March 17, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Down Clues (43 clues)
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (35 Across, 43 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.1 letters

March 17, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Tuesday Crossword Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Vacationing, say	4
2A	5. Blue Ribbon brewer	5
3A	10. "___ Rabbit," 2019 Oscar-nominated film	4
4A	14. Mexican money	4
5A	15. Justice who replaced O'Connor	5
6A	16. Slangy prefix meaning "super"	4
7A	17. One who goes a-courting	4
8A	18. Befitting a king or queen	5
9A	19. Homes for cubs	4
10A	20. Child, to doting parents	11
11A	23. Offshoot of punk music	3
12A	24. "That being said ..."	3
13A	25. Classic Hunter S. Thompson novel, familiarly	15
14A	34. Set of values	5
15A	35. U.K. lexicon	3
16A	36. "Rubber Duckie" singer on "Sesame Street"	5
17A	37. Vaper's buy	4
18A	38. Palmer with an "army"	5
19A	40. German chancellor ___ von Bismarck	4
20A	41. Strategy during the 2003 invasion of Iraq	11
21A	44. Dot over an "i" or "j"	6
22A	46. Singer with the 1994 hit "You Gotta Be"	6
23A	49. Prefix with freak or warrior	3
24A	50. Dispute between Wikipedia page updaters	7
25A	54. ___ whiskey	3
26A	55. "Fiddling" emperor	4
27A	57. "Nothin' doin'!"	3
28A	58. On an even ___ (steady)	4
29A	59. Ambivalence ... or a hint to 20-, 25- and 41-Across	13
30A	64. Novelist Ahern with the best sellers "PS, I Love You" and "Love, Rosie"	7
31A	65. Made privy to	7
32A	67. Doesn't stop performing	7
33A	68. Place to graze	7
34A	69. As a minimum	7
35A	70. Suffered from cramps, say	7

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. Vacationing, 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 not present; having left
• Words that mean the same thing: by, forth, outside
• The opposite would be: home
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AWAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Blue Ribbon brewer"

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: PABST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. "___ Rabbit," 2019 Oscar-nominated film"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: JOJO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Mexican money"

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 basic unit of money in uruguay; equal to 100 centesimos
• Words that mean the same thing: Dominican peso, Philippine peso, Guinea-Bissau peso
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PESO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Justice who replaced O'Connor"

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: ALITO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Slangy prefix meaning "super""

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: UBER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. One who goes a-courting"

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 man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
• Words that mean the same thing: fashion plate, dandy, young man
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEAU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. Befitting a king or queen"

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 belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
• Words that mean the same thing: majestic, royal, purple
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REGAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. Homes for cubs"

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 habitation of wild animals
• Words that mean the same thing: hideout, hideaway, 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: DENS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Child, to doting parents"

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: PRIDEANDJOY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Offshoot of punk 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: EMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. "That being said ...""

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 up to the present time
• Words that mean the same thing: hitherto, withal, up to now
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Classic Hunter S. Thompson novel, familiarly"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about literature.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: FEARANDLOATHING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "34. Set of values"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group
• Words that mean the same thing: value-system, ethical code, value orientation
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETHIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "35. U.K. lexicon"

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 unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles
• Words that mean the same thing: O.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "36. "Rubber Duckie" singer on "Sesame Street""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ERNIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "37. Vaper's buy"

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: ECIG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "38. Palmer with an "army""

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: ARNIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "40. German chancellor ___ von Bismarck"

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: OTTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "41. Strategy during the 2003 invasion of Iraq"

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: SHOCKANDAWE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "44. Dot over an "i" or "j""

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 tiny or scarcely detectable amount
• Words that mean the same thing: smidgin, smidge, smidgen
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TITTLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "46. Singer with the 1994 hit "You Gotta Be""

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: DESREE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "49. Prefix with freak or warrior"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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: ECO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "50. Dispute between Wikipedia page updaters"

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: EDITWAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "54. ___ whiskey"

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 seed of the cereal grass
• Words that mean the same thing: Secale cereale, rye whiskey, rye whisky
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "55. "Fiddling" emperor"

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 roman emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of rome in 64) but the roman empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68)
• Words that mean the same thing: Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NERO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "57. "Nothin' doin'!""

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: NAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "58. On an even ___ (steady)"

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 projection or ridge that suggests a keel
• Words that mean the same thing: reel, careen, swag
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KEEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "59. Ambivalence ... or a hint to 20-, 25- and 41-Across"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MIXEDFEELINGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "64. Novelist Ahern with the best sellers "PS, I Love You" and "Love, Rosie""

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: CECELIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "65. Made privy to"

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: LETINON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "67. Doesn't stop performing"

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: PLAYSON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "68. Place to graze"

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 field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
• Words that mean the same thing: grass, grazing land, pastureland
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PASTURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "69. As a minimum"

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: ATLEAST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "70. Suffered from cramps, say"

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: SPASMED

  Great job if you got it right!

March 17, 2020 Tuesday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Police alert, for short	3
2D	2. Eensy	3
3D	3. "Stat!"	4
4D	4. "I agree"	10
5D	5. Presidential absolution, as for a Thanksgiving turkey	6
6D	6. Out of the wind, at sea	4
7D	7. Nickname for Angel Stadium, with "the"	4
8D	8. Pal of Kyle and Kenny on "South Park"	4
9D	9. "See? Just as I said!"	6
10D	10. Takedowns at dojos	10
11D	11. Toe the line	4
12D	12. Actress Aniston, in tabloids	3
13D	13. Stitching sites, briefly	3
14D	21. Apple introduced in 1998	4
15D	22. Ballerina's springing jump	4
16D	25. A.T.M. expense	3
17D	26. "... yadda, yadda, yadda"	3
18D	27. Ignoring the record of past events	11
19D	28. Square figure?	4
20D	29. Dunham of "Girls"	4
21D	30. Father of Thor	4
22D	31. Period during which a throne is vacant	11
23D	32. Minor gripe	3
24D	33. Prefix with political or physics	3
25D	38. Completed perfectly	4
26D	39. Icelandic saga	4
27D	42. When repeated, a World Cup chant	3
28D	43. ___ Lingus	3
29D	44. Highest point value for a Scrabble tile	3
30D	45. Winter sidewalk application	7
31D	47. Weedy vacant lot, e.g.	7
32D	48. Moray, for one	3
33D	51. Newborn	6
34D	52. ___ Bo (workout system)	3
35D	53. Pups	6
36D	56. Kind of daisy	5
37D	58. Makes socks, e.g.	5
38D	60. "Frozen" snow queen	4
39D	61. God: Sp.	4
40D	62. ___ year (2020, for example)	4
41D	63. Celebratory words before "boy" or "girl"	4
42D	64. Tax whiz, for short	3
43D	66. Homer's neighbor on "The Simpsons"	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. Police alert, for short"

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: APB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Eensy"

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 short time
• Words that mean the same thing: piss, teentsy, bittie
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. "Stat!""

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

  The answer is: ASAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. "I agree""

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: YOURERIGHT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Presidential absolution, as for a Thanksgiving turkey"

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 act of excusing a mistake or offense
• Words that mean the same thing: excuse, free pardon, amnesty
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PARDON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Out of the wind, at sea"

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

  The answer is: ALEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Nickname for Angel Stadium, with "the""

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: BIGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Pal of Kyle and Kenny on "South Park""

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: STAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. "See? Just as I said!""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: TOLDYA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Takedowns at dojos"

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: JUDOTHROWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Toe the line"

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

  The answer is: OBEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Actress Aniston, in tabloids"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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: JEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Stitching sites, briefly"

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

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

  The answer is: ORS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "21. Apple introduced in 1998"

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: IMAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Ballerina's springing jump"

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: JETE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. A.T.M. expense"

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 fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
• Words that mean the same thing: tip, bung
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. "... yadda, yadda, yadda""

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: ETC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Ignoring the record of past events"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition
• The opposite would be: historical
• The word looks like this: ___________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AHISTORICAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Square figure?"

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 dull stupid fatuous person
• Words that mean the same thing: jerk
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DORK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "29. Dunham of "Girls""

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 russian river in siberia; flows northward into the laptev sea
• Words that mean the same thing: Lena River
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LENA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "30. Father of Thor"

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 (norse mythology) ruler of the aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of frigg; identified with the teutonic wotan
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ODIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. Period during which a throne is vacant"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the time between two reigns, governments, etc.
• The word looks like this: ___________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INTERREGNUM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "32. Minor gripe"

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 24 Down: "33. Prefix with political or physics"

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

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: GEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Completed perfectly"

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 succeed at easily
• Words that mean the same thing: pass with flying colors, nail, sweep through
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. Icelandic saga"

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 tropical starchy tuberous root
• Words that mean the same thing: taro root, cocoyam, dasheen
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "42. When repeated, a World Cup chant"

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: OLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "43. ___ Lingus"

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: AER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "44. Highest point value for a Scrabble tile"

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 cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
• Words that mean the same thing: x, decade, ten-spot
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Winter sidewalk application"

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: ICEMELT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "47. Weedy vacant lot, e.g."

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

  The answer is: EYESORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "48. Moray, for one"

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

  The answer is: EEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "51. Newborn"

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 very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
• Words that mean the same thing: baby, babe
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INFANT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "52. ___ Bo (workout system)"

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: TAE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "53. Pups"

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 young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
• Words that mean the same thing: pup, whelp
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WHELPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "56. Kind of daisy"

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 any north american shrubby perennial herb of the genus heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers
• Words that mean the same thing: heliopsis
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OXEYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "58. Makes socks, e.g."

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 fabric made by knitting
• Words that mean the same thing: plain stitch, crumple, plain
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KNITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "60. "Frozen" snow queen"

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: ELSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "61. God: Sp."

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: DIOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "62. ___ year (2020, for example)"

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 light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
• Words that mean the same thing: leaping, bound, jump
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "63. Celebratory words before "boy" or "girl""

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: ITSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Down: "64. Tax whiz, 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 an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a united states state to be certified by that state
• Words that mean the same thing: certified public accountant
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CPA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 43 Down: "66. Homer's neighbor on "The Simpsons""

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: NED

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	52	66.7%
Short Answer	14	17.9%
Celebrity/Entertainment	3	3.8%
Abbreviation	3	3.8%
Literature	2	2.6%
Movies/Film	1	1.3%
Music	1	1.3%
History	1	1.3%
Science/Technology	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	43
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	5.1 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 Tuesday, 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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May 25, 2023 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (37 clues)
• Down Clues (40 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 77 (37 Across, 40 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.7 letters

May 25, 2023 Thursday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Wows	4
2A	5. Food ___	4
3A	9. Exercise that incorporates ballet, yoga and Pilates	5
4A	14. Not daring at all	4
5A	15. "Our treat"	4
6A	16. ___ gas law (pV = nRT)	5
7A	17. *Dogs that can run up to 35 miles an hour	4
8A	18. –	4
9A	19. It's fit for a queen	5
10A	20. Gmail alternative	3
11A	21. Secretly unseal, perhaps	9
12A	23. Pronoun heard in "Hamlet" and "Richard II," appropriately	7
13A	27. Establishments for facials and waxing	4
14A	28. *Electrical current converter	8
15A	30. –	3
16A	33. Option at many bike shops	8
17A	36. French 101 word with three vowels	3
18A	37. Freestyle, maybe	3
19A	38. Piece in the game Othello	4
20A	39. Fabric for some formal table linens	6
21A	42. Commonly torn tissue, for short	3
22A	43. American charges	8
23A	45. *Country composed of over 7,000 islands	6
24A	49. –	5
25A	50. Religious scroll	5
26A	52. "Since that's over with …"	7
27A	56. Staff	9
28A	59. Geological span	3
29A	60. Act as an usher for	5
30A	61. *Lacking seriousness, as an attitude	4
31A	63. –	4
32A	64. Chihuahua, for one	5
33A	65. Nickname for Letitia	4
34A	66. Nike competitor	4
35A	67. Syrian strongman	5
36A	68. Brand of coolers and insulated drinkware	4
37A	69. Obsolescent film format	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. Wows"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
• Words that mean the same thing: fear, reverence, veneration
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AWES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Food ___"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury
• Words that mean the same thing: comatoseness
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Exercise that incorporates ballet, yoga and Pilates"

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: BARRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Not daring at all"

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 correct by punishment or discipline
• Words that mean the same thing: domesticate, moderate, meek
• The opposite would be: wild
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. "Our treat""

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 onerous or difficult concern
• Words that mean the same thing: incumbrance, burden, load
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ONUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. ___ gas law (pV = nRT)"

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 idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
• Words that mean the same thing: idealistic, apotheosis, nonsuch
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. *Dogs that can run up to 35 miles an hour"

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 an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
• Words that mean the same thing: pip, worst, trounce
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WHIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. –"

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 domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
• Words that mean the same thing: dearie, positron emission tomography, deary
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. It's fit for a queen"

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 jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIARA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Gmail alternative"

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: AOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "21. Secretly unseal, perhaps"

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: STEAMOPEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "23. Pronoun heard in "Hamlet" and "Richard II," appropriately"

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: ROYALWE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. Establishments for facials and waxing"

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 health resort near a spring or at the seaside
• Words that mean the same thing: health club, resort hotel, spa
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. *Electrical current converter"

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: POWERSUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. –"

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 one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
• Words that mean the same thing: supply, run, cater
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "33. Option at many bike shops"

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: TESTRIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. French 101 word with three vowels"

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: EAU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. Freestyle, maybe"

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 reproach for some lapse or misdeed
• Words that mean the same thing: whack, hip-hop, tap
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Piece in the game Othello"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
• Words that mean the same thing: saucer, record, platter
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DISC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "39. Fabric for some formal table linens"

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 table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DAMASK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "42. Commonly torn tissue, for short"

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: ACL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. American charges"

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 fare charged for traveling by airplane
• Words that mean the same thing: airfare
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AIRFARES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. *Country composed of over 7,000 islands"

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 englishman and husband of elizabeth ii (born 1921)
• Words that mean the same thing: Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PHILIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "49. –"

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 coniferous tree
• Words that mean the same thing: ache, true pine, pine tree
• The opposite would be: unpin
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PINES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "50. Religious scroll"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the whole body of the jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition
• Words that mean the same thing: Laws, Pentateuch
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TORAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "52. "Since that's over with …""

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: NOWTHEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "56. Staff"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a worker who is hired to perform a job
• Words that mean the same thing: employee
• The opposite would be: employer
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EMPLOYEES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "59. Geological span"

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: geological era, epoch, earned run average
• The 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 29 Across: "60. Act as an usher for"

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: SEEIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "61. *Lacking seriousness, as an attitude"

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 acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
• Words that mean the same thing: impudent, switch, flick
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "63. –"

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 noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
• Words that mean the same thing: gasp, trouser, puff
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PANT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "64. Chihuahua, for one"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
• Words that mean the same thing: Department of State, province, nation
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "65. Nickname for Letitia"

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: TISH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "66. Nike competitor"

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: AVIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "67. Syrian strongman"

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: ASSAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "68. Brand of coolers and insulated drinkware"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the himalayas
• Words that mean the same thing: abominable snowman
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YETI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "69. Obsolescent film format"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
• Words that mean the same thing: spool, swag, spin
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REEL

  Great job if you got it right!

May 25, 2023 Thursday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Like much of Europe beginning in 1939	5
2D	2. "Yippee!"	5
3D	3. ___ Greene Balch, American humanitarian who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize	5
4D	4. International Day of Peace mo.	3
5D	5. "Good" or "bad" questioner	3
6D	6. Bracketologists' picks, often	8
7D	7. Animal crossing?	4
8D	8. Eye up and down	6
9D	9. JPEG alternative	6
10D	10. "Ciao!"	5
11D	11. *Show up again	4
12D	12. Not well at all?	4
13D	13. Flair	4
14D	22. Satyajit Ray's "The ___ Trilogy"	3
15D	24. Like the fact that Lance Bass sang bass for 'N Sync	3
16D	25. Well-manored sort?	4
17D	26. "Jojo Rabbit" setting: Abbr.	4
18D	29. Rundown	5
19D	30. –	4
20D	31. Hit light-ly?	4
21D	32. Chortles	4
22D	33. Hip-hop subgenre	4
23D	34. Allotment term	4
24D	35. Certain soup ingredients … or a homophonic hint to the answers to the starred clues	9
25D	39. Bond's debut film	4
26D	40. Not too many	4
27D	41. Boom holder	4
28D	44. "No, really!"	7
29D	46. Banned book of 1955	6
30D	47. Flattened, in a way	6
31D	48. Tap one's phone, perhaps	3
32D	51. Glad rival	5
33D	53. What chests and waves may do	5
34D	54. Saxophone-playing Muppet	5
35D	55. From birth	5
36D	56. She, in Sicily	4
37D	57. National League expansion team of 1962	4
38D	58. Writer Wiesel	4
39D	62. Golden ratio symbol	3
40D	63. Course goal	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. Like much of Europe beginning in 1939"

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: ATWAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. "Yippee!""

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 upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern united states from new york to florida and texas
• Words that mean the same thing: Acanthocybium solandri, Euonymus atropurpureus, strawberry bush
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WAHOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. ___ Greene Balch, American humanitarian who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize"

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: EMILY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. International Day of Peace mo."

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 month following august and preceding october
• Words that mean the same thing: Sept, September
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. "Good" or "bad" questioner"

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 uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
• Words that mean the same thing: bull, copper, knock 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: COP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Bracketologists' picks, often"

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: ONESEEDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Animal crossing?"

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 an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
• Words that mean the same thing: cur, mongrel
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MUTT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Eye up and down"

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 evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
• Words that mean the same thing: valuate, value, measure
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASSESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. JPEG alternative"

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 an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels
• Words that mean the same thing: electronic image
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BITMAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. "Ciao!""

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 farewell remark
• Words that mean the same thing: auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, good-bye
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADIOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. *Show up again"

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 gather, as of natural products
• Words that mean the same thing: harvest, draw, glean
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Not well at all?"

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 not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
• Words that mean the same thing: rarified, uncommon, rarefied
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RARE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Flair"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
• Words that mean the same thing: dash, ardor, ardour
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "22. Satyajit Ray's "The ___ Trilogy""

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: APU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "24. Like the fact that Lance Bass sang bass for 'N Sync"

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 (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward
• Words that mean the same thing: disposed, clever, apposite
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: APT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Well-manored sort?"

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 terms referring to the judeo-christian god
• Words that mean the same thing: Godhead, Jehovah, Maker
• The opposite would be: Lady, noblewoman
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LORD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. "Jojo Rabbit" setting: Abbr."

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: WWII

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "29. Rundown"

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 summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
• Words that mean the same thing: review, recapitulation, recapitulate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RECAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "30. –"

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 sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
• Words that mean the same thing: Pyrus communis, pear tree
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. Hit light-ly?"

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: LASE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Chortles"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy 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: YUKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. Hip-hop subgenre"

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 device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
• Words that mean the same thing: entrap, lying in wait, 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: TRAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. Allotment term"

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 (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
• Words that mean the same thing: for each one, to each one, from each one
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EACH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "35. Certain soup ingredients … or a homophonic hint to the answers to the starred clues"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert 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: SPLITPEAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Bond's debut film"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: DRNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Not too many"

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: AFEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. Boom holder"

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

  The answer is: MAST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "44. "No, really!""

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: IINSIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "46. Banned book of 1955"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: LOLITA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "47. Flattened, in a way"

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 press and smooth with a heated iron
• Words that mean the same thing: press, iron, iron out
• The opposite would be: unironed
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRONED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "48. Tap one's phone, perhaps"

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 something that remunerates
• Words that mean the same thing: wage, compensate, devote
• The opposite would be: default
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "51. Glad rival"

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 (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
• Words that mean the same thing: respectable, brawny, muscular
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEFTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "53. What chests and waves may do"

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 an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
• Words that mean the same thing: buckle, lift, retch
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEAVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "54. Saxophone-playing Muppet"

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: ERNIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "55. From birth"

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 region of eastern south africa on the indian ocean
• Words that mean the same thing: KwaZulu-Natal
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NATAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "56. She, in Sicily"

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: ESSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "57. National League expansion team of 1962"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: METS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "58. Writer Wiesel"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ELIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "62. Golden ratio symbol"

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 21st letter of the greek alphabet
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PHI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "63. Course goal"

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 (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
• Words that mean the same thing: equation, equality, equivalence
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	53	68.8%
Short Answer	12	15.6%
Sports	2	2.6%
Abbreviation	2	2.6%
Movies/Film	2	2.6%
Literature	2	2.6%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%
Geography	1	1.3%
History	1	1.3%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	37
Down Clues	40
Total Clues	77
Average Answer Length	4.7 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 Thursday, 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!

Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.

Last Updated: September 02, 2025 at 06:32 AM