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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Puzzle by Tiffany Zhou ● Edited by Alisha Gandhi
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Puzzle by
Tiffany Zhou
● Edited by
Alisha Gandhi
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Blacklist
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Emotional release
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Word on a red hexagon
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Prominent citation style (abbr.)
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Origin
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Wrestler John
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Simple two-person card game
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Illinois capital
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Nine-digit ID
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Singer Carly ___ Jepsen
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Stud locale
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The "S" of 66-Across (abbr.)
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___ Kat
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"Diamonds" singer's nickname
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Red lightsaber wielder
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Oohs and ___
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Fountain pen tip
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"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" captain
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"Bet!"
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TSA wand, perhaps
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Pharmacy with famously long receipts
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Word after chemistry or chocolate
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Suffix with Caesar and Euclid
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Aldrich Ames or James Bond, e.g.
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Swindle someone
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Jet black
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List ending abbr.
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Women's links org.
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Intimate conversation ...or a hint to the puzzle's shaded letters
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Follower of boo or woo
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"Ruh-___!"
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Western hemisphere grp.
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Apple platform
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Ones in their "terrible" years
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My Chemical Romance, for example
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Green character in "Monsters Inc."
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Expose, as a secret
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Cruella de ___
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For fear that
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Like a pig sound
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Earth-friendly prefix
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Some luxury vehicles
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Most sparsely populated state
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C. S. Lewis's fantasy world
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Lenin's land (abbr.)
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Without face value, as stock
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Entice
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"___ and the Will of the Wisps" (video game)
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Pimple or blackhead, e.g.
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Impressionist Edgar
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Poli-___ major
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Drives, often?
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Part of YOLO
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Body guards?
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Calendar col.
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Shakespeare's "your"
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Kept out of sight
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Weed ingredient, briefly
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Popular women's magazine
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Container for cold ones
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Cut (off)
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Stab at
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___ Paolo
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___ chi
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Forever and ever
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Silicon Valley exec.
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U-Haul rental
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Signature shots of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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One's people
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App extension
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Verizon rival
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Green org.
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Distress
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Irreducible units
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"Your days ___ numbered..."
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Crowd clamors
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Went after
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WWW language
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Tot's injury
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Red cup brand
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To date
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Drake's record label
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