The answer we are looking for is an alternative to blur or pixelation. Coming from the April 30, 2025, edition of the NYT crossword puzzle, this word fills up number 30 going across. Blur and pixelation are techniques used by TV shows or programs on TV where they have to censor something. Blurring is a given one, and pixelation is that process where it looks like those sprites from 80s video games.
The word censor is in the answer we are looking for
The answer to this clue is CENSORBAR. It’s actually two words, censor and bar, but this is the answer to this puzzle. A censor bar can be different things but the most common one would be a black bar and the word censor over it. In some cases, it is just a black bar or square.
There are other forms of the censor bar, like a circle. This is the one where it looks red and there’s a bar over it. They even use it to cover a person’s mouth when they’re spouting something bad on TV, with the sound being bleeped out.
