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New York Times, Wednesday, November 19, 2025

November 20, 2025

By Jeremy Newton • 78 Clues

Across Clues

1. Dazzle → AMAZE

6. Unspoken "yes" → NOD

9. Creep into a creek, say → WADE

13. Establishment whose name means "lounge" in French → SALON

14. Gun in an action flick → UZI

15. "We're innocent of wrongdoing" → NOTUS

16. Times noted in Captain Kirk's logs → STARDATES

18. Foreboding signs → OMENS

19. Poet Pound → EZRA

20. Topaz and turquoise → GEMS

21. Spanish island with a lively club scene → IBIZA

22. Holland in Hollywood → TOM

23. Some loud dogs … or food critics → YELPERS

25. Fiddle (with) → TOY

26. Fancy spirals in calligraphy → CURLICUES

28. Place to say "I do" → ALTAR

31. Does something about it → ACTS

32. Crave, with "for" → ACHE

36. Straight-shooting … or a punny title for this puzzle? → NOSPIN

38. Sexually excite … or another punny title for this puzzle? → TURNON

40. Harness for oxen → YOKE

41. Kindergarten basics → ABCS

45. Watch an entire season in one day, say → BINGE

46. Increases in pricing → RATEHIKES

49. "Man, I tell ya!" → BOY

52. Set up panels for renewable energy, informally → GOSOLAR

53. Fish for fish sticks → COD

56. Conductor Seiji of the Boston Symphony → OZAWA

58. Three-point shot, in slang → TREY

59. Rice lookalike → ORZO

60. "That makes two of us" → SODOI

61. The Syracuse Mets vis-à-vis the New York Mets → MINORTEAM

63. Food item placed in Egyptian tombs, as its layers symbolized eternity → ONION

64. Earliest drug approved to treat H.I.V. → AZT

65. ___ Dame → NOTRE

66. Computer memory units, in brief → MEGS

67. "Right this minute!" → NOW

68. Quests for → SEEKS

Down Clues

1. It's a good thing → ASSET

2. Flatbread eaten during Passover → MATZO

3. Nap interrupter, maybe → ALARM

4. Author ___ Neale Hurston → ZORA

5. Wrap up → END

6. Chocolaty spread → NUTELLA

7. Antidiabetes drug taken by many for weight loss → OZEMPIC

8. Cut up in a lab, perhaps → DISSECT

9. Something shown in a sonogram → WOMB

10. Fell down hard, in slang → ATEIT

11. Finito or kaput → DUNZO

12. Lit class assignment → ESSAY

15. Squeak or squeal → NOISE

17. Golden ___ (many a retiree) → AGER

23. Space race cosmonaut Gagarin → YURI

24. Fall into disrepair over time → RUST

26. Playful prank → CAPER

27. Some outfits for Bollywood films → SARIS

28. "___ news?" → ANY

29. Potty, to Potter → LOO

30. "Naughty, naughty" → TSK

33. "Inside Politics" channel → CNN

34. Monopolize → HOG

35. Austin-to-Boston dir. → ENE

37. Its alphabet starts with Alfa and ends with Zulu → NATO

39. Business that's picking up? → UBER

42. Toast giver at a wedding, often → BESTMAN

43. Spanish sausage → CHORIZO

44. Intro to writing? → SILENTW

47. "Encore!" → AGAIN

48. Big hit in the ring → KAYO

49. ___ buddy → BOSOM

50. Layer wrapping Earth → OZONE

51. "Get me?," to beatniks → YADIG

53. Center of the ancient Minoan civilization → CRETE

54. Netflix crime drama set in rural Missouri → OZARK

55. Some stadium toppers → DOMES

57. Showers with flowers and sweets, say → WOOS

59. Great Plains native → OTOE

62. I.C.U. staffers → RNS