September 04, 2021 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (32 clues)
• Down Clues (34 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
• Related Crossword Solutions

Related Puzzles

Check out these other crossword solutions and helpful guides:

• 27448 Sat Jan 04 2025 Ny Times
• June 13 2022 NYT Clues Solutions
• March 09 2022 NYT Clues Solutions
• May 30 2024 NYT Clues Solutions
• June 11 2024 NYT Clues Solutions

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, September 04, 2021

Difficulty Level: Challenging Thursday Puzzle

Total Clues: 66 (32 Across, 34 Down)

Average Word Length: 6.1 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Saturday Puzzle September 04, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Rush order	9
2A	10. Capital on the Gulf of Guinea	5
3A	15. Bet involving score totals	9
4A	16. Sight at low tide	5
5A	17. Mental or fiscal tightness	9
6A	18. Just under way, so to speak	5
7A	19. "90 Day Fiancé" channel	3
8A	20. TV lingo for using established hits to prop up weaker shows	10
9A	22. Govt. plant inspector	4
10A	24. The Greek philosopher Empedocles leapt into its flames, in legend	6
11A	25. Annual celebration during which sweeping is taboo	3
12A	27. Car model whose name becomes an N.B.A. superstar when its middle letter is removed	7
13A	29. Move, informally	4
14A	30. Needing a jolt	8
15A	33. Iranian port near the Iraq border	6
16A	35. Out of whimsy	7
17A	36. In the works	7
18A	37. Waifs	6
19A	38. Latin American spread	8
20A	39. First two words of Shelley's "Ozymandias"	4
21A	40. Falling hard?	7
22A	42. Bivouac sight	3
23A	43. Term terminus	6
24A	44. Roves (about)	4
25A	48. Someone who has it all	10
26A	51. Favorite	3
27A	52. Favorite novelist of Twihards	5
28A	53. As you like it	9
29A	55. Sty sound	5
30A	56. Completely routs	9
31A	57. Try to get down	5
32A	58. Got in a lather, say	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. Rush order"

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: COMEQUICK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "10. Capital on the Gulf of Guinea"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the capital and largest city of ghana with a deep-water port
• Words that mean the same thing: capital of 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: ACCRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. Bet involving score totals"

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: OVERUNDER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Sight at low tide"

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 sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
• Words that mean the same thing: shallow, 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: SHOAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Mental or fiscal tightness"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
• Words that mean the same thing: niggardness, minginess, thrift
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PARSIMONY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Just under way, so to speak"

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 any immature animal
• Words that mean the same thing: untried, Loretta Young, Whitney Young
• The opposite would be: old, aged
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YOUNG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. "90 Day Fiancé" channel"

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 considerate and solicitous care
• Words that mean the same thing: tender loving care
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TLC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. TV lingo for using established hits to prop up weaker shows"

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: TENTPOLING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. Govt. plant inspector"

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 government agency in the department of labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment
• Words that mean the same thing: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OSHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "24. The Greek philosopher Empedocles leapt into its flames, in legend"

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: MTETNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "25. Annual celebration during which sweeping is taboo"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "27. Car model whose name becomes an N.B.A. superstar when its middle letter is removed"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: LEBARON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "29. Move, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: RELO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "30. Needing a jolt"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that lacking zest or vivacity
• Words that mean the same thing: dispirited
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LISTLESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "33. Iranian port near the Iraq border"

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

  The answer is: ABADAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. Out of whimsy"

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: ONALARK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. In the works"

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 production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast
• Words that mean the same thing: brew
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BREWING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. Waifs"

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 (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
• Words that mean the same thing: gamin, throwaway, street arab
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GAMINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Latin American spread"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a large estate in spanish-speaking countries
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HACIENDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "39. First two words of Shelley's "Ozymandias""

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: IMET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "40. Falling hard?"

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 praise vociferously
• Words that mean the same thing: herald, acclaim, hail
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HAILING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "42. Bivouac sight"

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 sheath worn to protect a finger
• Words that mean the same thing: fingerstall, crib, camp bed
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "43. Term terminus"

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 final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
• Words that mean the same thing: final, final examination, final exam
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FINALS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "44. Roves (about)"

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 anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
• Words that mean the same thing: jazz around, gad, GAD
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GADS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "48. Someone who has it all"

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 someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something
• Words that mean the same thing: monopoliser, monopolizer
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MONOPOLIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "51. Favorite"

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

  The answer is: PET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "52. Favorite novelist of Twihards"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MEYER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "53. As you like it"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that worth having or seeking or achieving
• Words that mean the same thing: worthy, suitable
• The opposite would be: undesirable
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DESIRABLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "55. Sty sound"

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 disrespectful laugh
• Words that mean the same thing: boo, razz, bird
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SNORT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "56. Completely routs"

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: EATSALIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "57. Try to get 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 a detailed critical inspection
• Words that mean the same thing: survey, sketch, examine
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STUDY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "58. Got in a lather, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that use shampoo on (hair)
• Words that mean the same thing: shampoo
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHAMPOOED

  Great job if you got it right!

September 04, 2021 Down Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Admit	5
2D	2. Cricket fields, e.g.	5
3D	3. Swag for sale	5
4D	4. Sounds of hesitation	3
5D	5. Give notice	4
6D	6. Access to a country club, in brief?	12
7D	7. "Better off not knowing"	8
8D	8. Hockey players who face off in a face-off	7
9D	9. Superman's dog	6
10D	10. Havens	5
11D	11. "Parasite" co-star ___ Woo-shik	4
12D	12. Considered a participant	9
13D	13. Chaparral or savanna	9
14D	14. Calculus prerequisite: Abbr.	3
15D	21. 1914 Freud essay that introduced the concept of "ego ideal"	12
16D	23. Mostly online writing genre	6
17D	26. Kingdom whose capital is Nuku'alofa	5
18D	28. Effervescence	4
19D	29. Tartare topper	6
20D	30. "___ is the beginning of wisdom ... not the end": Spock	5
21D	31. Shortly	9
22D	32. "Right back atcha"	9
23D	34. Hippie confab	4
24D	36. Ancient siege weapon for launching stones	8
25D	38. Florida city with a large Cuban American population (70+%)	7
26D	41. Electron attractors	6
27D	43. Malt liquor bottle, in slang	5
28D	45. Where some high schoolers get DNA tests?	5
29D	46. Burrow (into)	5
30D	47. Marengo, for Napoleon	5
31D	49. "Jobs vs. Gates: The Hippie and the ___" (2015 TV movie)	4
32D	50. Hip-hop subgenre	4
33D	52. Slush pile contents: Abbr.	3
34D	54. Greeting in Rio	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. Admit"

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: COPTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Cricket fields, 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 closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
• Words that mean the same thing: oval, ellipse
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OVALS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Swag for sale"

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: MERCH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Sounds of hesitation"

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 trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
• Words that mean the same thing: ER, Er, atomic number 68
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Give notice"

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 put an end to a state or an activity
• Words that mean the same thing: give up, stop, foreswear
• The opposite would be: take office, enter
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: QUIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Access to a country club, in brief?"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: UNMEMBERSHIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. "Better off not knowing""

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: IDONTASK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Hockey players who face off in a face-off"

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

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 field, revolve about, middle
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CENTERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Superman's dog"

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: KRYPTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Havens"

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: ASYLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. "Parasite" co-star ___ Woo-shik"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CHOI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Considered a participant"

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: COUNTEDIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Chaparral or savanna"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that land suitable for grazing livestock
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RANGELAND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Calculus prerequisite: Abbr."

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: ALG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. 1914 Freud essay that introduced the concept of "ego ideal""

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: ONNARCISSISM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Mostly online writing genre"

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: ALTLIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. Kingdom whose capital is Nuku'alofa"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a monarchy on a polynesian archipelago in the south pacific; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1970
• Words that mean the same thing: Friendly Islands, Kingdom of Tonga
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TONGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Effervescence"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ELAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. Tartare topper"

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: RAWEGG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "30. "___ is the beginning of wisdom ... not the end": Spock"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
• Words that mean the same thing: logical system, system of logic
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOGIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "31. Shortly"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: INAMOMENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "32. "Right back atcha""

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: SAMETOYOU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. Hippie confab"

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: BEIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. Ancient siege weapon for launching stones"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
• Words that mean the same thing: trebuchet, arbalist, catapult
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BALLISTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Florida city with a large Cuban American population (70+%)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: HIALEAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "41. Electron attractors"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device
• Words that mean the same thing: anode
• The opposite would be: cathode
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANODES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "43. Malt liquor bottle, 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 cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
• Words that mean the same thing: XL, xl, 40
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FORTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "45. Where some high schoolers get DNA tests?"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: APBIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "46. Burrow (into)"

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 turn up, loosen, or remove earth
• Words that mean the same thing: dig, cut into, turn over
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DELVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "47. Marengo, for Napoleon"

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 (literary) a spirited horse for state or war
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STEED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "49. "Jobs vs. Gates: The Hippie and the ___" (2015 TV movie)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
• Words that mean the same thing: swot, grind, dweeb
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NERD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "50. Hip-hop subgenre"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
• Words that mean the same thing: yap, lying in wait, snare
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "52. Slush pile contents: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
• Words that mean the same thing: MS, ms, Magnolia State
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "54. Greeting in Rio"

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: ALO

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	47	71.2%
Short Answer	6	9.1%
Geography	4	6.1%
Celebrity/Entertainment	3	4.5%
Abbreviation	2	3.0%
Literature	1	1.5%
Sports	1	1.5%
History	1	1.5%
Movies/Film	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	32
Down Clues	34
Total Clues	66
Average Answer Length	6.1 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	12 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 challenging level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 6 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!

More Crossword Resources

Explore more crossword solutions and helpful guides to improve your solving skills:

• NYT Crossword Answers Hints July 20
• March 27 2024 NYT Clues Solutions
• September 11 2023 NYT Clues Solutions
• June 13 2022 NYT Clues Solutions
• December 22 2021 NYT Clues Solutions
• January 10 2024 NYT Clues Solutions
• June 13 2024 NYT Clues Solutions
• May 30 2024 NYT Clues Solutions
• March 09 2022 NYT Clues Solutions
• 27448 Sat Jan 04 2025 Ny Times

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

Last Updated: September 15, 2025 at 05:41 AM

May 19, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

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

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (37 Across, 41 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.9 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Thursday Puzzle May 19, 2022

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Fuel efficiency letters	3
2A	4. They may join in a circle	4
3A	8. Big-box hardware chain	5
4A	13. "That's it!"	3
5A	14. Model Campbell	5
6A	16. Cricket fields and badminton racket heads, for two	5
7A	17. Punishes	11
8A	19. Interrupt ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue	5
9A	20. Aptly named ski town in Utah	4
10A	21. Stop the clock	8
11A	23. Compact disc?	6
12A	25. Hot spot in the afternoon, say	3
13A	26. I.C.U. specialists	3
14A	29. Backed financially	9
15A	31. Prep for surgery ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue	7
16A	34. Multiple of one?	4
17A	36. City whose name is Siouan for "good place to dig potatoes"	6
18A	37. Primitive kind of diet	5
19A	41. Subject of job offer negotiations	3
20A	43. They get high twice a day	5
21A	44. Actress Munn	6
22A	46. One of Alcott's Little Women	4
23A	48. Workplace with no commute	10
24A	50. Leave ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue	7
25A	55. Constellation next to Ursa Major	3
26A	56. Prefix with skeleton	3
27A	58. Hagia ___ (World Heritage Site in Istanbul)	6
28A	59. Concession stand morsel	8
29A	63. One of the pounds in a pound cake	4
30A	64. Brazenly disregarding	8
31A	66. Flail at home plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue	9
32A	68. "Heaven forbid!"	5
33A	69. Pledge drive bags	5
34A	70. Gold in them thar hills, e.g.	3
35A	71. Promise	5
36A	72. Home to the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas	4
37A	73. Retreat	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. Fuel efficiency letters"

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: MPG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "4. They may join in a circle"

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

  The answer is: ARCS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "8. Big-box hardware chain"

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 make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
• Words that mean the same thing: moo, low
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOWES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. "That's it!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: AHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Model Campbell"

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 mother-in-law of ruth whose story is told in the book of ruth in the old testament
• Words that mean the same thing: Noemi
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAOMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Cricket fields and badminton racket heads, for two"

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 closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
• Words that mean the same thing: ellipse, oval
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OVALS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Punishes"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a branch of knowledge
• Words that mean the same thing: subject field, study, correction
• The opposite would be: indiscipline
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DISCIPLINES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Interrupt ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue"

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 (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CUTIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Aptly named ski town in Utah"

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: ALTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Stop the clock"

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: CALLTIME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Compact disc?"

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 polished surface that forms images by reflecting light
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIRROR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Hot spot in the afternoon, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. I.C.U. specialists"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health
• Words that mean the same thing: registered nurse, RN, atomic number 86
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. Backed financially"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
• Words that mean the same thing: suffer, abide, endorse
• The opposite would be: unsupported, negate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SUPPORTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "31. Prep for surgery ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue"

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: SCRUBUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "34. Multiple of one?"

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 either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
• Words that mean the same thing: duplicate, parallel, couple
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TWIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. City whose name is Siouan for "good place to dig potatoes""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the capital of the state of kansas; located in eastern kansas on the kansas river
• Words that mean the same thing: capital of Kansas
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOPEKA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. Primitive kind of diet"

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: PALEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "41. Subject of job offer negotiations"

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

  The answer is: PAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "43. They get high twice a day"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
• Words that mean the same thing: lunar time period, surge, tide
• The opposite would be: ebb
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIDES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "44. Actress Munn"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OLIVIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "46. One of Alcott's Little Women"

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

  The answer is: BETH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "48. Workplace with no commute"

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: HOMEOFFICE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "50. Leave ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue"

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 departure; especially of airplanes
• Words that mean the same thing: parody, sendup, lampoon
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAKEOFF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "55. Constellation next to Ursa Major"

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 (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
• Words that mean the same thing: Lion, Leo the Lion
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "56. Prefix with skeleton"

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: EXO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "58. Hagia ___ (World Heritage Site in Istanbul)"

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: SOPHIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "59. Concession stand morsel"

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: RAISINET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "63. One of the pounds in a pound cake"

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 oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
• Words that mean the same thing: egg, nut, ball
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EGGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "64. Brazenly disregarding"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that treat with contemptuous disregard
• Words that mean the same thing: barrack, gibe, flout
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLOUTING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "66. Flail at home plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue"

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 out resulting from the batter getting three strikes
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STRIKEOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "68. "Heaven forbid!""

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: GODNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "69. Pledge drive bags"

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 capacious bag or basket
• Words that mean the same thing: tote bag, total, sum 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: TOTES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "70. Gold in them thar hills, e.g."

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 mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "71. Promise"

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 utter obscenities or profanities
• Words that mean the same thing: aver, cuss, imprecate
• The opposite would be: mistrust
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SWEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "72. Home to the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a republic in western south america; achieved independence from spain in 1821; was the heart of the inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries
• Words that mean the same thing: Republic of Peru
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PERU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "73. Retreat"

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

  The answer is: DEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Thursday Puzzle May 19, 2022

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Sophisticated ladies	6
2D	2. Queen Elizabeth's husband	6
3D	3. Prefix with -pod	6
4D	4. Alex and ___ (jewelry brand)	3
5D	5. Affiliated group of M.C.s, as for Death Row Records	7
6D	6. Rum mixer	4
7D	7. Refine, in a way	5
8D	8. Plot points?	4
9D	9. Fallopian tube traveler	4
10D	10. Something to sleep on with no springs	8
11D	11. Country's ___ Young Band	3
12D	12. Only four-ninths of it is usually shown: Abbr.	3
13D	15. Lands in the ocean	5
14D	18. Media journalist David	4
15D	22. It's said to be "the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to belittle"	4
16D	24. Holy Roman emperor beginning in 973	6
17D	27. Quickly heat up, in a way	4
18D	28. Yellow Pages section after "Sound Systems"	4
19D	30. Dramatic tango move	3
20D	32. Abstract Expressionist Mark	6
21D	33. News inits. since 1958	3
22D	35. Snag	3
23D	37. Four-time Hugo Award winner Frederik	4
24D	38. Potted ornamental	4
25D	39. Prom night booking	8
26D	40. Biblical progenitor	3
27D	42. "And ___ …"	3
28D	45. Super-duper	4
29D	47. Better prepared, perhaps	7
30D	49. Just be oneself	5
31D	51. Sport in which you could use some pointers?	4
32D	52. "Great to hear!"	6
33D	53. Reckon	6
34D	54. Secure	6
35D	57. In first place	5
36D	60. Psychoanalyst Freud, daughter of Sigmund	4
37D	61. Marty Feldman's role in "Young Frankenstein"	4
38D	62. Big name in Art Deco	4
39D	64. N.F.L. three-pointers: Abbr.	3
40D	65. Temperature extreme	3
41D	67. Sch. 50 miles west of 36-Across	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. Sophisticated ladies"

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 woman of refinement
• Words that mean the same thing: madam, ma'am, gentlewoman
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MADAMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Queen Elizabeth's husband"

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

  The answer is: PHILIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Prefix with -pod"

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: GASTRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Alex and ___ (jewelry brand)"

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

  The answer is: ANI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Affiliated group of M.C.s, as for Death Row Records"

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: RAPCREW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Rum mixer"

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 african trees bearing kola nuts
• Words that mean the same thing: El Salvadoran colon, colon, genus Cola
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Refine, in a way"

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 small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
• Words that mean the same thing: sense, smell, reek
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SMELT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Plot points?"

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 scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
• Words that mean the same thing: locus, venue, locale
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOCI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Fallopian tube traveler"

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 female reproductive cell; the female gamete
• Words that mean the same thing: egg cell
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OVUM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Something to sleep on with no springs"

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: WATERBED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Country's ___ Young Band"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ELI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Only four-ninths of it is usually shown: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SSN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "15. Lands in the ocean"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a small island
• Words that mean the same thing: isle, islet
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ISLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Media journalist David"

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: CARR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. It's said to be "the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to belittle""

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 consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense
• Words that mean the same thing: tactfulness
• The opposite would be: tactlessness
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TACT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Holy Roman emperor beginning in 973"

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: OTTOII

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Quickly heat up, 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 the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
• Words that mean the same thing: micro-cook, microwave, thermonuclear warhead
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NUKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Yellow Pages section after "Sound Systems""

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

  The answer is: SPAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "30. Dramatic tango 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 depression in an otherwise level surface
• Words that mean the same thing: magnetic inclination, magnetic dip, sink
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "32. Abstract Expressionist Mark"

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 united states abstract painter (born in russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970)
• Words that mean the same thing: Mark Rothko
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROTHKO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. News inits. since 1958"

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: UPI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "35. Snag"

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 tag the base runner to get him out
• Words that mean the same thing: apprehend, arrest, nail
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "37. Four-time Hugo Award winner Frederik"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: POHL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "38. Potted ornamental"

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 succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Prom night booking"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: LIMORIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Biblical progenitor"

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 (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
• Words that mean the same thing: even, evening, eventide
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "42. "And ___ …""

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

  The answer is: YET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "45. Super-duper"

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 smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Words that mean the same thing: genius, pass with flying colors, wiz
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "47. Better prepared, perhaps"

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 pleasing to the sense of taste
• Words that mean the same thing: tasty
• The opposite would be: tasteless
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TASTIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "49. Just be oneself"

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 have an existence, be extant
• Words that mean the same thing: be, live, survive
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EXIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "51. Sport in which you could use some pointers?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EPEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "52. "Great to hear!""

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: OHGOOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "53. Reckon"

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 diagram or picture illustrating textual material
• Words that mean the same thing: anatomy, bod, chassis
• The opposite would be: ground
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FIGURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "54. Secure"

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 cause to be firmly attached
• Words that mean the same thing: tighten, secure, fix
• The opposite would be: unfasten
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FASTEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "57. In first place"

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: ONTOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "60. Psychoanalyst Freud, daughter of Sigmund"

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 former copper coin of pakistan and india
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "61. Marty Feldman's role in "Young Frankenstein""

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: IGOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "62. Big name in Art Deco"

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: ERTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "64. N.F.L. three-pointers: Abbr."

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: FGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "65. Temperature extreme"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
• Words that mean the same thing: dispirited, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low, first gear
• The opposite would be: high
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "67. Sch. 50 miles west of 36-Across"

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: KSU

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	50	64.1%
Short Answer	16	20.5%
History	4	5.1%
Geography	3	3.8%
Abbreviation	2	2.6%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.3%
Literature	1	1.3%
Sports	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	37
Down Clues	41
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.9 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 Thursday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 4 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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

Last Updated: September 09, 2025 at 10:39 PM