October 25, 2019 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, October 25, 2019

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.5 letters

Across Clues Explained - Friday NYT Crossword October 25, 2019

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Reaction to being sent to the principal's office, say	4
2A	5. Cartoon cat	3
3A	8. City name in both East and West Coast states	5
4A	13. After weighing both sides	9
5A	16. Amazon guide?	5
6A	17. Question suggesting "Beats me!"	9
7A	18. Gaudiness	5
8A	19. Logic game with matchsticks	3
9A	20. Reach a point of diminishing returns	7
10A	22. Take a shot	3
11A	23. Eponym of a cathedral in Red Square	7
12A	25. Cosmic law and order in Buddhism	6
13A	27. It may be set in stone	4
14A	28. Small colored feature of the body	6
15A	30. "Ma-a-aybe"	9
16A	35. Some nerve?	5
17A	36. What Scarlett saved	4
18A	37. "___ on!" ("Come and get it!")	5
19A	39. Elevate	4
20A	40. Chilly day accessory	5
21A	42. "Seriously?"	9
22A	44. Smoothie starter	6
23A	46. North-flowing river	4
24A	47. "Mmmmmmm!"	6
25A	49. ___ in (enclosed, as a porch)	7
26A	53. Fire	3
27A	54. Sheltered, as stock	7
28A	56. Kind of cross	3
29A	57. Bulletin	5
30A	59. Painfully obvious	9
31A	61. Fuzzy	5
32A	62. Trip that no one wants to take	9
33A	63. Defeated, but barely	5
34A	64. Howe'er	3
35A	65. Weeks off	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. Reaction to being sent to the principal's office, say"

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 large and hurried swallow
• Words that mean the same thing: draft, draught, swig
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GULP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Cartoon cat"

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 (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to whites
• Words that mean the same thing: tom turkey, tomcat, Uncle Tom
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "8. City name in both East and West Coast states"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that capital of the state of oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the willamette river
• Words that mean the same thing: capital of Oregon
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SALEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. After weighing both sides"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ONBALANCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "16. Amazon guide?"

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: ALEXA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "17. Question suggesting "Beats me!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: WHOCANSAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "18. Gaudiness"

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 tasteless showiness
• Words that mean the same thing: garishness, gaudiness, meretriciousness
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GLITZ

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Logic game with matchsticks"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NIM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Reach a point of diminishing returns"

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 a relatively flat highland
• Words that mean the same thing: tableland
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PLATEAU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Take a shot"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
• Words that mean the same thing: endeavor, test, examine
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Eponym of a cathedral in Red Square"

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: STBASIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Cosmic law and order in Buddhism"

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 basic principles of the cosmos; also: an ancient sage in hindu mythology worshipped as a god by some lower castes
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DHARMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. It may be set in stone"

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 any character from an ancient germanic alphabet used in scandinavia from the 3rd century to the middle ages
• Words that mean the same thing: runic letter
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RUNE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. Small colored feature of the body"

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 small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing
• Words that mean the same thing: ring of color
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AREOLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. "Ma-a-aybe""

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: ITDEPENDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. Some nerve?"

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

  The answer is: OPTIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. What Scarlett saved"

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

  The answer is: TARA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. "___ on!" ("Come and get it!")"

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 liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
• Words that mean the same thing: soup
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOUPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "39. Elevate"

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

  The answer is: LIFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "40. Chilly day accessory"

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 garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
• Words that mean the same thing: scarf joint
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCARF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "42. "Seriously?""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: WHATGIVES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. Smoothie starter"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a custard-like food made from curdled milk
• Words that mean the same thing: yoghurt, yoghourt
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YOGURT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "46. North-flowing river"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
• Words that mean the same thing: Nile 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: NILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "47. "Mmmmmmm!""

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: SOGOOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "49. ___ in (enclosed, as a porch)"

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 furnish with glass
• Words that mean the same thing: glazed, glaze, glass
• The opposite would be: unglazed
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GLASSED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "53. Fire"

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 airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: displace, sack, give the axe
• The opposite would be: hire
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "54. Sheltered, as stock"

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 shelter in a stable
• Words that mean the same thing: stable
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STABLED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "56. Kind of cross"

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 19th 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: TAU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "57. Bulletin"

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 condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
• Words that mean the same thing: alive, merry, spanking
• The opposite would be: unalert
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALERT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "59. Painfully obvious"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: WRITLARGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "61. Fuzzy"

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 not clearly understood or expressed; ; -anatole broyard; - p.a.sorokin; - john locke
• Words that mean the same thing: shadowy, obscure, wispy
• The opposite would be: defined
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VAGUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "62. Trip that no one wants to take"

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: NASTYFALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "63. Defeated, but barely"

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 advance slowly, as if by inches
• Words that mean the same thing: butt on, abut, butt
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDGED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "64. Howe'er"

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

  The answer is: THO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "65. Weeks 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 you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
• Words that mean the same thing: pass, arrivederci, adieu
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BYES

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Friday Crossword Down Clues - October 25, 2019 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Prom wear	5
2D	2. Coming through without a scratch	5
3D	3. Something that might be "dropped" prematurely in a relationship, in slang	5
4D	4. Vote-swaying org.	3
5D	5. They usually come with bikinis	8
6D	6. "Get it while it's hot!"	9
7D	7. Chem major's exam, perhaps	4
8D	8. Its blossom is the state flower of Arizona	7
9D	9. Without exception	3
10D	10. Recurrent musical theme	9
11D	11. 1-up, in gaming	9
12D	12. Labyrinthine	4
13D	14. Greedily consumes	6
14D	15. Checked out	4
15D	21. "But of course!"	3
16D	24. It doesn't go wall-to-wall	7
17D	26. Fields questions, say	7
18D	29. Follower of John	4
19D	30. Small, informally	4
20D	31. Tex-Mex dish sometimes served with southwest dressing	9
21D	32. Object of some fantasy quests	9
22D	33. "Of course ... my bad!"	3
23D	34. The lyrics of "Livin' la Vida Loca," e.g.	9
24D	38. Weapon with an Italian name	8
25D	41. Descriptive of some flakes and hair	7
26D	43. "My pleasure!"	6
27D	45. Kid	3
28D	48. Starting time for an attack	4
29D	50. Go afield	5
30D	51. Two under	5
31D	52. Goes mano a mano (with)	5
32D	53. Spelunk	4
33D	55. Angel's opposite	4
34D	58. "The Murders in the ___ Morgue"	3
35D	60. Eglin or MacDill: Abbr.	3

Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!

Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!

Clue 1 Down: "1. Prom wear"

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 woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
• Words that mean the same thing: nightie, gown, nightgown
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GOWNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Coming through without a scratch"

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: UNHIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Something that might be "dropped" prematurely in a relationship, in slang"

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: LBOMB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Vote-swaying org."

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 committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates
• Words that mean the same thing: political action committee
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. They usually come with bikinis"

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: TANLINES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. "Get it while it's hot!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ONSALENOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Chem major's exam, perhaps"

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: MCAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Its blossom is the state flower of Arizona"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern united states having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit
• Words that mean the same thing: sahuaro, Carnegiea gigantea
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAGUARO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Without exception"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Recurrent musical theme"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in wagner's operas)
• Words that mean the same thing: leitmotif
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEITMOTIV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. 1-up, in gaming"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EXTRALIFE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Labyrinthine"

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 resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
• Words that mean the same thing: labyrinthian, labyrinthine
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAZY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. Greedily consumes"

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: LAPSUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "15. Checked out"

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 an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination
• Words that mean the same thing: eye, eyeball
• The opposite would be: eyeless
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EYED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. "But of course!""

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: AHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. It doesn't go wall-to-wall"

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: AREARUG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. Fields questions, say"

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 statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
• Words that mean the same thing: response, respond, reply
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REPLIES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "29. Follower of John"

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 new testament book describing the development of the early church from christ's ascension to paul's sojourn at rome
• Words that mean the same thing: bit, act as, playact
• The opposite would be: refrain
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "30. Small, informally"

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: ITSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. Tex-Mex dish sometimes served with southwest dressing"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TACOSALAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Object of some fantasy quests"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DRAGONEGG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. "Of course ... my bad!""

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: DUH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. The lyrics of "Livin' la Vida Loca," e.g."

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: SPANGLISH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "38. Weapon with an Italian name"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a small dagger with a tapered blade
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STILETTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "41. Descriptive of some flakes and hair"

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 decorate with frosting
• Words that mean the same thing: ice, frost
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FROSTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "43. "My pleasure!""

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 in a willing manner
• Words that mean the same thing: fain, lief
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GLADLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "45. Kid"

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 small amount (especially of a drink)
• Words that mean the same thing: bambino, sum up, add 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: TOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "48. Starting time for an attack"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the first light of day
• Words that mean the same thing: fall into place, break of the day, daybreak
• The opposite would be: sunset
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DAWN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "50. Go afield"

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 animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)
• Words that mean the same thing: drift, roam, err
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STRAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "51. Two under"

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 of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
• Words that mean the same thing: bird of Jove, double birdie
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EAGLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. Goes mano a mano (with)"

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 prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
• Words that mean the same thing: affaire d'honneur, duel
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DUELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "53. Spelunk"

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 geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
• Words that mean the same thing: spelunk, undermine
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "55. Angel's opposite"

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 very troublesome child
• Words that mean the same thing: holy terror, terror, little terror
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BRAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "58. "The Murders in the ___ Morgue""

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 european strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
• Words that mean the same thing: Ruta graveolens, sorrow, ruefulness
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "60. Eglin or MacDill: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: AFB

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	50	71.4%
Short Answer	11	15.7%
Geography	3	4.3%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.9%
Sports	1	1.4%
Music	1	1.4%
Food & Drink	1	1.4%
Abbreviation	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	35
Total Clues	70
Average Answer Length	5.5 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 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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• Down Clues (36 clues)
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, January 23, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 74 (38 Across, 36 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.1 letters

January 23, 2020 Thursday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Concerning vision	6
2A	7. Info for a car service pickup, in brief	3
3A	10. Drain	3
4A	13. Estado south of Arizona	6
5A	14. Glamping site, maybe	4
6A	16. Madagascar, par exemple	3
7A	17. It's needed for a push-up, informally	6
8A	18. So	4
9A	19. JFK alternative	3
10A	20. Proudly dresses like Bill Nye or Pee-wee Herman?	14
11A	23. Like some doors	5
12A	24. Pivot point	4
13A	25. Silo filler, for short	4
14A	27. Bellyache	4
15A	28. Roughage source	4
16A	29. What you feel "when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie"	5
17A	30. Layer	3
18A	31. Mideast diplomat's request, when itching to be challenged?	11
19A	33. Genesis craft	3
20A	34. Inc., abroad	3
21A	35. Premier internet connection?	11
22A	41. Many an I.R.S. worker	3
23A	44. Half of a 1960s folk-rock group	5
24A	45. ___ avis	4
25A	46. Bogus	4
26A	47. Fast pace	4
27A	48. European Union member, to natives	4
28A	49. Ali who retired undefeated	5
29A	50. Liberate Louis XIV's palace?	14
30A	53. Pan Am rival	3
31A	54. Fries, e.g.	4
32A	55. Foundation for a home on a bayou	6
33A	56. Have	3
34A	57. Boggle the mind	4
35A	58. Locale for Ernst and Young	6
36A	59. Vote heard on the floor ... and at the end of 20-, 31-, 35- and 50-Across?	3
37A	60. Short albums, for short	3
38A	61. Some "Toy Story"-themed toys, informally	6

Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!

Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!

Clue 1 Across: "1. Concerning vision"

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 combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
• Words that mean the same thing: visual, optical, opthalmic
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OCULAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "7. Info for a car service pickup, in brief"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
• Words that mean the same thing: Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Drain"

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 watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
• Words that mean the same thing: run down, tire, tomfool
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Estado south of Arizona"

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 ground snakes
• Words that mean the same thing: genus Sonora
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SONORA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Glamping site, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic mongol and turkic people of central asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YURT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Madagascar, par exemple"

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: ILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. It's needed for a push-up, informally"

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: TRICEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. So"

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 (used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. JFK 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: LGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Proudly dresses like Bill Nye or Pee-wee Herman?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ROCKSTHEBOWTIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Like some doors"

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: INOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Pivot point"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions
• Words that mean the same thing: axis vertebra, axis of rotation, bloc
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AXIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Silo filler, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
• Words that mean the same thing: intercontinental ballistic missile
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ICBM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. Bellyache"

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 lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised
• Words that mean the same thing: cavil, chicane
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CARP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "28. Roughage source"

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 broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BRAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "29. What you feel "when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie""

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: AMORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "30. Layer"

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 adult female chicken
• Words that mean the same thing: biddy
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "31. Mideast diplomat's request, when itching to be challenged?"

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: GIMMEASINAI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "33. Genesis craft"

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 (judaism) sacred chest where the ancient hebrews kept the two tablets containing the ten commandments
• Words that mean the same thing: Ark of the Covenant
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "34. Inc., abroad"

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: LTD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "35. Premier internet connection?"

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: THEGOODWIFI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "41. Many an I.R.S. worker"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an 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 23 Across: "44. Half of a 1960s folk-rock group"

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 informal terms for a mother
• Words that mean the same thing: mommy, Mama, mammy
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAMAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. ___ avis"

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: RARA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "46. Bogus"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SHAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "47. Fast pace"

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 metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
• Words that mean the same thing: trot, cartridge clip, nip off
• The opposite would be: unclip
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "48. European Union member, to natives"

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 republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
• Words that mean the same thing: Republic of Ireland, Ireland, Irish Republic
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EIRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "49. Ali who retired undefeated"

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: LAILA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "50. Liberate Louis XIV's palace?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: FREEVERSAILLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "53. Pan Am rival"

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: TWA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "54. Fries, e.g."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
• Words that mean the same thing: position, side of meat, incline
• The opposite would be: top
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "55. Foundation for a home on a bayou"

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 column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
• Words that mean the same thing: stiltbird, Himantopus stilt, Australian stilt
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STILTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "56. Have"

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 take in solid food
• Words that mean the same thing: use up, consume, deplete
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "57. Boggle the mind"

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 make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
• Words that mean the same thing: bedaze, daze, sandbag
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STUN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "58. Locale for Ernst and Young"

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 assembly possessing high legislative powers
• Words that mean the same thing: US Senate, U.S. Senate, United States Senate
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SENATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "59. Vote heard on the floor ... and at the end of 20-, 31-, 35- and 50-Across?"

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: AYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "60. Short albums, for short"

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: EPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "61. Some "Toy Story"-themed toys, informally"

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: TREXES

  Great job if you got it right!

January 23, 2020 Down Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Source of material for a feather duster	7
2D	2. Astronomical rings	7
3D	3. Start-up worth a billion dollars, in a modern coinage	7
4D	4. What brakes shouldn't do	6
5D	5. "Give it ___"	5
6D	6. Mesmerized	4
7D	7. It may involve dilation	7
8D	8. Wind power generator	7
9D	9. Odysseus' faithful dog	5
10D	10. Element of some chips	7
11D	11. Something with an "x" factor?	7
12D	12. What a shooter may shoot	3
13D	15. Pull	3
14D	21. Perniciousness	4
15D	22. Retiring	5
16D	26. Soong ___-ling, Madame Chiang Kai-shek	3
17D	28. Anti-apartheid activist Steve	4
18D	29. Wine center near Turin	4
19D	31. Large: Fr.	4
20D	32. Lead-in for Romeo	4
21D	33. Wide open	5
22D	35. Premium network	3
23D	36. How you might meet someone	7
24D	37. Land on the Persian Gulf	7
25D	38. Desiccated	7
26D	39. Overpopulated, mazy districts	7
27D	40. Angers	4
28D	41. "Simmer down!"	7
29D	42. Something for an artist to have on hand	7
30D	43. Piles up	7
31D	46. Like tears	6
32D	48. Online party request	5
33D	49. Engine capacity unit	5
34D	51. Powerful Scrabble tile	3
35D	52. Second person?: Abbr.	4
36D	53. Word with garden or party	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. Source of material for a feather duster"

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 a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
• Words that mean the same thing: Struthio camelus
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OSTRICH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Astronomical rings"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
• Words that mean the same thing: Saint Elmo's fire, aureole, Saint Elmo's light
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CORONAE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Start-up worth a billion dollars, in a modern coinage"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: UNICORN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. What brakes shouldn't do"

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 jail in a local police station
• Words that mean the same thing: locking
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOCKUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. "Give it ___""

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: AREST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Mesmerized"

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 feeling great rapture or delight
• Words that mean the same thing: rapturous, rhapsodic, ecstatic
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAPT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. It may involve dilation"

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: EYEEXAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Wind power generator"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TURBINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Odysseus' faithful dog"

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 ancient city in southeastern greece; dominated the peloponnese in the 7th century bc
• Words that mean the same thing: Argo
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARGOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Element of some chips"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
• Words that mean the same thing: Si, atomic number 14
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SILICON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Something with an "x" factor?"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALGEBRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. What a shooter may shoot"

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 seed of a pea plant used for food
• Words that mean the same thing: pea 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: PEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "15. Pull"

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 act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope
• Words that mean the same thing: towage
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "21. Perniciousness"

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 any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: injury, hurt, impairment
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HARM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Retiring"

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 people who are fearful and cautious
• Words that mean the same thing: cautious, faint, unsure
• The opposite would be: confident, bold
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIMID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "26. Soong ___-ling, Madame Chiang Kai-shek"

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 japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits
• Words that mean the same thing: Prunus mume, Japanese apricot
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MEI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "28. Anti-apartheid activist Steve"

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: BIKO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "29. Wine center near Turin"

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: ASTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "31. Large: Fr."

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: GROS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "32. Lead-in for Romeo"

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: ALFA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. Wide open"

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 (christian theology) the love of god or christ for mankind
• Words that mean the same thing: agape love, gaping, love feast
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AGAPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "35. Premium network"

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: TMC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. How you might meet someone"

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 equally distant from the extremes
• Words that mean the same thing: center, midway, middle
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HALFWAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. Land on the Persian Gulf"

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

  The answer is: EMIRATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Desiccated"

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: DRIEDUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. Overpopulated, mazy districts"

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 united states writer and poet (1905-1989)
• Words that mean the same thing: Warren, Earl Warren, warren
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WARRENS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "40. Angers"

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 strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
• Words that mean the same thing: ire, anger, wrath
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "41. "Simmer down!""

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: CHILLAX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "42. Something for an artist to have on hand"

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 range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
• Words that mean the same thing: pallette, pallet
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PALETTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "43. Piles 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 collect or gather
• Words that mean the same thing: roll up, cumulate, pile 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: AMASSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Like tears"

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 isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water
• Words that mean the same thing: saline solution
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SALINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "48. Online party request"

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: EVITE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "49. Engine capacity unit"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
• Words that mean the same thing: cubic decimeter, l, litre
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LITER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "51. Powerful Scrabble tile"

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 radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
• Words that mean the same thing: Es, atomic number 99, einsteinium
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "52. Second person?: Abbr."

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

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "53. Word with garden or party"

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 beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
• Words that mean the same thing: Camellia sinensis, teatime, afternoon tea
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	48	64.9%
Short Answer	17	23.0%
Abbreviation	2	2.7%
History	2	2.7%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.7%
Music	1	1.4%
Science/Technology	1	1.4%
Geography	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	38
Down Clues	36
Total Clues	74
Average Answer Length	5.1 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	14 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

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