September 11, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (35 clues)
• Down Clues (37 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, September 11, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 72 (35 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.4 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle September 11, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Fans of the Bible?	10
2A	11. It's hardly a breath of fresh air	4
3A	15. Apartment units	10
4A	16. Where to visit the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial	4
5A	17. Necked, jocularly	10
6A	18. Sort (through)	4
7A	19. Perspectives	5
8A	20. Starters	5
9A	22. Bobs and weaves	3
10A	23. Phone-unlocking option	4
11A	25. Pictures	7
12A	27. "Auntie," on the telly	3
13A	30. Dreaded examination	5
14A	32. Like bells	4
15A	33. Achilles' heel, e.g.	4
16A	35. Lap-sitter	3
17A	36. Solution for a chef, maybe	5
18A	37. Not on time, but that's OK	15
19A	41. Talent, in slang	5
20A	42. Sister language of Thai	3
21A	43. Member of the House of Saud, e.g.	4
22A	44. ___ nut	4
23A	45. Cicely ___, 2020 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee	5
24A	47. Seventh of 24	3
25A	48. Plot device that prompts a protagonist to piece things together	7
26A	50. Right columns?	4
27A	52. Roar from a crowd	3
28A	53. Proverbial back-breaker	5
29A	55. King ___	5
30A	59. "My, my!"	4
31A	61. Get out of here!	10
32A	63. Miguel in "Coco," por ejemplo	4
33A	64. Sweet Indian beverage	10
34A	65. "Rock or Bust" rockers	4
35A	66. One who's about ready to go out?	10

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. Fans of the Bible?"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: PALMFRONDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "11. It's hardly a breath of fresh air"

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 air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
• Words that mean the same thing: smogginess
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SMOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. Apartment units"

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: SQUAREFEET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Where to visit the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial"

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 island of central hawaii (between molokai and kauai); the chief island of the state
• Words that mean the same thing: Oahu Island
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OAHU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Necked, jocularly"

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: SUCKEDFACE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Sort (through)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that move as if through a sieve
• Words that mean the same thing: strain, sieve
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SIFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Perspectives"

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 the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
• Words that mean the same thing: yield, contract, withdraw
• The opposite would be: abstain, give
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAKES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Starters"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ATEAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. Bobs and weaves"

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 federal department in the united states that sets and maintains foreign policies
• Words that mean the same thing: practise, come, answer
• The opposite would be: unmake
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "23. Phone-unlocking option"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
• Words that mean the same thing: read, skim, rake
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "25. Pictures"

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 ability to form mental images of things or events
• Words that mean the same thing: imaging, mental imagery, imagination
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IMAGERY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "27. "Auntie," on the telly"

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: BBC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "30. Dreaded examination"

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 inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or cpa
• Words that mean the same thing: inspect, scrutinize, audited account
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AUDIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "32. Like bells"

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 crosspiece between the legs of a chair
• Words that mean the same thing: reverberate, stave, surround
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RUNG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "33. Achilles' heel, 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 an imperfection in an object or machine
• Words that mean the same thing: fault, blemish, defect
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. Lap-sitter"

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: sum, tot up, add
• The 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 17 Across: "36. Solution for a chef, maybe"

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 water containing salts
• Words that mean the same thing: seawater, saltwater
• The opposite would be: fresh water
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BRINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. Not on time, but that's OK"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: FASHIONABLYLATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "41. Talent, in slang"

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 irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
• Words that mean the same thing: chop, chopper, chop shot
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHOPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "42. Sister language of Thai"

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 member of a buddhist people inhabiting the area of the mekong river in laos and thailand and speaking the lao language; related to the thais
• Words that mean the same thing: Laotian
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Member of the House of Saud, e.g."

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 independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
• Words that mean the same thing: amir, emeer, ameer
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EMIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. ___ nut"

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 tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract
• Words that mean the same thing: Musgoi, Cola acuminata, Daba
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KOLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. Cicely ___, 2020 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee"

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 united states prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (born in 1966)
• Words that mean the same thing: Michael Gerald Tyson, Mike Tyson
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TYSON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "47. Seventh of 24"

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 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: Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Basque Homeland and Freedom, Euskadi ta Askatasuna
• The 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 25 Across: "48. Plot device that prompts a protagonist to piece things together"

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 partial or total loss of memory
• Words that mean the same thing: memory loss, blackout
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMNESIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "50. Right columns?"

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 prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
• Words that mean the same thing: blue-pencil, redact, cut
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "52. Roar from a crowd"

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: RAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "53. Proverbial back-breaker"

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 plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
• Words that mean the same thing: husk, wheat, chaff
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STRAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "55. King ___"

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 venomous asiatic and african elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COBRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "59. "My, my!""

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: EGAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "61. Get out of here!"

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: ESCAPEROOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "63. Miguel in "Coco," por ejemplo"

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: NINO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "64. Sweet Indian beverage"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MANGOLASSI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "65. "Rock or Bust" rockers"

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: ACDC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "66. One who's about ready to go out?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a sleepy person
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLEEPYHEAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword September 11, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Attention getter	4
2D	2. Lead-in to culture	4
3D	3. Unfortunate thing to be out of	4
4D	4. Nets	5
5D	5. Alternative to 7Up	6
6D	6. Like the circle in the 7Up logo	3
7D	7. Intermittently	8
8D	8. Dandy	4
9D	9. Trickery	6
10D	10. Tick off	5
11D	11. Title of hits by Abba and Rihanna	3
12D	12. Something that might be sacrificed at the altar?	10
13D	13. "Never mind!"	10
14D	14. Full of grit	5
15D	21. Unite	5
16D	24. Jaguars, e.g.	5
17D	26. Trickery	5
18D	27. With whom you might have a Snapchat streak, informally	3
19D	28. Bad spells	10
20D	29. Liquid paper?	10
21D	31. Where eyeglasses and espresso machines were invented	5
22D	34. With 36-Down, what plasma may be removed from	5
23D	36. See 34-Down	5
24D	38. "Check"	5
25D	39. It comes before overtime	8
26D	40. Slice of life, maybe	3
27D	45. Kind of bone near the tibia and fibula	6
28D	46. "___ done!"	6
29D	48. Game site	5
30D	49. Objects	5
31D	51. Literally, "law"	5
32D	54. Face covering of a sort	4
33D	56. Big producer of speakers	4
34D	57. Santa ___, Calif.	4
35D	58. Surrounded by	4
36D	60. Nonfiction film, informally	3
37D	62. Really jump out	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. Attention getter"

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: PSST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Lead-in to culture"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: AQUA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Unfortunate thing to be out of"

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 your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
• Words that mean the same thing: circumstances, lot, portion
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LUCK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Nets"

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 recognizable kind
• Words that mean the same thing: micturate, relieve oneself, stimulate
• The opposite would be: unmake, break
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAKES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Alternative to 7Up"

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: FRESCA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Like the circle in the 7Up logo"

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 red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
• Words that mean the same thing: cherry-red, bolshie, Marxist
• The opposite would be: gain
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Intermittently"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: OFFANDON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Dandy"

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 clean or organized
• Words that mean the same thing: straight, slap-up, peachy
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Trickery"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the quality of being fraudulent
• Words that mean the same thing: dissembling, deception, misrepresentation
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DECEIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Tick off"

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 water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
• Words that mean the same thing: steam clean, steamer
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STEAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Title of hits by Abba and Rihanna"

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 internationally recognized distress signal in radio code
• Words that mean the same thing: so, soh, sol
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Something that might be sacrificed at the altar?"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: MAIDENNAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. "Never mind!""

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: OHFORGETIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Full of grit"

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 marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; ; -judith crist
• Words that mean the same thing: plucky
• The opposite would be: gutless
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GUTSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Unite"

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 take in marriage
• Words that mean the same thing: espouse, splice, get hitched with
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MARRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Jaguars, 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 motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
• Words that mean the same thing: machine, auto, motorcar
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AUTOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. Trickery"

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 shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
• Words that mean the same thing: slyness, chicane, shenanigan
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GUILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. With whom you might have a Snapchat streak, informally"

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: BFF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Bad spells"

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: BLACKMAGIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "29. Liquid paper?"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: CASHONHAND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "31. Where eyeglasses and espresso machines were invented"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a republic in southern europe on the italian peninsula; was the core of the roman republic and the roman empire between the 4th century bc and the 5th century ad
• Words that mean the same thing: Italia, Italian 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: ITALY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "34. With 36-Down, what plasma may be removed from"

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 all of something including all its component elements or parts
• Words that mean the same thing: all, hale, wholly
• The opposite would be: fractional, half
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WHOLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. See 34-Down"

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 fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
• Words that mean the same thing: origin, stock, profligate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLOOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "38. "Check""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: IPASS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. It comes before overtime"

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: BASEWAGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Slice of life, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "45. Kind of bone near the tibia and fibula"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any bone of the tarsus
• Words that mean the same thing: tarsal bone
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TARSAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "46. "___ done!""

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

  The answer is: NICELY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "48. Game site"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a particular environment or walk of life
• Words that mean the same thing: sphere, domain, field
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARENA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "49. Objects"

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 distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
• Words that mean the same thing: token, particular, detail
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ITEMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "51. Literally, "law""

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

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 32 Down: "54. Face covering of a sort"

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 inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACNE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "56. Big producer of speakers"

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 indian physicist who with albert einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons
• Words that mean the same thing: Satyendra N. Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "57. Santa ___, Calif."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses
• Words that mean the same thing: genus Rosa
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "58. Surrounded by"

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: AMID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "60. Nonfiction film, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a licensed medical practitioner
• Words that mean the same thing: MD, Department of Commerce, physician
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DOC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "62. Really jump out"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
• Words that mean the same thing: dada, tonic, belt down
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POP

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	56	77.8%
Short Answer	11	15.3%
History	2	2.8%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.4%
Sports	1	1.4%
Movies/Film	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	72
Average Answer Length	5.4 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

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

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (33 clues)
• Down Clues (35 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, January 23, 2021

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 68 (33 Across, 35 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.8 letters

Across Clues Explained - Saturday NYT Crossword January 23, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Bands popular in the '70s	9
2A	10. Uses a letter opener on	5
3A	15. Later on, when appropriate	9
4A	16. "The Pirates of Penzance" ingénue	5
5A	17. Is resolute	9
6A	18. Grammy winner with the surname Adkins	5
7A	19. National ___ Hall of Fame, in Rochester, N.Y.	3
8A	20. Flip, say	5
9A	21. Esther of TV's "Good Times"	5
10A	22. "Breaking Bad" protagonist	4
11A	23. Offer sheet?	7
12A	25. Refresh, in a way	6
13A	28. "Quit your bickering!"	6
14A	29. Left on deck	5
15A	30. Reached the point of no return?	9
16A	33. Like many Ariz. residents	4
17A	34. Fraught with risk	5
18A	35. Gubernatorial option	4
19A	36. Snow-capped peak of song	9
20A	38. Yellowstone traffic halters	5
21A	39. One going paperless in April, say	6
22A	40. Gags	6
23A	41. Once-common mall fixtures	7
24A	43. Nut chewed as a stimulant	4
25A	44. Harshly colorful	5
26A	45. Certain computer key	5
27A	47. Face-covering dance move	3
28A	50. Star N.F.L. receiver ___ Beckham Jr.	5
29A	51. "Stoned Soul Picnic" songwriter	9
30A	53. Counterpart of butch	5
31A	54. Language in which "Hello, how are you?" is "Saluton, kiel vi fartas?"	9
32A	55. Its penultimate line is "Poems are made by fools like me"	5
33A	56. Franchise with the "Dominating the Deep" DVD set	9

Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!

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

Clue 1 Across: "1. Bands popular in the '70s"

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: MOODRINGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "10. Uses a letter opener on"

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 long narrow opening
• Words that mean the same thing: slit, twat, prick
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. Later on, when appropriate"

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: INDUETIME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. "The Pirates of Penzance" ingénue"

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: MABEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Is resolute"

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: STANDSPAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Grammy winner with the surname Adkins"

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: ADELE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. National ___ Hall of Fame, in Rochester, N.Y."

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 artifact designed to be played with
• Words that mean the same thing: miniature, dally, diddle
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Flip, say"

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 show a response or a reaction to something
• Words that mean the same thing: oppose, respond
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REACT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Esther of TV's "Good Times""

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: ROLLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. "Breaking Bad" protagonist"

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: WALT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Offer sheet?"

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: HITLIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Refresh, in a way"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TOPOFF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "28. "Quit your bickering!""

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: BENICE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. Left on deck"

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: APORT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. Reached the point of no return?"

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: BROKEEVEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "33. Like many Ariz. residents"

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: RETD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "34. Fraught with risk"

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 having or covered with hair
• Words that mean the same thing: hirsute, haired
• The opposite would be: hairless
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HAIRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "35. Gubernatorial option"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a vote that blocks a decision
• Words that mean the same thing: negative, forbid, disallow
• The opposite would be: allow, permit
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VETO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "36. Snow-capped peak of song"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OLDSMOKEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "38. Yellowstone traffic halters"

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 several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BISON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "39. One going paperless in April, say"

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: EFILER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "40. Gags"

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: PUTONS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "41. Once-common mall fixtures"

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 covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side
• Words that mean the same thing: arcade, colonnade
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARCADES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "43. Nut chewed as a stimulant"

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 tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract
• Words that mean the same thing: Musgoi, goora nut, kola nut 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: KOLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "44. Harshly colorful"

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 horrible in fierceness or savagery
• Words that mean the same thing: shocking
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LURID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "45. Certain computer key"

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 mark to indicate a direction or relation
• Words that mean the same thing: pointer
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARROW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "47. Face-covering dance move"

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 light touch or stroke
• Words that mean the same thing: splatter, swab, 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: DAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "50. Star N.F.L. receiver ___ Beckham Jr."

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: ODELL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "51. "Stoned Soul Picnic" songwriter"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: LAURANYRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "53. Counterpart of butch"

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: FEMME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "54. Language in which "Hello, how are you?" is "Saluton, kiel vi fartas?""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the european 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: ESPERANTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "55. Its penultimate line is "Poems are made by fools like me""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
• Words that mean the same thing: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, shoetree, 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: TREES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "56. Franchise with the "Dominating the Deep" DVD set"

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: SHARKWEEK

  Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Saturday Puzzle January 23, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Sight in a produce aisle	4
2D	2. "I'm ___ you!"	4
3D	3. Danny ___, ventriloquist dummy for Jimmy Nelson	4
4D	4. Pressure over a debt	3
5D	5. Second or third version	7
6D	6. "Life ___" (2014 Roger Ebert documentary)	6
7D	7. Pester playfully	5
8D	8. Finance co. rebranded as Ally Financial	4
9D	9. Branch of mathematics that uses "∪" and "∩"	9
10D	10. Brain	7
11D	11. Classic film that gave us the term "paparazzi"	11
12D	12. "Pretty sure"	10
13D	13. Restless movements, maybe	5
14D	14. Unwelcome forecast	5
15D	22. "I ... I can't even"	11
16D	24. Like presses	4
17D	25. Certain paddy crop	4
18D	26. Car with a lightning bolt logo	4
19D	27. French dessert of soft custard	10
20D	28. Patch growth	5
21D	30. Things that generate a lot of cookie dough?	9
22D	31. Early educator of George Orwell	4
23D	32. Dijon denials	4
24D	34. Course division	4
25D	37. Some airplane seats	7
26D	38. Fortification	7
27D	40. Traditional wedding vow word	6
28D	41. Up	5
29D	42. Showing less refinement	5
30D	43. Gene who's considered "the founding father of the modern drum set"	5
31D	46. Far from deliberate	4
32D	47. 10 micronewtons	4
33D	48. Museo contents	4
34D	49. Enter into a calendar	4
35D	52. "Thanks anyway, pardner"	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. Sight in a produce aisle"

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 thin fog with condensation near the ground
• Words that mean the same thing: obscure, haze over, befog
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. "I'm ___ you!""

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: ONTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Danny ___, ventriloquist dummy for Jimmy Nelson"

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: ODAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Pressure over a debt"

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 horse of a dull brownish grey color
• Words that mean the same thing: crucify, rag, fawn
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DUN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Second or third version"

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 draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REDRAFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. "Life ___" (2014 Roger Ebert documentary)"

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: ITSELF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Pester playfully"

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: NIPAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Finance co. rebranded as Ally Financial"

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: GMAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Branch of mathematics that uses "∪" and "∩""

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

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Brain"

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: SMARTIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Classic film that gave us the term "paparazzi""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: LADOLCEVITA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. "Pretty sure""

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: IBELIEVESO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Restless movements, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
• Words that mean the same thing: tell, enjoin, evidence
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TELLS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Unwelcome forecast"

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 partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLEET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. "I ... I can't even""

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: WORDSFAILME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Like presses"

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 of the color of black ink
• Words that mean the same thing: ink-black, inky-black
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INKY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Certain paddy crop"

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

  The answer is: TARO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Car with a lightning bolt logo"

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 german industrialist who was the first in germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)
• Words that mean the same thing: Wilhelm von Opel
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OPEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "27. French dessert of soft custard"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: POTDECREME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "28. Patch growth"

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 tangled mass of prickly plants
• Words that mean the same thing: sweetbriar, Smilax rotundifolia, horse brier
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BRIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "30. Things that generate a lot of cookie dough?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BAKESALES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. Early educator of George Orwell"

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: ETON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "32. Dijon denials"

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: NONS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "34. Course division"

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 opening into or through something
• Words that mean the same thing: pickle, kettle of fish, jam
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "37. Some airplane seats"

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 an area that is approximately central within some larger region
• Words that mean the same thing: center, centre, midsection
• The opposite would be: end
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIDDLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "38. Fortification"

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 an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
• Words that mean the same thing: wall, breakwater, mole
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BULWARK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "40. Traditional wedding vow word"

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 deserving or inciting pity; ; ; - galsworthy
• Words that mean the same thing: piteous, miserable, inadequate
• The opposite would be: rich
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POORER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "41. Up"

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 at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALOFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "42. Showing less refinement"

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 socially incorrect in behavior
• Words that mean the same thing: lowbred, ill-bred, crude
• The opposite would be: civil
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RUDER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "43. Gene who's considered "the founding father of the modern drum set""

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: KRUPA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Far from deliberate"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any red eruption of the skin
• Words that mean the same thing: foolhardy, skin rash, blizzard
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RASH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "47. 10 micronewtons"

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 unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DYNE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "48. Museo contents"

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: ARTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "49. Enter into a calendar"

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 written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
• Words that mean the same thing: leger, hold, record
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOOK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "52. "Thanks anyway, pardner""

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: NAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	55	80.9%
Short Answer	4	5.9%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.9%
Literature	2	2.9%
History	2	2.9%
Music	1	1.5%
Science/Technology	1	1.5%
Movies/Film	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	33
Down Clues	35
Total Clues	68
Average Answer Length	5.8 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	11 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

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

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Last Updated: September 19, 2025 at 09:37 PM