August 27, 2021 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (35 clues)
• Down Clues (35 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
• Related Crossword Solutions

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, August 27, 2021

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.5 letters

August 27, 2021 Across Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. What takes a licking and keeps on sticking?	5
2A	6. Bars that close	4
3A	10. Sandpaper specification	4
4A	14. Choreographer who posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014	5
5A	15. Scores	4
6A	16. Greek goddess who could turn water into wine	4
7A	17. Stargazer's need	10
8A	19. Chef Lewis who wrote "The Taste of Country Cooking"	4
9A	20. Hookups for a camera?	8
10A	21. Over the hill, with "up"	6
11A	23. Something you might flip over	3
12A	24. Rock on the edge	6
13A	25. What can follow "+/-"	13
14A	30. Not just in one's head	5
15A	31. You might get a date from it	4
16A	32. Objects of stargazers' gazes	4
17A	35. "So," in Italian	4
18A	36. Shopping ___	5
19A	37. Mandate	4
20A	38. Follow	4
21A	39. Unit of measure in a tongue twister	4
22A	40. Product whose name comes from the French for "without caffeine"	5
23A	41. "As long as we're on the subject ..."	13
24A	44. "Daniel in the Lions' Den" painter, 1615	6
25A	45. A new beginning?	3
26A	46. Fundamental particles	6
27A	47. Sings to the rafters	8
28A	52. Preface to sharing one's P.O.V.	4
29A	53. "Hmm ... really?"	10
30A	55. Vegetable related to garlic	4
31A	56. Bread whose name derives from the Sanskrit for "bread"	4
32A	57. Chemistry lab compound	5
33A	58. Certain tax write-off	4
34A	59. San Francisco-based candy brand	4
35A	60. Missing funds	5

Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!

Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!

Clue 1 Across: "1. What takes a licking and keeps on sticking?"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the distinctive form in which a thing is made
• Words that mean the same thing: stomp, pigeonhole, stereotype
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STAMP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "6. Bars that close"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the closing section of a musical composition
• Words that mean the same thing: finale
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CODA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Sandpaper specification"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
• Words that mean the same thing: gumption, guts, gritrock
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GRIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Choreographer who posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that united states choreographer noted for his use of african elements (born in 1931)
• Words that mean the same thing: Alvin Ailey
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AILEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Scores"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the pharaoh akhenaten
• Words that mean the same thing: Aten
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Greek goddess who could turn water into wine"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OENO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Stargazer's need"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLEARSKIES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Chef Lewis who wrote "The Taste of Country Cooking""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Hookups for a camera?"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEXTAPES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Over the hill, with "up""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that clean with some chemical process
• Words that mean the same thing: rinse, water-washed, wash out
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WASHED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Something you might flip over"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
• Words that mean the same thing: matting, gym mat, lusterlessness
• The opposite would be: unsnarl, disentangle
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Rock on the edge"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
• Words that mean the same thing: seesaw, teeter-totter, tilting board
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEETER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. What can follow "+/-""

Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MARGINOFERROR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "30. Not just in one's head"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that using the voice; not silently
• Words that mean the same thing: loudly, loud, out loud
• The opposite would be: softly
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALOUD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "31. You might get a date from it"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers
• Words that mean the same thing: ribbon, handle, medallion
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PALM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "32. Objects of stargazers' gazes"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
• Words that mean the same thing: ball, eyeball, orbit
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "35. "So," in Italian"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COSI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "36. Shopping ___"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a brief indulgence of your impulses
• Words that mean the same thing: fling
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPREE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "37. Mandate"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
• Words that mean the same thing: edict, rescript, decree
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FIAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "38. Follow"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
• Words that mean the same thing: mind, regard, paying attention
• The opposite would be: inattentiveness
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "39. Unit of measure in a tongue twister"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• Words that mean the same thing: nag, raft, smack
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PECK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "40. Product whose name comes from the French for "without caffeine""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SANKA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "41. "As long as we're on the subject ...""

Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEFOREIFORGET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "44. "Daniel in the Lions' Den" painter, 1615"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that prolific flemish baroque painter; knighted by the english king charles i (1577-1640)
• Words that mean the same thing: Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RUBENS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "45. A new beginning?"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (used as a combining form) recent or new
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "46. Fundamental particles"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any particle that obeys bose-einstein statistics but not the pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons
• Words that mean the same thing: boson
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOSONS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "47. Sings to the rafters"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BELTSOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. Preface to sharing one's P.O.V."

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IMHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "53. "Hmm ... really?""

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OHISTHATSO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "55. Vegetable related to garlic"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild allium ampeloprasum
• Words that mean the same thing: Allium porrum, scallion
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEEK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "56. Bread whose name derives from the Sanskrit for "bread""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "57. Chemistry lab compound"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ESTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "58. Certain tax write-off"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that something that is lost
• Words that mean the same thing: exit, going, red ink
• The opposite would be: gain
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "59. San Francisco-based candy brand"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
• Words that mean the same thing: fancy, go through, get wind
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "60. Missing funds"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
• Words that mean the same thing: poor, suddenly, short-change
• The opposite would be: tall, long
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHORT

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword August 27, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Ink containers	4
2D	2. Mahjong piece	4
3D	3. Middle child on ABC's "Modern Family"	4
4D	4. Supermarket section	4
5D	5. The only remaining wonder of the ancient world, for one	7
6D	6. Stuck-up couples at weddings?	11
7D	7. Company that makes moving walkways	4
8D	8. First word in a classic song from "The Sound of Music"	3
9D	9. "Hey, I'm talking to you!"	8
10D	10. Crosses a line	10
11D	11. Don't be misled by this	10
12D	12. Kind of circle	5
13D	13. Resident of Nintendo's Mushroom Kingdom	4
14D	18. Run from here to there?	4
15D	22. ___ Lingus	3
16D	24. Brain power	11
17D	25. It's calculated relative to the speed of sound	4
18D	26. Ingredient in the skin-care aisle	4
19D	27. View from the Oval Office	10
20D	28. Tourists' reading	10
21D	29. Ludicrous display	5
22D	33. Make a turnover, say	4
23D	34. Turnovers, e.g.	4
24D	36. Logos on Little League uniforms	8
25D	40. Applies a salve to	7
26D	42. Swamp	3
27D	43. Bowler material	4
28D	44. "Oh, I am fortune's fool!" speaker	5
29D	46. Send an invoice	4
30D	47. Take the bait	4
31D	48. Bit of ceremonial attire	4
32D	49. Name that has left/right symmetry	4
33D	50. ___ ID	4
34D	51. Civil offense	4
35D	54. Tool that makes the sound "scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch" in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"	3

Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!

Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!

Clue 1 Down: "1. Ink containers"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an enclosed space
• Words that mean the same thing: pocket, pouch, Sac
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SACS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Mahjong piece"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
• Words that mean the same thing: roofing tile
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Middle child on ABC's "Modern Family""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALEX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Supermarket section"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
• Words that mean the same thing: center, heart, kernel
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MEAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. The only remaining wonder of the ancient world, for one"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
• Words that mean the same thing: Great Pyramid, Pyramids of Egypt
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PYRAMID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Stuck-up couples at weddings?"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAKETOPPERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Company that makes moving walkways"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that united states inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
• Words that mean the same thing: Elisha Graves Otis, genus Otis
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OTIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. First word in a classic song from "The Sound of Music""

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about music.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the united states; created in 1977
• Words that mean the same thing: Energy Department, Energy, Department of Energy
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. "Hey, I'm talking to you!""

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANSWERME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Crosses a line"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GOESTOOFAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Don't be misled by this"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REDHERRING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Kind of circle"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that located inward; - leonard bernstein; - david denby; - a.r.gurney,jr.
• Words that mean the same thing: intimate, privileged, interior
• The opposite would be: outer
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INNER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Resident of Nintendo's Mushroom Kingdom"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
• Words that mean the same thing: batrachian, frog, salientian
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Run from here to there?"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the complete duration of something
• Words that mean the same thing: pair, distich, twain
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. ___ Lingus"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Brain power"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force
• Words that mean the same thing: psychokinesis
• The word looks like this: ___________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TELEKINESIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. It's calculated relative to the speed of sound"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)
• Words that mean the same thing: Ernst Mach
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MACH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Ingredient in the skin-care aisle"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
• The word looks like this: ____
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  The answer is: ALOE

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Clue 19 Down: "27. View from the Oval Office"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of many shrubs of the genus rosa that bear roses
• Words that mean the same thing: rose, rosebush
• The word looks like this: __________
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  The answer is: ROSEBUSHES

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Clue 20 Down: "28. Tourists' reading"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that something that offers basic information or instruction
• Words that mean the same thing: guidebook, guide
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: GUIDEBOOKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "29. Ludicrous display"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
• Words that mean the same thing: farce comedy, travesty, forcemeat
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: FARCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. Make a turnover, say"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
• Words that mean the same thing: broil
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: BAKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. Turnovers, e.g."

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

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• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: STAT

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Clue 24 Down: "36. Logos on Little League uniforms"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that someone who supports or champions something
• Words that mean the same thing: patronize, presenter, patron
• The opposite would be: boycott
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: SPONSORS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "40. Applies a salve to"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that give moral or emotional strength to
• Words that mean the same thing: solace, comfort, soothe
• The opposite would be: irritate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: SOOTHES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "42. Swamp"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that 100 fen equal 1 yuan in china
• Words that mean the same thing: marshland, marsh, fenland
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "43. Bowler material"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
• Words that mean the same thing: experience, finger, felt up
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FELT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "44. "Oh, I am fortune's fool!" speaker"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an ardent male lover
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: ROMEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "46. Send an invoice"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a statute in draft before it becomes law
• Words that mean the same thing: government note, pecker, visor
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BILL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "47. Take the bait"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
• Words that mean the same thing: pungency, sharpness, snack
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BITE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "48. Bit of ceremonial attire"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame
• Words that mean the same thing: waistcloth, window sash, waistband
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SASH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "49. Name that has left/right symmetry"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OTTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "50. ___ ID"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
• Words that mean the same thing: substance abuser, drug user, exploiter
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: USER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "51. Civil offense"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
• Words that mean the same thing: civil wrong
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TORT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "54. Tool that makes the sound "scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch" in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit""

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	59	84.3%
Short Answer	5	7.1%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.9%
History	2	2.9%
Geography	1	1.4%
Music	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	35
Total Clues	70
Average Answer Length	5.5 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	13 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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Last Updated: September 15, 2025 at 09:42 AM