44
Chief god of Valhalla : ODIN
47
European viper : ADDER
49
Greek goddess of the earth : GAEA
50
Position of Rickey Henderson in M.L.B. : LEFTFIELD
52
Storage units : BYTES
53
Dad on "Black-ish" : DRE
54
Pablo Neruda's "___ to My Socks" : ODE
55
Indie rock singer ___ O : KAREN
56
Couch : DIVAN
58
Wedding officiant's directive ... or what both halves of 17-, 25-, 35- and 50-Across do? : JOINHANDS
62
Unconcealed : OVERT
63
Toll unit on some roads : AXLE
64
Tour de France entry : TEAM
65
"Cooties" : GERMS
66
Hitch up on a farm : YOKE
67
Ice cream brand that's a cousin of Dreyer's : EDYS
Down
1
Address ending that's not .com, .org or .gov : EDU
2
Reach great heights in life : GOPLACES
3
Like black and white : OPPOSITE
4
Numbered in a tournament bracket : SEEDED
5
Always at the pharmacy? : PADS
6
Regret : RUE
7
Middle-earth foe : ORC
8
___ Territory, 1861-89 : DAKOTA
9
Ho-hum feeling : ENNUI
10
British john : LOO
11
Ripped to pieces : TOREUP
12
Like not-work-from-home days : ONSITE
13
Had to have : NEEDED
18
Visibly embarrassed, say : RED
22
Like subcompacts vis-à-vis compacts : SMALLER
24
What can travel a fare distance? : CAB
25
Brain-busting : HARD
26
Just between us : ONTHEDL
27
Blue race in "Avatar" : NAVI
29
Raisin brand whose containers feature a girl in a red bonnet : SUNMAID
32
Hotel request : COT
34
Scanned lines, for short : UPC
36
"If you ___ stand the heat ..." : CANT
37
Crossed (out) : EXED
38
Made nice? : NEATENED
39
Band with the 6x platinum album "American Idiot" : GREENDAY
43
Pit stop refill : GAS
44
Subject of a saying about new tricks : OLDDOG
45
Infer (from) : DERIVE
46
Perhaps not at all : IFEVER
48
Spinner of tunes : DEEJAY
49
Move like Shakira in her "Hips Don't Lie" video : GYRATE
51
Courier and Century Gothic, for two : FONTS
52
"Nuts!" : BAH
55
Achy joint for a floor installer, perhaps : KNEE
57
Pitcher's asset : ARM
59
Kitchen brand that could be an unsuccessful tic-tac-toe line : OXO
60
Sort : ILK
61
Texting format, for short : SMS

Answer summary:
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