April 18, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Down Clues (33 clues)
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, April 18, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 66 (33 Across, 33 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.7 letters

NYT Saturday Crossword Across Clues - April 18, 2020 Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Who said "Fashion changes, but style endures"	6
2A	7. Little pointer	6
3A	13. Distressing character in the Bible?	7
4A	15. Member of the Scooby-Doo gang	6
5A	16. Warn of disaster	8
6A	18. Source of college credit, informally	6
7A	19. Contribute to the mix	5
8A	20. Criminal patterns, in brief	3
9A	22. Searches (through)	5
10A	23. Word after Christmas or fur	4
11A	24. Flat fees	5
12A	26. Joint venture	4
13A	27. Stumble	3
14A	28. Tank tops?	7
15A	30. Old parent company of NBC	3
16A	31. Reward for a bad N.B.A. team	11
17A	33. Monet's "Train in the Snow" or "The Magpie"	11
18A	34. Hack job?	11
19A	35. Bashful friend	3
20A	36. Isotopes of element #88	7
21A	37. ___ lane	3
22A	40. "The Sound of Music" character who's "17 going on 18"	4
23A	42. Hangs in the balance	5
24A	43. Swimmer Torres who medaled in five Olympic Games	4
25A	44. Strange	5
26A	46. Chang-___ Lee, 2011 Pulitzer finalist for "The Surrendered"	3
27A	47. Sets right	5
28A	48. "Sure, we can chat now"	6
29A	50. Coconut-covered snack cakes	8
30A	52. Pouty cry	6
31A	53. Women's soccer powerhouse	7
32A	54. Seems crooked	6
33A	55. Cloth dealer, in Britain	6

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. Who said "Fashion changes, but style endures""

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: CHANEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "7. Little pointer"

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: PROTIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "13. Distressing character in the Bible?"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (old testament) the philistine mistress of samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength
• Words that mean the same thing: siren, temptress, femme fatale
• 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: DELILAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "15. Member of the Scooby-Doo gang"

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 any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers
• 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: DAPHNE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "16. Warn of disaster"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CRYHAVOC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Source of college credit, informally"

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 (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward
• Words that mean the same thing: liable, given, tending
• 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: APTEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Contribute to the mix"

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: ADDIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Criminal patterns, in brief"

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 an indefinitely short time
• Words that mean the same thing: molybdenum, moment, minute
• 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: MOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. Searches (through)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that move as if through a sieve
• Words that mean the same thing: sift, sieve, strain
• 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: SIFTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "23. Word after Christmas or fur"

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 fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
• Words that mean the same thing: seal of approval, Navy SEAL, sealing wax
• The opposite would be: unseal
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "24. Flat fees"

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 payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
• Words that mean the same thing: take, split, rip
• 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: RENTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "26. Joint venture"

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 farm building for housing poultry
• Words that mean the same thing: henhouse, cage, chicken coop
• 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: COOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. Stumble"

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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
• Words that mean the same thing: slip, drift, mistake
• 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: ERR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. Tank tops?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: GASCAPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. Old parent company of NBC"

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: RCA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "31. Reward for a bad N.B.A. team"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: LOTTERYPICK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Monet's "Train in the Snow" or "The Magpie""

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: WINTERSCENE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. Hack job?"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CYBERATTACK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. Bashful friend"

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 licensed medical practitioner
• Words that mean the same thing: medico, Commerce, physician
• 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: DOC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "36. Isotopes of element #88"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores
• Words that mean the same thing: radium, atomic number 88, Ra
• 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: RADIUMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "37. ___ lane"

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: HOV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "40. "The Sound of Music" character who's "17 going on 18""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that norse chieftain who became the first duke of normandy (860-931)
• Words that mean the same thing: Hrolf, Rollo
• 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: ROLF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "42. Hangs in the balance"

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: PENDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "43. Swimmer Torres who medaled in five Olympic Games"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard 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: DARA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "44. Strange"

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 comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
• Words that mean the same thing: noncitizen, estrange, alienate
• The opposite would be: acquaintance, citizen
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALIEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "46. Chang-___ Lee, 2011 Pulitzer finalist for "The Surrendered""

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: RAE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "47. Sets right"

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 proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment
• Words that mean the same thing: true, true up
• 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: TRUES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "48. "Sure, we can chat now""

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: IMFREE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "50. Coconut-covered snack cakes"

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: SNOBALLS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "52. Pouty cry"

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: NOFAIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "53. Women's soccer powerhouse"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TEAMUSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "54. Seems crooked"

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 sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
• Words that mean the same thing: smack, olfactory perception, odor
• 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: SMELLS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "55. Cloth dealer, in Britain"

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 dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
• 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: DRAPER

  Great job if you got it right!

April 18, 2020 Saturday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Obsolescent music holder	6
2D	2. Border collie, by nature	6
3D	3. Runner-up to Affirmed in every 1978 Triple Crown race	6
4D	4. Nero's zero	5
5D	5. Fizz	4
6D	6. Shrunken head?	3
7D	7. Certain hand-held ... or hand-holding	3
8D	8. Knocks	4
9D	9. Part of FiOS	5
10D	10. "A mixture of what appears to be ESP and early Christian faith," per a 1977 New York Times film review	8
11D	11. Shelved, for now?	7
12D	12. Upscale provider of grooming services	6
13D	14. 1800s migrant	11
14D	17. Relatives of accordions	11
15D	21. Best in class	11
16D	24. Dump	7
17D	25. Espionage gadgets	7
18D	28. One who's finished	5
19D	29. Technical data	5
20D	31. Ad ___	3
21D	32. Press coverage	3
22D	33. John ___, English philosopher and theologian who made an early translation of the Bible	8
23D	34. Stereotypically lenient parent	7
24D	35. Spots for snakes	6
25D	37. Call to account	6
26D	38. Ominous phrase	6
27D	39. One of the Seven Sisters	6
28D	41. Unbroken	5
29D	43. Reality show staple	5
30D	45. Masculine name that sometimes follows Mac-	4
31D	47. Tower on a mountain	4
32D	49. Workplaces for L.P.N.s	3
33D	51. Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: 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. Obsolescent music holder"

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

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: CDCASE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Border collie, by nature"

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 german philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)
• Words that mean the same thing: drover, herdsman, Johann Gottfried von Herder
• 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: HERDER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Runner-up to Affirmed in every 1978 Triple Crown race"

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: ALYDAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Nero's zero"

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 (latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ)
• 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: NIHIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Fizz"

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 feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
• Words that mean the same thing: ardor, zeal, style
• 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: ELAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Shrunken head?"

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 room or building equipped with one or more toilets
• Words that mean the same thing: bathroom, john, privy
• 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: LAV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Certain hand-held ... or hand-holding"

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 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 organiser, personal digital assistant, organizer
• 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 8 Down: "8. Knocks"

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 reproach for some lapse or misdeed
• Words that mean the same thing: whang, tap, rap music
• 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: RAPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Part of FiOS"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the organ of sight
• Words that mean the same thing: eye, opthalmic, ocular
• 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: OPTIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. "A mixture of what appears to be ESP and early Christian faith," per a 1977 New York Times film review"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about movies/film.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: THEFORCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Shelved, for now?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: INSTOCK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Upscale provider of grooming services"

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: PETSPA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. 1800s migrant"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
• Words that mean the same thing: squatter, nester
• 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: HOMESTEADER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "17. Relatives of accordions"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
• Words that mean the same thing: concertina
• 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: CONCERTINAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Best in class"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 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: STARSTUDENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Dump"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a difficult entangling situation
• 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: RATTRAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Espionage gadgets"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SPYCAMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. One who's finished"

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 person in desperate straits; someone doomed
• Words that mean the same thing: toast
• 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: GONER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. Technical data"

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 optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision
• Words that mean the same thing: glasses, eyeglasses, spec
• 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: SPECS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. Ad ___"

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: LIB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Press coverage"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing
• 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: INK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. John ___, English philosopher and theologian who made an early translation of the Bible"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that english theologian whose objections to roman catholic doctrine anticipated the protestant reformation (1328-1384)
• Words that mean the same thing: John Wycliffe, Wickliffe, Wyclif
• 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: WYCLIFFE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. Stereotypically lenient parent"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: COOLMOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "35. Spots for snakes"

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 emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
• Words that mean the same thing: drainage, debilitate, waste pipe
• 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: DRAINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "37. Call to account"

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: HAULUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "38. Ominous phrase"

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: ORELSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "39. One of the Seven Sisters"

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: VASSAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "41. Unbroken"

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 wild and menacing
• Words that mean the same thing: savage, ferine
• 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: FERAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "43. Reality show staple"

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 dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
• Words that mean the same thing: dramatic event, dramatic play, play
• 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: DRAMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Masculine name that sometimes follows Mac-"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: NEIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "47. Tower on a mountain"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium 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: TBAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "49. Workplaces for L.P.N.s"

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 trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
• Words that mean the same thing: erbium, atomic number 68, emergency room
• 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: ERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "51. Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr."

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 an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles
• Words that mean the same thing: Oxford English Dictionary, O.E.D.
• 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: OED

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	46	69.7%
Short Answer	10	15.2%
History	3	4.5%
Music	2	3.0%
Science/Technology	1	1.5%
Sports	1	1.5%
Movies/Film	1	1.5%
Geography	1	1.5%
Abbreviation	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	33
Down Clues	33
Total Clues	66
Average Answer Length	5.7 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	11 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is 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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February 18, 2023 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (32 clues)
• Down Clues (38 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, February 18, 2023

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 70 (32 Across, 38 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.5 letters

Across Clues Explained - Saturday NYT Crossword February 18, 2023

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Directive for the board	9
2A	10. No big shot	3
3A	13. Popular pubs for college grads	10
4A	15. Finger-point?	4
5A	16. Footwear with a sturdy toe	10
6A	17. Something about you	4
7A	18. "Suitable for all ages" rating	3
8A	19. Non-beef steak option	3
9A	20. Pass quickly	6
10A	22. Spots	4
11A	24. Young point of one's life	9
12A	27. Some damning legal evidence	12
13A	30. Enter gradually	6
14A	33. With 53-Down, article of close-fitting attire	3
15A	34. State that many are in when they visit a national park	3
16A	35. Chairs, for instance	7
17A	37. Condition treated in speech therapy	7
18A	40. Neighbor of the patellar tendon, in brief	3
19A	41. ___ gun (sci-fi weapon)	3
20A	43. Gives a rude awakening	6
21A	44. "Until next time!"	12
22A	48. Fatal attraction?	9
23A	49. "Need a ___?"	4
24A	53. Octave follower in a Petrarchan sonnet	6
25A	54. Many a prof	3
26A	56. "Springtime With ___" (2004 Disney adaptation)	3
27A	57. Quaint word whose syllables rhyme with consecutive numbers	4
28A	58. Staying vigilant	10
29A	62. Logo, often	4
30A	63. Sign to turn back	10
31A	64. Top ___	3
32A	65. Something wonderful, with "the"	9

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. Directive for the board"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DONTERASE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "10. No big shot"

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 computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest
• Words that mean the same thing: electronic bulletin board, bulletin board, BB shot
• 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: BBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "13. Popular pubs for college grads"

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: ALUMNIMAGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "15. Finger-point?"

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 sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
• Words that mean the same thing: pincer, chela, nipper
• 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: CLAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "16. Footwear with a sturdy toe"

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: RIDINGBOOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "17. Something about you"

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 sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure
• Words that mean the same thing: glory, aureole, atmosphere
• 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: AURA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "18. "Suitable for all ages" rating"

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: TVG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Non-beef steak option"

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: AHI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Pass quickly"

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: RACEBY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Spots"

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 the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
• Words that mean the same thing: witness, picture, construe
• 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: SEES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "24. Young point of one's life"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TENDERAGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "27. Some damning legal evidence"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: PHONERECORDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "30. Enter gradually"

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: EDGEIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "33. With 53-Down, article of close-fitting attire"

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 wetness caused by water
• Words that mean the same thing: lactating, sozzled, cockeyed
• The opposite would be: dry
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "34. State that many are in when they visit a national park"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
• Words that mean the same thing: reverence, fear, veneration
• 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: AWE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. Chairs, for instance"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the body of people who lead a group
• Words that mean the same thing: drawing card, leadership, leader
• The opposite would be: follower
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEADERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "37. Condition treated in speech therapy"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
• 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: APHASIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "40. Neighbor of the patellar tendon, in brief"

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: ACL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "41. ___ gun (sci-fi weapon)"

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 particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
• 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: ION

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "43. Gives a rude awakening"

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: ROUSTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "44. "Until next time!""

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: HAVEAGOODONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "48. Fatal attraction?"

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 any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed
• 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: DEATHTRAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "49. "Need a ___?""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the act of giving temporary assistance
• Words that mean the same thing: rhytidectomy, face lift, annul
• The opposite would be: fall, lower
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LIFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "53. Octave follower in a Petrarchan sonnet"

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 cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
• Words that mean the same thing: sextette, sise, Captain Hicks
• 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: SESTET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "54. Many a prof"

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 doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study
• Words that mean the same thing: Ph.D.
• 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: PHD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "56. "Springtime With ___" (2004 Disney adaptation)"

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: ROO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "57. Quaint word whose syllables rhyme with consecutive numbers"

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 28 Across: "58. Staying vigilant"

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: ONTHEALERT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "62. Logo, often"

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 (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
• Words that mean the same thing: picture, ikon, image
• 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: ICON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "63. Sign to turn back"

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: NOENTRANCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "64. Top ___"

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 cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
• Words that mean the same thing: X, decade, x
• 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: TEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "65. Something wonderful, with "the""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BEESKNEES

  Great job if you got it right!

February 18, 2023 Down Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Flits	5
2D	2. Fruit popular in salads, but not fruit salads	5
3D	3. Light encouragement	5
4D	4. "Just stop talking!"	3
5D	5. Home to Sicily's Castello di Lombardia	4
6D	6. "Ni-i-ice!"	14
7D	7. Alternative to Lunesta or Quviviq	6
8D	8. "Saint" elsewhere	3
9D	9. Self-care essential?	3
10D	10. It's played with a few strings	9
11D	11. Art of cutting cards?	9
12D	12. Move left … right … left … right …	4
13D	14. Ones spreading the gospel through rap music or graffiti	14
14D	15. Big export of Ecuador and Nigeria	5
15D	21. Story line	3
16D	23. Went quickly	4
17D	25. Start of many colonial titles	3
18D	26. Actress de Matteo of "The Sopranos"	4
19D	28. Go quickly	3
20D	29. Mares, e.g.	4
21D	30. Valley where David fought Goliath	4
22D	31. Characteristic of a wild time or a coming decline	9
23D	32. Onetime capital of the sovereign Republic of Texas	9
24D	36. Santa's coat?	4
25D	38. Sugar substitute?	3
26D	39. Novelist Jean	4
27D	42. "O fairest beauty, do not fear ___ fly!": "Henry VI, Part I"	3
28D	45. Shirley of "Goldfinger"	5
29D	46. Had a date, maybe	3
30D	47. Pal of Scooby-Doo	6
31D	50. Dunne of classic screwball comedies	5
32D	51. Might	5
33D	52. "Yeah, def"	5
34D	53. See 33-Across	4
35D	55. Like some humor and chocolate	4
36D	59. Noggin	3
37D	60. Three-way intersection	3
38D	61. Company connection inits.	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. Flits"

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 game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard
• Words that mean the same thing: dash, flash, scud
• 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: DARTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Fruit popular in salads, but not fruit salads"

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 small ovoid fruit of the european olive tree; important food and source of oil
• Words that mean the same thing: European olive tree, Olea europaea
• 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: OLIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Light encouragement"

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 slight push or shake
• Words that mean the same thing: jog, poke at, prod
• 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: NUDGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. "Just stop talking!""

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: TMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Home to Sicily's Castello di Lombardia"

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: ENNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. "Ni-i-ice!""

Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: RIGHTONRIGHTON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Alternative to Lunesta or Quviviq"

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: AMBIEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. "Saint" elsewhere"

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: SAO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Self-care essential?"

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 an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• Words that mean the same thing: self, self-importance, egotism
• 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: EGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. It's played with a few strings"

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 any of various grasses of the genus poa
• Words that mean the same thing: blue grass, Bluegrass Country, Bluegrass Region
• 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: BLUEGRASS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Art of cutting cards?"

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: BARBEDWIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Move left … right … left … right …"

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 controlling influence
• Words that mean the same thing: tilt, carry, swing
• 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: SWAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. Ones spreading the gospel through rap music or graffiti"

Quick Info: This answer has 14 letters. It's a expert clue about music.

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: STREETPROPHETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "15. Big export of Ecuador and Nigeria"

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 tropical american tree producing cacao beans
• Words that mean the same thing: cacao tree, chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao
• 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: CACAO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Story line"

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 electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
• Words that mean the same thing: electric arc, bow, electric discharge
• 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: ARC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Went quickly"

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 move faster
• Words that mean the same thing: pelt along, hotfoot, hasten
• The opposite would be: decelerate, linger
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Start of many colonial titles"

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 not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
• Words that mean the same thing: Modern, young, novel
• The opposite would be: worn, old
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Actress de Matteo of "The Sopranos""

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: DREA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Go quickly"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• Words that mean the same thing: pelt along, hotfoot, hasten
• The opposite would be: linger
• 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: HIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "29. Mares, 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 division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
• Words that mean the same thing: sea, ocean
• 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: SEAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "30. Valley where David fought Goliath"

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: ELAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. Characteristic of a wild time or a coming decline"

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 the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
• Words that mean the same thing: degeneration, degeneracy, decadency
• 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: DECADENCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "32. Onetime capital of the sovereign Republic of Texas"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a town in southeast texas on galveston island
• 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: GALVESTON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. Santa's coat?"

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 black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
• Words that mean the same thing: carbon black, lampblack, smut
• 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: SOOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Sugar substitute?"

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: HON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. Novelist Jean"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium 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: AUEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "42. "O fairest beauty, do not fear ___ fly!": "Henry VI, Part I""

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: NOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "45. Shirley of "Goldfinger""

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: EATON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "46. Had a date, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Words that mean the same thing: eat up, use up, rust
• 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 30 Down: "47. Pal of Scooby-Doo"

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 several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers
• 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: DAPHNE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "50. Dunne of classic screwball comedies"

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: IRENE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "51. Might"

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 powerful effect or influence
• Words that mean the same thing: wedge, impel, pull
• The opposite would be: pull, push
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FORCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "52. "Yeah, def""

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 capacious bag or basket
• Words that mean the same thing: lug, tote, tote bag
• 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: TOTES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "53. See 33-Across"

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 set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
• Words that mean the same thing: suit of clothes, wooing, befit
• 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: SUIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "55. Like some humor and chocolate"

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 absence of light or illumination
• Words that mean the same thing: non-white, wickedness, dismal
• The opposite would be: day, light
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DARK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "59. Noggin"

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 informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person
• Words that mean the same thing: toff
• 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: NOB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "60. Three-way intersection"

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 starting place for each hole on a golf course
• Words that mean the same thing: tee up, teeing ground, football tee
• 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: TEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "61. Company connection inits."

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 local computer network for communication between computers; especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices
• Words that mean the same thing: local area network
• 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: LAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	43	61.4%
Short Answer	20	28.6%
Geography	2	2.9%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.9%
History	1	1.4%
Music	1	1.4%
Literature	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	32
Down Clues	38
Total Clues	70
Average Answer Length	5.5 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	14 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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Last Updated: September 04, 2025 at 05:40 AM