Wednesday August 07, 2024 - NYT Crossword puzzle hints
Welcome to NYT puzzle and answers. The New York Times Crossword is one of the most popular puzzles. Here are the clues and answers for today's puzzle:
NYT Crosswords Clues: August 07, 2024
Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.
Across Clues and Answers:
- 1. Rhyme of 49-Across, but not a homophone of 19-Across - Show Answer
BUFF
(4 letters)
Synonyms: buffet, lover, raw_sienna, buffer, fan, yellowish_brown, buff, burnish, furbish, devotee, caramel_brown, caramel
- 5. On the ___ - Show Answer
LAM
(3 letters)
Synonyms: head_for_the_hills, break_away, run, thrash, flail, thresh, escape, turn_tail, fly_the_coop, bunk, getaway, scat, hightail_it, scarper, take_to_the_woods, run_away, lam
- 8. Rhyme of 46-Across, but not a homophone of 21-Across - Show Answer
DOFF
(4 letters)
Synonyms: doff
- 12. Key that might be part of a chain - Show Answer
ISLE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: isle, islet
- 13. Olay competitor - Show Answer
NIVEA
(5 letters)
- 15. Spaniard's "other" - Show Answer
OTRA
(4 letters)
- 16. Opposite of hopping - Show Answer
DEAD
(4 letters)
Synonyms: absolutely, bushed, short, numb, stagnant, drained, beat, utterly, dead, suddenly, utter, perfectly, deadened, idle, abruptly, all_in
Antonyms: live, living, alive
- 17. Customer service worker - Show Answer
AGENT
(5 letters)
Synonyms: federal_agent, agent, factor, agentive_role, broker
- 18. "Serves you right!" - Show Answer
GOOD
(4 letters)
Synonyms: near, in_effect, estimable, soundly, trade_good, dear, sound, safe, well, skilful, right, upright, unspoilt, thoroughly, dependable, beneficial, commodity, in_force, honest, adept, salutary, ripe, serious, goodness, good, honorable, proficient, full, undecomposed, respectable, effective, unspoiled, skillful, just, practiced, expert, secure
Antonyms: bad, badness, ill, evilness, evil
- 19. Main branch of a tree - Show Answer
BOUGH
(5 letters)
Synonyms: bough
- 21. It gets baked - Show Answer
DOUGH
(5 letters)
Synonyms: clams, wampum, lucre, moolah, pelf, gelt, loot, shekels, kale, simoleons, boodle, cabbage, sugar, lettuce, dinero, bread, dough, lolly, scratch
- 23. Take a break - Show Answer
REST
(4 letters)
Synonyms: pillow, catch_one's_breath, stay, rest, relief, residue, relaxation, quietus, respite, balance, residuum, remainder, reside, roost, ease, rest_period, eternal_rest, remain, repose, eternal_sleep, lie, perch, residual, sleep, take_a_breather, breathe
Antonyms: be_active, change
- 24. Not on board with - Show Answer
ANTI
(4 letters)
Synonyms: anti
Antonyms: pro
- 25. Evaluate for purity - Show Answer
ASSAY
(5 letters)
Synonyms: seek, check, assay, try, essay, attempt
- 28. Like Plan B, for short - Show Answer
OTC
(3 letters)
Synonyms: over-the-counter, otc
- 30. Wee - Show Answer
EENSY
(5 letters)
- 34. Marshland - Show Answer
FEN
(3 letters)
Synonyms: fenland, marshland, marsh, fen
- 35. "___ Choice" - Show Answer
SOPHIES
(7 letters)
- 38. "Another sheep pun? ___ gotta be kidding!" - Show Answer
EWE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: ewe, Ewe
- 39. Field for grazing - Show Answer
LEA
(3 letters)
Synonyms: ley, lea, grazing_land, pastureland, pasture
- 40. Everglades wader - Show Answer
HERON
(5 letters)
Synonyms: Heron, heron, Hero_of_Alexandria, Hero
- 41. Shade - Show Answer
HUE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: hue, imbue, chromaticity
- 42. Gun-regulating grp. - Show Answer
ATF
(3 letters)
Synonyms: Bureau_of_Alcohol_Tobacco_and_Firearms, ATF
- 43. By way of - Show Answer
THROUGH
(7 letters)
Synonyms: through_with, through_and_through, done, through
- 45. I.C.U. staffers - Show Answer
RNS
(3 letters)
Synonyms: radon, RN, Rn, atomic_number_86, registered_nurse
- 46. Attention-getting sound - Show Answer
COUGH
(5 letters)
Synonyms: coughing, cough
- 48. Sounds of sympathy - Show Answer
AWS
(3 letters)
- 49. Uneven - Show Answer
ROUGH
(5 letters)
Synonyms: rocky, grating, jolty, scratchy, jolting, approximate, bumpy, crude, jumpy, boisterous, rasping, rough, harsh, unsmooth, pugnacious, rough_in, uncut, fierce, raspy, approximative, rough_out, roughly, gravelly
Antonyms: smooth, cut
- 51. Conditional words - Show Answer
ORS
(3 letters)
Synonyms: Beaver_State, operating_theatre, surgery, OR, Oregon, operating_room, operating_theater
- 53. Pacific ___ - Show Answer
RIM
(3 letters)
Synonyms: lip, brim, rim, flange
- 54. Unfair outcome, informally - Show Answer
BUMDEAL
(7 letters)
- 58. Corkscrew-shaped pasta - Show Answer
FUSILLI
(7 letters)
- 62. A pop star might go by this - Show Answer
ONENAME
(7 letters)
- 63. Stay away (from) - Show Answer
ABSTAIN
(7 letters)
Synonyms: refrain, desist, abstain
Antonyms: consume
- 64. Used as a platform - Show Answer
STOODON
(7 letters)
- 65. More timid - Show Answer
MOUSIER
(7 letters)
Synonyms: mouse-colored, mousey, mousy, mouselike
- 66. Rhyme of 19-Across, but not a homophone of 46-Across - Show Answer
COW
(3 letters)
Synonyms: overawe, moo-cow, cow
- 67. Heavy-hearted - Show Answer
SAD
(3 letters)
Synonyms: pitiful, distressing, deplorable, sorry, sad, lamentable
Antonyms: glad
- 68. Denver-to-Omaha dir. - Show Answer
ENE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: east_northeast, ENE
- 69. Rhyme of 43-Across, but not a homophone of 49-Across - Show Answer
RUE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: ruefulness, regret, Ruta_graveolens, rue, herb_of_grace, sorrow, repent
Down Clues and Answers:
- 1. Put in an offer - Show Answer
BID
(3 letters)
Synonyms: wish, entreat, bid, adjure, bidding, press, play, dictation, beseech, tender, conjure, command, call, invite, offer
- 2. Avail - Show Answer
USE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: usage, role, expend, employment, employ, function, enjoyment, utilization, use, manipulation, use_of_goods_and_services, exercise, usance, consumption, habituate, purpose, practice, economic_consumption, apply, utilisation, habit, utilise, utilize
- 3. Exerciser's target - Show Answer
FLAB
(4 letters)
Synonyms: flab
- 4. Classic accessory for Humphrey Bogart - Show Answer
FEDORA
(6 letters)
Synonyms: homburg, trilby, fedora, felt_hat, Stetson
- 5. Many a Gilbert and Sullivan work - Show Answer
LIGHTOPERA
(10 letters)
- 6. Park in N.Y.C., e.g. - Show Answer
AVE
(3 letters)
- 7. Untruthful - Show Answer
MENDACIOUS
(10 letters)
Synonyms: mendacious
- 8. Pooch - Show Answer
DOGGIE
(6 letters)
Synonyms: doggie, doggy, bow-wow, barker, pooch
- 9. "Conversely …," in a text - Show Answer
OTOH
(4 letters)
- 10. Not to - Show Answer
FRO
(3 letters)
- 11. It doesn't stay hot for long - Show Answer
FAD
(3 letters)
Synonyms: fad, rage, furore, furor, craze, cult
- 13. Keeps at - Show Answer
NAGS
(4 letters)
Synonyms: plug, jade, scold, common_scold, hen-peck, nag, hack, peck, nagger, scolder
- 14. Lots - Show Answer
ATON
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Aten, Aton
- 20. Remedies for missed turns - Show Answer
UEYS
(4 letters)
- 22. Native Coloradans - Show Answer
UTES
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Ute
- 25. Insurer with an avian mascot - Show Answer
AFLAC
(5 letters)
- 26. Take care of - Show Answer
SEETO
(5 letters)
- 27. Real mess - Show Answer
SNAFU
(5 letters)
Synonyms: snafu, fucked-up
- 29. Rhyme of 21-Across, but not a homophone of 43-Across - Show Answer
THROW
(5 letters)
Synonyms: cast_off, hurl, shake_off, make, bemuse, hold, give, shed, confuse, fuddle, cast, thrust, confound, befuddle, bewilder, fox, discombobulate, drop, switch, flip, throw_off, stroke, have, cam_stroke, throw, project, bedevil, throw_away, contrive
- 31. Leader who wrote "The Discovery of India" - Show Answer
NEHRU
(5 letters)
Synonyms: Jawaharlal_Nehru, Nehru
- 32. Totally shifted the momentum of - Show Answer
SWUNG
(5 letters)
Synonyms: sway, swing, swing_over, drop, sweep, swing_out, get_around, dangle
- 33. "Hoo-boy!" - Show Answer
YEESH
(5 letters)
- 36. Exclamation of understanding - Show Answer
OHH
(3 letters)
- 37. Subj. taught by Fulbright scholars - Show Answer
ENG
(3 letters)
- 43. Clothing, colloquially - Show Answer
THREADS
(7 letters)
Synonyms: screw_thread, string, meander, togs, yarn, weave, thread, wander, wind, train_of_thought, threads, ribbon, duds, draw
- 44. Serious workplace problem, for short - Show Answer
HRISSUE
(7 letters)
- 47. "Puh-lease!" - Show Answer
GODNO
(5 letters)
- 50. Leaves out - Show Answer
OMITS
(5 letters)
Synonyms: pretermit, leave_off, omit, miss, except, take_out, overlook, exclude, neglect, leave_out, drop, overleap
Antonyms: attend_to, include
- 52. Island country that's 24 hours ahead of its closest neighbor - Show Answer
SAMOA
(5 letters)
Synonyms: Samoa_i_Sisifo, Independent_State_of_Samoa, Samoa, Samoan_Islands, Western_Samoa
- 53. Apply, as sunscreen - Show Answer
RUBON
(5 letters)
- 54. Brownish pear - Show Answer
BOSC
(4 letters)
Synonyms: bosc
- 55. "Once more ___ the breach" - Show Answer
UNTO
(4 letters)
- 56. Communicate like a Sphynx - Show Answer
MEOW
(4 letters)
Synonyms: meow, miaul, miaow, miaou, mew
- 57. Give for a time - Show Answer
LEND
(4 letters)
Synonyms: contribute, impart, add, lend, bestow, loan, bring
Antonyms: borrow
- 58. "___ is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day": Gabriel García Márquez - Show Answer
FAME
(4 letters)
Synonyms: celebrity, fame, renown
Antonyms: infamy
- 59. Leopard's spot - Show Answer
LAIR
(4 letters)
Synonyms: den, lair
- 60. Place - Show Answer
LIEU
(4 letters)
Synonyms: position, place, stead, lieu
- 61. Memo line - Show Answer
INRE
(4 letters)
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