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- Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
- Across Clues (34 clues)
- Down Clues (36 clues)
- Category Breakdown
- Complete Puzzle Statistics
- Pro Solving Tips
Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, December 23, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (34 Across, 36 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
December 23, 2022 Across Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Answers
No. | Clue | Letters |
---|---|---|
1A | 1. Really, really | 4 |
2A | 5. Palio di ___, annual Italian horse race held since the 13th century | 4 |
3A | 9. Happen periodically | 5 |
4A | 14. Is comforted by not being ignored | 9 |
5A | 16. Research university adjacent to the C.D.C. | 5 |
6A | 17. Sensory deprivation device | 9 |
7A | 18. Quinceañera feature | 5 |
8A | 19. Places with large nest eggs? | 8 |
9A | 20. Brahman believers | 6 |
10A | 21. Broadband inits. | 3 |
11A | 22. Debauched sort | 4 |
12A | 23. Bucks | 4 |
13A | 24. Culture subject | 12 |
14A | 28. "Bro!" | 5 |
15A | 31. Part usually thrown away | 4 |
16A | 32. Ramadan-ending holiday, informally | 3 |
17A | 33. Co-writer of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" | 7 |
18A | 36. Final stretch | 7 |
19A | 38. Cries of frustration | 3 |
20A | 39. Hennery | 4 |
21A | 41. What cows and icebergs do | 5 |
22A | 42. End of one's money | 12 |
23A | 46. Tahoe neighbor | 4 |
24A | 47. Administrator with a list | 4 |
25A | 48. Toy sound | 3 |
26A | 51. Quinceañera, e.g. | 6 |
27A | 53. One of a dangerous group in "Robinson Crusoe" | 8 |
28A | 55. Wipe | 5 |
29A | 56. Jig, e.g. | 9 |
30A | 57. Some skirt options | 5 |
31A | 58. Things not good to have next to one's records | 9 |
32A | 59. It's a plus | 5 |
33A | 60. Classic muscle cars | 4 |
34A | 61. Informal meeting | 4 |
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. Really, really"
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!
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The answer is: OHSO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Palio di ___, annual Italian horse race held since the 13th century"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard 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!
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The answer is: ASTI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "9. Happen periodically"
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 happen or occur again
- Words that mean the same thing: resort, go back, fall back
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RECUR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. Is comforted by not being ignored"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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!
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The answer is: FEELSSEEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Research university adjacent to the C.D.C."
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!
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The answer is: EMORY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. Sensory deprivation device"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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!
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The answer is: FLOATTANK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "18. Quinceañera feature"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in portuguese to indicate nasalization
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TILDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "19. Places with large nest eggs?"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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!
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The answer is: EMUFARMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. Brahman believers"
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 a native or inhabitant of hindustan or india
- Words that mean the same thing: Hindustani, Hindoo, Hindu
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HINDUS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Broadband inits."
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 a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds
- Words that mean the same thing: digital subscriber line
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DSL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. Debauched sort"
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 dissolute man in fashionable society
- Words that mean the same thing: rake, profligate, blood
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROUE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Bucks"
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 smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: one, single, ace
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "24. Culture subject"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 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!
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The answer is: TISSUESAMPLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. "Bro!""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy 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!
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The answer is: MYMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "31. Part usually thrown away"
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 british politician (1788-1850)
- Words that mean the same thing: strip down, pare, flake off
- The opposite would be: dress
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "32. Ramadan-ending holiday, informally"
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!
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The answer is: EID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "33. Co-writer of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YOUNGMC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "36. Final stretch"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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!
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The answer is: LASTLEG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. Cries of frustration"
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!
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The answer is: OYS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Hennery"
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 farm building for housing poultry
- Words that mean the same thing: hencoop, henhouse, cage
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "41. What cows and icebergs do"
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 release ice
- Words that mean the same thing: break up, have young
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CALVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "42. End of one's money"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 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!
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The answer is: BOTTOMDOLLAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "46. Tahoe neighbor"
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 city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RENO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "47. Administrator with a list"
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 administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
- Words that mean the same thing: James Dean, doyen, James Byron Dean
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Toy sound"
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!
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The answer is: ARF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Quinceañera, e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an elaborate party (often outdoors)
- Words that mean the same thing: feast, fete
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FIESTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "53. One of a dangerous group in "Robinson Crusoe""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person who eats human flesh
- Words that mean the same thing: man-eater, anthropophagus, anthropophagite
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CANNIBAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "55. Wipe"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that remove from memory or existence
- Words that mean the same thing: rub out, delete, score out
- The opposite would be: record
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERASE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "56. Jig, e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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!
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The answer is: DANCETUNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "57. Some skirt options"
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 southern part of france
- Words that mean the same thing: Midi, MIDI, musical instrument digital interface
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MIDIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "58. Things not good to have next to one's records"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a star-shaped character * used in printing
- Words that mean the same thing: star, asterisk
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASTERISKS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "59. It's a plus"
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 useful or valuable quality
- Words that mean the same thing: plus
- The opposite would be: liability
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASSET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "60. Classic muscle cars"
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!
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The answer is: GTOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "61. Informal meeting"
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!
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The answer is: SESH
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword December 23, 2022
No. | Clue | Letters |
---|---|---|
1D | 1. Took out | 5 |
2D | 2. Directs, in Hollywood lingo | 5 |
3D | 3. Birthplace of K-pop | 5 |
4D | 4. Character in "Frozen" who says "Some people are worth melting for" | 4 |
5D | 5. M.L.B. team originally called the Colt .45s | 6 |
6D | 6. ___ McFly, great-great-grandfather of Marty | 6 |
7D | 7. Become stiff or tight | 7 |
8D | 8. Toner alternative | 3 |
9D | 9. High-tech security device | 14 |
10D | 10. "The ___ Show" (2002 12x platinum album) | 6 |
11D | 11. Follower of an arctic blast | 9 |
12D | 12. Language that gave us "cummerbund" | 4 |
13D | 13. Old-fashioned options | 4 |
14D | 15. Game that often ends in tears | 14 |
15D | 20. First of the Minor Prophets | 5 |
16D | 24. Button on a scientific calculator | 3 |
17D | 25. Dragon roll ingredient | 3 |
18D | 26. Schreiber of "Ray Donovan" | 4 |
19D | 27. Nose (out) | 4 |
20D | 28. "Stay out of it!" | 4 |
21D | 29. You might perform the Creeper, the Sleeper or Rock the Baby with this | 4 |
22D | 30. Novel purchases that everyone's talking about? | 9 |
23D | 34. "Aquaman" actor Jason | 5 |
24D | 35. Fish with a valuable liver | 3 |
25D | 37. Pine ___ (baseball player's grip enhancer) | 3 |
26D | 40. "The Daily," to pick a popular example | 7 |
27D | 43. "Technicolor ___," nickname for Lucille Ball | 6 |
28D | 44. Simple structure | 6 |
29D | 45. Single-use spears | 6 |
30D | 48. Take advantage of, and then some | 5 |
31D | 49. Captain and lieutenant | 5 |
32D | 50. "I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of ___": Sylvia Plath | 5 |
33D | 51. Relief org. | 4 |
34D | 52. Good name for a florist or optometrist | 4 |
35D | 54. "Verily" | 4 |
36D | 56. Nobelist Hammarskjöld | 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. Took out"
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 kill intentionally and with premeditation
- Words that mean the same thing: remove, dispatch, off
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OFFED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Directs, in Hollywood lingo"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
- Words that mean the same thing: helm
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HELMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Birthplace of K-pop"
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 capital of south korea and the largest city of asia; located in northwestern south korea
- Words that mean the same thing: capital of South Korea
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEOUL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Character in "Frozen" who says "Some people are worth melting for""
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!
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The answer is: OLAF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. M.L.B. team originally called the Colt .45s"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASTROS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. ___ McFly, great-great-grandfather of Marty"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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!
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The answer is: SEAMUS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Become stiff or tight"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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!
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The answer is: TENSEUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Toner alternative"
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 a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. High-tech security device"
Quick Info: This answer has 14 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!
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The answer is: RETINALSCANNER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. "The ___ Show" (2002 12x platinum album)"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EMINEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Follower of an arctic blast"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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!
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The answer is: COLDSPELL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Language that gave us "cummerbund""
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 official literary language of pakistan, closely related to hindi; widely used in india (mostly by moslems); written in arabic script
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: URDU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Old-fashioned options"
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 seed of the cereal grass
- Words that mean the same thing: Secale cereale, rye whisky, rye
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RYES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "15. Game that often ends in tears"
Quick Info: This answer has 14 letters. It's a expert clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STARINGCONTEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. First of the Minor Prophets"
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 minor hebrew prophet (8th century bc)
- Words that mean the same thing: Book of Hosea
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOSEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. Button on a scientific calculator"
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 browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- Words that mean the same thing: sunburn, suntan, burn
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. Dragon roll ingredient"
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 the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "26. Schreiber of "Ray Donovan""
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!
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The answer is: LIEV
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "27. Nose (out)"
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 boundary of a surface
- Words that mean the same thing: butt on, butt against, abut
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDGE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "28. "Stay out of it!""
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!
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The answer is: MYOB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "29. You might perform the Creeper, the Sleeper or Rock the Baby with this"
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!
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The answer is: YOYO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "30. Novel purchases that everyone's talking about?"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MUSTREADS
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Clue 23 Down: "34. "Aquaman" actor Jason"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: MOMOA
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Clue 24 Down: "35. Fish with a valuable liver"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- Words that mean the same thing: fool, rally, take in
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: COD
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Clue 25 Down: "37. Pine ___ (baseball player's grip enhancer)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Words that mean the same thing: mariner, seaman, gob
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TAR
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Clue 26 Down: "40. "The Daily," to pick a popular example"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: PODCAST
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Clue 27 Down: "43. "Technicolor ___," nickname for Lucille Ball"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: TESSIE
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Clue 28 Down: "44. Simple structure"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: LEANTO
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Clue 29 Down: "45. Single-use spears"
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 a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- Words that mean the same thing: shaft, gig, lance
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: LANCES
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Clue 30 Down: "48. Take advantage of, and then some"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that cruel or inhumane treatment
- Words that mean the same thing: ill-treatment, insult, misuse
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ABUSE
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Clue 31 Down: "49. Captain and lieutenant"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- Words that mean the same thing: place, rate, social station
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: RANKS
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Clue 32 Down: "50. "I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of ___": Sylvia Plath"
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 the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
- Words that mean the same thing: human body, material body, physical body
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: FLESH
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Clue 33 Down: "51. Relief org."
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 independent agency of the united states government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities
- Words that mean the same thing: Federal Emergency Management Agency
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: FEMA
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Clue 34 Down: "52. Good name for a florist or optometrist"
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 plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- Words that mean the same thing: sword lily, iris diaphragm, flag
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: IRIS
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Clue 35 Down: "54. "Verily""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ITIS
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Clue 36 Down: "56. Nobelist Hammarskjöld"
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 a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
- Words that mean the same thing: jag, dekagram, dkg
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: DAG
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Category Breakdown
Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
---|---|---|
General Knowledge | 50 | 71.4% |
Short Answer | 9 | 12.9% |
History | 3 | 4.3% |
Sports | 3 | 4.3% |
Literature | 2 | 2.9% |
Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
Music | 1 | 1.4% |
Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
Metric | Value |
---|---|
Across Clues | 34 |
Down Clues | 36 |
Total Clues | 70 |
Average Answer Length | 5.5 letters |
Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
Longest Answer | 14 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!
Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.
Last Updated: September 05, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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