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New York Times, Monday, November 24, 2025

November 24, 2025

By Zhou Zhang • 76 Clues

Across Clues

1. Pop music's Lady ___ → GAGA
5. Kid → CHILD
10. Sandwich shop → DELI
14. Nerve fiber → AXON
15. Product of a grapevine? → RUMOR
16. Company bigwig → EXEC
17. Opposite of surplus → DEBT
18. Kind of acid that is the building block for a protein → AMINO
19. Something you click that starts "http" → LINK
20. Comfortably well-off → SITTINGPRETTY
23. Dashboard reading, for short → RPM
25. Top color in a rainbow → RED
26. Pecan or pistachio → NUT
27. Rub out → ERASE
29. What you might drive while your car is in the shop → LOANER
32. Cereal with "marbits" and a leprechaun mascot → LUCKYCHARMS
35. Above, poetically → OER
38. Like pen smudges → INKY
39. Wall for an outdoor maze → HEDGE
40. Italian volcano → ETNA
41. A white one is a wardrobe staple → TEE
42. Toy that comes out of a spray can → SILLYSTRING
44. Horse with a spotted coat → DAPPLE
46. What The Week puts out once a week → ISSUE
47. Result of putting two and two together → SUM
48. Off-roader, in brief → ATV
50. What Bart Simpson sometimes calls Lisa → SIS
51. Fowl play? ... or words that can follow the starts of 20-, 32- and 42-Across → DUCKDUCKGOOSE
57. Universal building block → ATOM
58. "Nuh-uh!" → NOWAY
59. Enclose in fancy paper, say → WRAP
62. Root vegetable used for poi → TARO
63. Playing card better known as a jack → KNAVE
64. Classroom helper → AIDE
65. [I'm standing right here!] → AHEM
66. Went downhill or cross-country, say → SKIED
67. Cat call → MEOW

Down Clues

1. Gallivant, with "about" → GAD
2. Tool for Paul Bunyan → AXE
3. Flabbergasted → GOBSMACKED
4. Not pro → ANTI
5. Dog-napping spot? → CRATE
6. Muggy → HUMID
7. "Let's do it!" → IMIN
8. Yearn (for) → LONG
9. Casually talk about one's connections to celebrities → DROPNAMES
10. Backspace, maybe → DELETE
11. On a plane, keep in mind that the nearest one might be behind you → EXIT
12. Given for a time → LENT
13. Gross → ICKY
21. Three-point hoops shot → TREY
22. Trains for a marathon, e.g. → RUNS
23. Ignited again → RELIT
24. It's plum dried out! → PRUNE
28. "The Brain — is wider than the ___" (Emily Dickinson poem) → SKY
29. Stew server → LADLE
30. Bacchanalian party → ORGY
31. Cooking appliance with a rotating spit → ROTISSERIE
33. Alvin and his backup singers → CHIPMUNKS
34. Dante divided it into nine circles → HELL
36. Ho-hum feeling → ENNUI
37. Reacts with violent anger → RAGES
40. Triage sites, for short → ERS
42. Tater → SPUD
43. DVR pioneer → TIVO
45. Dad's noncommittal response to a kid's request → ASKMOM
48. Desert plant with many uses → AGAVE
49. Played (with) → TOYED
51. What some tech companies mine → DATA
52. Home of Canyonlands National Park → UTAH
53. Planks strengthen it → CORE
54. Fall asleep, with "out" → CONK
55. "The Bridge on the River ___" → KWAI
56. Did some laps → SWAM
60. Hoopla → ADO
61. Place to pray → PEW