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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, December 02, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 72 (33 Across, 39 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.4 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle December 02, 2022
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. 1962 #1 hit that the BBC once deemed "too morbid" to play | 11 |
| 2A | 12. Supplements supplier | 3 |
| 3A | 15. First person plural? | 11 |
| 4A | 16. Friend of Lumpy the Heffalump | 3 |
| 5A | 17. Highest bar? | 11 |
| 6A | 18. Directional suffix | 3 |
| 7A | 19. Frosty the Snowman's nose, for one | 6 |
| 8A | 20. Like Chicago, geographically | 7 |
| 9A | 22. Meatless food brand | 4 |
| 10A | 23. Where some vets were based | 3 |
| 11A | 25. They may be mild or minced | 5 |
| 12A | 26. First indication | 5 |
| 13A | 29. Makes out in England | 5 |
| 14A | 30. Comment made with eyes closed, perhaps | 10 |
| 15A | 34. Quench | 4 |
| 16A | 36. Shorthand at a coffee shop | 3 |
| 17A | 37. Talks smack about | 7 |
| 18A | 39. What may come as a relief? | 3 |
| 19A | 40. Does something accidentally, perhaps | 4 |
| 20A | 42. "Don't tell me what happens yet!" | 10 |
| 21A | 44. Silly ones | 5 |
| 22A | 46. Actress Smith of "Why Did I Get Married?" | 5 |
| 23A | 47. Daredevil's helmet attachment, maybe | 5 |
| 24A | 48. Windows portal | 3 |
| 25A | 49. Genre for Blackpink or Red Velvet | 4 |
| 26A | 53. Steak option for a pescatarian | 7 |
| 27A | 55. Lasting forever, once | 6 |
| 28A | 57. Comfy bit of footwear | 3 |
| 29A | 58. Inclination to prioritize new events over historical ones | 11 |
| 30A | 61. Monogram of 1964's Nobel Peace laureate | 3 |
| 31A | 62. What a camera emoji in an Instagram caption often signifies | 11 |
| 32A | 63. Things people pay not to see | 3 |
| 33A | 64. They know what you're thinking | 11 |
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. 1962 #1 hit that the BBC once deemed "too morbid" to play"
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: MONSTERMASH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "12. Supplements supplier"
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: GNC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. First person plural?"
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: EDITORIALWE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "16. Friend of Lumpy the Heffalump"
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: ROO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "17. Highest bar?"
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: LIFETIMEBAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Directional suffix"
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 bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
- Words that mean the same thing: Haliatus albicilla, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. Frosty the Snowman's nose, for one"
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 round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
- Words that mean the same thing: clit, push, release
- The opposite would be: unbutton
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BUTTON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. Like Chicago, geographically"
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 in or toward the northern parts of a state
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UPSTATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. Meatless food brand"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium 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: AMYS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "23. Where some vets were based"
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: NAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "25. They may be mild or minced"
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 profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- Words that mean the same thing: swearing, cuss, curse word
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OATHS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. First indication"
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 beginning or early stages
- Words that mean the same thing: attack, onrush, onslaught
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONSET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "29. Makes out in England"
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 touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: snog, osculate, buss
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SNOGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "30. Comment made with eyes closed, perhaps"
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: ICANTWATCH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "34. Quench"
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 fill to satisfaction
- Words that mean the same thing: fill, replete, satiate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "36. Shorthand at a coffee shop"
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: CAF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "37. Talks smack about"
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: HATESON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "39. What may come as a relief?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
- Words that mean the same thing: function, single-valued function, map out
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "40. Does something accidentally, perhaps"
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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Words that mean the same thing: err, stray, slip
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERRS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "42. "Don't tell me what happens yet!""
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: NOSPOILERS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "44. Silly ones"
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 man who is a stupid incompetent fool
- Words that mean the same thing: jackass, cuckoo, zany
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOOFS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "46. Actress Smith of "Why Did I Get Married?""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TASHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "47. Daredevil's helmet attachment, maybe"
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: GOPRO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "48. Windows portal"
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: MSN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "49. Genre for Blackpink or Red Velvet"
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: KPOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "53. Steak option for a pescatarian"
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: AHITUNA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "55. Lasting forever, once"
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: ETERNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "57. Comfy bit of footwear"
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: MOC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "58. Inclination to prioritize new events over historical ones"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RECENCYBIAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "61. Monogram of 1964's Nobel Peace laureate"
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: MLK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "62. What a camera emoji in an Instagram caption often signifies"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PHOTOCREDIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "63. Things people pay not to see"
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 public promotion of some product or service
- Words that mean the same thing: advertizement, advert, ad
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "64. They know what you're thinking"
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: MINDREADERS
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword December 02, 2022
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Toast opening? | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Sense of loathing | 5 |
| 3D | 3. "Swell!" | 5 |
| 4D | 4. University in central Florida | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Completely, after "in" | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Actress Moriarty of "The Boys" | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Something salted at a Mexican restaurant | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Engineer/astronaut Jemison | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Something that's dropped after it's finished | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Cashless deal | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Creator of TV's "Fraggle Rock" | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Unlikely comment from a sore loser | 9 |
| 13D | 13. Guiding light | 9 |
| 14D | 14. Markers used in zigzag drills | 5 |
| 15D | 21. County with 17 of New Mexico's 25 highest peaks | 4 |
| 16D | 23. "Swell!" | 5 |
| 17D | 24. Validates, with "to" | 7 |
| 18D | 27. Last in a series | 3 |
| 19D | 28. Septet in a carol | 5 |
| 20D | 29. Waves away | 5 |
| 21D | 30. Word with cap or cream | 3 |
| 22D | 31. Place to deliver the goods | 9 |
| 23D | 32. Ones long in the tooth? | 9 |
| 24D | 33. First network to broadcast a live session of the House of Representatives | 5 |
| 25D | 35. Short records, for short | 3 |
| 26D | 38. Medical research org. | 3 |
| 27D | 41. Arrange | 4 |
| 28D | 43. Locale for many a sunken boat | 7 |
| 29D | 45. Early happy hour start time | 6 |
| 30D | 47. Delta follows it | 5 |
| 31D | 48. Georgia city with the Tubman Museum | 5 |
| 32D | 50. ___ parade | 5 |
| 33D | 51. [We're broadcasting! Don't interrupt!] | 5 |
| 34D | 52. Exterminators' targets | 5 |
| 35D | 54. Soft drink brand that sounds like a type of sock | 4 |
| 36D | 55. "___ homo" | 4 |
| 37D | 56. Banks who coined the term "smizing" | 4 |
| 38D | 59. Flight abbr. | 3 |
| 39D | 60. Negative connector | 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. Toast opening?"
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 australian operatic soprano (1861-1931)
- Words that mean the same thing: Dame Nellie Melba, Helen Porter Mitchell
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MELBA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Sense of loathing"
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 state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior
- Words that mean the same thing: detestation, abomination, loathing
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ODIUM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. "Swell!""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- Words that mean the same thing: corking, dandy, great
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NIFTY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. University in central Florida"
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 a hat made of felt with a creased crown
- Words that mean the same thing: fedora, trilby, felt hat
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STETSON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Completely, after "in""
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: TOTO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Actress Moriarty of "The Boys""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an early name of ireland that is now used in poetry
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Something salted at a Mexican restaurant"
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 the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- Words that mean the same thing: lip, brim, flange
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Engineer/astronaut Jemison"
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: MAE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Something that's dropped after it's finished"
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 one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc
- Words that mean the same thing: record album
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALBUM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Cashless deal"
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 equal exchange
- Words that mean the same thing: barter, switch, swop
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Creator of TV's "Fraggle Rock""
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 puppeteer who created a troupe of puppet characters (1936-1990)
- Words that mean the same thing: Jim Henson
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HENSON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Unlikely comment from a sore loser"
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: GREATGAME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Guiding light"
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: NORTHSTAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Markers used in zigzag drills"
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 any cone-shaped artifact
- Words that mean the same thing: goldbrick, nobble, retinal cone
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CONES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. County with 17 of New Mexico's 25 highest peaks"
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 a member of the pueblo people living in northern new mexico
- Words that mean the same thing: Tao, Taoist
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. "Swell!""
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: NEATO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "24. Validates, with "to""
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 provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- Words that mean the same thing: attest, take the stand, manifest
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATTESTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "27. Last in a series"
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 last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
- Words that mean the same thing: n-th
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NTH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "28. Septet in a carol"
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 stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- Words that mean the same thing: avow, swan, assert
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWANS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "29. Waves away"
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 drive away by crying `shoo!'
- Words that mean the same thing: shoo away, shoo off, shoo
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHOOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "30. Word with cap or cream"
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 water frozen in the solid state
- Words that mean the same thing: frappe, ice rink, ice-skating rink
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ICE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "31. Place to deliver the goods"
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: CARGOHOLD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "32. Ones long in the tooth?"
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: _________
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The answer is: AFROPICKS
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Clue 24 Down: "33. First network to broadcast a live session of the House of Representatives"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: CSPAN
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Clue 25 Down: "35. Short records, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: EPS
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Clue 26 Down: "38. Medical research org."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that an agency in the department of health and human services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
- Words that mean the same thing: National Institutes of Health
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NIH
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Clue 27 Down: "41. Arrange"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- Words that mean the same thing: screen out, kind, sieve
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SORT
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Clue 28 Down: "43. Locale for many a sunken boat"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: LAKEBED
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Clue 29 Down: "45. Early happy hour start time"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: FOURPM
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Clue 30 Down: "47. Delta follows it"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the 3rd letter of the greek alphabet
- Words that mean the same thing: da Gamma, Vasco da Gamma
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GAMMA
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Clue 31 Down: "48. Georgia city with the Tubman Museum"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
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- This could be something that a city in central georgia to the southeast of atlanta
- Words that mean the same thing: maconnais
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: MACON
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Clue 32 Down: "50. ___ parade"
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 feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- Words that mean the same thing: pridefulness, congratulate, plume
- The opposite would be: humility
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The answer is: PRIDE
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Clue 33 Down: "51. [We're broadcasting! Don't interrupt!]"
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: ONAIR
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Clue 34 Down: "52. Exterminators' targets"
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 serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- Words that mean the same thing: pest, plague, pestis
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: PESTS
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Clue 35 Down: "54. Soft drink brand that sounds like a type of sock"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NEHI
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Clue 36 Down: "55. "___ homo""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: ECCE
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Clue 37 Down: "56. Banks who coined the term "smizing""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: TYRA
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Clue 38 Down: "59. Flight abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.
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- This could be something that a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives
- Words that mean the same thing: explosive trace detection
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ETD
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Clue 39 Down: "60. Negative connector"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NOR
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 46 | 63.9% |
| Short Answer | 16 | 22.2% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 3 | 4.2% |
| Food & Drink | 2 | 2.8% |
| History | 2 | 2.8% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.8% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 33 |
| Down Clues | 39 |
| Total Clues | 72 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.4 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 05, 2025 at 07:38 PM
