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New York Times, Thursday, November 27, 2025

November 28, 2025

By Alexander Liebeskind • 74 Clues

Across Clues

1. Feature of a mountain or fingerprint → RIDGE

6. Deli counter units: Abbr. → OZS

9. "___ dabba doo!" → YABBA

14. Type type → ARIAL

15. Thanos, to the Avengers → FOE

16. Company that's the subject of the documentary "The Smartest Guys in the Room" → ENRON

17. Football offense arrangement that resembles an inverted Y shape → WISHBONEFORMATION

20. High key? → ESC

21. Big inits. in home security → ADT

22. Stranger → EERIER

23. Symbols for density, in physics → RHOS

25. Select, as a career → GOINTO

27. Low-lying area → VALE

29. Good person to give a time-consuming project, maybe → FASTWORKER

34. St. ___ (city on a bay, informally) → PETE

35. Latin for "but" → SED

36. One way to live → LARGE

37. Skin-care product thinner than a moisturizer → SERUM

38. "Tee" follower → HEE

39. Greek theater → ODEON

40. In ___ (developing) → UTERO

41. Like nonagenarians → OLD

42. Joshes → RIBS

43. Process for a descending spacecraft → EARTHREENTRY

45. Kerfuffles → ADOS

46. Losers to the Olympians → TITANS

48. Sing like Ella Fitzgerald → SCAT

51. Coke-versus-Pepsi and Apple-versus-Samsung, e.g. → ADWARS

54. So far → YET

56. "Ouch!" → YOW

57. Complete an impossible task ... or a hint to reading three Down answers in this puzzle → SQUARETHECIRCLE

60. Check someone's checks? → AUDIT

61. Openly gay → OUT

62. Total brawl → MELEE

63. Tosses out → CASTS

64. "Antiques Roadshow" network → PBS

65. Use, as one's influence → EXERT

Down Clues

1. More cold and wet → RAWER

2. Like some wolfhounds and whiskeys → IRISH

3. Lucky scientist, perhaps → DISCOVERER

4. "This is terrible!" → GAH

5. Actor Idris → ELBA

6. Bound for → OFFTO

7. Wild scene → ZOO

8. Sang to → SERENADED

9. "Anno Domini" period → YEAROTWOLORD

10. Against → ANTI

11. Creamy pairing with fig jam → BRIE

12. Obnoxious sort → BOOR

13. ___ Petry, first African American woman to write a million-selling novel ("The Street," 1946) → ANN

18. Anxious → ONEDGE

19. M.L.B. team that awarded a record-breaking $765 million contract to Juan Soto in 2024 → METS

24. Gloomy, as an atmosphere → SATURTHREE

26. "That's relatable" → IFEELYA

28. Some citrus desserts → LEMONTARTS

30. Ship-to-shore communicators → RADIOS

31. Essential biochemical process that releases energy in cells → KREBSCYCLE

32. Big ones might clash → EGOS

33. ___ Faire (medieval-themed festival) → REN

34. Grp. that's down on all furs? → PETA

35. Person who's off-base? → SHORTSTOP

37. Go after, in a way → SUE

44. Tread on me! → TIRE

45. See 53-Down → ASEC

47. Russian refusals → NYETS

49. Many an early internet user, informally → AOLER

50. #'s place → TWEET

51. Cousin of turquoise → AQUA

52. Disappointments → DUDS

53. With 45-Down, "Hey, hold on!" → WAIT

55. "Put your pens and pencils down" → TIME

57. California's capital, in some of its nicknames → SAC

58. Center of activity → HUB

59. "Vivat ___" ("Long live the king") → REX