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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, May 06, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 64 (31 Across, 33 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.8 letters
Across Clues Explained - Friday NYT Crossword May 06, 2022
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Blue print? | 6 |
| 2A | 7. Water wings, for example | 6 |
| 3A | 13. Toasted treat | 7 |
| 4A | 15. Japanese for "teacher" | 6 |
| 5A | 16. Skating expos | 8 |
| 6A | 18. Bearing | 6 |
| 7A | 19. Paragon | 3 |
| 8A | 20. Suck up, in a way | 6 |
| 9A | 22. Author of "The Kitchen God's Wife" (1991) | 3 |
| 10A | 23. There's no coming back from this | 10 |
| 11A | 26. Initialism that might have a ring to it? | 3 |
| 12A | 27. 1000 hrs. | 5 |
| 13A | 28. Scale notes | 3 |
| 14A | 29. Agent of immunity | 5 |
| 15A | 31. "Did I just hear him say that?!" | 11 |
| 16A | 34. Principle indicating "No second chances" | 11 |
| 17A | 35. Outer border for 36-Across | 11 |
| 18A | 36. See-through items | 5 |
| 19A | 37. Two-time Olympic gymnast Raisman | 3 |
| 20A | 38. Male's name hidden backward in this clue | 5 |
| 21A | 42. Barely make, with "out" | 3 |
| 22A | 43. Whet bar? | 10 |
| 23A | 45. Make lace | 3 |
| 24A | 46. Longtime Disney chief Michael | 6 |
| 25A | 47. Big ___ | 3 |
| 26A | 48. Hair holders | 6 |
| 27A | 50. Descriptor for a champion | 8 |
| 28A | 53. Half-page, perhaps | 6 |
| 29A | 54. Fatherly tips, to use a portmanteau coinage | 7 |
| 30A | 55. Decks with major and minor arcana | 6 |
| 31A | 56. Lean against | 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. Blue print?"
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: SEAMAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "7. Water wings, for example"
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 the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- Words that mean the same thing: swim bladder, ice-cream float, swim
- The opposite would be: sink
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLOATS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "13. Toasted treat"
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: POPTART
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "15. Japanese for "teacher""
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: SENSEI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Skating expos"
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: ICESHOWS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Bearing"
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 carry with difficulty
- Words that mean the same thing: lug, sum, tote
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOTING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. Paragon"
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 art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- Words that mean the same thing: treasure, stone, muffin
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. Suck up, in a way"
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 tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube
- Words that mean the same thing: syphon, siphon off
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIPHON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. Author of "The Kitchen God's Wife" (1991)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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: topaz, bronze, 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 10 Across: "23. There's no coming back from this"
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!
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The answer is: ONEWAYTRIP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "26. Initialism that might have a ring to it?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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: WBA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "27. 1000 hrs."
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: TENAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Scale notes"
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 light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
- Words that mean the same thing: Ti, atomic number 22, ti
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. Agent of immunity"
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: TCELL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "31. "Did I just hear him say that?!""
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!
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The answer is: HEWENTTHERE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "34. Principle indicating "No second chances""
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!
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The answer is: WINORGOHOME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "35. Outer border for 36-Across"
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!
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The answer is: WINDOWFRAME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "36. See-through items"
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 sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
- Words that mean the same thing: Elvis, window pane, loony toons
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PANES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "37. Two-time Olympic gymnast Raisman"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: ALY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "38. Male's name hidden backward in this clue"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: ANSEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. Barely make, with "out""
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: EKE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Whet bar?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GRINDSTONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Make lace"
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 tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- Words that mean the same thing: Thematic Apperception Test, cheapness, sleaze
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Longtime Disney chief Michael"
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: EISNER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "47. Big ___"
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 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 26 Across: "48. Hair holders"
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 an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head
- Words that mean the same thing: snood
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SNOODS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "50. Descriptor for a champion"
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 highest in quality
- Words that mean the same thing: peachy, heavy, great
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GREATEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Half-page, perhaps"
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: ADUNIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "54. Fatherly tips, to use a portmanteau coinage"
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: DADVICE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "55. Decks with major and minor arcana"
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 any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
- Words that mean the same thing: tarot card, tarot
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAROTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "56. Lean against"
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: RESTON
Great job if you got it right!
May 06, 2022 Down Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Turn-on for a bartender? | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Big epoch for mammals | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Hypothetical missing links | 6 |
| 4D | 4. Chain parts: Abbr. | 3 |
| 5D | 5. "This is the life!" | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Lacking literary sparkle | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Setting for a shot | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Historic kingdom of Spain | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Most populous Canadian prov. | 3 |
| 10D | 10. So to speak | 8 |
| 11D | 11. Sound | 7 |
| 12D | 12. Traffic light | 6 |
| 13D | 14. Some social media back-and-forths | 11 |
| 14D | 17. Short relationship | 11 |
| 15D | 21. One who loves to bring up the past | 11 |
| 16D | 24. Surfer girl | 6 |
| 17D | 25. Doctors | 6 |
| 18D | 29. Poet who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales" | 6 |
| 19D | 30. Firmly bond | 6 |
| 20D | 32. Court | 3 |
| 21D | 33. "___ Carter III" (best-selling Lil Wayne album) | 3 |
| 22D | 34. Napa excursion | 8 |
| 23D | 35. Fictional African country of film | 7 |
| 24D | 36. Took care of a dog or cat, maybe | 6 |
| 25D | 39. "Alrighty then" | 6 |
| 26D | 40. "Romanian Rhapsodies" composer | 6 |
| 27D | 41. Like the days following Mardi Gras | 6 |
| 28D | 43. Cruxes | 5 |
| 29D | 44. Gloomy, poetically | 5 |
| 30D | 46. Sub text, maybe | 4 |
| 31D | 49. Hawaiian fish also called the wahoo | 3 |
| 32D | 51. Juice suffix | 3 |
| 33D | 52. Some Best Buy buys | 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. Turn-on for a bartender?"
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 a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- Words that mean the same thing: faucet, tap
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPIGOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Big epoch for mammals"
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 from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals
- Words that mean the same thing: Eocene epoch
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EOCENE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Hypothetical missing links"
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: APEMEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Chain parts: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a radioactive transuranic element
- Words that mean the same thing: t, machine translation, metric ton
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. "This is the life!""
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 express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Words that mean the same thing: ooh
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AAH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Lacking literary sparkle"
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 lacking wit or imagination
- Words that mean the same thing: earthbound, prosaic, pedestrian
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PROSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Setting for a shot"
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: FSTOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Historic kingdom of Spain"
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 historical area and former kingdom in northwestern spain
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Most populous Canadian prov."
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: ONT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. So to speak"
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: ASITWERE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Sound"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that based on sound reasoning or evidence
- Words that mean the same thing: well-founded
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TENABLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Traffic light"
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 nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- Words that mean the same thing: bespeak, signalise, sign
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIGNAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "14. Some social media back-and-forths"
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!
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The answer is: TWITTERWARS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "17. Short relationship"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 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: SPRINGFLING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. One who loves to bring up the past"
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!
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The answer is: HISTORYNERD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. Surfer girl"
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: WAHINE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. Doctors"
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 sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- Words that mean the same thing: repair, restitution, damages
- The opposite would be: worsen
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMENDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "29. Poet who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales""
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 united states clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)
- Words that mean the same thing: Dylan Marlais Thomas, Norman Thomas, Lowell Thomas
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THOMAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "30. Firmly bond"
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 concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
- Words that mean the same thing: cementum
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CEMENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "32. Court"
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 seek someone's favor
- Words that mean the same thing: romance, solicit, court
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WOO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "33. "___ Carter III" (best-selling Lil Wayne album)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: THA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "34. Napa excursion"
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: WINETOUR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "35. Fictional African country of film"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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!
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The answer is: WAKANDA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "36. Took care of a dog or cat, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: PETSAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Down: "39. "Alrighty then""
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: SOBEIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Down: "40. "Romanian Rhapsodies" composer"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955)
- Words that mean the same thing: Georges Enesco, George Enescu
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENESCO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Down: "41. Like the days following Mardi Gras"
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 of or relating to or suitable for lent
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LENTEN
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Clue 28 Down: "43. Cruxes"
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 the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- Words that mean the same thing: essence, substance, heart and soul
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GISTS
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Clue 29 Down: "44. Gloomy, poetically"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that causing dejection
- Words that mean the same thing: dreary, blue, gloomy
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DREAR
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Clue 30 Down: "46. Sub text, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- Words that mean the same thing: blue-pencil, edit out, cut
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EDIT
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Clue 31 Down: "49. Hawaiian fish also called the wahoo"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that united states musician (born in japan) who married john lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)
- Words that mean the same thing: Yoko Ono
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ONO
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Clue 32 Down: "51. Juice suffix"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
- Words that mean the same thing: fruit drink
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ADE
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Clue 33 Down: "52. Some Best Buy buys"
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 broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; ; - ernie kovacs
- Words that mean the same thing: video, tv set, TV
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TVS
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 44 | 68.8% |
| Short Answer | 12 | 18.8% |
| History | 2 | 3.1% |
| Music | 2 | 3.1% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.6% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.6% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.6% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.6% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 31 |
| Down Clues | 33 |
| Total Clues | 64 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.8 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 11 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 10, 2025 at 06:31 AM
