May 11, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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

Date: Monday, May 11, 2020

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (41 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.8 letters

May 11, 2020 Monday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Chapel recess	4
2A	5. Not keep a secret	4
3A	9. Egyptian "boy king"	3
4A	12. Pirate's plunder	5
5A	14. Follow closely, as a spy might a mark	4
6A	15. Hot dog holders	4
7A	16. Mattress giant	5
8A	17. Like many missed field goals	4
9A	18. The Phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera"	4
10A	19. Places where rouge goes	6
11A	21. Crash into from the back	7
12A	23. Greeting in Rio	3
13A	24. "Oh yeah? ___ who?"	3
14A	26. Drew up, as plans	7
15A	28. Brand of foam darts	4
16A	30. Strikes (out)	3
17A	32. "Them's fightin' words!"	6
18A	33. Loving term for one caring for a sick child	5
19A	35. High heels and others	5
20A	37. World Cup cheer	3
21A	38. Last line of a spreadsheet (as suggested by the shaded squares?)	9
22A	41. Letter addenda, for short	3
23A	44. Synthetic fabric	5
24A	45. Horse's disapproving vote?	5
25A	49. "In that case, sure"	6
26A	51. Fasten	3
27A	53. The East, to the West	4
28A	54. "Hamilton" writer Lin-Manuel ___	7
29A	56. Muscles that are targets of planking, informally	3
30A	58. TV journalist Curry	3
31A	59. Car opposite the locomotive	7
32A	61. Late, as in making payments	6
33A	63. Et ___ (and others: Lat.)	4
34A	64. Gumbo vegetable	4
35A	66. Decorated anew	5
36A	67. What's left of a cigarette	4
37A	68. Kind of roast	4
38A	69. "Funny Girl" role for which Barbra Streisand won an Oscar	5
39A	70. Network with an eye logo	3
40A	71. Many craft brews, for short	4
41A	72. Pricey seating option	4

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. Chapel recess"

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 domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar
• Words that mean the same thing: apsis
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: APSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Not keep a secret"

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 divulge confidential information or secrets
• Words that mean the same thing: let the cat out of the bag, peach, blabber
• The opposite would be: keep quiet
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Egyptian "boy king""

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 utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
• Words that mean the same thing: tut-tut, tsk
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "12. Pirate's plunder"

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 goods or money obtained illegally
• Words that mean the same thing: loot, swag, prize
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOOTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Follow closely, as a spy might a mark"

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 posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
• Words that mean the same thing: fundament, shadower, tooshie
• The opposite would be: head
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "15. Hot dog holders"

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 fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Words that mean the same thing: fundament, tooshie, bottom
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BUNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "16. Mattress giant"

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: SERTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "17. Like many missed field goals"

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 having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
• Words that mean the same thing: wide-cut, wide-eyed, panoptic
• The opposite would be: narrow
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "18. The Phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: ERIK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "19. Places where rouge goes"

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 either side of the face below the eyes
• Words that mean the same thing: boldness, cheek, impudence
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHEEKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "21. Crash into from the back"

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: REAREND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "23. Greeting in Rio"

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 leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in india for writing paper
• Words that mean the same thing: olla
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "24. "Oh yeah? ___ who?""

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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: SEZ

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. Drew up, as plans"

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 draw up an outline or sketch for something
• Words that mean the same thing: draft, enlist, muster in
• The opposite would be: discharge
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DRAFTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "28. Brand of foam darts"

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: NERF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. Strikes (out)"

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 colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts
• Words that mean the same thing: disco biscuit, 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: XES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "32. "Them's fightin' words!""

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: ITSWAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "33. Loving term for one caring for a sick child"

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: DRMOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. High heels and others"

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 particular situation
• Words that mean the same thing: skid, horseshoe, brake shoe
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHOES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "37. World Cup cheer"

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: OLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "38. Last line of a spreadsheet (as suggested by the shaded squares?)"

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: BOTTOMROW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "41. Letter addenda, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a note appended to a letter after the signature
• Words that mean the same thing: postscript, PS
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "44. Synthetic fabric"

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

  The answer is: RAYON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. Horse's disapproving vote?"

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 characteristic sounds made by a horse
• Words that mean the same thing: nicker, whinny, whicker
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEIGH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "49. "In that case, sure""

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: OKTHEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "51. Fasten"

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 neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
• Words that mean the same thing: linkup, affiliation, link
• The opposite would be: untie, disconnect
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "53. The East, to the West"

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 largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "54. "Hamilton" writer Lin-Manuel ___"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard 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: MIRANDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "56. Muscles that are targets of planking, informally"

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 any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances
• Words that mean the same thing: AB, group AB, Bachelor of Arts
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "58. TV journalist Curry"

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: ANN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "59. Car opposite the locomotive"

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 area for food preparation on a ship
• Words that mean the same thing: galley, cabin car, ship's galley
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CABOOSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "61. Late, as in making payments"

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 fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Words that mean the same thing: fundament, behindhand, tooshie
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEHIND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "63. Et ___ (and others: Lat.)"

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: ALII

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "64. Gumbo vegetable"

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 long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
• Words that mean the same thing: Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra plant
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OKRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "66. Decorated anew"

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 do over, as of (part of) a house
• Words that mean the same thing: redo, remake, refashion
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REDID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "67. What's left of a cigarette"

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 thick end of the handle
• Words that mean the same thing: butt end, fundament, cigaret
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BUTT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "68. Kind of roast"

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 part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
• Words that mean the same thing: fundament, tooshie, bottom
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RUMP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "69. "Funny Girl" role for which Barbra Streisand won an Oscar"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Words that mean the same thing: fundament, tooshie, female genital organ
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FANNY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "70. Network with an eye logo"

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: CBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Across: "71. Many craft brews, for short"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: IPAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Across: "72. Pricey seating option"

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 balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine
• Words that mean the same thing: box
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOGE

  Great job if you got it right!

May 11, 2020 Monday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Leave hurriedly and secretively	7
2D	2. Amy of "Parks and Recreation"	7
3D	3. What a pitcher might have after a long game	7
4D	4. Suffix with kitchen	4
5D	5. "Oh, also ...," in a text	3
6D	6. Den	4
7D	7. Lent support to	5
8D	8. More like tired eyes	8
9D	9. Complete a double play, in baseball slang	7
10D	10. Less than perfect	7
11D	11. [Shame on you!]	3
12D	13. Shaggy beasts of 53-Across	4
13D	15. Strengthens, with "up"	5
14D	20. "___ sells" (advertising catchphrase)	3
15D	22. Betrays, in a way	6
16D	25. Flavorful	5
17D	27. Beats by ___ (audio brand)	3
18D	29. Watch chain	3
19D	31. "Drat!"	5
20D	34. Rita of "West Side Story"	6
21D	36. ___ vincit amor	5
22D	39. ___ chicken (Indian dish)	8
23D	40. "Well, aren't ___ pair!"	3
24D	41. Certain lap dog, familiarly	3
25D	42. Group that meets on the slopes	7
26D	43. Narrow waterways	7
27D	46. Adamant refusal	7
28D	47. Enlivening, with "up"	7
29D	48. Color manually	7
30D	50. Hard thing to break	5
31D	52. ___ and flow	3
32D	55. Invite to one's penthouse, say	5
33D	57. Peon	4
34D	60. Funny Bombeck	4
35D	62. Make well	4
36D	63. "Black-ish" network	3
37D	65. Coll.-level classes	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. Leave hurriedly and secretively"

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 run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
• Words that mean the same thing: run off, absquatulate, decamp
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABSCOND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Amy of "Parks and Recreation""

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: POEHLER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. What a pitcher might have after a long game"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: SOREARM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Suffix with kitchen"

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: ETTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. "Oh, also ...," in a text"

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: BTW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Den"

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 habitation of wild animals
• Words that mean the same thing: den
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Lent support to"

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 give help or assistance; be of service
• Words that mean the same thing: aid, assisted, assist
• The opposite would be: unassisted
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AIDED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. More like tired eyes"

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 tired to the point of exhaustion
• Words that mean the same thing: blear, muzzy, bleary-eyed
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLEARIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Complete a double play, in baseball slang"

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: TURNTWO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Less than perfect"

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: UNIDEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. [Shame on you!]"

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 utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
• Words that mean the same thing: tut-tut, tut
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TSK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "13. Shaggy beasts of 53-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 large long-haired wild ox of tibet often domesticated
• Words that mean the same thing: chatter, Bos grunniens, cackle
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YAKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "15. Strengthens, with "up""

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 cattle that are reared for their meat
• Words that mean the same thing: crab, holler, grouse
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEEFS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "20. "___ sells" (advertising catchphrase)"

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 activities associated with sexual intercourse
• Words that mean the same thing: sex activity, wind up, gender
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Betrays, in a way"

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: RATSON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Flavorful"

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 having an agreeably pungent taste
• Words that mean the same thing: savoury, yeasty, piquant
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ZESTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Beats by ___ (audio brand)"

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: DRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "29. Watch chain"

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 vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
• Words that mean the same thing: play tricks, fox, play a trick on
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FOB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "31. "Drat!""

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 new branch
• Words that mean the same thing: blast, photograph, pullulate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHOOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "34. Rita of "West Side Story""

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: MORENO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "36. ___ vincit amor"

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: OMNIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "39. ___ chicken (Indian dish)"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: TANDOORI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "40. "Well, aren't ___ pair!""

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: WEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "41. Certain lap dog, familiarly"

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 disparaging term for a british person
• Words that mean the same thing: pommy
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "42. Group that meets on the slopes"

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: SKICLUB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "43. Narrow waterways"

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 bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
• Words that mean the same thing: sound, pass, strait
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STRAITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "46. Adamant refusal"

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: ISAIDNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "47. Enlivening, with "up""

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 separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
• Words that mean the same thing: gin
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GINNING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "48. Color manually"

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: HANDDYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "50. Hard thing to break"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an established custom
• Words that mean the same thing: use, drug abuse, riding habit
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HABIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. ___ and flow"

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 gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
• Words that mean the same thing: ebbing, ebb out, ebb away
• The opposite would be: tide
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EBB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "55. Invite to one's penthouse, say"

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: ASKUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "57. Peon"

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 (middle ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
• Words that mean the same thing: helot, villein
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SERF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "60. Funny Bombeck"

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: ERMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "62. Make well"

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 heal or recover
• Words that mean the same thing: cure, bring around, mend
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "63. "Black-ish" network"

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 elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
• Words that mean the same thing: rudiment, first rudiment, ABCs
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "65. Coll.-level classes"

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: APS

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	52	66.7%
Short Answer	19	24.4%
Abbreviation	2	2.6%
History	1	1.3%
Literature	1	1.3%
Movies/Film	1	1.3%
Sports	1	1.3%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	41
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.8 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	9 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Monday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 4 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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Last Updated: September 25, 2025 at 07:40 AM

April 15, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

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

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, April 15, 2022

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.4 letters

NYT Friday Crossword Across Clues - April 15, 2022 Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Means of supervision?	8
2A	9. Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize	6
3A	15. Kisses and hugs	8
4A	16. "I can ___"	6
5A	17. What can strike up a tune?	15
6A	19. Tiny bit of concern	4
7A	20. Saint associated with the Russian alphabet	5
8A	21. ___ jure (by the law itself: Lat.)	4
9A	24. Discover fortuitously	5
10A	26. Rail construction	4
11A	29. "Buzz off!"	4
12A	30. Florida city in the middle of "horse country"	5
13A	31. Soft shade	4
14A	32. Pioneer in instant messaging	3
15A	33. Fire (up)	3
16A	34. Watch from the shadows, say	4
17A	35. Industrial support	4
18A	37. Easy mark	5
19A	39. As it happens	4
20A	40. Critical	4
21A	41. Silent ___	3
22A	42. Small grouse	3
23A	43. Refreshers	4
24A	44. Unlike filibusters	5
25A	47. Shelter from a storm, perhaps	4
26A	48. Negotiation site that led to the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize	4
27A	49. Appropriate	5
28A	50. Draft teammates?	4
29A	51. Mythological lyrist	5
30A	53. Fictional narrator whose first name is a fruit	4
31A	55. Epitome	15
32A	61. Wireless network necessity	6
33A	62. Toon with a brother named Castor	8
34A	63. Oxford pad, e.g.	6
35A	64. Locale in SW France	8

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. Means of supervision?"

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: XRAYEYES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "9. Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize"

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 palestinian statesman who was chairman of the palestine liberation organization (1929-2004)
• Words that mean the same thing: Yasser Arafat
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARAFAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. Kisses and hugs"

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: XOXOXOXO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. "I can ___""

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 make a logical or causal connection
• Words that mean the same thing: bear on, come to, link
• The opposite would be: dissociate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RELATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. What can strike up a tune?"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: XYLOPHONEMALLET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "19. Tiny bit of concern"

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 loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
• Words that mean the same thing: hiss, tinker's dam, Bronx cheer
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "20. Saint associated with the Russian alphabet"

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 greek missionary; the invention of the cyrillic alphabet is attributed to him (826-869)
• Words that mean the same thing: St. Cyril, Saint Cyril
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CYRIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "21. ___ jure (by the law itself: Lat.)"

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: IPSO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "24. Discover fortuitously"

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: HITON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "26. Rail construction"

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 structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
• Words that mean the same thing: nestle, draw close, snuggle
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "29. "Buzz off!""

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 drive away by crying `shoo!'
• Words that mean the same thing: shoo away, shoo off
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "30. Florida city in the middle of "horse country""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OCALA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "31. Soft shade"

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 shade of blue tinged with green
• Words that mean the same thing: aquamarine, turquoise, peacock blue
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AQUA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "32. Pioneer in instant messaging"

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: AOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "33. Fire (up)"

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 rate of revolution of a motor
• Words that mean the same thing: rpm, revolutions per minute, rev 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: REV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "34. Watch from the shadows, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
• Words that mean the same thing: ambuscade, ambush, lounge
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LURK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "35. Industrial support"

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: IBAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. Easy mark"

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 who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
• Words that mean the same thing: fall guy, mug, fool
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PATSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "39. As it happens"

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 inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
• Words that mean the same thing: know, springy, bouncy
• The opposite would be: recorded, dead
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "40. Critical"

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 fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; ; - g.c.marshall
• Words that mean the same thing: horrific, fearful, direful
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "41. Silent ___"

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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• Words that mean the same thing: earned run average, epoch, geological era
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "42. Small grouse"

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 luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "43. Refreshers"

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 period of time spent sleeping
• Words that mean the same thing: snooze, sleep, catnap
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "44. Unlike filibusters"

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 brief and to the point; effectively cut short
• Words that mean the same thing: crisp, curt, laconic
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TERSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "47. Shelter from a storm, perhaps"

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

  The answer is: COVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "48. Negotiation site that led to the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize"

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 capital and largest city of norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on norway's southern coast
• Words that mean the same thing: Christiania, capital of Norway
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OSLO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "49. Appropriate"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an advantageous purchase
• Words that mean the same thing: buy, slip, bargain
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "50. Draft teammates?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; ; ; - bible
• Words that mean the same thing: kine, wild ox, cows
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OXEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "51. Mythological lyrist"

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 (greek mythology) the muse of lyric and love 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: ERATO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "53. Fictional narrator whose first name is a fruit"

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

  The answer is: FINN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "55. Epitome"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: TEXTBOOKEXAMPLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "61. Wireless network necessity"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ROUTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "62. Toon with a brother named Castor"

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: OLIVEOYL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "63. Oxford pad, e.g."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests
• Words that mean the same thing: innersole
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INSOLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "64. Locale in SW France"

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 chain of mountains between france and spain
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PYRENEES

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Friday Crossword Down Clues - April 15, 2022 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Beyond steamy	3
2D	2. Boy's name that means "king"	3
3D	3. Rose by another name?	3
4D	4. "Anybody there?!"	6
5D	5. Fair	4
6D	6. Accompaniment for a bottle of rum	6
7D	7. Beautiful and rare	6
8D	8. Chaz, to Cher	3
9D	9. ___ Game, annual event on the second Saturday of December	8
10D	10. Raise	4
11D	11. Everything considered	8
12D	12. Occasion for Druids to gather at Stonehenge	11
13D	13. Absorbed	3
14D	14. Winter festival	3
15D	18. Grandes ___, part of France's higher education system	6
16D	21. Reiterated refusal	7
17D	22. Admissions to a counselor	7
18D	23. Network of nerves in the abdomen	11
19D	25. Rarer than rare	7
20D	27. Keep on keeping on	7
21D	28. Stop for a bit	7
22D	36. Employ for lack of better options	8
23D	37. Place to pick up litter?	8
24D	38. Comeback that sounds like a "Star Wars" character	6
25D	45. Without incident	6
26D	46. Alchemist's offering	6
27D	47. Flimflammers	6
28D	52. His brother was no keeper	4
29D	54. One end of the narthex	4
30D	55. Prefix with -assic	3
31D	56. Countless lifetimes	3
32D	57. Keystone figure	3
33D	58. Who wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream"	3
34D	59. Pipe cleaner	3
35D	60. High rails	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. Beyond steamy"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
• Words that mean the same thing: thirty, 30
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: XXX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Boy's name that means "king""

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: ROY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Rose by another name?"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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: AXL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. "Anybody there?!""

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: YOOHOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Fair"

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 collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
• Words that mean the same thing: exhibition, exposition
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EXPO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Accompaniment for a bottle of rum"

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: YOHOHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Beautiful and rare"

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 being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
• Words that mean the same thing: alien
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EXOTIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Chaz, to Cher"

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 male human offspring
• Words that mean the same thing: Logos, Word, boy
• The opposite would be: girl, daughter
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. ___ Game, annual event on the second Saturday of December"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ARMYNAVY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Raise"

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 back of a military formation or procession
• Words that mean the same thing: back end, set up, buttocks
• The opposite would be: head, front
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Everything considered"

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: ALLINALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Occasion for Druids to gather at Stonehenge"

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: FALLEQUINOX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Absorbed"

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 goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Words that mean the same thing: run through, feed, use 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: ATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Winter festival"

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 new year in vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after january 20th
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "18. Grandes ___, part of France's higher education system"

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: ECOLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "21. Reiterated refusal"

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: ISAIDNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "22. Admissions to a counselor"

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 an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations
• Words that mean the same thing: phobic disorder, phobic neurosis, phobia
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PHOBIAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "23. Network of nerves in the abdomen"

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: SOLARPLEXUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "25. Rarer than rare"

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: TARTARE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "27. Keep on keeping on"

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 continue to live through hardship or adversity
• Words that mean the same thing: hold up, exist, endure
• The opposite would be: succumb
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SURVIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "28. Stop for a bit"

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: TAKETEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "36. Employ for lack of better options"

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: RESORTTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "37. Place to pick up litter?"

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: PETSTORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "38. Comeback that sounds like a "Star Wars" character"

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: ARETOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "45. Without incident"

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 with safety; in a safe manner
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAFELY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "46. Alchemist's offering"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste
• Words that mean the same thing: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELIXIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "47. Flimflammers"

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: CONMEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "52. His brother was no keeper"

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 norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
• Words that mean the same thing: Niels Abel, Niels Henrik Abel
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "54. One end of the narthex"

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

  The answer is: NAVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "55. Prefix with -assic"

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: TRI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "56. Countless lifetimes"

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 longest division of geological time
• Words that mean the same thing: aeon
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "57. Keystone figure"

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: KOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "58. Who wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that united states writer and poet (1809-1849)
• Words that mean the same thing: Edgar Allan Poe
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "59. Pipe cleaner"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: LYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "60. High rails"

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

  The answer is: ELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	49	70.0%
Short Answer	15	21.4%
Sports	3	4.3%
Geography	1	1.4%
History	1	1.4%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	35
Total Clues	70
Average Answer Length	5.4 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	15 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 10, 2025 at 04:26 PM