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Daniel Raymon
NY Times, Sun Jul 5, 2026 Cryptic Crossword
Author:
Daniel Raymon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 63
1 R | E | 2 C | I | 3 P | E | 4 S | | 5 M | I | 6 S | S | 7 T | E | 8 P |
E | | O | | I | | C | | E | | U | | E | | R |
9 P | A | P | E | R | T | H | I | N | | 10 B | A | S | S | I |
O | | I | | A | | I | | U | | T | | T | | O |
11 S | I | L | I | C | O | N | | 12 S | T | I | L | L | E | R |
| | O | | Y | | D | | | | T | | A | | A |
13 C | I | T | E | | 14 A | L | I | 15 T | T | L | E | B | I | T |
H | | | | 16 A | | E | | A | | E | | | | E |
17 I | M | 18 P | O | V | E | R | I | S | H | | 19 A | 20 C | T | S |
N | | O | | E | | | | K | | 21 S | | A | | |
22 A | S | P | E | R | S | 23 E | | 24 F | A | N | A | T | I | 25 C |
T | | T | | A | | R | | O | | I | | A | | A |
26 O | R | A | N | G | | 27 A | I | R | E | D | A | L | E | S |
W | | R | | E | | S | | C | | E | | O | | E |
28 N | O | T | A | S | T | E | | 29 E | N | R | A | G | E | D |
© 2026, The New York Times
Across
1
Designed precise blueprints (7) :
RECIPES5
Trip for young lady returning cat or dog (7) :
MISSTEP9
Insubstantial Australian city in distress (5-4) :
PAPERTHIN10
I can follow fish in lowest parts (5) :
BASSI11
Semiconductor shaped in coils (7) :
SILICON12
Ben or Jerry is not as fidgety (7) :
STILLER13
Mention location to the audience (4) :
CITE14
Landed it around asteroid area, going the wrong way - just slightly (1,6,3) :
ALITTLEBIT17
Take away all funds from brat a second time - sort of (10) :
IMPOVERISH19
Cast cast for play parts (4) :
ACTS22
Impugn Western M.L.B. team, in essence (7) :
ASPERSE24
Enthusiast is cooler with a personal quirk (7) :
FANATIC26
Primate's organ transplant (5) :
ORANG27
28
Doctor notates with lack of style (2,5) :
NOTASTE29
Down
1
They're towed away for peace of mind, mostly (5) :
REPOS2
Police officer to toil by mistake with airplane crew member (7) :
COPILOT3
One investigating salacious crime at sea (6) :
PIRACY4
Children's novel with a man known for a list (9) :
SCHINDLER5
Lists about half of everyone together with our group (5) :
MENUS6
The thing concealed by understated caption (8) :
SUBTITLE7
Crushed tablets where experiments are conducted (4,3) :
TESTLAB8
Outside Italy's capital, proportionately allocates monastic offices (9) :
PRIORATES13
Shoot the breeze at own New York neighborhood (9) :
CHINATOWN15
Crooked foes track special-purpose group (4,5) :
TASKFORCE16
Declare census data for mean figures (8) :
AVERAGES18
Warhol paintings, for example, featuring bit of the breakfast item (3,4) :
POPTART20
Jazzman on a record inventory (7) :
CATALOG21
Famed Dodger is more disparaging (6) :
SNIDER23
Delete Times editor's intro (5) :
ERASE25
Sized up California's editor (5) :
CASED
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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