August 17, 2019 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (35 clues)
• Down Clues (37 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, August 17, 2019

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 72 (35 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.4 letters

August 17, 2019 Saturday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Maternity option involving a pool	10
2A	11. Imposture	4
3A	15. "Not pulling my leg?"	10
4A	16. Scour	4
5A	17. Modern young person vis-à-vis video games and smartphones	10
6A	18. Seton who wrote "Dragonwyck"	4
7A	19. Egyptian pyramid, e.g.	4
8A	20. To-dos	5
9A	21. Gym count	4
10A	22. Baldwin sometimes seen on stage	4
11A	24. Trunk	5
12A	26. Day of a hunt	6
13A	29. Followers	8
14A	32. Pliant	5
15A	33. It might start as a shadow	5
16A	34. Start of many a "Jeopardy!" response	3
17A	35. Divine messenger	4
18A	36. With 39-Across, 1970s-'80s fashion icon	5
19A	37. Farm delivery	4
20A	38. "That is ___"	3
21A	39. See 36-Across	5
22A	40. Author who wouldn't let bygones be bygones?	5
23A	41. Quartz, e.g.	8
24A	43. Ingredient in V8 juice	6
25A	44. Sci-fi star who hosted the documentary series "In Search of ..."	5
26A	45. Something scratched	4
27A	46. Blackbird	4
28A	47. Washington State's ___ Island ... or some things seen off its shore	5
29A	50. Appropriates inappropriately?	4
30A	54. University in Athens	4
31A	55. Corn or rice	10
32A	57. Dishevel	4
33A	58. Shared delusion, from the French	10
34A	59. Help badly	4
35A	60. Good bet	10

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. Maternity option involving a pool"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WATERBIRTH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "11. Imposture"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
• Words that mean the same thing: shammer, assume, simulate
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. "Not pulling my leg?""

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AREYOUSURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Scour"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
• Words that mean the same thing: combing, comb out, ransack
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COMB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Modern young person vis-à-vis video games and smartphones"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCREENAGER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Seton who wrote "Dragonwyck""

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANYA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Egyptian pyramid, e.g."

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 place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
• Words that mean the same thing: grave
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOMB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. To-dos"

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 any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
• Words that mean the same thing: tax, project, task
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TASKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Gym count"

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 informal abbreviation of `representative'
• Words that mean the same thing: rep, repp
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Baldwin sometimes seen on stage"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALEC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "24. Trunk"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
• Words that mean the same thing: trunk, body
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TORSO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "26. Day of a hunt"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a christian celebration of the resurrection of christ; celebrated on the sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox
• Words that mean the same thing: easterly, east wind
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EASTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "29. Followers"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the roman catholic church but not in the anglican church or the eastern orthodox churches
• Words that mean the same thing: acolyte
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACOLYTES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "32. Pliant"

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 moving and bending with ease
• Words that mean the same thing: svelte, sylphlike, slender
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LITHE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "33. It might start as a shadow"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
• Words that mean the same thing: byssus, face fungus, whiskers
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEARD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "34. Start of many a "Jeopardy!" response"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a united nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
• Words that mean the same thing: World Health Organization
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "35. Divine messenger"

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 plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
• Words that mean the same thing: sword lily, flag, fleur-de-lis
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "36. With 39-Across, 1970s-'80s fashion icon"

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 united states philosopher (1876-1957)
• Words that mean the same thing: Ralph Barton Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry, Matthew Calbraith Perry
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PERRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "37. Farm delivery"

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 young of domestic cattle
• Words that mean the same thing: calfskin, sura
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CALF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "38. "That is ___""

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 quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
• Words that mean the same thing: wholly, totally, whole
• The opposite would be: partly, some
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "39. See 36-Across"

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 (norse mythology) goddess of old age who defeated thor in a wrestling match
• Words that mean the same thing: Elli
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELLIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "40. Author who wouldn't let bygones be bygones?"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that english physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869)
• Words that mean the same thing: Peter Mark Roget
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROGET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "41. Quartz, e.g."

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a salt or ester derived from silicic acid
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SILICATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "43. Ingredient in V8 juice"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked
• Words that mean the same thing: cultivated celery, Apium graveolens dulce
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CELERY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "44. Sci-fi star who hosted the documentary series "In Search of ...""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NIMOY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "45. Something scratched"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "46. Blackbird"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that common black european thrush
• Words that mean the same thing: ousel, blackbird, Turdus merula
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MERL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "47. Washington State's ___ Island ... or some things seen off its shore"

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 predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
• Words that mean the same thing: grampus, Orcinus orca, orca
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORCAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "50. Appropriates inappropriately?"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that take something away by force or without the consent of the owner
• Words that mean the same thing: gazump, plume, surcharge
• The opposite would be: undercharge
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "54. University in Athens"

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 midwestern state in north central united states in the great lakes region
• Words that mean the same thing: Ohio River, Buckeye State, OH
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OHIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "55. Corn or rice"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FOODSTAPLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "57. Dishevel"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about food & drink.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a state of confusion and disorderliness
• Words that mean the same thing: messiness, mess, Mus
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MUSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "58. Shared delusion, from the French"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FOLIEADEUX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "59. Help badly"

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 assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "60. Good bet"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SMARTMONEY

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Saturday Crossword Down Clues - August 17, 2019 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Biblical verb	4
2D	2. With the bow, in music	4
3D	3. Bring to ___	4
4D	4. Removers of some irritants	8
5D	5. Tiny spoonful, of a sort	3
6D	6. Hardly a swinger	6
7D	7. Man's name that comes from the Hebrew for "laughter"	5
8D	8. Some throws	4
9D	9. Peregrination	4
10D	10. Part of some gender studies	8
11D	11. Like Al Capone's face	6
12D	12. Fair pay	10
13D	13. "Weekend Update" co-host for four seasons	10
14D	14. Grads who've demonstrated firm knowledge?	4
15D	23. One side of a ship	3
16D	25. Hackneyed	3
17D	26. ___ Canetti, 1981 Literature Nobelist	5
18D	27. Seattle, to Alaska	10
19D	28. Classic poem with the lines "Did you want to see me broken? / Bowed head and lowered eyes?"	10
20D	29. Soaring real estate?	5
21D	30. Sleepers, e.g.	4
22D	31. Pushover	5
23D	33. Hit hard	4
24D	36. Semis are found in them	8
25D	37. Boulder locale	8
26D	39. Prefix with -logical	3
27D	40. Std.	3
28D	42. "Start from the beginning"	6
29D	43. Pamper	6
30D	45. Bottom	5
31D	46. Attraction in midtown N.Y.C.	4
32D	48. Latitude	4
33D	49. Pop, maybe	4
34D	51. Sign with the times	4
35D	52. Risqué	4
36D	53. Risqué, say	4
37D	56. Poofy bit of headgear	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. Biblical verb"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WAST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. With the bow, in music"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about music.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (of instruments in the violin family) to be played with the bow
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARCO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Bring to ___"

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 word or expression used for some particular thing
• Words that mean the same thing: condition, terminal figure, terminus
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TERM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Removers of some irritants"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball
• Words that mean the same thing: eye cup, eyebath, eyecup
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EYEBATHS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Tiny spoonful, of a sort"

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 fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
• Words that mean the same thing: hard roe
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Hardly a swinger"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a batter who bunts
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BUNTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Man's name that comes from the Hebrew for "laughter""

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 (old testament) the second patriarch; son of abraham and sarah who was offered by abraham as a sacrifice to god; father of jacob and esau
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ISAAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Some throws"

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 floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
• Words that mean the same thing: rug, carpet, carpeting
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RUGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Peregrination"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TREK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Part of some gender studies"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HERSTORY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Like Al Capone's face"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCARRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Fair pay"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HONESTWAGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. "Weekend Update" co-host for four seasons"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMYPOEHLER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Grads who've demonstrated firm knowledge?"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a master's degree in business
• Words that mean the same thing: Master in Business, Master in Business Administration, MBA
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MBAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "23. One side of a ship"

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 united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
• Words that mean the same thing: Tsung Dao Lee, Bruce Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee
• The opposite would be: windward
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Hackneyed"

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 past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
• Words that mean the same thing: sometime, older, previous
• The opposite would be: young, new
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OLD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. ___ Canetti, 1981 Literature Nobelist"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that english essayist (1775-1834)
• Words that mean the same thing: Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELIAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Seattle, to Alaska"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AIRLINEHUB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Classic poem with the lines "Did you want to see me broken? / Bowed head and lowered eyes?""

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about literature.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STILLIRISE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "29. Soaring real estate?"

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 the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
• Words that mean the same thing: eyrie, aery, eyry
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AERIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "30. Sleepers, e.g."

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 motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
• Words that mean the same thing: automobile, railway car, car
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CARS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. Pushover"

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 a person who is weak and excessively sentimental
• Words that mean the same thing: softie
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOFTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. Hit hard"

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 endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys
• Words that mean the same thing: belted ammunition, smash, swath
• The opposite would be: unbelt
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BELT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. Semis are found in them"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any final competition to determine a championship
• Words that mean the same thing: playoff
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PLAYOFFS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "37. Boulder locale"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a state in west central united states in the rocky mountains
• Words that mean the same thing: Colorado River, Centennial State, CO
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COLORADO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. Prefix with -logical"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ECO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "40. Std."

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. "Start from the beginning""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IMLOST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "43. Pamper"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that treat with excessive indulgence
• Words that mean the same thing: indulge, coddle, baby
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COSSET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Bottom"

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 an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
• Words that mean the same thing: low-water mark
• The opposite would be: zenith
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NADIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Attraction in midtown N.Y.C."

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "48. Latitude"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
• Words that mean the same thing: elbow room, board, way
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "49. Pop, maybe"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that large genus of african trees bearing kola nuts
• Words that mean the same thing: colon, dope, Costa Rican colon
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "51. Sign with the times"

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 clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
• Words that mean the same thing: surface, spread out, unresolved
• The opposite would be: fold, covert
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OPEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "52. Risqué"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
• Words that mean the same thing: amobarbital sodium, downhearted, profane
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "53. Risqué, say"

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 marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
• Words that mean the same thing: aphrodisiacal, aphrodisiac
• The opposite would be: unsexy, anaphrodisiac
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEXY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "56. Poofy bit of headgear"

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 woolen cap of scottish origin
• Words that mean the same thing: tam-o'-shanter, tammy
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	53	73.6%
Short Answer	7	9.7%
Celebrity/Entertainment	5	6.9%
Geography	2	2.8%
Sports	1	1.4%
Food & Drink	1	1.4%
Music	1	1.4%
History	1	1.4%
Literature	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	72
Average Answer Length	5.4 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	10 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 Saturday, 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!

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (37 clues)
• Down Clues (41 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
• Related Crossword Solutions

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Monday, September 28, 2020

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (37 Across, 41 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.8 letters

September 28, 2020 Monday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. "Aida" composer	5
2A	6. "Do it now!"	4
3A	10. "Play It as It Lays" author Didion	4
4A	14. Embellish	5
5A	15. Note to a staffer	4
6A	16. "___ us a son is given"	4
7A	17. Celebrations with hula dancing	5
8A	18. Support the pasture entrance?	9
9A	20. Calorie-counting regimen	4
10A	22. Patron	4
11A	23. Movies, informally	3
12A	24. Check someone's parent to make sure she's of drinking age?	8
13A	27. Pong game company	5
14A	29. ___ loss for words	3
15A	30. Russian space station until 2001	3
16A	31. Liza Minnelli musical set in Berlin	7
17A	33. Peaty places	4
18A	35. Church official	6
19A	37. Was introduced to the doctor?	13
20A	42. Swirling currents	6
21A	43. Lift on a ski slope	4
22A	45. Small, lobsterlike crustacean	7
23A	48. "Life Is Good" rapper	3
24A	51. Thurman on the big screen	3
25A	52. Derby entrant	5
26A	53. Do some trawling at sea?	8
27A	55. Gobbled up or down	3
28A	56. Capital of Latvia	4
29A	59. Sort	4
30A	60. Criticize Sega's hedgehog design?	9
31A	63. Annoying summer swarms	5
32A	66. And all the rest, in brief	4
33A	67. Actress Reid of the "American Pie" films	4
34A	68. Not important	5
35A	69. "___ we forget"	4
36A	70. Truant G.I.'s infraction	4
37A	71. Big health insurer	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. "Aida" composer"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about music.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that italian operatic composer (1813-1901)
• Words that mean the same thing: Giuseppe Verdi, Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VERDI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "6. "Do it now!""

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 as soon as possible
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. "Play It as It Lays" author Didion"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JOAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Embellish"

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 make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: invest, beautify, decorate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADORN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Note to a staffer"

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 written proposal or reminder
• Words that mean the same thing: memoranda, memorandum
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MEMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. "___ us a son is given""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: UNTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Celebrations with hula dancing"

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 elaborate hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment)
• Words that mean the same thing: luau
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LUAUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. Support the pasture entrance?"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that transmit from one generation to the next
• Words that mean the same thing: spread, distribute, broadcast
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PROPAGATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Calorie-counting regimen"

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 prescribed selection of foods
• Words that mean the same thing: dieting
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Patron"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
• Words that mean the same thing: drug user, substance abuser, exploiter
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: USER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Movies, informally"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about movies/film.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
• Words that mean the same thing: pyx, pyx chest, pix chest
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PIX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Check someone's parent to make sure she's of drinking age?"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about food & drink.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that rhizomatous herb of india having aromatic seeds used as seasoning
• Words that mean the same thing: cardamon, Elettaria cardamomum, cardamum
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CARDAMOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. Pong game company"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATARI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. ___ loss for words"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. Russian space station until 2001"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "31. Liza Minnelli musical set in Berlin"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about music.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
• Words that mean the same thing: floor show, floorshow, night club
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CABARET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Peaty places"

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 wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
• Words that mean the same thing: bog, bog down, peat bog
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "35. Church official"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a clergyman or other person in religious orders
• Words that mean the same thing: churchman, divine, ecclesiastic
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLERIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "37. Was introduced to the doctor?"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: METAPHYSICIAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "42. Swirling currents"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that founder of christian science in 1866 (1821-1910)
• Words that mean the same thing: Eddy, Mary Morse Baker Eddy, purl
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDDIES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Lift on a ski slope"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TBAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "45. Small, lobsterlike crustacean"

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 tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
• Words that mean the same thing: crayfish, crawfish, ecrevisse
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CRAWDAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "48. "Life Is Good" rapper"

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 silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
• Words that mean the same thing: sodium, Na, atomic number 11
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "51. Thurman on the big screen"

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 benevolent aspect of devi; `splendor'
• Words that mean the same thing: genus Uma
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: UMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "52. Derby entrant"

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 solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
• Words that mean the same thing: sawbuck, knight, buck
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HORSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "53. Do some trawling at sea?"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CASTANET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "55. Gobbled up or down"

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 goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Words that mean the same thing: wipe out, rust, eat
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "56. Capital of Latvia"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a port city on the gulf of riga that is the capital and largest city of latvia; formerly a member of the hanseatic league
• Words that mean the same thing: capital of Latvia
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RIGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "59. Sort"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
• Words that mean the same thing: variety, tolerant, form
• The opposite would be: unkind
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KIND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "60. Criticize Sega's hedgehog design?"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PANASONIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "63. Annoying summer swarms"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
• Words that mean the same thing: gnat
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GNATS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "66. And all the rest, in brief"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "67. Actress Reid of the "American Pie" films"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a village in eastern ireland (northwest of dublin); seat of irish kings until 6th century
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TARA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "68. Not important"

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 young person of either sex
• Words that mean the same thing: fry, pocket-size, youngster
• The opposite would be: major
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MINOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "69. "___ we forget""

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 being ten more than forty
• Words that mean the same thing: fifty, l, 50
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "70. Truant G.I.'s infraction"

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 one who is away or absent without leave
• Words that mean the same thing: truant
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AWOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "71. Big health insurer"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AETNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Monday NYT Crossword September 28, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Kilmer who played Batman	3
2D	2. End of a college web address	3
3D	3. Driver's furious fit	8
4D	4. Priestly Gaul or Celt	5
5D	5. Pants line that's partly hidden	6
6D	6. Loudening device, informally	3
7D	7. Blood fluid	5
8D	8. "Famous" cookie guy	4
9D	9. Head of the Holy See	4
10D	10. Container for cider or ale	3
11D	11. Equal in rank	6
12D	12. Apparel	6
13D	13. Dead end sign	6
14D	19. Language of the Quran	6
15D	21. "That's personal stuff I didn't need to hear"	3
16D	24. Taxi	3
17D	25. Itsy-bitsy bit	4
18D	26. Corsage flower	6
19D	28. Not stated directly	5
20D	31. Brand of small planes	6
21D	32. Radio journalist Shapiro	3
22D	34. Frets (over)	5
23D	36. Corrosive cleaner	3
24D	38. Venomous vipers	6
25D	39. Smartphone precursor, for short	3
26D	40. Plentiful	8
27D	41. Partner of rank and serial number	4
28D	44. Dirty rotten scoundrel	3
29D	45. Small place of worship	6
30D	46. Turn on an axis	6
31D	47. Large sports venues	6
32D	49. "Don't ___!"	3
33D	50. Scarlet letter, e.g.	6
34D	53. Capital near the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that's still largely intact	5
35D	54. Redheaded orphan of Broadway	5
36D	57. Smidgen	4
37D	58. Bite like a beaver	4
38D	61. Computer key not pressed alone	3
39D	62. Ripken who played a record 2,632 consecutive major-league games	3
40D	64. 2,000 pounds	3
41D	65. Mexican Mrs.: Abbr.	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. Kilmer who played Batman"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. End of a college web address"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Driver's furious fit"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROADRAGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Priestly Gaul or Celt"

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 pre-christian priest among the celts of ancient gaul and britain and ireland
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DRUID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Pants line that's partly hidden"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INSEAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Loudening device, 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 the basic unit of electric current adopted under the systeme international d'unites
• Words that mean the same thing: adenylic acid, ampere, adenosine monophosphate
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Blood fluid"

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 amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates
• Words that mean the same thing: blood serum
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SERUM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. "Famous" cookie guy"

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 hebrew shepherd and minor prophet
• Words that mean the same thing: Book of Amos
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Head of the Holy See"

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 the head of the roman catholic church
• Words that mean the same thing: Holy Father, Roman Catholic Pope, Catholic Pope
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Container for cider or ale"

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 large bottle with a narrow mouth
• Words that mean the same thing: incarcerate, remand, gaol
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JUG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Equal in rank"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ONAPAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Apparel"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
• Words that mean the same thing: garb, fig out, deck up
• The opposite would be: dress down, underdress
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATTIRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Dead end sign"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOEXIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "19. Language of the Quran"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the semitic language of the arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
• Words that mean the same thing: Arabic language
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARABIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. "That's personal stuff I didn't need to hear""

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Taxi"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
• Words that mean the same thing: taxicab, taxi, cabriolet
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Itsy-bitsy bit"

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 (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
• Words that mean the same thing: molecule, mote, particle
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Corsage flower"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
• Words that mean the same thing: orchidaceous plant
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORCHID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Not stated directly"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that implied by or inferred from actions or statements
• Words that mean the same thing: understood, silent
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TACIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. Brand of small planes"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CESSNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Radio journalist Shapiro"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "34. Frets (over)"

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 agitation resulting from active worry
• Words that mean the same thing: fret, brood, swither
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STEWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. Corrosive cleaner"

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 strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "38. Venomous vipers"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person who adds numbers
• Words that mean the same thing: common viper, Vipera berus, adder
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADDERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Smartphone precursor, for short"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: personal digital assistant, personal organiser, organiser
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Plentiful"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that present in great quantity
• The opposite would be: scarce
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABUNDANT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. Partner of rank and serial number"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a language unit by which a person or thing is known
• Words that mean the same thing: constitute, list, nominate
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "44. Dirty rotten scoundrel"

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 any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
• Words that mean the same thing: crumb, stag, grass
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "45. Small place of worship"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a place of worship that has its own altar
• Words that mean the same thing: chapel service
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHAPEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "46. Turn on an axis"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that turn on or around an axis or a center
• Words that mean the same thing: turn out, splay, go around
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROTATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "47. Large sports venues"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a particular environment or walk of life
• Words that mean the same thing: domain, area, stadium
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARENAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "49. "Don't ___!""

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 inquire about
• Words that mean the same thing: need, require, involve
• The opposite would be: obviate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "50. Scarlet letter, e.g."

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
• Words that mean the same thing: brand, mark, stain
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STIGMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "53. Capital near the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that's still largely intact"

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 town at the southern tip of illinois at the confluence of the ohio and mississippi rivers
• Words that mean the same thing: El Qahira, Al Qahira, capital of Egypt
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAIRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "54. Redheaded orphan of Broadway"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANNIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "57. Smidgen"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
• Words that mean the same thing: whit, tittle, shred
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IOTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "58. Bite like a beaver"

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 bite or chew on with the teeth
• Words that mean the same thing: wear away, gnaw at, erode
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GNAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "61. Computer key not pressed alone"

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 angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• Words that mean the same thing: elevation, EL, altitude
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "62. Ripken who played a record 2,632 consecutive major-league games"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "64. 2,000 pounds"

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 united states unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
• Words that mean the same thing: net ton, long ton, gross ton
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "65. Mexican Mrs.: Abbr."

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	45	57.7%
Short Answer	17	21.8%
Geography	4	5.1%
Sports	3	3.8%
Music	2	2.6%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.6%
Abbreviation	2	2.6%
Movies/Film	1	1.3%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%
History	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	37
Down Clues	41
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.8 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	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 Monday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 4 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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Last Updated: September 22, 2025 at 08:51 AM