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NYT Daily ? November 30, 2025

2022 sequel to "Knives Out"

Answer:

GLASSONION

Hint:

This whodunit mystery reunites Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc and features a tech billionaire's private island as the setting.

Explanation:

This clue refers to the 2022 mystery film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the follow-up to the 2019 hit Knives Out. The title plays on the phrase "glass onion," a reference to transparency and layers (like the film’s plot), while also nodding to The Beatles’ song Glass Onion from The White Album. Since crosswords often drop subtitles for brevity, the answer is simply the first word, "GLASSONION," written as one word.

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