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| NYT Crossword Answers & Hints - July 16, 2025 |
Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (31 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Courtroom entry"
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- Think of something that a humble request for help from someone in authority
- Similar words include: supplication
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🧩 2A: "5. Broke bread"
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- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: corrode, deplete, eat up
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🧩 3A: "8. See 11-Down"
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🧩 4A: "14. Lead-in to an implied "go there" or "think about it""
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🧩 5A: "16. Rouse (oneself)"
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- Think of something that become active
- Similar words include: rouse
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🧩 6A: "17. Sub category"
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🧩 7A: "18. Grave"
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- Think of something that lacking brightness or color; dull
- Similar words include: melancholy, sombre, sober
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🧩 8A: "19. Investment firm T. ___ Price"
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🧩 9A: "20. "That's keen!""
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🧩 10A: "21. "Something bothering you?""
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🧩 11A: "26. One translation of "aloha""
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- Think of something that the state prevailing during the absence of war
- Similar words include: serenity, peace treaty, pacification
- Opposite of: war
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🧩 12A: "27. Calm"
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- Think of something that cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
- Similar words include: tranquillize, grave, staid
- Opposite of: stimulate
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🧩 13A: "28. Like Detroit vis-à-vis 29-Across"
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- Think of something that the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
- Similar words include: Orient, eastern United States, eastward
- Opposite of: west
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🧩 14A: "29. Home of the Wolverines in college sports"
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🧩 15A: "33. Actress Longoria"
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🧩 16A: "34. Cat breed with a distinct rear"
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- Think of something that a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- Similar words include: bob, dock, Old English sheepdog
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🧩 17A: "37. Reddit Q&A"
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🧩 18A: "38. Festival with jousts, informally"
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🧩 19A: "40. Caramel-topped dessert"
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- Think of something that open pastry filled with fruit or custard
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🧩 20A: "41. Do-nothings"
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- Think of something that person who does no work
- Similar words include: loafer, layabout, bum
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🧩 21A: "43. Quaint contradiction"
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🧩 22A: "44. 2003 period film starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe"
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🧩 23A: "48. Snake eyes and boxcars, e.g."
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- Think of something that rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- Similar words include: wander, drift, undulate
- Opposite of: unwind
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🧩 24A: "49. Rapper Lil Uzi ___"
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🧩 25A: "50. Div. for the Astros and Angels"
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🧩 26A: "52. Worker's timeout in Westminster … or something tucked between this puzzle's shaded squares?"
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🧩 27A: "56. Tectonic drifters"
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- Think of something that (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- Similar words include: scale, home plate, shell
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🧩 28A: "57. Camper's recreation"
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- Think of something that travel by canoe
- Similar words include: canoe
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🧩 29A: "58. Insists"
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🧩 30A: "59. Denver setting: Abbr."
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- Think of something that standard time in the 7th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west; used in the mountain states of the united states
- Similar words include: Mountain Time, Mountain Standard Time
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🧩 31A: "60. Tips"
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- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: closing, end, final stage
- Opposite of: beginning, begin
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Many an email attachment"
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- Pattern: ___
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🧩 2D: "2. W.C."
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- Think of something that a toilet in britain
- Similar words include: water closet, W.C., closet
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🧩 3D: "3. Brian who composed four pioneering albums of ambient music"
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🧩 4D: "4. Draw"
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- Think of something that direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- Similar words include: draw, pull in, appeal
- Opposite of: repel
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🧩 5D: "5. Boldly attests"
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- Think of something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Similar words include: swear, aver, avouch
- Opposite of: disavow
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🧩 6D: "6. Core principles"
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- Think of something that a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
- Similar words include: tenet, dogma
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🧩 7D: "7. Part of E.S.L.: Abbr."
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🧩 8D: "8. Delivery docs"
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- Think of something that a major river of western siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the gulf of ob and the kara sea
- Similar words include: tocology, Ob River, Ob
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🧩 9D: "9. Just after birth"
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- Think of something that relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth
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🧩 10D: "10. Detector of absurdity, in slang"
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🧩 11D: "11. Chance to get 8-Across"
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🧩 12D: "12. Cuatro + tres"
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🧩 13D: "13. 404 Not Found, e.g."
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- Think of something that a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- Similar words include: erroneous belief, mistake, wrongdoing
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🧩 14D: "15. Chargrilled corn-on-the-cob dish in Mexico"
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🧩 15D: "21. Thread pattern"
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- Think of something that pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric
- Similar words include: wind, wander, tissue
- Opposite of: unweave
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🧩 16D: "22. Comedian Minhaj"
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🧩 17D: "23. They radiate warmth"
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- Think of something that device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
- Similar words include: warmer, smoke, heater
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🧩 18D: "24. "The Simpsons" teacher Krabappel"
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🧩 19D: "25. Spa treatment, for short"
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🧩 20D: "26. Colleague"
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- Think of something that a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- Similar words include: equal, match, compeer
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🧩 21D: "30. Wood for a kite"
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- Think of something that strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
- Similar words include: Ochroma lagopus, balsa wood
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🧩 22D: "31. Native of Muscat"
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- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of oman
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🧩 23D: "32. Many a one-star Yelp review"
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- Think of something that a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
- Similar words include: jabber, rave, rabbit on
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🧩 24D: "34. People you do not want to mess with"
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🧩 25D: "35. Olive and palm products"
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- Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- Similar words include: inunct, oil colour, oil
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🧩 26D: "36. ___ Easton Ellis, author of "American Psycho""
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🧩 27D: "39. Cuts of fish"
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- Think of something that a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- Similar words include: fish filet, tenia, fish fillet
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🧩 28D: "40. It might get decorated at Christmas"
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🧩 29D: "42. File menu option"
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🧩 30D: "43. Extra-powerful, as an engine"
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🧩 31D: "44. Drives into a corner"
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- Think of something that a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- Similar words include: ensnare, sand trap, trap
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🧩 32D: "45. Shout, colloquially"
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- Think of something that a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
- Similar words include: holler, bellow, roar
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🧩 33D: "46. Broncos QB who won back-to-back Super Bowls"
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🧩 34D: "47. Intended"
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- Think of something that mean or intend to express or convey
- Similar words include: think of, have in mind, imply
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🧩 35D: "51. General on a menu"
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🧩 36D: "52. Channel showing vintage films"
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🧩 37D: "53. German article"
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🧩 38D: "54. By ___ by"
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🧩 39D: "55. Metric wts."
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- Think of something that one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: kilo, kg, kilogram
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