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Michael Lieberman
Michael Lieberman

NY Times, Sun May 11, 2025 Puns and Anagrams

33-Down : Quality of decorated sergeants

Author:
Michael Lieberman
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 29
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Across
1
Like deism vis-à-vis despotism : SPOTLESS
9
Both r's in "gravy ingredients" : BROTHS
15
Bit of California ramen : CANOODLE
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Unreal woman : LAUREN
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Drive too fast, say : OVERDOIT
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Gasoline component, at once : OCTANE
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Wrote endlessly : PENNE
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Really good at telling time : CLOCKWISE
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Dead literary saga : EDDA
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___ carrier (prince's horse) : HEIR
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Kind of king : SIN
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Dr. S.S.'s apparel : DRESSES
28
Star of old Russia : TSAR
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Japanese city with a North American artist : NAGOYA
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Burn the midnight oil at last : TOIL
36
Green C.E.O. : ECO
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Rules of us : OURSELF
39
Color ranges for carpets : SPECTRA
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'ole up : IDE
42
Executive clubs, e.g. : SUIT
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Provided shelter in polymorphous edifice : HOUSED
45
Laid back : DIAL
47
Buy a rose, pop the question : PROPOSE
49
Man at M.I.T. : TIM
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Kind of king : SPAN
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Grooming tool in a beehive : COMB
56
F, A or N : FANLETTER
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"If you like this Girl Scout cookie, have ___" : SAMOA
60
"No idea" people : ONEIDA
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Finally, where to find "almanac" in the dictionary : AFTERALL
63
Release a U.N. special forces member : UNSEAL
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Reformed overactor : CUREDHAM
65
Fight with lasers : RASSLE
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Person representing emirs, say : EMISSARY
Down
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Pecos range : SCOPE
2
Vaped, like a lot : PAVED
3
Feature of xenon, boron or argon : ONEND
4
Violent storms that rip out trees and roots : TORNADOS
5
Olde store : LODE
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Poem written backward : EDO
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Servings of pizza with some soft drinks : SLICES
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"S" titles that a band performs : SETLIST
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Mental ___ (imagined alliance) : BLOC
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Storage units for K-cars : RACKS
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"Oh, you ninny!" : OUTWIT
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Resistant choo-choo toys : TRAINSETS
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Female p__ __asa__t__ : HENS
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Dagger seen in olden times : SNEE
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Cookies eaten by our heroes, oddly : OREOS
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L
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Give ___ to (serve some drinks) : RYES
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"Have a taste, sweetie" : SIPHON
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Care for a large lawn : ACRE
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Path for Dora : ROAD
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Why Dion was denied entry to the bar : NOID
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Car for a D.U.I. : AUDI
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Quality of decorated sergeants : GREATNESS
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Sole group of August births : LEOS
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Opening rifts : FIRST
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Accursed actors' aids : CUECARDS
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Toast from an ace poet : TOPEACE
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Flowers on a window sill, i.e. : LILIES
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French scent that's part of subpar fumes : PARFUM
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Pedal to the ___ (what Olympic cyclists do) : MEDAL
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Cry of discovery while meditating : OMAHA
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Moral dentist's concern : MOLAR
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Pleasantly warm in my lab : BALMY
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Flour left out : FOUR
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Woman in Savannah : ANNA
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Story from Chaucer's miller, cook et al. : TALE
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Looks up and down : SEES
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Lead-in to vial : TRI
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