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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 78 (37 Across, 41 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.8 letters
June 14, 2022 Across Hints: NYT Tuesday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Hot dish that sounds cold | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Increase, as a pot | 5 |
| 3A | 11. ___ Dhabi | 3 |
| 4A | 14. Composer Copland | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Feature of five U.S. presidents from Lincoln to Harrison | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Hummus, for one | 3 |
| 7A | 17. Easy order for a barista | 11 |
| 8A | 19. Feminine suffix | 3 |
| 9A | 20. They play among the reeds | 7 |
| 10A | 21. Gin flavoring | 4 |
| 11A | 22. Exclamation of epiphany | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Not quite ROFL | 3 |
| 13A | 26. Inventor's protection | 6 |
| 14A | 28. $, %, & or @ | 6 |
| 15A | 30. "If ___ Street Could Talk" (2018 film) | 5 |
| 16A | 32. "It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury": Shak. | 5 |
| 17A | 33. Coil in a mattress | 9 |
| 18A | 37. Oscar-winning film set partly in Iran | 4 |
| 19A | 38. Jell-O shapers | 5 |
| 20A | 39. Slushy summer treat | 4 |
| 21A | 40. Ocean invertebrate with a round, translucent body | 9 |
| 22A | 42. Trumpet's sound | 5 |
| 23A | 43. Furious | 5 |
| 24A | 44. Prevailing tendencies | 6 |
| 25A | 45. Sherwood ___ | 6 |
| 26A | 48. Go a-courting? | 3 |
| 27A | 49. "The Waste Land" author's monogram | 3 |
| 28A | 50. Big nights before big days | 4 |
| 29A | 51. Artist Henri Toulouse-___ | 7 |
| 30A | 55. A live one might be hot | 3 |
| 31A | 56. Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33- and 40-Across | 11 |
| 32A | 60. Card player's call | 3 |
| 33A | 61. More robust | 5 |
| 34A | 62. Pisa dough? | 5 |
| 35A | 63. Kylo ___ of "Star Wars" | 3 |
| 36A | 64. Serviceable | 5 |
| 37A | 65. Put down new turf on | 5 |
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. Hot dish that sounds cold"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans
- Words that mean the same thing: chili pepper, chile, chilli
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHILI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "6. Increase, as a pot"
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: ADDTO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "11. ___ Dhabi"
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: ABU
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Clue 4 Across: "14. Composer Copland"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states professional baseball player who hit more home runs than babe ruth (born in 1934)
- Words that mean the same thing: Henry Louis Aaron, Hank Aaron
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AARON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Feature of five U.S. presidents from Lincoln to Harrison"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- Words that mean the same thing: byssus, face fungus, whiskers
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEARD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. Hummus, for one"
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 depression in an otherwise level surface
- Words that mean the same thing: souse, duck, plunge
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DIP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "17. Easy order for a barista"
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: BLACKCOFFEE
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Feminine 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 a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 99, Es, E
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ESS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. They play among the reeds"
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 musician who plays the oboe
- Words that mean the same thing: oboist
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OBOISTS
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Clue 10 Across: "21. Gin flavoring"
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 wild plum of northeastern united states having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- Words that mean the same thing: blackthorn, Alleghany plum, Prunus spinosa
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLOE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. Exclamation of epiphany"
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: AHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. Not quite ROFL"
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: LOL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. Inventor's protection"
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 document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
- Words that mean the same thing: manifest, plain, letters patent
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PATENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. $, %, & or @"
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 an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
- Words that mean the same thing: symbolisation, symbolic representation, symbolization
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SYMBOL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. "If ___ Street Could Talk" (2018 film)"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
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: BEALE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "32. "It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury": Shak."
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 a person of subnormal intelligence
- Words that mean the same thing: retard, changeling, moron
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IDIOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "33. Coil in a mattress"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (usually plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEDSPRING
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Clue 18 Across: "37. Oscar-winning film set partly in Iran"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between canis major and the southern cross; now divided into carina and pyxis and puppis and vela
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. Jell-O shapers"
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 distinctive form in which a thing is made
- Words that mean the same thing: regulate, molding, modeling
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOLDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Slushy summer treat"
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: ICEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "40. Ocean invertebrate with a round, translucent body"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert 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: MOONJELLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "42. Trumpet's sound"
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 loud harsh or strident noise
- Words that mean the same thing: beep, claxon, clamor
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BLARE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. Furious"
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 feeling or showing extreme anger
- Words that mean the same thing: ireful
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "44. Prevailing tendencies"
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 general direction in which something tends to move
- Words that mean the same thing: trend, vogue, sheer
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRENDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "45. Sherwood ___"
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 the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
- Words that mean the same thing: timberland, woodland, timber
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FOREST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "48. Go a-courting?"
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 french writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
- Words that mean the same thing: process, Eugene Sue, action
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SUE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "49. "The Waste Land" author's monogram"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: TSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "50. Big nights before big days"
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 (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Words that mean the same thing: Eve, evening, even
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EVES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "51. Artist Henri Toulouse-___"
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: LAUTREC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "55. A live one might be hot"
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: MIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "56. Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33- and 40-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: ROCKANDROLL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "60. Card player's call"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: UNO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "61. More robust"
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 100 halers equal 1 koruna slovakia
- Words that mean the same thing: heller, hale, whole
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HALER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "62. Pisa dough?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- Words that mean the same thing: euro
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EUROS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "63. Kylo ___ of "Star Wars""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: REN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "64. Serviceable"
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: OFUSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "65. Put down new turf on"
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: RESOD
Great job if you got it right!
Solve the Down: NYT Tuesday Puzzle June 14, 2022
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Taxi | 3 |
| 2D | 2. "2001: A Space Odyssey" antagonist | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Nest egg letters | 3 |
| 4D | 4. ___ citato (in the passage quoted) | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Rorschach pattern | 7 |
| 6D | 6. Bubbling away | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Dict. offerings | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Loopy | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Overstep one's bounds | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Verse that exalts its subject | 3 |
| 11D | 11. "Easy on Me" singer, 2021 | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Plains figure replaced by Monticello on U.S. nickels | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Surprise win | 5 |
| 14D | 18. Cucumber-like, maybe | 4 |
| 15D | 21. Lifelessly dull | 7 |
| 16D | 22. "Take me ___" | 5 |
| 17D | 23. Water power, informally | 5 |
| 18D | 24. Compadre | 5 |
| 19D | 27. Mont Blanc, for one | 3 |
| 20D | 29. Outskirts of the outskirts | 7 |
| 21D | 30. Book-loving Disney princess in a yellow gown | 5 |
| 22D | 31. Whirlpool | 4 |
| 23D | 33. Bit of lightning | 4 |
| 24D | 34. Defeatist's assertion | 5 |
| 25D | 35. Bookish sorts | 5 |
| 26D | 36. Flappers in a gaggle | 5 |
| 27D | 38. Late singer with a food name | 8 |
| 28D | 41. PSAT takers, often | 3 |
| 29D | 42. Operator of a stud farm | 7 |
| 30D | 44. Community card between "flop" and "river" in hold'em | 4 |
| 31D | 45. It's connected to the tibia | 5 |
| 32D | 46. Sheepish | 5 |
| 33D | 47. Intel mission | 5 |
| 34D | 48. Gawk | 5 |
| 35D | 52. Rights advocacy org. | 4 |
| 36D | 53. Some four-stringed instruments, for short | 4 |
| 37D | 54. Mötley ___ | 4 |
| 38D | 56. Letter after pi | 3 |
| 39D | 57. Common conjunctions | 3 |
| 40D | 58. John of Salisbury | 3 |
| 41D | 59. "Acid" | 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. Taxi"
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 compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
- Words that mean the same thing: taxicab, cabriolet, taxi
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CAB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. "2001: A Space Odyssey" antagonist"
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: HAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Nest egg letters"
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 militant organization of irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive british forces from northern ireland and achieve a united independent ireland
- Words that mean the same thing: anger, Provisional IRA, individual retirement account
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. ___ citato (in the passage quoted)"
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 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- Words that mean the same thing: daft, dotty, bonkers
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOCO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Rorschach pattern"
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 a blot made with ink
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INKBLOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Bubbling away"
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: ABOIL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Dict. offerings"
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: DEFS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Loopy"
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 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- Words that mean the same thing: dotty, bonkers, bats
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DAFT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Overstep one's bounds"
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 a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages
- Words that mean the same thing: violation, usurpation, overstep
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRESPASS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Verse that exalts its subject"
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 lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ODE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. "Easy on Me" singer, 2021"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium 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: ADELE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Plains figure replaced by Monticello on U.S. nickels"
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 any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BISON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Surprise win"
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 an unhappy and worried mental state
- Words that mean the same thing: disorder, worried, untune
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UPSET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "18. Cucumber-like, maybe"
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 quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature
- Words that mean the same thing: coolheaded, cool off, cool down
- The opposite would be: heat, warm
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COOL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Lifelessly dull"
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 incapable of reproducing
- Words that mean the same thing: aseptic, unfertile, infertile
- The opposite would be: fertile
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STERILE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "22. "Take me ___""
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: _____
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The answer is: ASIAM
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Clue 17 Down: "23. Water power, informally"
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: HYDRO
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Clue 18 Down: "24. Compadre"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a friend or comrade
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: AMIGO
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Clue 19 Down: "27. Mont Blanc, for one"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that any high mountain
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ALP
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Clue 20 Down: "29. Outskirts of the outskirts"
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: BOONIES
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Clue 21 Down: "30. Book-loving Disney princess in a yellow gown"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
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- This could be something that a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BELLE
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Clue 22 Down: "31. Whirlpool"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that founder of christian science in 1866 (1821-1910)
- Words that mean the same thing: swirl, twist, purl
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EDDY
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Clue 23 Down: "33. Bit of lightning"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- Words that mean the same thing: slap, bang, rigidly
- The opposite would be: unbolt
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The answer is: BOLT
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Clue 24 Down: "34. Defeatist's assertion"
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: ICANT
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Clue 25 Down: "35. Bookish sorts"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about literature.
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- This could be something that an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- Words that mean the same thing: swot, grind, nerd
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: NERDS
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Clue 26 Down: "36. Flappers in a gaggle"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
- Words that mean the same thing: goof, fathead, goose
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GEESE
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Clue 27 Down: "38. Late singer with a food name"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- This could be something that a baked loaf of ground meat
- Words that mean the same thing: meat loaf
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: MEATLOAF
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Clue 28 Down: "41. PSAT takers, often"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a son who has the same first name as his father
- Words that mean the same thing: Junior, Jr, Jnr
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: JRS
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Clue 29 Down: "42. Operator of a stud farm"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
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- This could be something that a person who breeds animals
- Words that mean the same thing: stock breeder
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: BREEDER
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Clue 30 Down: "44. Community card between "flop" and "river" in hold'em"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
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- This could be something that a circular segment of a curve
- Words that mean the same thing: bit, change by reversal, plough
- The opposite would be: unbend
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The answer is: TURN
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Clue 31 Down: "45. It's connected to the tibia"
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 longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
- Words that mean the same thing: thighbone, femoris
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: FEMUR
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Clue 32 Down: "46. Sheepish"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: OVINE
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Clue 33 Down: "47. Intel mission"
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: RECON
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Clue 34 Down: "48. Gawk"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a fixed look with eyes open wide
- Words that mean the same thing: gaze
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: STARE
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Clue 35 Down: "52. Rights advocacy org."
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: ACLU
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Clue 36 Down: "53. Some four-stringed instruments, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- This could be something that a small guitar having four strings
- Words that mean the same thing: ukulele, uke
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: UKES
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Clue 37 Down: "54. Mötley ___"
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: CRUE
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Clue 38 Down: "56. Letter after pi"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the 17th letter of the greek alphabet
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RHO
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Clue 39 Down: "57. Common conjunctions"
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 state in northwestern united states on the pacific
- Words that mean the same thing: Beaver State, surgery, operating room
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ORS
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Clue 40 Down: "58. John of Salisbury"
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 toilet in britain
- Words that mean the same thing: W.C., closet, water closet
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LOO
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Clue 41 Down: "59. "Acid""
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 powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- Words that mean the same thing: lysergic acid diethylamide
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LSD
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 46 | 59.0% |
| Short Answer | 17 | 21.8% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 4 | 5.1% |
| Movies/Film | 2 | 2.6% |
| Geography | 2 | 2.6% |
| Literature | 2 | 2.6% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.3% |
| Music | 1 | 1.3% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.3% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 37 |
| Down Clues | 41 |
| Total Clues | 78 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.8 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 Tuesday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 4 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 09, 2025 at 10:44 AM
