No 27370 Tue Oct 15, 2024 NYT Crossword by Lindsay Rosenblum

Across Clues :

1. No longer taking, as a medication, 6. What a light bulb represents in cartoons, 10. Led, as a meeting, 13. Where soju is the national drink, 14. Overwhelmed by hilarity, hyperbolically speaking, 15. Style of San Francisco's Coit Tower, informally, 16. Visa, for one, 18. Foreboding sign, 19. Take advantage of, 20. ___-di-dah, 21. Still awake after midnight, say, 23. Furry feet, 25. Thief at work in a bustling crowd, 28. "OK, that wasn't totally true", 30. Favor precursor?, 31. Loudly laments, 32. Triumph over, 34. "Don't think so", 36. One might be found at a roast, 40. Pulitzer-winning writer James, 41. Philanthropists, 44. Dodge Charger, e.g., 48. Nile reptile, 50. What an unsatisfied customer might leave behind, 51. Modern combat athlete, informally, 54. Expectant parents' selection, 55. Revolted, 56. Home of MoMA and M.S.G., 58. The Trojans of the N.C.A.A., 59. Shape for a child's chicken nugget, informally, 60. Show interest on a dating app … or what 16-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across must do to be successful?, 64. Steely determination, 65. Garment worn by the Little Caesars mascot, 66. Blood of the gods, in Greek mythology, 67. Up to this point, 68. Waxy imprint, 69. Montana city nicknamed "The Richest Hill on Earth"

Tue Oct 15, 2024 NYT Crossword

Down Clues :

1. Match.com alternative, 2. Realtor's sign, 3. Airport amenity, 4. British ref. work, 5. Not pass, 6. Pet-tracking device, 7. Anti-trafficking agcy., 8. Hear here!, 9. Make sense, 10. Uncreative studio project, perhaps, 11. Winning blackjack hand, 12. Trios of trios, 15. Sweet, in Italian, 17. Dance style with shuffles and buffaloes, 22. "Gotta catch 'em all!" game series, 24. Witnessed, 26. Competition, 27. Ray who helped globalize McDonald's, 29. Some bottled waters, 33. Pull, 35. Group of whales, 37. Actress Jeffries of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians", 38. Part of, as a scheme, 39. Like courses with multiple professors, 42. Comedic drum flourish, 43. Bond film between "Skyfall" and "No Time to Die", 44. Like words written in ink by a lefty, often, 45. Ruler's realm, 46. "Aw, man!", 47. Underway, 49. Distant correspondent, 52. Medieval tales of daring adventure, 53. Bread choice for a Reuben, 57. Expectant parents' selection, 61. "Wednesday's child is full of ___" (nursery rhyme line), 62. Tennis champ Swiatek, 63. Critical hosp. wing

Break down the NYT Crosswords: October 15, 2024

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. No longer taking, as a medication. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: OFFOF




• The clue is 6. What a light bulb represents in cartoons. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: IDEA

  Possible Answer : melodic_theme, theme, idea, approximation, thought, musical_theme, mind, estimation, estimate




• The clue is 10. Led, as a meeting. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: RAN

  Possible Answer : play, scarper, campaign, move, black_market, lam, head_for_the_hills, work, draw, extend, feed, operate, turn_tail, lean, unravel, range, endure, guide, fly_the_coop, run_for, run_away, be_given, execute, race, track_down, persist, lead, die_hard, hunt_down, ladder, melt, carry, tend, break_away, scat, take_to_the_woods, hightail_it, pass, bleed, escape, prevail, go, consort, course, function, incline, bunk, hunt, melt_down, flow, ply, run

  Possible Opposite Answer : idle, malfunction




• The clue is 13. Where soju is the national drink. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: KOREA

  Possible Answer : Korean_Peninsula, Korea, Dae-Han-Min-Gook, Han-Gook




• The clue is 14. Overwhelmed by hilarity, hyperbolically speaking. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DEAD

  Possible Answer : bushed, all_in, dead, beat, abruptly, short, idle, stagnant, deadened, suddenly, numb, drained, absolutely, utterly, perfectly, utter

  Possible Opposite Answer : living, alive, live




• The clue is 15. Style of San Francisco's Coit Tower, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DECO

  Possible Answer : deco, art_deco




• The clue is 16. Visa, for one. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: CREDITCARD




• The clue is 18. Foreboding sign. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: OMEN

  Possible Answer : prognostic, betoken, prognosticate, forecast, portent, Oman, foreshadow, prefigure, bode, omen, Sultanate_of_Oman, prognostication, foretell, portend, prodigy, Muscat_and_Oman, predict, presage, augur, auspicate




• The clue is 19. Take advantage of. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: USE

  Possible Answer : purpose, utilisation, utilize, apply, employ, employment, exercise, role, practice, usage, enjoyment, habit, use, expend, economic_consumption, use_of_goods_and_services, usance, manipulation, consumption, utilization, function, habituate, utilise




• The clue is 20. ___-di-dah. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: LAH

  Possible Answer : la, lah




• The clue is 21. Still awake after midnight, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: UPLATE




• The clue is 23. Furry feet. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: PAWS

  Possible Answer : hand, manus, paw, mitt




• The clue is 25. Thief at work in a bustling crowd. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: PICKPOCKET

  Possible Answer : pickpocket, cutpurse, dip




• The clue is 28. "OK, that wasn't totally true". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ILIED




• The clue is 30. Favor precursor?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: POR




• The clue is 31. Loudly laments. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: KEENS

  Possible Answer : keen, lament




• The clue is 32. Triumph over. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: DEFEAT

  Possible Answer : defeat, frustration, overcome, vote_down, vote_out, licking, shoot_down, get_the_better_of, kill

  Possible Opposite Answer : victory




• The clue is 34. "Don't think so". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: NOPE




• The clue is 36. One might be found at a roast. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: INSULTCOMIC




• The clue is 40. Pulitzer-winning writer James. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: AGEE

  Possible Answer : Agee, James_Agee




• The clue is 41. Philanthropists. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: DONORS

  Possible Answer : conferrer, donor, giver, presenter, bestower




• The clue is 44. Dodge Charger, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SEDAN

  Possible Answer : sedan, saloon, sedan_chair




• The clue is 48. Nile reptile. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ASP

  Possible Answer : asp, Vipera_aspis, asp_viper, Egyptian_cobra, Naja_haje




• The clue is 50. What an unsatisfied customer might leave behind. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: NOTIP




• The clue is 51. Modern combat athlete, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: MMAFIGHTER




• The clue is 54. Expectant parents' selection. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: NAME

  Possible Answer : describe, diagnose, epithet, cite, refer, nominate, list, public_figure, name, advert, distinguish, key, appoint, constitute, make, gens, mention, identify, discover, bring_up, figure, key_out, call




• The clue is 55. Revolted. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: UPROSE

  Possible Answer : develop, go_up, turn_out, lift, stand_up, spring_up, come_up, rise, uprise, grow, get_up, originate, resurrect, ascend, bristle, arise, move_up

  Possible Opposite Answer : go_to_bed, sit_down, turn_in, set, fall




• The clue is 56. Home of MoMA and M.S.G.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NYC




• The clue is 58. The Trojans of the N.C.A.A.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: USC




• The clue is 59. Shape for a child's chicken nugget, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DINO




• The clue is 60. Show interest on a dating app … or what 16-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across must do to be successful?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: SWIPERIGHT




• The clue is 64. Steely determination. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: GRIT

  Possible Answer : guts, gritstone, sand, gritrock, grit, gumption, backbone, moxie




• The clue is 65. Garment worn by the Little Caesars mascot. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: TOGA

  Possible Answer : toga




• The clue is 66. Blood of the gods, in Greek mythology. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ICHOR

  Possible Answer : pus, purulence, suppuration, festering, sanies, ichor




• The clue is 67. Up to this point. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: YET

  Possible Answer : withal, so_far, still, nonetheless, all_the_same, as_yet, thus_far, up_to_now, til_now, yet, in_time, even, heretofore, however, hitherto, even_so, until_now, notwithstanding, nevertheless




• The clue is 68. Waxy imprint. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SEAL

  Possible Answer : Navy_SEAL, sealskin, SEAL, seal_of_approval, seal, varnish, seal_off, sealing_wax, stamp, cachet

  Possible Opposite Answer : unseal




• The clue is 69. Montana city nicknamed "The Richest Hill on Earth". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BUTTE

  Possible Answer : butte, Butte

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Match.com alternative. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: OKCUPID

• The clue is 2. Realtor's sign. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: FORSALE

• The clue is 3. Airport amenity. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: FREEWIFI

• The clue is 4. British ref. work. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: OED

  Possible Answer: OED, Oxford_English_Dictionary, O.E.D.

• The clue is 5. Not pass. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: FAIL

  Possible Answer: die, go_wrong, fail, give_out, neglect, betray, go, break_down, flunk, bomb, miscarry, flush_it, conk_out, go_bad, break, give_way, run_out

  Possible Opposite Answer : succeed, manage, pass

• The clue is 6. Pet-tracking device. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: IDCHIP

• The clue is 7. Anti-trafficking agcy.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: DEA

  Possible Answer: DEA, Drug_Enforcement_Administration, Drug_Enforcement_Agency

• The clue is 8. Hear here!. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: EAR

  Possible Answer: capitulum, pinna, ear, auricle, spike

• The clue is 9. Make sense. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ADDUP

• The clue is 10. Uncreative studio project, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: REMAKE

  Possible Answer: remaking, refashion, remake, make_over, redo

• The clue is 11. Winning blackjack hand. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ACETEN

• The clue is 12. Trios of trios. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: NONETS

• The clue is 15. Sweet, in Italian. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DOLCE

  Possible Answer: dolce

• The clue is 17. Dance style with shuffles and buffaloes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TAP

  Possible Answer: tapdance, strike, solicit, tap, water_tap, bug, spigot, hydrant, beg, rap, dab, tip, pink, pat, water_faucet, intercept, knock, exploit, wiretap

• The clue is 22. "Gotta catch 'em all!" game series. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: POKEMON

• The clue is 24. Witnessed. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SEEN

  Possible Answer: get_a_line, see_to_it, examine, go_through, run_across, insure, visualize, catch, interpret, regard, image, come_across, understand, witness, visit, pick_up, watch, assure, construe, get_wind, realise, go_out, envision, fancy, see, consider, go_steady, get_word, encounter, experience, reckon, take_in, look, hear, find_out, ascertain, date, ensure, take_care, view, picture, discover, check, attend, figure, realize, project, meet, run_into, escort, find, determine, control, visualise, learn

• The clue is 26. Competition. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: CONTEST

  Possible Answer: competition, contest, contend, repugn

• The clue is 27. Ray who helped globalize McDonald's. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: KROC

• The clue is 29. Some bottled waters. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: DASANIS

• The clue is 33. Pull. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TUG

  Possible Answer: tugboat, lug, tote, push, labour, tower, drive, tug, jerk, labor, towboat

• The clue is 35. Group of whales. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: POD

  Possible Answer: pod, seedpod, seedcase, cod, fuel_pod

• The clue is 37. Actress Jeffries of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LEAH

• The clue is 38. Part of, as a scheme. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: INON

• The clue is 39. Like courses with multiple professors. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: COTAUGHT

• The clue is 42. Comedic drum flourish. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: RIMSHOT

• The clue is 43. Bond film between "Skyfall" and "No Time to Die". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: SPECTRE

  Possible Answer: shade, wraith, phantom, apparition, phantasma, spook, fantasm, specter, spectre, ghost, phantasm

• The clue is 44. Like words written in ink by a lefty, often. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SMUDGY

  Possible Answer: smudgy

• The clue is 45. Ruler's realm. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: EMPIRE

  Possible Answer: conglomerate, imperium, Empire, empire

• The clue is 46. "Aw, man!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: DARNIT

• The clue is 47. Underway. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: AFOOT

  Possible Answer: underway, afoot

• The clue is 49. Distant correspondent. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: PENPAL

• The clue is 52. Medieval tales of daring adventure. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: GESTS

• The clue is 53. Bread choice for a Reuben. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: RYE

  Possible Answer: rye, rye_whisky, rye_whiskey, Secale_cereale

• The clue is 57. Expectant parents' selection. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CRIB

  Possible Answer: crib, trot, cot, pony, cribbage

• The clue is 61. "Wednesday's child is full of ___" (nursery rhyme line). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: WOE

  Possible Answer: woe, suffering, woefulness

• The clue is 62. Tennis champ Swiatek. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: IGA

  Possible Answer: immunoglobulin_A, IgA

• The clue is 63. Critical hosp. wing. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ICU

  Possible Answer: ICU, intensive_care_unit

NYT0904 Wednesday Sep 04, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Across Clues :

1. Visitor to Mecca, 5. Choices for party organizers, 11. Quick refresher, 14. Lamar ___, ex of Khloé Kardashian, 15. Top pilot, 16. Rapper Lil ___ Vert, 17. It will change the way you see yourself, 19. Operate, as a program, 20. Throw one's hands up, say, 21. Foreign policy grp., 22. Floral bubble tea flavoring, 24. On the line, 26. Spiral-horned antelope, 28. Point of no return on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", 32. Garment that might have a built-in bra, for short, 36. Work on Broadway, say, 37. Investigator's interest, 38. Pain, 40. AirPod holder, 42. Boxes for crackers?, 43. "A Hard Day's Night" songwriter, 45. U.K. military arm, 47. Monthly expense, 48. Warhead carriers, 51. Microwave no-no, 52. Cleaning product made in "Fight Club", 57. V fliers, 59. Frosty, 61. Symbol seen on eight national flags (though, ironically, not the U.S. flag), 62. Writer Rand, 63. First- and third-quarter moons, e.g. … or a hint to this puzzle's theme, 66. Call that might precede "first service", 67. Bartender's valve, 68. Comic book figure, 69. Major campaign expense, 70. Penny pinchers, 71. London's Royal Academy of ___

Down Clues :

1. Labor leader Jimmy, 2. What Peter Pan refuses to become, 3. Pop rock's ___ Brothers, 4. Duel cry, 5. … rho, sigma, ___, upsilon …, 6. Honorific for a Catholic cardinal, 7. Makes mistakes, 8. Painter Duchamp, 9. Prefix with efficiency, 10. Hot peppers, 11. Caregiver for a pregnant woman, 12. Blue, in Spanish, 13. Like much cotton candy, 18. "Frozen" snowman, 23. General Motors subsidiary with emergency services, 25. Its parent company is Hyundai, 27. On the ___, 29. Asteroids made a big impact on it in the 1980s, 30. Flat, 31. Conclude in court, 32. H.S. course in which one might be graded on a curve?, 33. Teen follower, 34. Mount Rushmore and the Taj Mahal, e.g., 35. Some navels, 39. Red-haired toon who is always seeing red, 41. Light racing vehicle, 44. Secretive org., 46. Tina of "30 Rock", 49. Covers in goo, 50. Forward-looking sort, 53. Comic actor ___ Baron Cohen, 54. Lewd looker, 55. On guard, 56. Cancún coins, 57. Ball, 58. Stared at, 60. Include in a footnote, 64. ___ Moskowitz, a.k.a. "Hawk" on Netflix's "Cobra Kai", 65. Computer addresses: Abbr.

Wednesday Sep 04, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues

Break down the NYT Crosswords: September 04, 2024

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Visitor to Mecca. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: HAJI

  Possible Answer : hajji, hadji, haji




• The clue is 5. Choices for party organizers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: THEMES

  Possible Answer : topic, base, root_word, motif, melodic_theme, radical, stem, musical_theme, report, root, paper, idea, theme, composition, subject




• The clue is 11. Quick refresher. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NAP

  Possible Answer : forty_winks, Napoleon, catch_a_wink, short_sleep, nap, sleep, pile, snooze, cat_sleep, catnap




• The clue is 14. Lamar ___, ex of Khloé Kardashian. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ODOM




• The clue is 15. Top pilot. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: AIRACE




• The clue is 16. Rapper Lil ___ Vert. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: UZI

  Possible Answer : Uzi




• The clue is 17. It will change the way you see yourself. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (14 letters)

  The answer: FUNHOUSEMIRROR




• The clue is 19. Operate, as a program. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: RUN

  Possible Answer : move, trial, lam, foot_race, tally, die_hard, rivulet, fly_the_coop, runnel, test, take_to_the_woods, carry, tend, streak, escape, feed, operate, prevail, scarper, political_campaign, go, run, function, race, ladder, lean, incline, track_down, footrace, running, flow, ravel, course, consort, ply, hunt, draw, hunt_down, melt_down, run_for, play, endure, unravel, streamlet, work, lead, run_away, persist, discharge, range, pass, execute, break_away, melt, rill, campaign, be_given, head_for_the_hills, outpouring, running_play, guide, bleed, scat, black_market, bunk, hightail_it, turn_tail, running_game, extend

  Possible Opposite Answer : idle, malfunction




• The clue is 20. Throw one's hands up, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: FLAIL

  Possible Answer : lam, thrash, flail, thresh




• The clue is 21. Foreign policy grp.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NSC

  Possible Answer : NSC, National_Security_Council




• The clue is 22. Floral bubble tea flavoring. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: ROSEMILK




• The clue is 24. On the line. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ATSTAKE




• The clue is 26. Spiral-horned antelope. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ELAND

  Possible Answer : eland




• The clue is 28. Point of no return on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: FINALANSWER




• The clue is 32. Garment that might have a built-in bra, for short. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CAMI




• The clue is 36. Work on Broadway, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ACT

  Possible Answer : move, behave, dissemble, pretend, number, deed, roleplay, act_as, playact, routine, play, represent, work, do, enactment, human_action, act, turn, human_activity, bit

  Possible Opposite Answer : refrain




• The clue is 37. Investigator's interest. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: MOTIVE

  Possible Answer : motif, need, motor, motivation, motive, motivative, motivating




• The clue is 38. Pain. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: AGONY

  Possible Answer : agony, excruciation, suffering, torment, torture




• The clue is 40. AirPod holder. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: EAR

  Possible Answer : auricle, spike, capitulum, pinna, ear




• The clue is 42. Boxes for crackers?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SAFES

  Possible Answer : rubber, condom, prophylactic, safety, safe




• The clue is 43. "A Hard Day's Night" songwriter. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: LENNON

  Possible Answer : John_Lennon, Lennon




• The clue is 45. U.K. military arm. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: RAF

  Possible Answer : Red_Army_Faction, Royal_Air_Force, RAF




• The clue is 47. Monthly expense. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: RENT

  Possible Answer : rend, economic_rent, split, hire, tear, take, charter, rive, snag, lease, engage, rent, pull, let, rip




• The clue is 48. Warhead carriers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (14 letters)

  The answer: CRUISEMISSILES




• The clue is 51. Microwave no-no. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: METAL

  Possible Answer : metal, metallic, alloy, metallic_element

  Possible Opposite Answer : nonmetallic




• The clue is 52. Cleaning product made in "Fight Club". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: LYESOAP




• The clue is 57. V fliers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: GEESE

  Possible Answer : goose, goofball, cuckoo, twat, fathead, jackass, bozo, goof, zany




• The clue is 59. Frosty. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ICY

  Possible Answer : icy, wintry, gelid, polar, glacial, frigid, frozen, frosty, arctic




• The clue is 61. Symbol seen on eight national flags (though, ironically, not the U.S. flag). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: EAGLE

  Possible Answer : eagle, double_birdie, bird_of_Jove




• The clue is 62. Writer Rand. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: AYN




• The clue is 63. First- and third-quarter moons, e.g. … or a hint to this puzzle's theme. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: SEMICIRCLES

  Possible Answer : hemicycle, semicircle




• The clue is 66. Call that might precede "first service". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: LET

  Possible Answer : permit, Army_of_the_Righteous, let, net_ball, lease, countenance, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, allow, get, Army_of_the_Pure, rent, LET, have, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba

  Possible Opposite Answer : prevent, forbid, disallow




• The clue is 67. Bartender's valve. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ALETAP




• The clue is 68. Comic book figure. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: HERO

  Possible Answer : sub, fighter, hero, torpedo, Cuban_sandwich, Hero, champion, Italian_sandwich, bomber, Hero_of_Alexandria, submarine, zep, wedge, Heron, submarine_sandwich, hero_sandwich, paladin, grinder, hoagy, hoagie, poor_boy




• The clue is 69. Major campaign expense. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ADS

  Possible Answer : advertisement, advertizement, advert, advertizing, ad, advertising




• The clue is 70. Penny pinchers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: MISERS

  Possible Answer : miser




• The clue is 71. London's Royal Academy of ___. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ARTS

  Possible Answer : humanistic_discipline, artistic_creation, artistry, liberal_arts, humanities, nontextual_matter, art, arts, artistic_production, fine_art, prowess, graphics, artwork

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Labor leader Jimmy. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: HOFFA

  Possible Answer: Jimmy_Hoffa, Hoffa, James_Riddle_Hoffa

• The clue is 2. What Peter Pan refuses to become. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ADULT

  Possible Answer: full-grown, grown, pornographic, fully_grown, adult, big, grownup

  Possible Opposite Answer : juvenile

• The clue is 3. Pop rock's ___ Brothers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: JONAS

• The clue is 4. Duel cry. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: IMHIT

• The clue is 5. … rho, sigma, ___, upsilon …. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TAU

  Possible Answer: tau

• The clue is 6. Honorific for a Catholic cardinal. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: HISEMINENCE

• The clue is 7. Makes mistakes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ERRS

  Possible Answer: drift, stray, err, slip, mistake

• The clue is 8. Painter Duchamp. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: MARCEL

  Possible Answer: marcel

• The clue is 9. Prefix with efficiency. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ECO

• The clue is 10. Hot peppers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: SERRANOS

• The clue is 11. Caregiver for a pregnant woman. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

  The answer: NURSEMIDWIFE

• The clue is 12. Blue, in Spanish. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: AZUL

• The clue is 13. Like much cotton candy. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: PINK

  Possible Answer: pinkish, tap, rap, pinko, ping, knock, pink, garden_pink

• The clue is 18. "Frozen" snowman. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: OLAF

• The clue is 23. General Motors subsidiary with emergency services. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ONSTAR

• The clue is 25. Its parent company is Hyundai. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: KIA

• The clue is 27. On the ___. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: LAM

  Possible Answer: scarper, lam, run, flail, head_for_the_hills, fly_the_coop, getaway, thrash, run_away, take_to_the_woods, scat, thresh, bunk, hightail_it, turn_tail, break_away, escape

• The clue is 29. Asteroids made a big impact on it in the 1980s. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ATARI

• The clue is 30. Flat. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EVEN

  Possible Answer: even, evening, level, fifty-fifty, tied, eventide, eve, yet, regular, still, flush, even_out

  Possible Opposite Answer : uneven, odd

• The clue is 31. Conclude in court. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: REST

  Possible Answer: eternal_rest, catch_one's_breath, eternal_sleep, perch, relief, relaxation, residuum, respite, repose, remainder, residual, breathe, take_a_breather, lie, balance, stay, roost, residue, sleep, reside, rest_period, remain, ease, rest, pillow, quietus

  Possible Opposite Answer : change, be_active

• The clue is 32. H.S. course in which one might be graded on a curve?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CALC

• The clue is 33. Teen follower. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: AGER

• The clue is 34. Mount Rushmore and the Taj Mahal, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: MONUMENTS

  Possible Answer: monument, repository, memorial

• The clue is 35. Some navels. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: INNIES

• The clue is 39. Red-haired toon who is always seeing red. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: YOSEMITESAM

• The clue is 41. Light racing vehicle. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: RALLYCAR

• The clue is 44. Secretive org.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NSA

  Possible Answer: National_Security_Agency, NSA

• The clue is 46. Tina of "30 Rock". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: FEY

  Possible Answer: fey, elfin, touched

• The clue is 49. Covers in goo. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SLIMES

  Possible Answer: melt_off, slim, gook, slim_down, muck, slime, slenderize, ooze, lose_weight, goo, gunk, thin, sludge, guck, reduce, goop

  Possible Opposite Answer : gain

• The clue is 50. Forward-looking sort. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SEER

  Possible Answer: prophesier, visionary, prophet, oracle, illusionist, seer, vaticinator

• The clue is 53. Comic actor ___ Baron Cohen. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SACHA

• The clue is 54. Lewd looker. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: OGLER

  Possible Answer: ogler

• The clue is 55. On guard. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ALERT

  Possible Answer: lively, snappy, qui_vive, rattling, alive, alert, alerting, warning_signal, alarm, brisk, zippy, spanking, alarum, awake, watchful, merry

  Possible Opposite Answer : unalert

• The clue is 56. Cancún coins. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PESOS

  Possible Answer: Uruguayan_peso, Guinea-Bissau_peso, peso, Dominican_peso, Chilean_peso, Cuban_peso, Philippine_peso, Colombian_peso, Mexican_peso

• The clue is 57. Ball. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: GALA

  Possible Answer: jamboree, blowout, gala_affair, gala

• The clue is 58. Stared at. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EYED

  Possible Answer: eyed, eye, eyeball

  Possible Opposite Answer : eyeless

• The clue is 60. Include in a footnote. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CITE

  Possible Answer: summons, refer, summon, quotation, advert, acknowledgment, abduce, credit, reference, citation, bring_up, adduce, quote, mention, cite, name

• The clue is 64. ___ Moskowitz, a.k.a. "Hawk" on Netflix's "Cobra Kai". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ELI

• The clue is 65. Computer addresses: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: IPS

  Possible Answer: informatics, information_science, IP, information_processing

Xwordhint Crossword Answers - July 23, 2025 | Today NYT Vibez

Published on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Hogwarts headmaster ___ Dumbledore"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALBUS

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🧩 2A: "6. Province"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
• Similar words include: orbit, region, arena
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AREA

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🧩 3A: "10. Followed move-for-move"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that imitate uncritically and in every aspect
• Similar words include: caricature, ape
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: APED

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🧩 4A: "14. Japanese automaker named for a river"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ISUZU

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🧩 5A: "15. Ground transportation option"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• Similar words include: hack, taxicab, cab
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAXI

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🧩 6A: "16. Ripped"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
• Similar words include: displume, snap, tear
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TORE

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🧩 7A: "17. A, B and C, but not X, Y and Z"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MUSICNOTES

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🧩 8A: "19. Where Bengali and Burmese are spoken"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASIA

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🧩 9A: "20. Barely scrapes the surface"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid
• Similar words include: run down, skim off, cream off
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SKIMS

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🧩 10A: "21. Bore up"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that persist for a specified period of time
• Similar words include: survive, live, go
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LASTED

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🧩 11A: "23. Persistently bother, with "at""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
• Similar words include: scold, hack, nagger
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAG

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🧩 12A: "26. Actress Wong of the Netflix series "Beef""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
• Similar words include: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Cassius Clay
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALI

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🧩 13A: "27. James of jazz"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETTA

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🧩 14A: "28. Ham-handed"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that not elegant or graceful in expression
• Similar words include: clumsy, cumbersome, tactless
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INEPT

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🧩 15A: "30. Onetime CBS forensic drama"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CSI

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🧩 16A: "33. "I don't mind ___ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels": Ogden Nash"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• Similar words include: eel
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EELS

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🧩 17A: "35. Sicilian landmark"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
• Similar words include: bunsen burner, bunsen, Mount Etna
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETNA

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🧩 18A: "36. Seyfried of "Mean Girls""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMANDA

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🧩 19A: "38. Tragic ending?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CEE

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🧩 20A: "40. He and I, but not she and you"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHEMICALSYMBOLS

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🧩 21A: "43. Suffix with rocket"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EER

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🧩 22A: "44. Highlands cryptid, affectionately"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of loch ness in scotland
• Similar words include: Loch Ness monster
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NESSIE

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🧩 23A: "45. Praiseful verses"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
• Similar words include: ode
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ODES

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🧩 24A: "46. Fast-swimming shark"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that powerful mackerel shark of the atlantic and pacific
• Similar words include: mako shark
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAKO

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🧩 25A: "48. Disappointing"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; ; - christina rossetti
• Similar words include: deplorable, distressing, sorry
• Opposite of: glad

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAD

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🧩 26A: "49. Villainous animal in "The Lion King""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that doglike nocturnal mammal of africa and southern asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
• Similar words include: hyaena
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HYENA

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🧩 27A: "50. Add color to"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
• Similar words include: tone, tincture, tinct
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TINT

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🧩 28A: "52. She's a woolly one"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of a people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EWE

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🧩 29A: "54. "What ___ you?""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the chance to speak
• Similar words include: pronounce, articulate, sound out
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAY

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🧩 30A: "55. "Beats me!""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOIDEA

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🧩 31A: "57. Toss from the game"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that put out or expel from a place
• Similar words include: squirt, exhaust, turn out
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EJECT

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🧩 32A: "59. "That's my cue!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMON

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🧩 33A: "60. A+ and B-, but not F"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BLOODTYPES

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🧩 34A: "65. Forgetful actor's request"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
• Similar words include: furrow, subscriber line, demarcation
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LINE

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🧩 35A: "66. Part of a chain"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the means of connection between things linked in series
• Similar words include: colligate, connect, contact
• Opposite of: disconnect, disconnectedness

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LINK

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🧩 36A: "67. ___ coffee (whiskey drink)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that people of ireland or of irish extraction
• Similar words include: Irish people, Irish whisky, Irish Gaelic
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IRISH

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🧩 37A: "68. Crafty website"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETSY

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🧩 38A: "69. "We will make amends ere long; / ___ the Puck a liar call": Shak."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELSE

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🧩 39A: "70. Day's harvest, for a fisher"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
• Similar words include: snatch, grab, apprehension
• Opposite of: unhitch

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CATCH

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Objective"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
• Similar words include: intention, purpose, train
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AIM

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🧩 2D: "2. Sch. on the banks of the Mississippi"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: LSU

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🧩 3D: "3. Ground transportation option"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
• Similar words include: passenger vehicle, bus topology, motorcoach
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BUS

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🧩 4D: "4. Commando weapons"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in israel
• Similar words include: Uzi
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: UZIS

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🧩 5D: "5. Perform dreadfully, so to speak"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: SUCKAT

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🧩 6D: "6. Figure that roughly equals protons plus neutrons"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: ATOMICMASS

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🧩 7D: "7. "Aw, phooey!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
• Similar words include: denounce, so-and-so, snitch
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: RATS

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🧩 8D: "8. PC file extension"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EXE

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🧩 9D: "9. Congressional divide, literally as well as metaphorically"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
• Similar words include: gangway
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: AISLE

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🧩 10D: "10. Just the slightest bit"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ATASTE

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🧩 11D: "11. MA and MS, but not BA and BS"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: POSTALCODES

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🧩 12D: "12. Canal with a "low bridge" ("Everybody down!")"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
• Similar words include: Lake Erie
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ERIE

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🧩 13D: "13. Out of juice"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that people who are no longer living
• Similar words include: utterly, suddenly, stagnant
• Opposite of: living, live

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Answer: DEAD

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🧩 14D: "18. Zilch"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantity of no importance
• Similar words include: naught, cipher, null
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NIL

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🧩 15D: "22. Starting squad"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ATEAM

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🧩 16D: "23. Many a godchild"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a daughter of your brother or sister
• Opposite of: nephew
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: NIECE

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🧩 17D: "24. Something to stand for"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school)
• Similar words include: hymn
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ANTHEM

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🧩 18D: "25. X, Y and Z, but not A, B and C"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
• Similar words include: generation, genesis, contemporaries
• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: GENERATIONS

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🧩 19D: "29. "The Office" role"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: PAM

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🧩 20D: "31. Taco topper"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany mexican foods
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SALSA

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🧩 21D: "32. Something only some of us will get"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: INSIDEJOKE

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🧩 22D: "34. Pop star Gomez"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: SELENA

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🧩 23D: "36. Top gun"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Similar words include: hotshot, superstar, star
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ACE

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🧩 24D: "37. Word aptly hidden in "turned yellow""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
• Similar words include: dyestuff
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: DYE

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🧩 25D: "39. Writing assignment"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an analytic or interpretive literary composition
• Similar words include: prove, attempt, assay
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ESSAY

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🧩 26D: "41. Hole-___ (singular feat)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: INONE

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🧩 27D: "42. "Whew!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a youthful male person
• Similar words include: male child, son
• Opposite of: girl, female child

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Answer: BOY

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🧩 28D: "47. Organ with a distinctive shape"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: KIDNEY

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🧩 29D: "49. Overwhelmingly busy"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that marked by intense agitation or emotion
• Similar words include: feverish
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: HECTIC

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🧩 30D: "51. Postpone for now"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a set of data arranged in rows and columns
• Similar words include: set back, postpone, tabular array
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TABLE

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🧩 31D: "53. Exchanged rings with"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fourth day of the week; the third working day
• Similar words include: marry, splice, wedded
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: WED

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🧩 32D: "55. River through Khartoum"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
• Similar words include: Nile River
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NILE

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🧩 33D: "56. Leave out"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prevent from being included or considered or accepted
• Similar words include: leave out, overleap, except
• Opposite of: attend to, include

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OMIT

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🧩 34D: "57. A seeming eternity"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the longest division of geological time
• Similar words include: eon, aeon
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EONS

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🧩 35D: "58. Banks of "America's Next Top Model""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TYRA

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🧩 36D: "61. ___ Nas X"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LIL

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🧩 37D: "62. Place to retire?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
• Similar words include: quarry, Hell, play off
• Opposite of: Heaven

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Answer: PIT

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🧩 38D: "63. Corner keyboard key"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESC

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🧩 39D: "64. "Keep it down!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHH

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