25 September 2022 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 25 September 2022

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T
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W
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E
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R
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K
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B
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R
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A
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B
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B
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E
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C
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T
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S
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H
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V
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I
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T
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B
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T
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A
L
U
M
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M
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O
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E
L
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T
R
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C
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O
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U
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T
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L
A
R
A
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Y
E
S
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C
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N
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D
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M
P
S
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N
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R
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Z
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R
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T
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C
H
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R
A
S
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F
A
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K
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N
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W
S
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L
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I
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B
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R
I
A
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R
E
C
T
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O
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E
A
T
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A
D
O
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N
B
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H
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V
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I
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N
G
C
R
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M
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G
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O
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L
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V
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A
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Z
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G
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U
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M
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N
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D
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P
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A
S
S
W
O
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D
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S
N
L
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K
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T
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D
O
O
M
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S
Y
D
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A
B
A
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T
A
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B
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O
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O
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C
L
E
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O
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O
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D
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N
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P
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C
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R
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L
P
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H
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L
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N
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X
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M
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D
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W
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G
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D
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R
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B
B
L
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S
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C
L
U
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N
O
S
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W
E
A
R
S
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B
O
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O
K
O
N
E
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G
O
T
W
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I
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L
M
A
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W
O
R
K
S
W
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T
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H
O
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T
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N
E
T
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D
E
S
I
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N
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E
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T
E
S
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T
E
N
O
R
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D
Y
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D
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R
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B
Y

Hints & Clues

Across
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Do some backup dancing? : TWERK
6
Things with wires, often : BRAS
10
Sweets : BABE
14
Musical whose name is an anagram of the members of a musical : CATS
18
"Here, take this" : HAVEIT
20
Hit hard : BELT
21
Many a donor, for short : ALUM
22
"You may disagree, but …," to a texter : IMHO
23
*What's in your wallet : ELECTRICALOUTLET
26
Actress ___ Flynn Boyle : LARA
27
Confidence-building mantra : YESICAN
28
Burdens with : DUMPSON
29
Trimmer : RAZOR
30
Dash dial : TACH
31
Stretches of time : ERAS
32
*Press junket : FAKENEWS
34
Country whose capital is named after an early U.S. president : LIBERIA
37
Odd-numbered page, typically : RECTO
39
Take in : EAT
40
Buzzing about : ADO
41
Bird watcher's org., once : NBA
43
*Barbershop quartet : SHAVINGCREAM
49
*Rocket scientist : GEOLOGIST
53
Lines on which music is written : STAVE
54
Opera whose title character is a singer : TOSCA
55
Complete : ATOZ
56
Hermanos de la madre : TIOS
58
Like Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings" : ELFIN
60
Muscle used in a pull-up, informally : TRI
61
Word between "what" and "that" : WAS
63
R&B's India.___ : ARIE
65
Profit : NETGAIN
68
*Security blankets : USERNAMEANDPASSWORD
74
"Black Jeopardy!," for one : SNLSKIT
75
Apocalypse : DOOM
76
Qantas hub, on luggage tags : SYD
77
Org. that merged with 41-Across in the 1970s : ABA
78
Off-limits : TABOO
82
Letters to ___ (rock group) : CLEO
84
Cargo : LOAD
87
Likely to offend, in brief : NONPC
90
Author Ellison : RALPH
92
*A drop in the bucket : INFLATION
95
*Ticketmaster : EXTERMINATOR
98
United hub, on luggage tags : SFO
99
Expected : DUE
100
League designation for the Durham Bulls and Salt Lake Bees : AAA
101
Cut choice : FILET
103
Power : WATTAGE
106
*Ballet movements : DRIBBLES
111
Game of who, what and where : CLUE
112
Ancestor of Methuselah : ENOS
113
Is grating : WEARS
114
Start of a literary series : BOOKONE
116
Cottoned on (to) : GOTWISE
120
___ mater : ALMA
121
Has no plan B … or, when parsed differently, what each of the starred clues does vis-à-vis its answer? : WORKSWITHOUTANET
123
Having South Asian roots : DESI
124
Small table fare? : ANTE
125
Summers on the Seine : ETES
126
Chorus section : TENORS
127
Global brand of men's dress shirts : ETON
128
Pair : DYAD
129
Laura of "Big Little Lies" : DERN
130
Consulted for feedback about : RANBY
Down
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Designation on some pronoun pins : THEY
2
Rapper with the 2011 hit album "Ambition" : WALE
3
The before-times? : EVES
4
Reel off : RECITE
5
Auto hobbyist's project, maybe : KITCAR
6
Airer of the crime drama "Luther" : BBC
7
Circulation unit : READER
8
Draws : ALLURES
9
Stands : STOMACHS
10
Steps up to the plate : BATS
11
John Legend's "___ Me" : ALLOF
12
___ Park, city west of Anaheim : BUENA
13
Lifesaver, for short : EMT
14
Pico de gallo ingredient : CILANTRO
15
Leave slack-jawed : AMAZE
16
Confuse : THROW
17
Doesn't just increase : SOARS
19
Faint pattern : TRACING
24
Occupy : INHABIT
25
Weekend destination for an N.Y.C. getaway, maybe : UPSTATE
29
Twitch, for instance : REACT
33
Fountain of youth? : KEG
34
Twitch problem : LAG
35
"The very ___!" : IDEA
36
Power (up) : BOOT
38
Like the head of a badminton racket : OVAL
42
How you should "take me," in a phrase : ASIAM
44
Modern reproductive tech inits. : IVF
45
Some votes in the Bundestag : NEINS
46
Spanish 101 verb : ESTAR
47
Bitter : ACRID
48
Major water source : MAIN
50
Tool chain : LOWES
51
Missouri county on the Arkansas border : OZARK
52
Moved fast : TORE
57
"Chandelier" singer, 2014 : SIA
59
Suffix with bad, mad, sad and glad : NESS
62
Huff : SNIT
64
Period in curling : END
66
"Schitt's Creek" role for Sarah Levy : TWYLA
67
Title play character who never shows up : GODOT
68
Open, as a gift : UNBOX
69
Bias : SLANT
70
Maker of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game : ATARI
71
"What's up, ___?" : DOC
72
___ sci : POLI
73
They're heard in a chorus : AMENS
74
Reasonable : SANE
79
Focus of many a law : BAN
80
German chancellor Scholz : OLAF
81
Sir Isaac Newton work on the fundamentals of light : OPTICKS
83
"Let's begin our adventure!" : OFFWEGO
85
Opera that aptly premiered in Egypt : AIDA
86
Good name for an archaeologist? : DOUG
88
Idiot : PEABRAIN
89
Grumps : CRABS
91
Excavated, with "out" : HOLLOWED
93
Give for a time : LOANOUT
94
Jennifer Affleck ___ Lopez : NEE
96
It's bad overseas : MAL
97
What the Beatles never did : REUNITE
102
With 104-Down, playground fixture : TEETER
104
See 102-Down : TOTTER
105
One of South Africa's official languages : TSWANA
106
Longtime Miami Heat great, to fans : DWADE
107
Subleased : RELET
108
Playground comeback : IAMSO
109
Wood that sinks in water : EBONY
110
"More or less" : SORTA
115
Green-lit : OKED
117
Zero ___ : INON
118
Tesla, for one : SERB
119
Website with a Home Favorites page : ETSY
121
Crumple (up) : WAD
122
QVC alternative : HSN