December 19, 2019 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (39 clues)
• Down Clues (37 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, December 19, 2019

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (39 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.9 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Thursday Puzzle December 19, 2019

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Club fee / "Hell no!"	11
2A	5. Nurse back to health	5
3A	10. Longtime music label inits.	3
4A	13. Strip	5
5A	14. Hoth, in the "Star Wars" universe	9
6A	16. Share a take	5
7A	17. Executive's perk, maybe / It might fit in a tight spot	21
8A	18. "Sh" or "wr"	7
9A	20. Full of difficulties	6
10A	21. Modern-day locale of ancient Persepolis	4
11A	22. George Sand, for one	5
12A	25. George Sand, par exemple	3
13A	26. Queen of Arendelle, in a Disney movie	4
14A	27. Bring into harmony	4
15A	28. Humdinger	5
16A	30. Ping-Pong do-over	3
17A	32. Floor type	4
18A	34. Some Hollywood technology, for short	3
19A	35. Place with hot stones	3
20A	38. Alison ___, author of "Fun Home"	7
21A	40. QVC alternative	3
22A	41. Filmer Kilmer	3
23A	42. ___ water (trendy drink)	4
24A	43. Prepared for bad news, perhaps	3
25A	45. Longtime M.L.B. second baseman Chase	5
26A	47. Smacks hard / Types	11
27A	49. Film director Harold / Pours	11
28A	53. Mac platform	3
29A	54. Flattens	5
30A	55. Best Picture of 2012	4
31A	56. "I'm in a hurry!"	6
32A	58. Theater fare	7
33A	60. Geographic demarcation that separates the two possible answers in this puzzle's circled squares	9
34A	63. "Jeez!"	5
35A	64. Unveiling	9
36A	65. Like English bogs	5
37A	66. Director Craven	3
38A	67. Owner of Words With Friends	5
39A	68. Facility	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. Club fee / "Hell no!""

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: COVER/NEVER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Nurse back to health"

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: REHAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Longtime music label inits."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Strip"

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 space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
• Words that mean the same thing: belt
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SWATH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Hoth, in the "Star Wars" universe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ICEPLANET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Share a take"

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 be in accord; be in agreement
• Words that mean the same thing: concord, correspond, check
• The opposite would be: disagree
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AGREE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Executive's perk, maybe / It might fit in a tight spot"

Quick Info: This answer has 21 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: COMPANYCAR/COMPACTCAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. "Sh" or "wr""

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 two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
• Words that mean the same thing: digram
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIGRAPH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Full of difficulties"

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 bristling with perplexities
• Words that mean the same thing: prickly, briery, spiny
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THORNY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Modern-day locale of ancient Persepolis"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a theocratic islamic republic in the middle east in western asia; iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as persia until 1935; rich in oil
• Words that mean the same thing: Persia, Islamic Republic of 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: IRAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. George Sand, for one"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a name that has been assumed temporarily
• Words that mean the same thing: a.k.a., false name, also known as
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALIAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. George Sand, par exemple"

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: NOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Queen of Arendelle, in a Disney movie"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ELSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. Bring into harmony"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that make synchronous and adjust in time or manner
• Words that mean the same thing: synchronize, synchronise
• The opposite would be: desynchronize, desynchronise
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SYNC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "28. Humdinger"

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 an outstanding example of its kind
• Words that mean the same thing: beauty
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEAUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. Ping-Pong do-over"

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 brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
• Words that mean the same thing: have, allow, permit
• The opposite would be: forbid, prevent
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "32. Floor type"

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 flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
• Words that mean the same thing: roofing tile
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. Some Hollywood technology, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CGI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. Place with hot stones"

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

  The answer is: SPA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "38. Alison ___, author of "Fun Home""

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: BECHDEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "40. QVC alternative"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: HSN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "41. Filmer Kilmer"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: VAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "42. ___ water (trendy drink)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that 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 24 Across: "43. Prepared for bad news, 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 the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the sabbath by jews and some christians
• Words that mean the same thing: sit down, sit around, model
• The opposite would be: stand, arise
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "45. Longtime M.L.B. second baseman Chase"

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: UTLEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "47. Smacks hard / Types"

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: SWATS/SORTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "49. Film director Harold / Pours"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 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: RAMIS/RAINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "53. Mac platform"

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: OSX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "54. Flattens"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a blow that renders the opponent unconscious
• Words that mean the same thing: KO, kayo, knockout
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KAYOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "55. Best Picture of 2012"

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 formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between canis major and the southern cross; now divided into carina and pyxis and puppis and vela
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "56. "I'm in a hurry!""

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: NOTIME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "58. Theater fare"

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 corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
• Words that mean the same thing: Zea mays everta
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POPCORN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "60. Geographic demarcation that separates the two possible answers in this puzzle's circled squares"

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: STATELINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "63. "Jeez!""

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: OHMAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "64. Unveiling"

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: FIRSTLOOK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "65. Like English bogs"

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

  The answer is: PEATY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "66. Director Craven"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: WES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "67. Owner of Words With Friends"

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: ZYNGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "68. Facility"

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 freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
• Words that mean the same thing: simplicity, facilitate, comfort
• The opposite would be: difficulty
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EASE

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Thursday NYT Crossword December 19, 2019

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Dale Evans, for one / Zooey Deschanel TV series	15
2D	2. Author Mario ___ Llosa	6
3D	3. Ceaseless	7
4D	4. Relative of an ostrich	4
5D	5. To a great degree	6
6D	6. Prefix with tourist	3
7D	7. Put a border on	3
8D	8. Datebook listings: Abbr.	5
9D	9. Uninspired	4
10D	10. Horn in (on)	8
11D	11. Glares sourly at, in modern lingo	8
12D	12. Humble response to a compliment	4
13D	13. Hawkins of "Li'l Abner"	5
14D	15. "Volunteers?" / Play's start	13
15D	19. Baby blue, e.g.	6
16D	23. Obstructing / On paper	17
17D	24. Battery fill	4
18D	28. Composer Bartók	4
19D	29. Word before Pan, Man or can	3
20D	31. Owner of StubHub	4
21D	33. Not as much	6
22D	35. Popular crime show spinoff, informally	3
23D	36. Baby's bottom?	8
24D	37. They're at the top of their game	8
25D	39. ___ Nostra	4
26D	44. Inspirational passage?	7
27D	46. Takes off	5
28D	48. Brown v. Board of Education city	6
29D	50. Things that bakeries make but don't sell	6
30D	51. Move / Unappreciative person	15
31D	52. Boyo	5
32D	54. ___ green	5
33D	56. "Avoid watching this at the office," briefly	4
34D	57. "This Is Us" co-star Chrissy	4
35D	59. Person whose Twitter handle is @Pontifex	4
36D	61. Chemistry particle	3
37D	62. Holiday drink	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. Dale Evans, for one / Zooey Deschanel TV series"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: COWGIRL/NEWGIRL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Author Mario ___ Llosa"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that brazilian statesman who ruled brazil as a virtual dictator (1883-1954)
• Words that mean the same thing: Getulio Dornelles Vargas
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VARGAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Ceaseless"

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 continuing forever or indefinitely
• Words that mean the same thing: aeonian, eonian, unceasing
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETERNAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Relative of an ostrich"

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 fertility goddess in ancient greek mythology; wife of cronus and mother of zeus; identified with roman ops and cybele of ancient asia minor
• Words that mean the same thing: Pterocnemia pennata, nandu, Rhea americana
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RHEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. To a great degree"

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 to an ample degree or in an ample manner
• Words that mean the same thing: lavishly, amply, extravagantly
• The opposite would be: meagerly
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RICHLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Prefix with tourist"

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: ECO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Put a border on"

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 edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
• Words that mean the same thing: ahem
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Datebook listings: Abbr."

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: APPTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Uninspired"

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 pompous or pretentious talk or writing
• Words that mean the same thing: bombast, fustian, claptrap
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Horn in (on)"

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 advance beyond the usual limit
• Words that mean the same thing: entrench, trench, infringe
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENCROACH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Glares sourly at, in modern lingo"

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: MEANMUGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Humble response to a compliment"

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: ITRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Hawkins of "Li'l Abner""

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: SADIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "15. "Volunteers?" / Play's start"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 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: ANYONE/ACTONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "19. Baby blue, 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 any of various pale or light colors
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PASTEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Obstructing / On paper"

Quick Info: This answer has 17 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: INTHEWAY/INTHEORY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Battery fill"

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 various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
• Words that mean the same thing: caustic, sulfurous, acrid
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Composer Bartók"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BELA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. Word before Pan, Man or can"

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 silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
• Words that mean the same thing: put up, tin can, canister
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. Owner of StubHub"

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: EBAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. Not as much"

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: LESSSO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "35. Popular crime show spinoff, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SVU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. Baby's bottom?"

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: PATOOTIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. They're at the top of their game"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert 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: ALLSTARS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. ___ Nostra"

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: COSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "44. Inspirational passage?"

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 membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi
• Words that mean the same thing: windpipe
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRACHEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "46. Takes off"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an opening that permits escape or release
• Words that mean the same thing: issue, croak, buy the farm
• The opposite would be: enter, be born
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EXITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "48. Brown v. Board of Education city"

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 29 Down: "50. Things that bakeries make but don't sell"

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 property detected by the olfactory system
• Words that mean the same thing: odour, scent, olfactory property
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AROMAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "51. Move / Unappreciative person"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MIGRATE/INGRATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. Boyo"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
• Words that mean the same thing: laddie, sonny boy, lad
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SONNY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "54. ___ green"

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 circus clown (1898-1979)
• Words that mean the same thing: Grace Kelly, Eugene Curran Kelly, Emmett Kelly
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KELLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "56. "Avoid watching this at the office," briefly"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: NSFW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "57. "This Is Us" co-star Chrissy"

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: METZ

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "59. Person whose Twitter handle is @Pontifex"

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 head of the roman catholic church
• Words that mean the same thing: Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome, Alexander Pope
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "61. Chemistry particle"

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 particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ION

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "62. Holiday drink"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
• Words that mean the same thing: peg
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	46	60.5%
Short Answer	11	14.5%
Celebrity/Entertainment	7	9.2%
Movies/Film	3	3.9%
Music	2	2.6%
Food & Drink	2	2.6%
History	1	1.3%
Literature	1	1.3%
Sports	1	1.3%
Geography	1	1.3%
Abbreviation	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	39
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	76
Average Answer Length	5.9 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	21 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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• Down Clues (44 clues)
• Category Breakdown
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 84 (40 Across, 44 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.7 letters

Across Clues Explained - Thursday NYT Crossword April 16, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Ties to the Japanese?	4
2A	5. Order	5
3A	10. Some shells	5
4A	15. Malodorous	4
5A	16. Go ___ (be green, in a way)	5
6A	17. Opposition bloc	5
7A	18. "Well, well, well!"	4
8A	19. "Don't be a stranger!"	11
9A	21. Starting points	7
10A	23. Fading light	5
11A	24. "Bel ___" (Guy de Maupassant novel)	3
12A	25. Put down in words	5
13A	27. Shade of red	6
14A	31. Divine nourishment	5
15A	33. With 35-Across, Cole Porter musical	4
16A	35. See 33-Across	4
17A	36. Undisturbed	6
18A	38. ___ Na Na	3
19A	41. Increase in size	3
20A	42. With 44-Across, "You can wait to show your gratitude"	5
21A	44. See 42-Across	5
22A	46. Like	3
23A	48. Repeated word in the Ten Commandments	3
24A	51. Least polluted	6
25A	54. With 56-Across, clothing item for the youngest in the family	4
26A	56. See 54-Across	4
27A	58. It may fool you	5
28A	59. Denial of responsibility	4
29A	62. Low-lying wetland	5
30A	64. Best ___ Album (Grammy category)	3
31A	65. "I'll think about it"	5
32A	67. Thumbs-up, e.g.	7
33A	69. "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle	11
34A	73. Gets a move on	4
35A	74. Country/rock singer Steve	5
36A	75. Connected to a hipbone	5
37A	76. To be where people sing of amour?	4
38A	77. It's snowy in Florida	5
39A	78. O'Hara's portrayer	5
40A	79. P.D.A. component: Abbr.	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. Ties to the Japanese?"

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 (west indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
• Words that mean the same thing: obeah, obi
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OBIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Order"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a formal or authoritative proclamation
• Words that mean the same thing: fiat, decree, rescript
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDICT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Some shells"

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 dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
• Words that mean the same thing: alimentary paste
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PASTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "15. Malodorous"

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 row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
• Words that mean the same thing: crying, absolute, right-down
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RANK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "16. Go ___ (be green, in a way)"

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 relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOLAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "17. Opposition bloc"

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 person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
• Words that mean the same thing: anti
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANTIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "18. "Well, well, well!""

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: ISAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. "Don't be a stranger!""

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: KEEPINTOUCH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Starting points"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a coming into being
• Words that mean the same thing: Genesis, genesis, generation
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GENESES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "23. Fading light"

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 hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
• Words that mean the same thing: coal
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EMBER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "24. "Bel ___" (Guy de Maupassant novel)"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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: AMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Put down in words"

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 produce a literary work
• Words that mean the same thing: pen, spell, publish
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WROTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. Shade of red"

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 dark purplish-red color
• Words that mean the same thing: red Bordeaux
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLARET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "31. Divine nourishment"

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 hardened sugary exudation of various trees
• Words that mean the same thing: miraculous food, manna from heaven
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MANNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "33. With 35-Across, Cole Porter musical"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
• Words that mean the same thing: buss, osculate, candy kiss
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KISS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. See 33-Across"

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: KATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. Undisturbed"

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: INSITU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "38. ___ Na Na"

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: SHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "41. Increase in size"

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 any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
• Words that mean the same thing: rise, climb, full
• The opposite would be: wane
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WAX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "42. With 44-Across, "You can wait to show your gratitude""

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 express gratitude or show appreciation to
• Words that mean the same thing: give thanks
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THANK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "44. See 42-Across"

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 coming at a subsequent time or stage
• Words that mean the same thing: belated, ulterior, afterwards
• The opposite would be: early
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LATER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "46. Like"

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 flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "48. Repeated word in the Ten Commandments"

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: THY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "51. Least polluted"

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 free of extraneous elements of any kind
• Words that mean the same thing: unadulterated, utter, everlasting
• The opposite would be: unsaturated, impure
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PUREST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "54. With 56-Across, clothing item for the youngest in the family"

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 (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
• Words that mean the same thing: bridge player, paw, mitt
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HAND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "56. See 54-Across"

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 soft fine feathers
• Words that mean the same thing: push down, consume, mastered
• The opposite would be: upwards, upwardly
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DOWN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "58. It may fool you"

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 beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
• Words that mean the same thing: steerer, lure, bait
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DECOY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "59. Denial of responsibility"

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: NOTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "62. Low-lying wetland"

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 low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SWALE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "64. Best ___ Album (Grammy category)"

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

  The answer is: RAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "65. "I'll think about it""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• Words that mean the same thing: possibly, perhaps, peradventure
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAYBE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "67. Thumbs-up, e.g."

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 motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
• Words that mean the same thing: motion, gesticulate
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GESTURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "69. "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle"

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: DROPMEALINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "73. Gets a move on"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• Words that mean the same thing: race, pelt along, rush
• The opposite would be: linger
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HIES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "74. Country/rock singer Steve"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: EARLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "75. Connected to a hipbone"

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

  The answer is: ILIAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "76. To be where people sing of amour?"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: ETRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "77. It's snowy in Florida"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EGRET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "78. O'Hara's portrayer"

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 english film actress (1913-1967)
• Words that mean the same thing: Vivien Leigh
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEIGH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Across: "79. P.D.A. component: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ASST

  Great job if you got it right!

April 16, 2020 Down Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Paperwork?	7
2D	2. Word with second or third, but not fourth or fifth	7
3D	3. Faster than you can say Jack Robinson	11
4D	4. Kind of terrier	4
5D	5. Ridge formed by glacial streams	5
6D	6. Manages	6
7D	7. Suffix with percent	3
8D	8. "Get it?"	7
9D	9. Barbershop request	4
10D	10. Oscar nominee for "Lion," 2016	5
11D	11. Bit of Inuit gear	6
12D	12. Good name for a mess hall cook	3
13D	13. Little bit of personality	3
14D	14. Shade of gray	3
15D	20. MS followers?	3
16D	22. Go after, as a fly	6
17D	26. Poetic contraction usually at the start of a line	3
18D	28. Newbies in the work force	11
19D	29. Seventh of 24	3
20D	30. Western moniker	3
21D	32. Org. behind the Human Genome Project	3
22D	34. Pizzeria owner in "Do the Right Thing"	3
23D	37. Durham sch.	3
24D	39. Park ranger's handout	3
25D	40. Practice pieces	6
26D	43. Elizabethan dramatist Thomas	3
27D	45. Prior to, in verse	3
28D	46. "Kung Fu" actor Philip	3
29D	47. Thai neighbor	3
30D	49. French white wine	7
31D	50. "Gross!"	3
32D	52. Eagles and hawks, typically	7
33D	53. Prepare for printing	7
34D	55. Feature of a baby face	6
35D	57. "Stop! I don't need to be constantly reminded!"	6
36D	60. "Oleanna" playwright	5
37D	61. Check out	3
38D	63. Hanger-on	5
39D	66. Try to stay afloat, perhaps	4
40D	68. Mother of Helios	4
41D	69. Fourth of 26	3
42D	70. It may collect dust	3
43D	71. Hockey great Bobby	3
44D	72. Sequel to a sequel	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. Paperwork?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORIGAMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Word with second or third, but not fourth or fifth"

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: BASEMAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Faster than you can say Jack Robinson"

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: INANINSTANT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Kind of terrier"

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: SKYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Ridge formed by glacial streams"

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 (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ESKER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Manages"

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: DOESOK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Suffix with percent"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. "Get it?""

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: CAPEESH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Barbershop request"

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 state of arrangement or appearance
• Words that mean the same thing: trimness, trim back, crop
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRIM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Oscar nominee for "Lion," 2016"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PATEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Bit of Inuit gear"

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 kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a british term)
• Words that mean the same thing: windbreaker, windcheater, parka
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANORAK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Good name for a mess hall cook"

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: STU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Little bit of personality"

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 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 14 Down: "14. Shade of gray"

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 residue that remains when something is burned
• Words that mean the same thing: ash tree
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "20. MS followers?"

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: NBC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "22. Go after, as a fly"

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: SWATAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. Poetic contraction usually at the start of a line"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
• Words that mean the same thing: Cordyline terminalis, Ti, si
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Newbies in the work force"

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: RAWRECRUITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. Seventh of 24"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ETA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "30. Western moniker"

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: TEX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Org. behind the Human Genome Project"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an agency in the department of health and human services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
• Words that mean the same thing: National Institutes of Health
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NIH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "34. Pizzeria owner in "Do the Right Thing""

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: SAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "37. Durham sch."

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: UNH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "39. Park ranger's handout"

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 diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
• Words that mean the same thing: mapping, represent, map out
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "40. Practice pieces"

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 short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity
• Words that mean the same thing: etude
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETUDES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "43. Elizabethan dramatist Thomas"

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 english dramatist (1558-1594)
• Words that mean the same thing: Thomas Kid, Kid, Thomas Kyd
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KYD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "45. Prior to, in verse"

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: ERE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "46. "Kung Fu" actor Philip"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: AHN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "47. Thai neighbor"

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

  The answer is: LAO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "49. French white wine"

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 german white wine from the moselle valley or a similar wine made elsewhere
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOSELLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "50. "Gross!""

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: EWW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "52. Eagles and hawks, typically"

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: SOARERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "53. Prepare for printing"

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

  The answer is: TYPESET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "55. Feature of a baby face"

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 chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached
• Words that mean the same thing: dimpled chad, pregnant chad
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIMPLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "57. "Stop! I don't need to be constantly reminded!""

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: NAGNAG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "60. "Oleanna" playwright"

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 playwright (born in 1947)
• Words that mean the same thing: David Mamet
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAMET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "61. Check out"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that 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 38 Down: "63. Hanger-on"

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 carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
• Words that mean the same thing: phlebotomize, bloodsucker, phlebotomise
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEECH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "66. Try to stay afloat, perhaps"

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 (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
• Words that mean the same thing: bail bond, bond
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BAIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "68. Mother of Helios"

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 (greek mythology) the titaness who was mother of helios and selene and eos in ancient mythology
• Words that mean the same thing: Theia
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "69. Fourth of 26"

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: DEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Down: "70. It may collect dust"

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 small piece of cloth or paper
• Words that mean the same thing: nark, tabloid, get to
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 43 Down: "71. Hockey great Bobby"

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 canadian hockey player (born 1948)
• Words that mean the same thing: Bobby Orr, Robert Orr
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 44 Down: "72. Sequel to a sequel"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
• Words that mean the same thing: trine, terzetto, tercet
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: III

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	51	60.7%
Short Answer	24	28.6%
Celebrity/Entertainment	4	4.8%
Music	2	2.4%
Literature	1	1.2%
Abbreviation	1	1.2%
Movies/Film	1	1.2%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	40
Down Clues	44
Total Clues	84
Average Answer Length	4.7 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!

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Last Updated: September 25, 2025 at 07:38 PM