Like the layout of the central 13 black squares in this puzzle Crossword Clue

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Like the layout of the central 13 black squares in this puzzle Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. having a pattern of dots
2. having gaps or spaces

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

LAYOUT (noun)
1. a plan or design of something that is laid out
2. the act of laying out (as by making plans for something)
CENTRAL (noun)
1. a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
CENTRAL (adjective)
1. serving as an essential component
2. in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area

More NYT Crossword (3/7/2026) Answers

Across

1. One who makes a living from fish

10. Taxing, as a test

15. Screen grab?

16. Prefix with centric

17. Like the crescendo in Ravel's "Boléro"

18. Prayer presenter

19. What travellers typically have in America?

20. Flash

21. Word that comes from the Japanese for "picture" + "character"

22. M.R.I. induction units

24. Makeup of a plot

26. Walked off with

27. Part of a Grim Reaper costume

29. Controller of floods in the video game Pharaoh

31. Closing

35. Directive in an order

37. R&B's Braxton

38. "Does anyone else sense impending doom?"

40. Sémillon rouge and Médoc noir

42. Noncommittal

43. You might dance on one

45. Location of a notorious 33-Down: Abbr.

46. Envelop with a ring

48. When strikes go on the longest?

50. Cavity

51. No. 2

58. Open the gate for

60. What first has over second

62. Woman central to electioneering?

63. Big Little Lies author Moriarty

64. Totality of everything, in sci-fi-speak

66. Ninnyhammer

67. "Say whatever you're gonna say!"

68. It keeps a narrow passage passable

69. Heavens

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Down

1. 100 bones

2. Act constructively from contrition

3. Wife-carrying in Finland and cheese-rolling in England

4. Waggish

5. Spot for a sweat

6. "God willing!"

7. Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen's status, repeatedly, in "Catch-22"

8. Takes off-road?

9. Money in Reykjavík

10. Throws spray, in surfer lingo

11. Band

12. What's lacking in a crowded elevator

13. Establishments where smoking is allowed

14. Reply while fighting for the check

23. First Amendment protector, in brief

25. "Far from it!"

28. Dry streambed

30. "___ do"

31. Gestures of incredulity

32. [D'oh!]

33. Cause of a cold sweat, perhaps

34. Taylor-Joy of "Furiosa"

36. What arms may hold, informally

39. Low notes, but not the lowest

41. Home of the National Automobile Museum

44. At the designated speed

47. Not yet seen, say

49. Rare bird

52. Move about, as liquid

54. Connect with

55. Estoques are pointed at them

56. Transpire thereupon

57. Not just the headline gossip, slangily

59. Part of, as a racket

61. Dye-yielding shrub

65. Energy

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