June 29, 2019 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (34 clues)
• Down Clues (36 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, June 29, 2019

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 70 (34 Across, 36 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.5 letters

June 29, 2019 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Woman who spends money on a younger lover, in modern lingo	9
2A	10. Total, in a way	4
3A	14. Bush-league	10
4A	16. Book that's the source of the phrase "Physician, heal thyself"	4
5A	17. End of a bill	10
6A	18. Land of leprechauns	4
7A	19. It's just a feeling	7
8A	20. Effloresces	6
9A	22. Lambaste	3
10A	23. Lets out	6
11A	26. Go (along)	3
12A	27. Pained expressions	3
13A	29. Start of a reminiscence	8
14A	31. Title genie played by Shaquille O'Neal in a 1996 film	6
15A	34. Big mouth	3
16A	35. Racer Luyendyk	4
17A	36. Hoards	7
18A	38. Freezing	7
19A	40. Easy stride	4
20A	41. Country singer McDaniel	3
21A	43. Liqueur flavorers	6
22A	44. Like chalk on a chalkboard	8
23A	46. Something to build on	3
24A	47. Common tutoring subject	3
25A	48. Crème de ___ (strawberry liqueur)	6
26A	50. Farm sound	3
27A	53. ___ Vikander, Best Supporting Actress for 2015's "The Danish Girl"	6
28A	55. One may read "Reverse"	7
29A	58. 1983 Apple computer with a girl's name	4
30A	59. Neighboring	10
31A	62. Lead-in to boy or girl	4
32A	63. Fast-food order not for the diet-conscious	10
33A	64. Actress Cannon	4
34A	65. Geographical eponym of a 1970s-'80s fad diet	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. Woman who spends money on a younger lover, in modern lingo"

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: SUGARMAMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "10. Total, in a way"

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 total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
• Words that mean the same thing: monetary value, toll, be
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "14. Bush-league"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that lacking professional skill or expertise
• Words that mean the same thing: amateur, inexpert, unskilled
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMATEURISH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Book that's the source of the phrase "Physician, heal thyself""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (new testament) the apostle closely associated with st. paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third gospel
• Words that mean the same thing: Gospel of Luke, St. Luke, Saint Luke
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LUKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. End of a bill"

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: BALANCEDUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Land of leprechauns"

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 an early name of ireland that is now used in poetry
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. It's just a feeling"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any strong feeling
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EMOTION

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Effloresces"

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 organic process of bearing flowers
• Words that mean the same thing: heyday, bloom of youth, rosiness
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLOOMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. Lambaste"

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 dissolute man in fashionable society
• Words that mean the same thing: rake, crosscurrent, rakehell
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "23. Lets out"

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 articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
• Words that mean the same thing: utter, verbalise, let out
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: UTTERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "26. Go (along)"

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 law enforcement agency of the justice department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
• Words that mean the same thing: whop, whap, sock
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "27. Pained expressions"

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: OWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "29. Start of a reminiscence"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: USEDTOBE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "31. Title genie played by Shaquille O'Neal in a 1996 film"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: KAZAAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "34. Big mouth"

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 terms for the mouth
• Words that mean the same thing: trap, gob, hole
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. Racer Luyendyk"

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: ARIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. Hoards"

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 collect or gather
• Words that mean the same thing: roll up, gather, cumulate
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMASSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "38. Freezing"

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: ICECOLD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "40. Easy stride"

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 slow pace of running
• Words that mean the same thing: jog, canter, trot
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "41. Country singer McDaniel"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: MEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Liqueur flavorers"

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 native to egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery
• Words that mean the same thing: anise plant, anise seed, anise
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANISES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. Like chalk on a chalkboard"

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 capable of being effaced
• Words that mean the same thing: effaceable
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERASABLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "46. Something to build on"

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 (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• Words that mean the same thing: allot, mountain, plenty
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "47. Common tutoring subject"

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 seventh and last day of the week; observed as the sabbath by jews and some christians
• Words that mean the same thing: model, ride, seat
• The opposite would be: arise, stand
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "48. Crème de ___ (strawberry liqueur)"

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 ruff for the neck worn in the 16th 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: FRAISE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "50. Farm sound"

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: MAA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "53. ___ Vikander, Best Supporting Actress for 2015's "The Danish Girl""

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: ALICIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "55. One may read "Reverse""

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: UNOCARD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "58. 1983 Apple computer with a girl's name"

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: LISA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "59. Neighboring"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: NEXTDOORTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "62. Lead-in to boy or girl"

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: ATTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "63. Fast-food order not for the diet-conscious"

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

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: EXTRAFRIES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "64. Actress Cannon"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DYAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "65. Geographical eponym of a 1970s-'80s fad diet"

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: SCARSDALE

  Great job if you got it right!

June 29, 2019 Down Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Dueling weapon	5
2D	2. Savory sensation	5
3D	3. Lively dance in double time	5
4D	4. Juggernaut fighting vehicle in "Star Wars" movies	4
5D	5. Italian artist Guido	4
6D	6. Liner of the nose, e.g.	14
7D	7. "___ we all?"	5
8D	8. Central	3
9D	9. Pac-12 sch.	3
10D	10. Role for Liz Taylor	4
11D	11. Ancient symbol depicting a serpent eating its own tail	9
12D	12. Winter transport	9
13D	13. Certain bikes	9
14D	15. What ends with Adar	14
15D	21. Inspiration for Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"	3
16D	24. Belly, in totspeak	3
17D	25. Morales of "NYPD Blue"	4
18D	27. Refuges	5
19D	28. "Till There ___ You," song from "The Music Man"	3
20D	30. Understood	5
21D	31. Crunchy dish with green leaves	9
22D	32. Principle associated with Machiavellianism	9
23D	33. Mexican revolutionary	9
24D	37. Emmy-winning Ward	4
25D	39. Icon of ambient music	3
26D	42. Pacific ring?	3
27D	45. "100 Years ... 100 Movies" listmaker, for short	3
28D	49. Hindu precept	5
29D	50. Santa ___ (historic ship)	5
30D	51. Soviet workers' group	5
31D	52. Give ___ of reality	5
32D	54. James of "The Godfather"	4
33D	56. Punch lines?	4
34D	57. Clothesline, e.g.	4
35D	60. "All My ___ Live in Texas"	3
36D	61. Club drug, informally	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. Dueling weapon"

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 fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle
• Words that mean the same thing: sabre, cavalry sword
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SABER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Savory sensation"

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: UMAMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Lively dance in double time"

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: GALOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Juggernaut fighting vehicle in "Star Wars" movies"

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: ATAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Italian artist Guido"

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: RENI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Liner of the nose, e.g."

Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: MUCOUSMEMBRANE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. "___ we all?""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: ARENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Central"

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

  The answer is: MID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Pac-12 sch."

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: ASU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Role for Liz Taylor"

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: CLEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Ancient symbol depicting a serpent eating its own tail"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: OUROBOROS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Winter transport"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: SKIMOBILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Certain bikes"

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: TENSPEEDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "15. What ends with Adar"

Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: HEBREWCALENDAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Inspiration for Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit""

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 powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
• Words that mean the same thing: lysergic acid diethylamide
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LSD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Belly, in totspeak"

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 an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
• Words that mean the same thing: breadbasket, stomach, tummy
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TUM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Morales of "NYPD Blue""

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: ESAI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Refuges"

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 fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)
• Words that mean the same thing: oasis, haven
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OASES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. "Till There ___ You," song from "The Music Man""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a state in northwestern united states on the pacific
• Words that mean the same thing: cost, WA, Evergreen State
• The opposite would be: differ
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "30. Understood"

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 implied by or inferred from actions or statements
• Words that mean the same thing: silent, understood
• The 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 21 Down: "31. Crunchy dish with green leaves"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.

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: KALESALAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "32. Principle associated with Machiavellianism"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the quality of being amoral
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMORALITY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. Mexican revolutionary"

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: ZAPATISTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. Emmy-winning Ward"

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

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Icon of ambient music"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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: ENO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "42. Pacific ring?"

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 flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
• Words that mean the same thing: coronal, garland, wreath
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "45. "100 Years ... 100 Movies" listmaker, for short"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: AFI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "49. Hindu precept"

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 rule or aphorism in sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SUTRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "50. Santa ___ (historic ship)"

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 dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
• Words that mean the same thing: mare, Calophyllum longifolium
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MARIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "51. Soviet workers' group"

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 unit of weight used in some moslem countries near the mediterranean; varies between one and five pounds
• Words that mean the same thing: rotl
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARTEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. Give ___ of reality"

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: ADOSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "54. James of "The Godfather""

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: CAAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "56. Punch lines?"

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: OOFS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "57. Clothesline, 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 line made of twisted fibers or threads
• Words that mean the same thing: electric cord, corduroy
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CORD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "60. "All My ___ Live in Texas""

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 man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
• Words that mean the same thing: ex-wife, ex-husband, 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: EXS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "61. Club drug, 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 street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
• Words that mean the same thing: cristal, X, go
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: XTC

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	41	58.6%
Short Answer	14	20.0%
Celebrity/Entertainment	5	7.1%
Movies/Film	2	2.9%
Food & Drink	2	2.9%
History	2	2.9%
Music	2	2.9%
Literature	1	1.4%
Sports	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	34
Down Clues	36
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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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
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• Down Clues (34 clues)
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, April 10, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 68 (34 Across, 34 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.9 letters

April 10, 2020 Friday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Word with cake or shop	6
2A	7. Ones with something to prove?	8
3A	15. "Baba ___" ("CSI: NY" theme)	6
4A	16. Greek	8
5A	17. Time release?	6
6A	18. Shot in the back	8
7A	19. Pichelsteiner, pozole and pot-au-feu	5
8A	20. It can show you the way	3
9A	21. Rush	5
10A	22. Nickname for Eric Cartwright on "Bonanza"	4
11A	23. Starbucks 12-ouncers	5
12A	25. Go a few rounds	4
13A	26. Material in doblones	3
14A	27. Speaker of the words "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil," in Genesis	7
15A	29. Wanders around LAX or JFK?	3
16A	30. Deterrent to squatting	12
17A	33. Rather impressionable?	7
18A	34. Sam who won at the Battle of San Jacinto	7
19A	38. Metaphorical source of the next generation of coders and researchers	12
20A	40. Hoedown lass	3
21A	43. Played from the tipoff, say	7
22A	44. Largest labor union in the U.S.: Abbr.	3
23A	45. The Miners of Conference USA, informally	4
24A	47. "The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey": Edmund Clarence Stedman	5
25A	48. Company originally called Zimride	4
26A	49. With 6-Down, acute power of discernment	5
27A	51. ___ Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria	3
28A	52. Back at the track	5
29A	53. Coming after	8
30A	55. "Cut it out!"	6
31A	56. Big 12 college town	8
32A	57. Flourishes	6
33A	58. Like 4x4 sudoku, typically	8
34A	59. City in Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night"	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. Word with cake or shop"

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 beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
• Words that mean the same thing: umber, coffee berry, burnt umber
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COFFEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "7. Ones with something to prove?"

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 a proposition deducible from basic postulates
• Words that mean the same thing: theorem
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THEOREMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. "Baba ___" ("CSI: NY" theme)"

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: ORILEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Greek"

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 the hellenic branch of the indo-european family of languages
• Words that mean the same thing: classical, Hellenistic, Graeco-Roman
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HELLENIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Time release?"

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 secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
• Words that mean the same thing: word of honor, word, password
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PAROLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Shot in the back"

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 regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery
• Words that mean the same thing: extradural, epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EPIDURAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Pichelsteiner, pozole and pot-au-feu"

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: stew, brood, grizzle
• The 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 8 Across: "20. It can show you the way"

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 diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
• Words that mean the same thing: mapping, single-valued function, mathematical function
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Rush"

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 (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• Words that mean the same thing: batch, pot, pile
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Nickname for Eric Cartwright on "Bonanza""

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: HOSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Starbucks 12-ouncers"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a garment size for a tall person
• Words that mean the same thing: tall
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TALLS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Go a few rounds"

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 any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
• Words that mean the same thing: sparring
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Material in doblones"

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: ORO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. Speaker of the words "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil," in Genesis"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
• Words that mean the same thing: ophidian, snake
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SERPENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "29. Wanders around LAX or JFK?"

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 an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
• Words that mean the same thing: Transportation Security Administration
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. Deterrent to squatting"

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: WIFIPASSWORD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Rather impressionable?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that somewhat soft
• Words that mean the same thing: semisoft
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOFTISH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. Sam who won at the Battle of San Jacinto"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the largest city in texas; located in southeastern texas near the gulf of mexico; site of the national aeronautics and space administration
• Words that mean the same thing: Sam Houston, Samuel Houston
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOUSTON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Metaphorical source of the next generation of coders and researchers"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: STEMPIPELINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "40. Hoedown lass"

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 united states liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
• Words that mean the same thing: gallon
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Played from the tipoff, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
• Words that mean the same thing: begin, get down, take off
• The opposite would be: stop, end
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STARTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. Largest labor union in the U.S.: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: NEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. The Miners of Conference USA, informally"

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: UTEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "47. "The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey": Edmund Clarence Stedman"

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 marked by skill in deception
• Words that mean the same thing: foxy, tricky, cunning
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLYER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "48. Company originally called Zimride"

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: LYFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "49. With 6-Down, acute power of discernment"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
• Words that mean the same thing: astute, knifelike, precipitous
• The opposite would be: flat, dull
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHARP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. ___ Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria"

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 a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 57, Pelican State, la
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. Back at the track"

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: BETON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "53. Coming after"

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: TOFOLLOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "55. "Cut it out!""

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: NOMORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "56. Big 12 college town"

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: AMESIOWA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "57. Flourishes"

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 organic process of bearing flowers
• Words that mean the same thing: efflorescence, peak, heyday
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLOOMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "58. Like 4x4 sudoku, typically"

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: VERYEASY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "59. City in Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a port and resort city on the french riviera; site of an annual film festival
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CANNES

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword April 10, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Series of crimes?	8
2D	2. Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," for one	8
3D	3. Sends in a huff	8
4D	4. Moves from the head to the mouth	5
5D	5. Fish in the order Anguilliformes	4
6D	6. See 49-Across	3
7D	7. Home to Blofeld's lair in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"	7
8D	8. Classic chairs with shield-shaped backs	12
9D	9. Part of REO	3
10D	10. Part of REO	4
11D	11. Avoids a service break?	5
12D	12. Hanging on every word	6
13D	13. Sporty Mazdas	6
14D	14. Cornea neighbor	6
15D	20. Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal	12
16D	23. Collections dating back to the Han dynasty	7
17D	24. Nosy Parker	7
18D	27. Hot rods?	5
19D	28. Set straight	5
20D	31. "___ all a blur"	3
21D	32. Broadband letters	3
22D	35. Any student at Acme Looniversity	8
23D	36. Self-serving comment?	8
24D	37. What ataxophobes crave	8
25D	39. Extricate with leverage	7
26D	40. Name shared by the composers Holst and Mahler	6
27D	41. In	6
28D	42. Certain autumn tourist, slangily	6
29D	46. Far from crisp, as text	5
30D	48. Clunker car	5
31D	50. Barre bend	4
32D	52. Weapon on a cord	4
33D	54. Mauna ___	3
34D	55. Home of "The Monkees" on 1960s TV	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. Series of crimes?"

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: COPSHOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," for one"

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 musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
• Words that mean the same thing: cantata
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORATORIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Sends in a huff"

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: FIRESOFF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Moves from the head to the mouth"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
• Words that mean the same thing: rate of flow, flux, flow rate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Fish in the order Anguilliformes"

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 fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• Words that mean the same thing: eel
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. See 49-Across"

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 organ of sight
• Words that mean the same thing: centre, center, oculus
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Home to Blofeld's lair in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service""

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: THEALPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Classic chairs with shield-shaped backs"

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: HEPPLEWHITES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Part of REO"

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: ELI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Part of REO"

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 past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
• Words that mean the same thing: old
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OLDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Avoids a service break?"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: REUPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Hanging on every word"

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: ENRAPT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Sporty Mazdas"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: MIATAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Cornea neighbor"

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 whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball
• Words that mean the same thing: sclerotic coat
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCLERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "20. Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar
• Words that mean the same thing: marshmallow
• The word looks like this: ____________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MARSHMALLOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Collections dating back to the Han dynasty"

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: TEASETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Nosy Parker"

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 spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
• Words that mean the same thing: snoop
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SNOOPER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Hot rods?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
• Words that mean the same thing: ptyalise, tongue, spittle
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Set straight"

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 make level, square, balanced, or concentric
• 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: TRUED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. "___ all a blur""

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 the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
• Words that mean the same thing: information technology, 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: ITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Broadband letters"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds
• Words that mean the same thing: digital subscriber line
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DSL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "35. Any student at Acme Looniversity"

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: TINYTOON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. Self-serving comment?"

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: ONEFORME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. What ataxophobes crave"

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 the state of being neat and smart and trim
• Words that mean the same thing: spruceness, tidiness
• The opposite would be: untidiness
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEATNESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Extricate with leverage"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium 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: PRYAWAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Name shared by the composers Holst and Mahler"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard 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: GUSTAV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. In"

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: ATHOME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. Certain autumn tourist, slangily"

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: LEAFER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "46. Far from crisp, as text"

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 lacking wit or imagination
• Words that mean the same thing: prosaic, pedestrian, earthbound
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PROSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "48. Clunker car"

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 yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
• Words that mean the same thing: maize, lemon tree, lemon yellow
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEMON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "50. Barre bend"

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: PLIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "52. Weapon on a cord"

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 cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie
• Words that mean the same thing: bolo tie, bola tie, bolo
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "54. Mauna ___"

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: LOA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "55. Home of "The Monkees" on 1960s TV"

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: NBC

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	50	73.5%
Short Answer	10	14.7%
History	2	2.9%
Geography	2	2.9%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.5%
Abbreviation	1	1.5%
Sports	1	1.5%
Music	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	34
Down Clues	34
Total Clues	68
Average Answer Length	5.9 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	12 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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Last Updated: September 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM