This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on Thursday, October 23, 2025 (42 Across). The answer is hidden below until you want it. Thursday puzzles often have a trick, such as a rebus (several letters in one square) or answers that bend the rules.
Answer length: 3 squares
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B _ _
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BMI as a word: Initialism of body mass index. [A statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or ov...; (computing) Initialism of brain, machine interface.
BMI has been an answer 2 times in the NYT Crossword and Mini since October 23, 2025.
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