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GETTING INTO SHAPES: 2-D and 3-D

Sunday, March 9, 2025 Constructed by Gary M. Larson 146 clues
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Across

  1. Pill variety 6 ℓ
  2. Perform, as a 7-Across 4 ℓ
  3. "It follows that..." 4 ℓ
  4. Choral participant 4 ℓ
  5. Footprint producers 5 ℓ
  6. "It's okay with me" 6 ℓ
  7. IRS guys 4 ℓ
  8. "__-haw!" (cowpoke shout) 3 ℓ
  9. Wooden rod 5 ℓ
  10. Ostrich cousins 5 ℓ
  11. Boyfriends 5 ℓ
  12. Standout pilot 3 ℓ
  13. Off-white shade 4 ℓ
  14. Room for a broom 6 ℓ
  15. Saturate (with) 5 ℓ
  16. Adverse fate 4 ℓ
  17. Marvin of Motown 4 ℓ
  18. Debt document 3 ℓ
  19. Slow-motion martial art 6 ℓ
  20. Corsage flower 6 ℓ
  21. Tax-deferred acronym 3 ℓ
  22. Rectangles in libraries 10 ℓ
  23. "__ the land of the free..." 3 ℓ
  24. Mars alias 4 ℓ
  25. More lubricated 6 ℓ
  26. Excel 5 ℓ
  27. Fill-in-the-blank party story 6 ℓ
  28. Mutually approves 8 ℓ
  29. Apiece 3 ℓ
  30. Emulate wagon trains 6 ℓ
  31. French literature Nobelist 5 ℓ
  32. Popular female boomer name 5 ℓ
  33. Rolled-up Mexican food 7 ℓ
  34. Turn your attention elsewhere 7 ℓ
  35. Cylinders in bands 9 ℓ
  36. Circles in text messages 11 ℓ
  37. Macabre film family surname 6 ℓ
  38. Dutch cheese 4 ℓ
  39. When morning ends 4 ℓ
  40. Make a reservation 4 ℓ
  41. Small, sweet sandwich 4 ℓ
  42. Sporting sword 4 ℓ
  43. Reduce to rubble 4 ℓ
  44. Harder to grasp 6 ℓ
  45. Jurassic Park predators 6 ℓ
  46. Hymn's last word 4 ℓ
  47. Thomas Hardy girl 4 ℓ
  48. Trojan War hero 4 ℓ
  49. Cones in quaint classrooms 9 ℓ
  50. Spheres in the sink 11 ℓ
  51. Stories in installments 7 ℓ
  52. Flip-flop sandals, bug spray, etc. 7 ℓ
  53. Sealed a deal 6 ℓ
  54. Poets of yore 5 ℓ
  55. Gain access to 5 ℓ
  56. Zodiaco bovine 6 ℓ
  57. Hardwood tree 3 ℓ
  58. Condiment source 8 ℓ
  59. Engineering details 5 ℓ
  60. No longer Little League-eligible 6 ℓ
  61. Honey factory 4 ℓ
  62. Former NBC owner 3 ℓ
  63. World Cup sport 6 ℓ
  64. Pentagons in ballparks 10 ℓ
  65. Prof.'s aides 3 ℓ
  66. Slight amount 4 ℓ
  67. S&L dispenser 3 ℓ
  68. Pipe joint shapes 4 ℓ
  69. Invites for 6 ℓ
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Down

  1. __ in "crossword" 3 ℓ
  2. Pro sports team VIPs 3 ℓ
  3. Short sleep 3 ℓ
  4. State bordering BC 3 ℓ
  5. Hush-hush 6 ℓ
  6. Fairy tale starter 4 ℓ
  7. Fire bells 5 ℓ
  8. Beers for everybody 5 ℓ
  9. Withstand 6 ℓ
  10. What sandals lack 4 ℓ
  11. Excessive fuss 3 ℓ
  12. Smartphone precursor: Abbr. 3 ℓ
  13. Memory mishap 5 ℓ
  14. Plant deeply 5 ℓ
  15. Woe, from the Yiddish 6 ℓ
  16. Swedish supergroup 4 ℓ
  17. Laze about 4 ℓ
  18. Gives approval for 3 ℓ
  19. Takes an oath 6 ℓ
  20. What a fingernail tops 7 ℓ
  21. Astronaut Jemison 3 ℓ
  22. Avoid capture 6 ℓ
  23. Low murmur 3 ℓ
  24. Dutch South African 4 ℓ
  25. Not fooled by 4 ℓ
  26. Transports for tours 5 ℓ
  27. Disposable dish brand 6 ℓ
  28. Large sea duck 5 ℓ
  29. Caustic cleaners 4 ℓ
  30. Wells scientist 6 ℓ
  31. Nonliteral phrases 6 ℓ
  32. Attire 4 ℓ
  33. Sooner State native 4 ℓ
  34. I, as in Austria 3 ℓ
  35. Puts on TV 4 ℓ
  36. Distressed 6 ℓ
  37. Not authentic 5 ℓ
  38. Scoundrel 5 ℓ
  39. Keeps entertained 6 ℓ
  40. Sometime later 6 ℓ
  41. The Far Side cartoonist 6 ℓ
  42. Online purchase 5 ℓ
  43. Thin cookie 5 ℓ
  44. Summits 5 ℓ
  45. Two-door car 5 ℓ
  46. Worry (over) 4 ℓ
  47. One-flat scale, for short 4 ℓ
  48. Musical Minnelli 4 ℓ
  49. Nickname like Sandy 4 ℓ
  50. SAT takers 3 ℓ
  51. Wide shoe 3 ℓ
  52. 109, to Julius Caesar 3 ℓ
  53. Mme., in Madrid 3 ℓ
  54. Tropical snake 3 ℓ
  55. Sleeve filler 3 ℓ
  56. Comprehend 3 ℓ
  57. Tried to nip 5 ℓ
  58. Top-level Boy Scouts 6 ℓ
  59. Wall Street index, for short 5 ℓ
  60. "Guess so" 6 ℓ
  61. Squares on park tables 13 ℓ
  62. Bad temper 4 ℓ
  63. Triangles at parties 13 ℓ
  64. Esoteric 6 ℓ
  65. Banquet tributes 6 ℓ
  66. Ore examination 5 ℓ
  67. Actress Lindsay 5 ℓ
  68. Trumpet sound 4 ℓ
  69. Some preschool picker-uppers 7 ℓ
  70. Holiday preceders 4 ℓ
  71. Duplicate emails, briefly 3 ℓ
  72. Small sofa 6 ℓ
  73. Saintly light 4 ℓ
  74. "That's good enough" 6 ℓ
  75. Tomato for paste 4 ℓ
  76. Most born in August 4 ℓ
  77. Weed whacker 3 ℓ

About this puzzle

The Newsday Crossword for Sunday, March 9, 2025 is titled “GETTING INTO SHAPES: 2-D and 3-D” and was constructed by Gary M. Larson. The puzzle features 146 clues arranged in a 21×21 grid — the standard format for Sunday-size puzzles.

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The Newsday Crossword is published daily by Newsday on Long Island and edited by Stan Newman. Difficulty builds across the week from a gentle Monday introduction up to Saturday’s legendary themeless Stumper. The official puzzle is available on the Newsday Games site. For other days, browse the complete Newsday Crossword archive indexed by date.

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