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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, July 14, 2023
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 66 (33 Across, 33 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.7 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle July 14, 2023
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Praises loudly | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Drops | 5 |
| 3A | 11. "___ down!" | 7 |
| 4A | 13. Summaries | 7 |
| 5A | 15. Becomes uncomfortable, in a way, as underwear | 7 |
| 6A | 16. Drank discreetly | 7 |
| 7A | 17. Part of un giorno | 3 |
| 8A | 18. Buying opportunity for die-hard fans | 7 |
| 9A | 20. Sports stat that's best when it's below 2 | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Producer of some wedding rings | 4 |
| 11A | 23. They might restrict arms | 5 |
| 12A | 24. Bygone autocrat | 4 |
| 13A | 25. Poet Hemphill of the 1980s Black gay cultural renaissance | 5 |
| 14A | 27. Japanese garden denizen | 3 |
| 15A | 28. Complains loudly | 5 |
| 16A | 29. They're full of pop | 13 |
| 17A | 32. "It's not clear to me" | 9 |
| 18A | 33. Benny Goodman jazz standard with the opening line "April skies are in your eyes" | 13 |
| 19A | 37. Japanese lunch option | 5 |
| 20A | 38. "Like I said!" | 3 |
| 21A | 39. Jewelry chain | 5 |
| 22A | 41. Host city for the annual Øyafestivalen | 4 |
| 23A | 42. City where Gerald Ford and Malcolm X were born | 5 |
| 24A | 44. "Well, I'll be darned!" | 4 |
| 25A | 45. One who may bug you | 3 |
| 26A | 46. Introductory books | 7 |
| 27A | 48. ___ plancha (cooking style) | 3 |
| 28A | 49. Give over to another's care | 7 |
| 29A | 51. High fortress | 7 |
| 30A | 53. Retailer's promo | 7 |
| 31A | 54. Kind of address | 7 |
| 32A | 55. Like testimony at trial | 5 |
| 33A | 56. Winners of 13 Stanley Cups, familiarly | 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. Praises loudly"
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 precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
- Words that mean the same thing: acclaim, herald, come
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HAILS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "6. Drops"
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 prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- Words that mean the same thing: miss, neglect, pretermit
- The opposite would be: include, attend to
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OMITS
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Clue 3 Across: "11. "___ down!""
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 thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood
- Words that mean the same thing: pencil
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PENCILS
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Clue 4 Across: "13. Summaries"
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: WRAPUPS
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Clue 5 Across: "15. Becomes uncomfortable, in a way, as underwear"
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: RIDESUP
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Clue 6 Across: "16. Drank discreetly"
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: _______
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The answer is: HADANIP
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Clue 7 Across: "17. Part of un giorno"
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 mouth or mouthlike opening
- Words that mean the same thing: osmium, atomic number 76, bone
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORA
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Clue 8 Across: "18. Buying opportunity for die-hard fans"
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: PRESALE
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Clue 9 Across: "20. Sports stat that's best when it's below 2"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Words that mean the same thing: earned run average, geological era, epoch
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERA
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Clue 10 Across: "21. Producer of some wedding rings"
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 hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- Words that mean the same thing: Alexander Melville Bell, ship's bell, buzzer
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BELL
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Clue 11 Across: "23. They might restrict arms"
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 written agreement between two states or sovereigns
- Words that mean the same thing: pact, treaty, accord
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PACTS
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Clue 12 Across: "24. Bygone autocrat"
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 male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Words that mean the same thing: tzar, czar
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TSAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "25. Poet Hemphill of the 1980s Black gay cultural renaissance"
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 county in southeastern england on the north sea and the thames estuary
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ESSEX
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "27. Japanese garden denizen"
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: KOI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "28. Complains loudly"
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 cry of sorrow and grief
- Words that mean the same thing: ululate, roar, lament
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WAILS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "29. They're full of pop"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SODAFOUNTAINS
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Clue 17 Across: "32. "It's not clear to me""
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: ICANTTELL
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Clue 18 Across: "33. Benny Goodman jazz standard with the opening line "April skies are in your eyes""
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DONTBETHATWAY
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Clue 19 Across: "37. Japanese lunch option"
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: BENTO
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Clue 20 Across: "38. "Like I said!""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Words that mean the same thing: meet, visualize, consider
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEE
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Clue 21 Across: "39. Jewelry chain"
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: ZALES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "41. Host city for the annual Øyafestivalen"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the capital and largest city of norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on norway's southern coast
- Words that mean the same thing: Christiania, capital of Norway
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OSLO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "42. City where Gerald Ford and Malcolm X were born"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a member of the siouan people formerly living in the missouri river valley in northeastern nebraska
- Words that mean the same thing: Maha
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OMAHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "44. "Well, I'll be darned!""
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: GOSH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "45. One who may bug you"
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 (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- Words that mean the same thing: espy, snoop, sleuth
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "46. Introductory books"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an introductory textbook
- Words that mean the same thing: undercoat, fuse, priming coat
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PRIMERS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "48. ___ plancha (cooking style)"
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 flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "49. Give over to another's care"
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 commit forever; commit irrevocably
- Words that mean the same thing: charge
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CONSIGN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "51. High fortress"
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 stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- Words that mean the same thing: bastion
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CITADEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "53. Retailer's promo"
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: STOREAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "54. Kind of address"
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 the principal theme in a speech or literary work
- Words that mean the same thing: tonic
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KEYNOTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "55. Like testimony at trial"
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 utter obscenities or profanities
- Words that mean the same thing: avow, swan, curse
- The opposite would be: mistrust, unsworn
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWORN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "56. Winners of 13 Stanley Cups, familiarly"
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 main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- Words that mean the same thing: flick, leaf, folio
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEAFS
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Solve the Down: NYT Friday Puzzle July 14, 2023
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Siobhan Roy of "Succession," e.g. | 7 |
| 2D | 2. "Not to mention ..." | 7 |
| 3D | 3. Put away for good | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Challenge for a speech pathologist | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Show appreciation at a ramen bar, contrary to Western etiquette | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Defense mechanisms? | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Have it ___ | 4 |
| 8D | 8. One might be hazy, for short | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Catches some waves, say | 7 |
| 10D | 10. Dazzling air show displays | 7 |
| 11D | 11. Get personal, say | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Say how you really feel | 13 |
| 13D | 13. "Surely that can't be possible?!" | 13 |
| 14D | 14. Engages in some repartee | 5 |
| 15D | 19. N.F.L. practice squad | 9 |
| 16D | 22. Acted as a segue for | 7 |
| 17D | 24. Dog's show of excitement | 7 |
| 18D | 26. Brand of cutting-edge equipment | 5 |
| 19D | 28. Breeze (through) | 5 |
| 20D | 30. Awesome, informally | 3 |
| 21D | 31. Green ___ | 3 |
| 22D | 33. Ones unlikely to rule in your favor | 7 |
| 23D | 34. Just this second | 7 |
| 24D | 35. Countless | 7 |
| 25D | 36. "Why, I'd love to!" | 7 |
| 26D | 37. Pears originally from Europe | 5 |
| 27D | 40. Fracking target | 5 |
| 28D | 42. Instrument heard in the iconic intro to the Who's "Baba O'Riley" | 5 |
| 29D | 43. "The Tempest" spirit | 5 |
| 30D | 46. Walk on water? | 4 |
| 31D | 47. What might make one less likely to flip one's lid? | 4 |
| 32D | 50. Cheap ticket specification | 3 |
| 33D | 52. Get ___ (score highly) | 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. Siobhan Roy of "Succession," e.g."
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 female heir
- Words that mean the same thing: inheritrix, inheritress
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HEIRESS
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Clue 2 Down: "2. "Not to mention ...""
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: ANDALSO
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Clue 3 Down: "3. Put away for good"
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, trash, ice 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 4 Down: "4. Challenge for a speech pathologist"
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 speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
- Words that mean the same thing: list-processing language
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LISP
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Clue 5 Down: "5. Show appreciation at a ramen bar, contrary to Western etiquette"
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 eat noisily
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLURP
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Clue 6 Down: "6. Defense mechanisms?"
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 an examination conducted by spoken communication
- Words that mean the same thing: viva, oral examination, oral exam
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORALS
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Have it ___"
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 give certain properties to something
- Words that mean the same thing: produce, hold, do
- The opposite would be: unmake, break
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MADE
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Clue 8 Down: "8. One might be hazy, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IPA
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Catches some waves, say"
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: TUNESIN
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Dazzling air show displays"
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 plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
- Words that mean the same thing: coil, corkscrew, gyrate
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPIRALS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Get personal, say"
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 inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- Words that mean the same thing: investigation, dig into, poke into
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PROBE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Say how you really feel"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPEAKONESMIND
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Clue 13 Down: "13. "Surely that can't be possible?!""
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WHATINTHEHECK
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Clue 14 Down: "14. Engages in some repartee"
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 of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
- Words that mean the same thing: sparring, spar
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPARS
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Clue 15 Down: "19. N.F.L. practice squad"
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: SCOUTTEAM
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Clue 16 Down: "22. Acted as a segue for"
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: LEDINTO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "24. Dog's show of excitement"
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: TAILWAG
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Clue 18 Down: "26. Brand of cutting-edge equipment"
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: XACTO
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Clue 19 Down: "28. Breeze (through)"
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 assured victory (especially in an election)
- Words that mean the same thing: walk-in, valse, waltz around
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WALTZ
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Clue 20 Down: "30. Awesome, informally"
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 extremely pleasing
- Words that mean the same thing: fabulous
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FAB
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Clue 21 Down: "31. Green ___"
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 beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Words that mean the same thing: teatime, tea leaf, afternoon tea
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEA
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Clue 22 Down: "33. Ones unlikely to rule in your favor"
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 cruel and oppressive dictator
- Words that mean the same thing: tyrant, autocrat, despot
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: DESPOTS
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Clue 23 Down: "34. Just this second"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: ONLYNOW
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Clue 24 Down: "35. Countless"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: ALOADOF
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Clue 25 Down: "36. "Why, I'd love to!""
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: YESLETS
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Clue 26 Down: "37. Pears originally from Europe"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that greenish-yellow pear
- Words that mean the same thing: bosc
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BOSCS
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Clue 27 Down: "40. Fracking target"
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 sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SHALE
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Clue 28 Down: "42. Instrument heard in the iconic intro to the Who's "Baba O'Riley""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
- Words that mean the same thing: pipe organ, harmonium, electric organ
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ORGAN
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Clue 29 Down: "43. "The Tempest" spirit"
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: ARIEL
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Clue 30 Down: "46. Walk on water?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- Words that mean the same thing: wharfage, dock, wharf
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: PIER
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Clue 31 Down: "47. What might make one less likely to flip one's lid?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Words that mean the same thing: eye infection, sty, hordeolum
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: STYE
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Clue 32 Down: "50. Cheap ticket specification"
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: SRO
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Clue 33 Down: "52. Get ___ (score highly)"
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 mother of the ancient irish gods; sometimes identified with danu
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ANA
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 51 | 77.3% |
| Short Answer | 10 | 15.2% |
| Geography | 2 | 3.0% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.5% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.5% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.5% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 33 |
| Down Clues | 33 |
| Total Clues | 66 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.7 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 13 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is 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 01, 2025 at 04:48 AM
