October 11, 2019 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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

Date: Friday, October 11, 2019

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 68 (35 Across, 33 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.5 letters

October 11, 2019 Friday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Presenters' presenters, informally	3
2A	4. San Fernando Valley community	6
3A	10. Come together	3
4A	13. Locale of the Campo de' Fiori	4
5A	15. Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"	6
6A	16. Thurman of "Kill Bill"	3
7A	17. Sight in front of the Lincoln Memorial	4
8A	18. "Let's do it!"	6
9A	19. Small handful	3
10A	20. Parvenues with a certain je ne sais quoi	7
11A	22. Color the old-fashioned way	7
12A	24. Appellation akin to "tiger," "sport" or "champ"	6
13A	25. Concludes neatly	8
14A	26. Queen ___ (nickname in pop music)	3
15A	27. Persian defense org.?	4
16A	29. Bustles	4
17A	30. Response to the peanut gallery	11
18A	34. 1870s tax evasion scandal	11
19A	35. 1982 Soft Cell hit that spent 43 weeks on the Billboard charts	11
20A	36. What often follows thunder and lightning	4
21A	37. Version before a stable release	4
22A	38. "The ___ of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice": M.L.K.	3
23A	41. Not be oneself, but rather be one's elf?	8
24A	45. "The nerve!"	6
25A	47. In keeping with tradition	7
26A	48. Bliss	7
27A	49. Sugar substitute	3
28A	50. Matador's cape	6
29A	52. Give someone a hand	4
30A	53. Coy comeback	3
31A	54. Like apartment buildings with fireplaces and hardwood floors, typically	6
32A	55. Otter's lair	4
33A	56. Amazon worker	3
34A	57. Most balanced	6
35A	58. Old gaming inits.	3

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. Presenters' presenters, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that one million periods per second
• Words that mean the same thing: megahertz, Mc, megacycle per second
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MCS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "4. San Fernando Valley community"

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: ENCINO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Come together"

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 colloid in a more solid form than a sol
• Words that mean the same thing: gelatin, colloidal gel, mousse
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Locale of the Campo de' Fiori"

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 member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern india but now are living on all continents (but mostly in europe, north africa, and north america)
• Words that mean the same thing: Gipsy, Bohemian, Eternal City
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man""

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: MOOCOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Thurman of "Kill Bill""

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 benevolent aspect of devi; `splendor'
• Words that mean the same thing: genus Uma
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: UMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Sight in front of the Lincoln 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 excavation that is (usually) filled with water
• Words that mean the same thing: pocket billiards, pond, kitty
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. "Let's do it!""

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: IMGAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. Small handful"

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 (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
• Words that mean the same thing: hob, gremlin, pixie
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IMP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Parvenues with a certain je ne sais quoi"

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: ITGIRLS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Color the old-fashioned way"

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: HANDDYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Appellation akin to "tiger," "sport" or "champ""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BIGGUY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Concludes neatly"

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: ENDSWELL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. Queen ___ (nickname in pop music)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (formerly) a title of respect for a man in turkey or egypt
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "27. Persian defense org.?"

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: SPCA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "29. Bustles"

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 rapid active commotion
• Words that mean the same thing: hustle, bustle, stir
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "30. Response to the peanut gallery"

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: WHOASKEDYOU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. 1870s tax evasion scandal"

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: WHISKEYRING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. 1982 Soft Cell hit that spent 43 weeks on the Billboard charts"

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: TAINTEDLOVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "36. What often follows thunder and lightning"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
• Words that mean the same thing: beetle off, slap, bolt of lightning
• The opposite would be: unbolt
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOLT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "37. Version before a stable release"

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 2nd letter of the greek alphabet
• Words that mean the same thing: genus Beta
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BETA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "38. "The ___ of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice": M.L.K."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
• Words that mean the same thing: discharge, arch, electric discharge
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "41. Not be oneself, but rather be one's elf?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that perform on a stage or theater
• Words that mean the same thing: play, act, playact
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROLEPLAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. "The nerve!""

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: INEVER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "47. In keeping with tradition"

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: ASUSUAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "48. Bliss"

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 state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; - charles dickens
• Words that mean the same thing: rapture, transport, cristal
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ECSTASY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "49. Sugar substitute"

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: HON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "50. Matador's cape"

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: MULETA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "52. Give someone a hand"

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 sudden very loud noise
• Words that mean the same thing: gonorrhoea, applaud, bam
• The opposite would be: boo
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "53. Coy comeback"

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: MOI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "54. Like apartment buildings with fireplaces and hardwood floors, typically"

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 existing or belonging to a time before a war
• The opposite would be: postwar
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PREWAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "55. Otter's lair"

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: HOLT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "56. Amazon worker"

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 social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
• Words that mean the same thing: pismire, emmet
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "57. Most balanced"

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 mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
• Words that mean the same thing: sane, reasonable
• The opposite would be: insane
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SANEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "58. Old gaming inits."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 10, northeast, neon
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NES

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Friday Crossword Down Clues - October 11, 2019 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Coca-Cola offering from 1974 to 2001	6
2D	2. Something a kindergartner doesn't want to get	6
3D	3. Like Beijing	6
4D	4. Who once wrote "Nothing is less important than which fork you use"	9
5D	5. Jules et Jim, e.g.	4
6D	6. Minor player	3
7D	7. Billionaire who lent his name to a stadium on New York's Randalls Island	5
8D	8. Movable type?	5
9D	9. Buck in the jukebox	5
10D	10. Lab assistant, maybe?	8
11D	11. Harris who sang with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt	7
12D	12. Sites for some mics	6
13D	14. Longtime Sacha Baron Cohen character	4
14D	21. Enter quickly	6
15D	23. ___ Johnson a.k.a. The Rock	6
16D	25. Tiptoed past, say	7
17D	28. What mud can do	4
18D	30. Certain laundry load	6
19D	31. ___ Reese, soldier in "The Terminator"	4
20D	32. Works during a painter's blue period?	9
21D	33. Furniture that's often backless	6
22D	34. Place for a TV and books	8
23D	35. "We can't joke about this yet?"	7
24D	36. Member of a holy trinity	6
25D	38. Toyota sedan since 1994	6
26D	39. ___ value	6
27D	40. Catacombs	6
28D	42. Parts of soap dispensers	5
29D	43. 1944 Gene Tierney classic	5
30D	44. Wrench handle?	5
31D	46. Prepare a plate, in a way	4
32D	48. Things in airport windows, for short	4
33D	51. Queen of she-baa?	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. Coca-Cola offering from 1974 to 2001"

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: MRPIBB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Something a kindergartner doesn't want to get"

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 parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings
• Words that mean the same thing: body louse, Pediculus corporis
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COOTIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Like Beijing"

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 clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SMOGGY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Who once wrote "Nothing is less important than which fork you use""

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: EMILYPOST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Jules et Jim, e.g."

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: NOMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Minor player"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
• Words that mean the same thing: sprocket
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Billionaire who lent his name to a stadium on New York's Randalls Island"

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: ICAHN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Movable type?"

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 member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOMAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Buck in the jukebox"

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 united states athlete and black american whose success in the 1936 olympic games in berlin outraged hitler (1913-1980)
• Words that mean the same thing: Jesse Owens, Robert Owen, Owen
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OWENS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Lab assistant, maybe?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: GUIDEDOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Harris who sang with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt"

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: EMMYLOU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Sites for some mics"

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 lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar
• Words that mean the same thing: lapel
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAPELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. Longtime Sacha Baron Cohen character"

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: ALIG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "21. Enter quickly"

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: RUSHIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "23. ___ Johnson a.k.a. The Rock"

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: DWAYNE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Tiptoed past, say"

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: EASEDBY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "28. What mud can do"

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 block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
• Words that mean the same thing: bar, patty, coat
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "30. Certain laundry load"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a member of the caucasoid race
• Words that mean the same thing: ovalbumin, gabardine, T. H. White
• The opposite would be: black, blacken
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WHITES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "31. ___ Reese, soldier in "The Terminator""

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: KYLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "32. Works during a painter's blue period?"

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: EROTICART

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. Furniture that's often backless"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall)
• Words that mean the same thing: diwan, divan
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIVANS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "34. Place for a TV and books"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: WALLUNIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "35. "We can't joke about this yet?""

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: TOOSOON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. Member of a holy trinity"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the creator; one of the three major deities in the later hindu pantheon
• Words that mean the same thing: Brahman, Brahmin, Bos indicus
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BRAHMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Toyota sedan since 1994"

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: AVALON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. ___ value"

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

  The answer is: RESALE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "40. Catacombs"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
• Words that mean the same thing: crypt
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CRYPTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. Parts of soap dispensers"

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 mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
• Words that mean the same thing: pump, ticker, heart
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PUMPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "43. 1944 Gene Tierney classic"

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: LAURA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "44. Wrench handle?"

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 comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, george burns (1906-1964)
• Words that mean the same thing: Gracie Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALLEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Prepare a plate, in a way"

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 make an etching of
• Words that mean the same thing: engrave
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETCH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "48. Things in airport windows, for short"

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

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

  The answer is: ETAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "51. Queen of she-baa?"

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 people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EWE

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	53	77.9%
Short Answer	9	13.2%
Sports	2	2.9%
Music	1	1.5%
History	1	1.5%
Literature	1	1.5%
Abbreviation	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	33
Total Clues	68
Average Answer Length	5.5 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 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 Analysis

Date: Thursday, July 02, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 81 (41 Across, 40 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.0 letters

Across Clues Explained - Thursday NYT Crossword July 02, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Shot contents	4
2A	5. Let off the hook?	5
3A	10. Zebra feature	4
4A	14. Ilhan ___, first Somali-American elected to Congress	4
5A	15. Study for Dr. Albert Sabin	5
6A	16. Mean less?	5
7A	17. *Express one's view	10
8A	19. Bring on	5
9A	20. FedEx rival	3
10A	21. Harold who co-founded The New Yorker magazine	4
11A	22. Common bit of concert merchandise	6
12A	24. Keep time with the foot	6
13A	26. *Kick off	9
14A	29. Big name in printers	5
15A	30. Rug maker's supply	3
16A	31. Band aid?	6
17A	32. Timid people, so to speak	4
18A	34. PC "brain"	3
19A	36. Items in an airport security line	4
20A	37. Corp. logos, e.g.	3
21A	40. *Sends	8
22A	43. Little 'un	3
23A	44. Crowd noise	4
24A	46. Size up	3
25A	47. Politburo objection	4
26A	49. Sounds, e.g.	6
27A	51. Expected	3
28A	53. March 14	5
29A	57. *Reacts to an amazing magic trick, say	9
30A	59. Lackey	6
31A	60. Like Julián and Joaquin Castro	6
32A	61. Site of an annual Taro Festival	4
33A	63. Get along well	3
34A	64. It's below the knee	5
35A	65. Emulate Ferris Bueller ... or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues	10
36A	68. "Love ___ you need"	5
37A	69. Pack of smarties?	5
38A	70. Fish eater's annoyance	4
39A	71. Mind	4
40A	72. Like Cheerios	5
41A	73. Took too much, briefly	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. Shot contents"

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 amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates
• Words that mean the same thing: blood serum, serum
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Let off the hook?"

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: UNPEG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Zebra feature"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
• Words that mean the same thing: head of hair
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MANE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Ilhan ___, first Somali-American elected to Congress"

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: OMAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Study for Dr. Albert Sabin"

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 acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
• Words that mean the same thing: poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POLIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Mean less?"

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 pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; - george meredith
• Words that mean the same thing: dainty, decent, nice
• The opposite would be: nasty
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NICER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. *Express one's view"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
• Words that mean the same thing: committedness, allegiance, committal
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COMMITMENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Bring 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 make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to
• Words that mean the same thing: get, find, obtain
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INCUR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. FedEx rival"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• Words that mean the same thing: 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: UPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Harold who co-founded The New Yorker magazine"

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 scottish explorer who led arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the northwest passage (1777-1856)
• Words that mean the same thing: Sir James Clark Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross, Betsy Ross
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Common bit of concert merchandise"

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: TSHIRT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Keep time with the foot"

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: TOETAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. *Kick off"

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: STAYALERT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. Big name in printers"

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: EPSON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. Rug maker's supply"

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 usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
• Words that mean the same thing: dyestuff
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "31. Band aid?"

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: ROADIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "32. Timid people, so to speak"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
• Words that mean the same thing: mouse, black eye, shiner
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MICE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. PC "brain""

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 (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
• Words that mean the same thing: central processing unit, central processor, C.P.U.
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CPU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "36. Items in an airport security line"

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 container; usually has a lid
• Words that mean the same thing: binful, BIN, bin
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "37. Corp. logos, e.g."

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 soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits x-rays and is used in small portable x-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 69, thulium, Tm
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "40. *Sends"

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: SUNCHIPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. Little 'un"

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 up, add together, summate
• The 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 23 Across: "44. Crowd noise"

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 deep prolonged loud noise
• Words that mean the same thing: howl, boom, holler
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "46. Size up"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "47. Politburo objection"

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: NYET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "49. Sounds, e.g."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
• Words that mean the same thing: inlet, intake, recess
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INLETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. Expected"

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 that which is deserved or owed
• Words that mean the same thing: imputable, referable, ascribable
• The opposite would be: undue
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "53. March 14"

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: PIDAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "57. *Reacts to an amazing magic trick, say"

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: GASPRICES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "59. Lackey"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person of unquestioning obedience
• Words that mean the same thing: butt, laughingstock, yes-man
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STOOGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "60. Like Julián and Joaquin Castro"

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 native of latin america
• Words that mean the same thing: Hispanic, Latin American
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LATINO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "61. Site of an annual Taro Festival"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the second largest of the hawaiian islands
• Words that mean the same thing: Maui 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: MAUI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "63. Get along well"

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 colloid in a more solid form than a sol
• Words that mean the same thing: gelatin, mousse, colloidal gel
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "64. It's below the knee"

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 inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
• Words that mean the same thing: shinbone, shin, shin 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: TIBIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "65. Emulate Ferris Bueller ... or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SKIPSCHOOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "68. "Love ___ you need""

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: ISALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "69. Pack of smarties?"

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 faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the large magellanic cloud
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MENSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "70. Fish eater's annoyance"

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 rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
• Words that mean the same thing: off-white, swot, osseous tissue
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "71. Mind"

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 work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
• Words that mean the same thing: charge, precaution, aid
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CARE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Across: "72. Like Cheerios"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that of or related to or derived from oats
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OATEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Across: "73. Took too much, briefly"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ODED

  Great job if you got it right!

July 02, 2020 Down Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. "Adorbs!"	6
2D	2. Genre for Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance	6
3D	3. Name of 11 pharaohs	6
4D	4. Sofa part	3
5D	5. "High-five!"	5
6D	6. Listings in une encyclopédie	4
7D	7. ___ v. Ferguson (Supreme Court decision essentially overruled by Brown v. Board of Education)	6
8D	8. A, in Austria	3
9D	9. "___ go!"	5
10D	10. Small photo processing center	7
11D	11. Sanction	8
12D	12. Subatomic particle with a mass close to zero	8
13D	13. Goof	3
14D	16. "Hello," in the world's most common first language	5
15D	18. Farsi speakers	6
16D	23. Saccharine	6
17D	25. Certain cat	3
18D	27. End of many university names	4
19D	28. Experiment	4
20D	30. Refuse	4
21D	33. Brings up to speed	6
22D	35. Tree on Maine's flag	4
23D	37. A lecture on it might be full of tangents	4
24D	38. Big attraction at the Louvre	8
25D	39. Taqueria fixture	8
26D	41. Give up	4
27D	42. Not sterilized	6
28D	45. Turtle or tuatara	7
29D	48. Uncle, in Uruguay	3
30D	50. Experiment	5
31D	52. Big money maker	6
32D	54. Make the world a better place	6
33D	55. Time to take first steps, maybe	6
34D	56. Squawked	6
35D	58. Jerry's neighbor on "Seinfeld"	5
36D	59. Radio journalist Stamberg	5
37D	62. Abbey area	4
38D	64. Wrinkling one's nose, perhaps	3
39D	66. Mauna ___	3
40D	67. "Succession" airer	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. "Adorbs!""

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: SOCUTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Genre for Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance"

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

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Name of 11 pharaohs"

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 of 12 kings of ancient egypt between 1315 and 1090 bc
• Words that mean the same thing: Rameses, Ramesses
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAMSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Sofa part"

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 human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
• Words that mean the same thing: limb, subdivision, branch
• The opposite would be: disarm
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. "High-five!""

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: UPTOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Listings in une encyclopédie"

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: NOMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. ___ v. Ferguson (Supreme Court decision essentially overruled by Brown v. Board of Education)"

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: PLESSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. A, in Austria"

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: EIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. "___ go!""

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: GOTTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Small photo processing center"

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: MINILAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Sanction"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that grant credentials to
• Words that mean the same thing: credit, recognize, recognise
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACCREDIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Subatomic particle with a mass close to zero"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an elementary particle with zero charge and zero mass
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEUTRINO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Goof"

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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
• Words that mean the same thing: mistake, slip, stray
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "16. "Hello," in the world's most common first language"

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: NIHAO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "18. Farsi speakers"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a native or inhabitant of iran
• Words that mean the same thing: Irani, Iranian, Persian
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRANIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Saccharine"

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 overly sweet
• Words that mean the same thing: honeyed, saccharine, cloying
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SYRUPY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Certain 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: Uncle Tom, tomcat, turkey cock
• The 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 18 Down: "27. End of many university names"

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 school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences
• Words that mean the same thing: technical school
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TECH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Experiment"

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 trying something to find out about it
• Words that mean the same thing: examination, run, quiz
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "30. Refuse"

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 declare untrue; contradict
• Words that mean the same thing: refuse, traverse, abnegate
• The opposite would be: allow, admit
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DENY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. Brings up to speed"

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: CUESIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "35. Tree on Maine's flag"

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 coniferous tree
• Words that mean the same thing: pine tree, yearn, ache
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "37. A lecture on it might be full of tangents"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
• Words that mean the same thing: trigonometry, trim, clean-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: TRIG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "38. Big attraction at the Louvre"

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: MONALISA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Taqueria fixture"

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: SALSABAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "41. Give up"

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 give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
• Words that mean the same thing: yield, surrender, concede
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CEDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "42. Not sterilized"

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 containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
• Words that mean the same thing: infected
• The opposite would be: antiseptic
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEPTIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "45. Turtle or tuatara"

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 any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
• Words that mean the same thing: reptilian
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REPTILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "48. Uncle, in Uruguay"

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: TIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "50. Experiment"

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 act of testing something
• Words that mean the same thing: run, visitation, trial run
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRIAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. Big money maker"

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: USMINT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "54. Make the world a better place"

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: DOGOOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "55. Time to take first steps, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: AGEONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "56. Squawked"

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 utter a sudden loud cry
• Words that mean the same thing: yell, scream, holler
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YELLED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "58. Jerry's neighbor on "Seinfeld""

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: COSMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "59. Radio journalist Stamberg"

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: SUSAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "62. Abbey area"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: APSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "64. Wrinkling one's nose, perhaps"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "66. Mauna ___"

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 large brownish-green new zealand parrot
• Words that mean the same thing: Nestor notabilis
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "67. "Succession" airer"

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: HBO

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	62	76.5%
Short Answer	16	19.8%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.2%
Abbreviation	1	1.2%
Science/Technology	1	1.2%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	41
Down Clues	40
Total Clues	81
Average Answer Length	5.0 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	10 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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