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New York Times, Monday, November 17, 2025

November 17, 2025

By Rena Cohen • 78 Clues

Across Clues

1. Vegas attraction, with "the" → STRIP
6. Bitter-smelling → ACRID
11. Cell signal unit → BAR
14. Pleasant smell → AROMA
15. Heavyweight African animal, informally → RHINO
16. Application → USE
17. Circle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle → FIGUREEIGHT
19. So-so, in modern slang → MID
20. Scrapes (out), as a living → EKES
21. Mental slip-up → LAPSE
22. Univ. degrees for executives → MBAS
23. Many a prom tuxedo → RENTAL
25. Train track part → RAIL
27. Airheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers → SWEETSIXTEEN
33. Growth in a fish tank → ALGAE
36. Steaming mad → IRATE
37. Girlfriend or boyfriend, informally → BAE
38. Gruesome → GORY
39. Cooks just the outsides of → SEARS
40. Nuisance → PEST
41. A narcissist has a big one → EGO
42. Giving the go-ahead → OKING
43. Keto and Paleo, for two → DIETS
44. Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof → DOUBLEOSEVEN
47. In one's birthday suit → NUDE
48. Skeptic's remark → IFEVER
52. Home of a "500" race, familiarly → INDY
54. Great ___ National Park (Nevada attraction) → BASIN
58. Shoe's bottom → SOLE
59. Play-___ → DOH
60. Andrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall → JACKSONFIVE
62. Musical Yoko → ONO
63. With everything on the line → ALLIN
64. Like a pyramid or sphere → SOLID
65. Femur and fibula site → LEG
66. Not sharp, as a pencil → BLUNT
67. Vulgar → CRASS

Down Clues

1. Less risky → SAFER
2. Tot's three-wheeler → TRIKE
3. Comic actor Seth → ROGEN
4. "If you want me to be honest ..." → IMUSTSAY
5. Golfing standard → PAR
6. Region → AREA
7. Intel product → CHIP
8. Makes unfair, in a way → RIGS
9. Receives from a will → INHERITS
10. Nickname for Dorothy → DOT
11. Insect that stings → BUMBLEBEE
12. Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong → ASIA
13. Cincinnati team → REDS
18. ___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist → ELLE
22. Sch. with a T station → MIT
24. Amazement → AWE
26. Lumberjack's tool → AXE
28. Letters before "And on that farm ..." → EIEIO
29. The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ → TRANS
30. Platoon V.I.P. → SARGE
31. Sunrise direction → EAST
32. Ping-Pong dividers → NETS
33. Like most cheeses with rinds → AGED
34. Nike's swoosh, e.g. → LOGO
35. Punxsutawney Phil, for one → GROUNDHOG
39. Classic arcade game with bull's-eye rings → SKEEBALL
40. Strongly desires → PINESFOR
42. Like a centenarian → OLD
43. "For suresies" → DEF
45. Purchase → BUY
46. Bottle served at a trattoria → VINO
49. Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat → VOILA
50. The King of Rock and Roll → ELVIS
51. Marsh plants → REEDS
52. Object of adoration → IDOL
53. Zero → NONE
55. Rights advocacy org. since 1920 → ACLU
56. Dermatologist's focus → SKIN
57. "It ___ that simple ..." → ISNT
60. Quick punch → JAB
61. Foreign policy grp. → NSC