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- Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
- Across Clues (35 clues)
- Down Clues (35 clues)
- Category Breakdown
- Complete Puzzle Statistics
- Pro Solving Tips
Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
Across Clues Explained - Saturday NYT Crossword December 31, 2022
No. | Clue | Letters |
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1A | 1. Few and far between | 6 |
2A | 7. YouTube influencers have big ones | 8 |
3A | 15. In on | 6 |
4A | 16. Utopian | 8 |
5A | 17. One end of it might be felt | 6 |
6A | 18. Mario character with a mushroom head and pink braids | 8 |
7A | 19. Turning point in construction? | 5 |
8A | 20. Jollity | 5 |
9A | 21. ___ Solo, son of Leia Organa | 3 |
10A | 22. Lab order? | 4 |
11A | 23. Perfectly cromulent | 4 |
12A | 24. Heretofore | 5 |
13A | 26. Windup | 3 |
14A | 27. His initial stands for Tureaud | 3 |
15A | 28. About one in 10 Muslims | 4 |
16A | 30. Devote (to) | 8 |
17A | 33. Works in el Museo del Prado | 4 |
18A | 35. David Bowie persona in 1970s glam rock | 13 |
19A | 38. Rear-view feature on a Jeep? | 4 |
20A | 39. Sent to the junkyard | 8 |
21A | 41. Some social media posts, for short | 4 |
22A | 43. Trifle (with) | 3 |
23A | 44. Afore | 3 |
24A | 45. Didn't wait for a restaurant job? | 5 |
25A | 48. "Man, that hurts!" | 4 |
26A | 50. Edible husk | 4 |
27A | 51. Suffix with official | 3 |
28A | 52. Sap | 5 |
29A | 54. Producer of many popular singles | 5 |
30A | 55. Understand without listening | 8 |
31A | 57. At a high interest rate? | 6 |
32A | 58. Caused all sorts of problems with | 8 |
33A | 59. Kind of pickup | 6 |
34A | 60. Mad magazine staple | 8 |
35A | 61. Da bomb | 6 |
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. Few and far between"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- Words that mean the same thing: thin
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPARSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "7. YouTube influencers have big ones"
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!
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The answer is: FANBASES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. In on"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: WISETO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "16. Utopian"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
- Words that mean the same thing: dreamer
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IDEALIST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "17. One end of it might be felt"
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: INKPEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Mario character with a mushroom head and pink braids"
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: TOADETTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. Turning point in construction?"
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 someone who guards prisoners
- Words that mean the same thing: shtup, bonk, make love
- The opposite would be: unscrew
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCREW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. Jollity"
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 great merriment
- Words that mean the same thing: hilarity, mirthfulness, glee
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MIRTH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. ___ Solo, son of Leia Organa"
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 mountain or tall hill
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Lab order?"
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 bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- Words that mean the same thing: reheel, bounder, list
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HEEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "23. Perfectly cromulent"
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 money extracted as a penalty
- Words that mean the same thing: all right, amercement, exquisitely
- The opposite would be: coarse
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FINE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "24. Heretofore"
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: ASYET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. Windup"
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 either extremity of something that has length
- Words that mean the same thing: closing, remnant, oddment
- The opposite would be: begin, beginning
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: END
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "27. His initial stands for Tureaud"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: MRT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "28. About one in 10 Muslims"
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 one of the two main branches of orthodox islam; mainly in iran
- Words that mean the same thing: Shiah, Shiah Islam
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "30. Devote (to)"
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 give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- Words that mean the same thing: consecrate, commit, devote
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEDICATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "33. Works in el Museo del Prado"
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: ARTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "35. David Bowie persona in 1970s glam rock"
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!
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The answer is: ZIGGYSTARDUST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. Rear-view feature on a Jeep?"
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 hoop that covers a wheel
- Words that mean the same thing: tyre, fatigue, run down
- The opposite would be: interest, refresh
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Sent to the junkyard"
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 dispose of (something useless or old)
- Words that mean the same thing: dispute, scrap, quarrel
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCRAPPED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "41. Some social media posts, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about abbreviation.
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: VIDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Trifle (with)"
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 an artifact designed to be played with
- Words that mean the same thing: play, flirt, toy dog
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "44. Afore"
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: ERE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "45. Didn't wait for a restaurant job?"
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 send or move around by bus
- Words that mean the same thing: bus
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BUSED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. "Man, that hurts!""
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: OWOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. Edible husk"
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 broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BRAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "51. Suffix with official"
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 compass point midway between east and southeast
- Words that mean the same thing: east southeast
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ESE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "52. Sap"
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 emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- Words that mean the same thing: run out, enfeeble, drainpipe
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DRAIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "54. Producer of many popular singles"
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 strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution
- Words that mean the same thing: kraft paper
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KRAFT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "55. Understand without listening"
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!
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The answer is: READLIPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "57. At a high interest rate?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that in a keen and discriminating manner
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KEENLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "58. Caused all sorts of problems with"
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: GUMMEDUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "59. Kind of pickup"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: ONETON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "60. Mad magazine staple"
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!
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The answer is: SPYVSSPY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "61. Da bomb"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: SODOPE
Great job if you got it right!
NYT Saturday Crossword Down Clues - December 31, 2022 Answers
No. | Clue | Letters |
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1D | 1. Barely rustled the net | 7 |
2D | 2. Sort of spectacles not much seen nowadays | 8 |
3D | 3. Forum that provides material for many BuzzFeed articles | 9 |
4D | 4. Ward off | 5 |
5D | 5. Fret about a fricassee? | 4 |
6D | 6. Long division | 3 |
7D | 7. Not stick out like a sore thumb | 5 |
8D | 8. Thinks the world of | 6 |
9D | 9. Dandy | 4 |
10D | 10. Something winds might cause | 10 |
11D | 11. Pale ___ | 3 |
12D | 12. Not get involved | 5 |
13D | 13. First name in cosmetics | 5 |
14D | 14. Duct tube | 5 |
15D | 20. Grubby little paws | 5 |
16D | 23. Raggedy | 6 |
17D | 25. Snapped out of a daydream, perhaps | 5 |
18D | 27. Fast-food fare in which two pancakes form a sandwich | 10 |
19D | 29. Soil-loosening tool | 6 |
20D | 31. Resignation notice? | 5 |
21D | 32. 35-Across and others, in brief | 3 |
22D | 34. Language with its own "green star" flag | 9 |
23D | 36. Follow, as a lead | 5 |
24D | 37. Large unit of computing speed | 8 |
25D | 40. Breath-freshening brand | 7 |
26D | 42. Get frothy | 6 |
27D | 45. Sights in the Arctic | 5 |
28D | 46. Burn through | 5 |
29D | 47. Disreputable | 5 |
30D | 49. Feathery | 5 |
31D | 50. Stir up | 5 |
32D | 53. Purges | 4 |
33D | 54. Casino game with "hits" and "catches" | 4 |
34D | 56. Patty and Selma's workplace on "The Simpsons," for short | 3 |
35D | 57. Floors in a ring | 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. Barely rustled the net"
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 move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
- Words that mean the same thing: swish, lap, swosh
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWISHED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Sort of spectacles not much seen nowadays"
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: PINCENEZ
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Forum that provides material for many BuzzFeed articles"
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: ASKREDDIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Ward off"
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 cause to move back by force or influence
- Words that mean the same thing: drive, revolt, snub
- The opposite would be: attract
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REPEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Fret about a fricassee?"
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 agitation resulting from active worry
- Words that mean the same thing: grudge, fret, grizzle
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Long division"
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 longest division of geological time
- Words that mean the same thing: aeon
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Not stick out like a sore thumb"
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: FITIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Thinks the world of"
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 love intensely
- Words that mean the same thing: adore
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADORES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Dandy"
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 clean or organized
- Words that mean the same thing: swell, great, orderly
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Something winds might cause"
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!
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The answer is: BADHAIRDAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Pale ___"
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 general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Not get involved"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: SITBY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. First name in cosmetics"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: ESTEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Duct tube"
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 slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. Grubby little paws"
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 (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- Words that mean the same thing: paw, manus, baseball glove
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MITTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. Raggedy"
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 wear away by rubbing
- Words that mean the same thing: fret, frazzle, fray
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FRAYED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. Snapped out of a daydream, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: SATUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "27. Fast-food fare in which two pancakes form a sandwich"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about food & drink.
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: MCGRIDDLES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "29. Soil-loosening tool"
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 cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil
- Words that mean the same thing: disk
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HARROW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "31. Resignation notice?"
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: IGIVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "32. 35-Across and others, in brief"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: ETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "34. Language with its own "green star" flag"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the european languages
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ESPERANTO
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Clue 23 Down: "36. Follow, as a lead"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: ACTON
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Clue 24 Down: "37. Large unit of computing speed"
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 (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
- Words that mean the same thing: trillion floating point operations per second
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: TERAFLOP
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Clue 25 Down: "40. Breath-freshening brand"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: DENTYNE
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Clue 26 Down: "42. Get frothy"
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: SOAPUP
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Clue 27 Down: "45. Sights in the Arctic"
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 large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
- Words that mean the same thing: berg, Berg, Alban Berg
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BERGS
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Clue 28 Down: "46. Burn through"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: USEUP
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Clue 29 Down: "47. Disreputable"
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 showing a seam
- Words that mean the same thing: squalid, seedy, sleazy
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SEAMY
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Clue 30 Down: "49. Feathery"
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 thin and weak; - edmund wilson
- Words that mean the same thing: shadowy, faint, dim
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WISPY
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Clue 31 Down: "50. Stir up"
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 special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- Words that mean the same thing: cover, strain, engender
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BREED
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Clue 32 Down: "53. Purges"
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 relieve from
- Words that mean the same thing: free, disembarrass, rid
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: RIDS
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Clue 33 Down: "54. Casino game with "hits" and "catches""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
- Words that mean the same thing: beano, lotto, bingo
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KENO
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Clue 34 Down: "56. Patty and Selma's workplace on "The Simpsons," for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: DMV
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Clue 35 Down: "57. Floors in a ring"
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 (in india) a unit of length having different values in different localities
- Words that mean the same thing: coss, KO, knockout
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: KOS
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Category Breakdown
Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
---|---|---|
General Knowledge | 54 | 77.1% |
Short Answer | 10 | 14.3% |
Abbreviation | 2 | 2.9% |
History | 1 | 1.4% |
Food & Drink | 1 | 1.4% |
Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.4% |
Sports | 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 Saturday, 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 06:30 AM
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