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Matthew Stock
Brooke Husic
NY Times, Sun Nov 9, 2025 Diagramless
Author:
Matthew Stock and Brooke Husic
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 63, Blocks: 120
| | | | | | 1 G | 2 A | 3 M | 4 E | 5 S | | | | | | |
| | | | | 6 D | E | L | I | V | E | 7 R | | | | | |
| | | | 8 S | O | N | A | T | I | N | A | 9 S | | | | |
| | | | 10 Q | U | E | S | T | L | O | V | E | | | | |
| | | 11 S | U | B | S | | | | 12 R | E | A | 13 P | | | |
| | | 14 H | I | T | | 15 M | 16 E | 17 N | | 18 D | D | R | | | |
| | 19 R | O | N | | 20 P | A | R | A | 21 S | | 22 O | O | 23 F | | |
| 24 M | E | E | T | 25 M | E | I | N | S | T | 26 L | O | U | I | 27 S | |
| 28 A | D | S | | 29 O | D | D | S | A | R | E | | 30 D | N | C | |
31 T | R | E | | 32 C | O | A | S | T | L | I | N | 33 E | | 34 D | O | 35 C |
36 E | I | N | | 37 U | R | L | | | | 38 P | D | T | | 39 I | R | A |
40 S | E | V | 41 E | R | E | | | | | | 42 S | H | 43 I | N | E | S |
44 T | C | E | L | L | | | | | | | | 45 A | N | G | S | T |
46 L | U | L | U | S | | | | | | | | 47 N | A | T | A | L |
48 A | R | O | D | | | | | | | | | | 49 S | I | R | I |
50 P | I | P | E | | | | | | | | | | 51 E | M | U | S |
52 S | E | E | D | | | | | | | | | | 53 C | E | N | T |
© 2025, The New York Times
Across
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8
10
One-named drummer who sometimes stylizes his name with a "?" :
QUESTLOVE11
Foot-long sandwiches :
SUBS12
Harvest, as a crop :
REAP14
15
18
Abbr. for East Germany on old maps :
DDR19
20
Some legal assistants, informally :
PARAS22
"That's gotta hurt!" :
OOF24
1944 Judy Garland film that hints at this puzzle's grid shape ... as well as a three-letter sequence in the answers to the italicized clues :
MEETMEINSTLOUIS28
Things removed in a premium subscription, maybe :
ADS29
"If I were a gambler, I'd say ..." :
ODDSARE30
Blue political grp. :
DNC31
What's slightly past due? :
TRE32
34
Word file, for short :
DOC36
37
Address that starts with "www" :
URL38
Summer hrs. in Seattle :
PDT39
Apt name for someone investing for old age? :
IRA40
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44
Immune system agent :
TCELL45
Deeply anxious feeling :
ANGST46
47
Relating to birth :
NATAL48
Former Yankee who appeared on "Shark Tank," familiarly :
AROD49
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51
52
Something that's sowed :
SEED53
Little bit of change :
CENT
Down
1
2
"Unfortunately ..." :
ALAS3
4
Word that's an apt anagram of VILE :
EVIL5
Spanish title spelled with a tilde :
SENOR6
Not fully believe :
DOUBT7
Took part in a techno dance party :
RAVED8
Try to make out something in the distance, perhaps :
SQUINT9
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13
Having a puffed-up chest :
PROUD15
___ of honor (members of wedding parties) :
MAIDS16
17
Like the consonants "m" and "n" :
NASAL19
Traditional Lunar New Year gift with money inside it :
REDENVELOPE20
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23
24
Only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields :
MARIECURIE25
Hollywood's Dudley or Mary Tyler :
MOORE26
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31
32
33
One of the Coen brothers :
ETHAN35
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43
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle.
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