NY Times Crossword Answers May 11, 2025 | Expert Breakdown & Tips

NY Times Crossword Complete Solution: May 11, 2025

Published on Sunday, May 11, 2025 • Updated daily

Our expert breakdown helps you solve the May 11 NYT crossword while expanding your vocabulary. Learn answer strategies and discover word connections.

NY Times Crossword Answers May 11, 2025

Across Clues and Answers (61)

Clue #1: 1. Cartridge from the 1980s

9-letter answer Answer: ATARIGAME

Clue #2: 10. Source of the words "galore" and "smithereens"

5-letter answer Answer: IRISH

Word Help: Synonyms: Irish, Irish_people, Irish_whiskey

Clue #3: 15. "Nice!"

5-letter answer Answer: SWEET

Word Help: Synonyms: dulcet, sweet, odorous
Antonyms: dry, salty

Clue #4: 20. Drag-racing venue

9-letter answer Answer: MOTORPLEX

Clue #5: 21. Nature personified

11-letter answer Answer: MOTHEREARTH

Clue #6: 23. "Pinky-swear?"

9-letter answer Answer: PROMISEME

Clue #7: 24. Step on a scale?

11-letter answer Answer: MUSICALNOTE

Clue #8: 25. The Beatles' "White Album" has four of them

5-letter answer Answer: SIDES

Word Help: Synonyms: position, incline, side

Clue #9: 26. Sphere of influence

5-letter answer Answer: ORBIT

Word Help: Synonyms: orbital_cavity, scope, celestial_orbit

Clue #10: 28. 1957 Isaac Asimov novel, with "The"

8-letter answer Answer: NAKEDSUN

Clue #11: 29. Command that might be represented by a curved arrow pointing left

4-letter answer Answer: UNDO

Word Help: Synonyms: undo, unmake, untie
Antonyms: make, wrap

Clue #12: 30. Outer layer of the brain

6-letter answer Answer: CORTEX

Word Help: Synonyms: cerebral_cortex, lens_cortex, cortex
Antonyms: medulla

Clue #13: 32. Inveigle

6-letter answer Answer: ENTICE

Word Help: Synonyms: lure, tempt, entice

Clue #14: 33. Package drop-off sites: Abbr.

3-letter answer Answer: POS

Word Help: Synonyms: Post_Office, P.O., polonium

Clue #15: 34. "Council," in Russian

6-letter answer Answer: SOVIET

Word Help: Synonyms: Soviet, soviet

Clue #16: 35. "Flower Myth" painter Paul

4-letter answer Answer: KLEE

Word Help: Synonyms: Klee, Paul_Klee

Clue #17: 36. Takes a bit off the top

5-letter answer Answer: TRIMS

Word Help: Synonyms: cut, shave, reduce

Clue #18: 40. Showed off on an instrument

6-letter answer Answer: SOLOED

Word Help: Synonyms: solo

Clue #19: 41. Follow closely

4-letter answer Answer: HEED

Word Help: Synonyms: regard, mind, attentiveness
Antonyms: inattentiveness

Clue #20: 42. Note-to-self medium, perhaps

6-letter answer Answer: POSTIT

Clue #21: 43. Beers from Bremen, informally

8-letter answer Answer: STPAULIS

Clue #22: 46. Zingy flavor

4-letter answer Answer: TANG

Word Help: Synonyms: savour, bladder_fucus, sea_tang

Clue #23: 47. Way off in the distance

3-letter answer Answer: FAR

Word Help: Synonyms: Army_for_the_Liberation_of_Rwanda, Former_Armed_Forces, far
Antonyms: near

Clue #24: 48. Agreeable words

3-letter answer Answer: IDO

Word Help: Synonyms: Ido

Clue #25: 49. Defeated decisively

7-letter answer Answer: WHIPPED

Word Help: Synonyms: flog, slash, blister

Clue #26: 50. Fish that passes the "mirror test" of self-recognition

8-letter answer Answer: MANTARAY

Clue #27: 52. Salon sound

4-letter answer Answer: SNIP

Word Help: Synonyms: nip, snip_off, cut_back

Clue #28: 53. Poker declaration

6-letter answer Answer: IRAISE

Clue #29: 54. "I've Been Everywhere" singer in the Country Music Hall of Fame

8-letter answer Answer: HANKSNOW

Clue #30: 55. Mass agreements

5-letter answer Answer: AMENS

Word Help: Synonyms: Amun, Amen, Amon

Clue #31: 56. "Whoever did this has it coming!"

21-letter answer Answer: SOMEONEISGETTINGFIRED

Clue #32: 59. Lynn ___, Super Bowl X M.V.P.

5-letter answer Answer: SWANN

Clue #33: 60. At the end of the day

8-letter answer Answer: AFTERALL

Clue #34: 61. Recently

6-letter answer Answer: OFLATE

Clue #35: 62. "Phooey!"

4-letter answer Answer: RATS

Word Help: Synonyms: rotter, betray, blabber

Clue #36: 63. Right of way, say

8-letter answer Answer: PRIORITY

Word Help: Synonyms: priority, antecedence, precedence
Antonyms: posteriority

Clue #37: 64. Cornmeal dish at a trattoria

7-letter answer Answer: POLENTA

Word Help: Synonyms: polenta

Clue #38: 65. "I ___ you!"

3-letter answer Answer: OWE

Word Help: Synonyms: owe

Clue #39: 66. Eternity

3-letter answer Answer: EON

Word Help: Synonyms: eon, aeon

Clue #40: 67. Partner of 74-Across

4-letter answer Answer: DINE

Word Help: Synonyms: dine

Clue #41: 68. Acted diplomatically

8-letter answer Answer: MEDIATED

Word Help: Synonyms: mediated, intermediate, mediate

Clue #42: 69. Organ above the trachea

6-letter answer Answer: LARYNX

Word Help: Synonyms: larynx, voice_box

Clue #43: 71. Comic Ali

4-letter answer Answer: WONG

Clue #44: 72. Black out

6-letter answer Answer: REDACT

Word Help: Synonyms: cast, edit, reviser

Clue #45: 73. Big name in the cleaning aisle

5-letter answer Answer: LYSOL

Word Help: Synonyms: Lysol

Clue #46: 74. Partner of 67-Across

4-letter answer Answer: WINE

Word Help: Synonyms: wine-coloured, vino, wine-colored

Clue #47: 75. Embody something proudly

6-letter answer Answer: WEARIT

Clue #48: 76. ___ Fring, "Breaking Bad" antagonist

3-letter answer Answer: GUS

Word Help: Synonyms: Guam, GU

Clue #49: 79. Spots for lavalier mics

6-letter answer Answer: LAPELS

Word Help: Synonyms: lapel

Clue #50: 81. Hebrew greeting

6-letter answer Answer: SHALOM

Clue #51: 82. Turn to pulp

4-letter answer Answer: MASH

Word Help: Synonyms: comminute, squash, bray

Clue #52: 83. 1999 Maeve Binchy novel

8-letter answer Answer: TARAROAD

Clue #53: 86. Young salmon

5-letter answer Answer: SMOLT

Clue #54: 87. Unit of magnetic flux density

5-letter answer Answer: GAMMA

Word Help: Synonyms: Gamma, Vasco_da_Gamma, da_Gamma

Clue #55: 88. Spirit with a citrus flavor

11-letter answer Answer: ORANGEVODKA

Clue #56: 90. Head cheese

9-letter answer Answer: MISTERBIG

Clue #57: 93. Minor crime

11-letter answer Answer: MISDEMEANOR

Word Help: Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanour, infringement

Clue #58: 94. Adding up (to)

9-letter answer Answer: AMOUNTING

Word Help: Synonyms: come, number, add_up

Clue #59: 95. Joy on TV

5-letter answer Answer: BEHAR

Clue #60: 96. Button on many appliances

5-letter answer Answer: START

Word Help: Synonyms: showtime, start, set_off
Antonyms: middle, finish

Clue #61: 97. "Network" co-star, 1976

9-letter answer Answer: NEDBEATTY

Across Clues and Answers (61)

Clue #1: 1. Invigorates

6-letter answer Answer: AMPSUP

Clue #2: 2. Home of the Italian soccer club Juventus

6-letter answer Answer: TORINO

Word Help: Synonyms: Turin, Torino

Clue #3: 3. Fighting (with)

6-letter answer Answer: ATODDS

Clue #4: 4. Fictional character who says "Here's to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick"

5-letter answer Answer: ROMEO

Word Help: Synonyms: Romeo

Clue #5: 5. Mechanism that controls a camera's aperture

4-letter answer Answer: IRIS

Word Help: Synonyms: flag, fleur-de-lis, sword_lily

Clue #6: 6. Dashboard device, in brief

3-letter answer Answer: GPS

Word Help: Synonyms: GPS, Global_Positioning_System

Clue #7: 7. Tavern offering

3-letter answer Answer: ALE

Word Help: Synonyms: ale

Clue #8: 8. High school reunion topic

8-letter answer Answer: MEMORIES

Word Help: Synonyms: retentivity, retentiveness, storage

Clue #9: 9. Spent

7-letter answer Answer: EXERTED

Word Help: Synonyms: exert, maintain, exercise

Clue #10: 10. Amalgamate

5-letter answer Answer: IMMIX

Word Help: Synonyms: combine, commingle, blend

Clue #11: 11. Uninteresting game, perhaps

4-letter answer Answer: ROUT

Word Help: Synonyms: rout_out, spreadeagle, rout

Clue #12: 12. Word with a commonly misapplied apostrophe

3-letter answer Answer: ITS

Word Help: Synonyms: information_technology, IT

Clue #13: 13. Climbed, as a rope

7-letter answer Answer: SHINNED

Word Help: Synonyms: scramble, sputter, struggle

Clue #14: 14. Greek goddess depicted holding torches and snakes

6-letter answer Answer: HECATE

Word Help: Synonyms: Hecate

Clue #15: 15. Person on a nominating committee, say

8-letter answer Answer: SELECTOR

Word Help: Synonyms: picker, selector_switch, selector

Clue #16: 16. Goes nowhere in particular

7-letter answer Answer: WANDERS

Word Help: Synonyms: betray, drift, cheat_on

Clue #17: 17. Psyche's partner

4-letter answer Answer: EROS

Word Help: Synonyms: eros, Eros, physical_attraction

Clue #18: 18. Accusatory words

4-letter answer Answer: ETTU

Clue #19: 19. "Well ___"

4-letter answer Answer: THEN

Word Help: Synonyms: and_then, so, and_so

Clue #20: 22. Twice-distilled Turkish beverage

4-letter answer Answer: RAKI

Clue #21: 27. Item in a hedge

3-letter answer Answer: BET

Word Help: Synonyms: stakes, depend, count

Clue #22: 30. Lass

7-letter answer Answer: COLLEEN

Word Help: Synonyms: colleen

Clue #23: 31. Semicircular?

5-letter answer Answer: OVOID

Word Help: Synonyms: ovate, elliptic, oval

Clue #24: 32. With style

9-letter answer Answer: ELEGANTLY

Word Help: Synonyms: elegantly
Antonyms: inelegantly

Clue #25: 34. "Let's eat!"

7-letter answer Answer: SOUPSON

Clue #26: 35. School whose sports teams are known as the Golden Flashes

9-letter answer Answer: KENTSTATE

Clue #27: 37. Traveling from place to place

9-letter answer Answer: ITINERANT

Word Help: Synonyms: gipsy, gypsy, itinerant

Clue #28: 38. Shopgirl in a Paris boutique

9-letter answer Answer: MIDINETTE

Word Help: Synonyms: midinette

Clue #29: 39. Freezes

9-letter answer Answer: STOPSDEAD

Clue #30: 40. Homo ___ neanderthalensis

7-letter answer Answer: SAPIENS

Word Help: Synonyms: sapiens

Clue #31: 41. Strong urge

9-letter answer Answer: HANKERING

Word Help: Synonyms: yen, hankering, yearn

Clue #32: 42. Cough up

3-letter answer Answer: PAY

Word Help: Synonyms: pay_up, wage, bear
Antonyms: default

Clue #33: 43. Cake with a distinctive swirl

9-letter answer Answer: SWISSROLL

Clue #34: 44. Casual and not meant to be taken seriously, as a remark

9-letter answer Answer: THROWAWAY

Word Help: Synonyms: flyer, flier, bill

Clue #35: 45. Spinal cord membranes

9-letter answer Answer: PIAMATERS

Clue #36: 46. Shade akin to pumpkin

9-letter answer Answer: TANGERINE

Word Help: Synonyms: tangerine_tree, tangerine

Clue #37: 47. Court favor in a cringey fashion

4-letter answer Answer: FAWN

Word Help: Synonyms: greyish_brown, cower, kotow

Clue #38: 50. Beasts with enormous tusks

9-letter answer Answer: MASTODONS

Word Help: Synonyms: mastodont, mastodon

Clue #39: 51. Shake up

4-letter answer Answer: ROIL

Word Help: Synonyms: boil, moil, rile

Clue #40: 52. Show warmth to

7-letter answer Answer: SMILEAT

Clue #41: 54. Like recording studio equipment

4-letter answer Answer: HIFI

Clue #42: 55. Plague

7-letter answer Answer: AFFLICT

Word Help: Synonyms: smite, afflict

Clue #43: 57. Take in

4-letter answer Answer: EARN

Word Help: Synonyms: garner, gain, realize

Clue #44: 58. Archer's gift

7-letter answer Answer: GOODAIM

Clue #45: 63. Old curse word

3-letter answer Answer: POX

Word Help: Synonyms: syph, lues_venerea, lues

Clue #46: 64. Actor Pascal of "Gladiator II"

5-letter answer Answer: PEDRO

Clue #47: 66. What provides the big picture?

8-letter answer Answer: ENLARGER

Word Help: Synonyms: enlarger

Clue #48: 68. Noon or 6:00 p.m., for some

8-letter answer Answer: MEALTIME

Word Help: Synonyms: mealtime

Clue #49: 70. Reality TV star Hadid

7-letter answer Answer: YOLANDA

Clue #50: 71. Something sown, per an idiom

7-letter answer Answer: WILDOAT

Clue #51: 72. Macho stereotype

7-letter answer Answer: REALMAN

Clue #52: 74. Goes in and out

6-letter answer Answer: WEAVES

Word Help: Synonyms: wind, meander, waver
Antonyms: unweave

Clue #53: 75. Word before knows or cares

3-letter answer Answer: WHO

Word Help: Synonyms: World_Health_Organization, WHO

Clue #54: 76. Chess opening

6-letter answer Answer: GAMBIT

Word Help: Synonyms: gambit, stratagem, ploy

Clue #55: 77. Dime store?

6-letter answer Answer: USMINT

Clue #56: 78. In need of a haircut, say

6-letter answer Answer: SHAGGY

Word Help: Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shagged, shaggy-haired

Clue #57: 80. Limerick, e.g.

4-letter answer Answer: POEM

Word Help: Synonyms: poem, verse_form

Clue #58: 81. Tricked out with the latest technology, say

5-letter answer Answer: SMART

Word Help: Synonyms: chic, smarting, voguish
Antonyms: stupid

Clue #59: 82. One-named Brazilian soccer star who is a six-time FIFA World Player of the Year

5-letter answer Answer: MARTA

Clue #60: 83. Body building?

4-letter answer Answer: TOMB

Word Help: Synonyms: tomb, grave

Clue #61: 84. ___ Crown Theater (downtown Chicago landmark)

4-letter answer Answer: ARIE

Clue #62: 85. Acting without thinking

4-letter answer Answer: RASH

Word Help: Synonyms: skin_rash, rash, roseola

Clue #63: 86. Candy brand with a crown in its logo

4-letter answer Answer: SKOR

Clue #64: 87. See 89-Down

4-letter answer Answer: GENE

Word Help: Synonyms: cistron, gene, factor

Clue #65: 89. 87-Down makeup

3-letter answer Answer: DNA

Word Help: Synonyms: desoxyribonucleic_acid, DNA, deoxyribonucleic_acid

Clue #66: 91. It may be rolled out in the backyard

3-letter answer Answer: SOD

Word Help: Synonyms: sod, bugger, sodomist

Clue #67: 92. Setting for Jacques-Louis David's painting "The Death of Marat"

3-letter answer Answer: TUB

Word Help: Synonyms: bathing_tub, tub, bath

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Across Clues and Answers (59)

Clue #1: 1. "Don't mention it"

8-letter answer Answer: NOTATALL

Clue #2: 9. Like a lover's lips, perhaps

8-letter answer Answer: KISSABLE

Clue #3: 17. Sudden dose of reality, in slang

9-letter answer Answer: TRUTHBOMB

Clue #4: 19. Emphatic words of denial

9-letter answer Answer: SONOTTRUE

Clue #5: 20.

10-letter answer Answer: SANTACLAUS

Clue #6: 22.

10-letter answer Answer: THEONERING

Clue #7: 23. Sheep's peep

5-letter answer Answer: BLEAT

Word Help: Synonyms: blate, baa, bleat

Clue #8: 24. How detectives might act

7-letter answer Answer: ONALEAD

Clue #9: 26. Ones providing help around the House

5-letter answer Answer: AIDES

Word Help: Synonyms: auxiliary, Pluto, adjutant

Clue #10: 27. Poli ___

3-letter answer Answer: SCI

Clue #11: 30. Attack, as a castle

5-letter answer Answer: STORM

Word Help: Synonyms: force, ramp, storm

Clue #12: 31. Jazz singer Carmen

5-letter answer Answer: MCRAE

Clue #13: 33. Food-centric broadcasts originating in South Korea

8-letter answer Answer: MUKBANGS

Clue #14: 38. Computing company whose logo has remained largely the same since it was introduced by Paul Rand in 1962

3-letter answer Answer: IBM

Clue #15: 39. Advance

4-letter answer Answer: LOAN

Word Help: Synonyms: lend, loan, loanword
Antonyms: borrow

Clue #16: 40. Tough spot for a teen?

3-letter answer Answer: ZIT

Word Help: Synonyms: hickey, pimple, zit

Clue #17: 43.

11-letter answer Answer: STAYINALIVE

Clue #18: 45.

9-letter answer Answer: MOONSHINE

Word Help: Synonyms: Moon, moonshine, moonlight

Clue #19: 47. Broke bread

5-letter answer Answer: DINED

Word Help: Synonyms: din, dine, boom

Clue #20: 48. Holder of valuable contributions, in brief

3-letter answer Answer: IRA

Word Help: Synonyms: Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army, individual_retirement_account, Provisional_IRA

Clue #21: 49. One of three on the Mayflower

4-letter answer Answer: MAST

Word Help: Synonyms: mast

Clue #22: 50. Alan of "Marriage Story"

4-letter answer Answer: ALDA

Clue #23: 51. One of Chekhov's "Three Sisters"

4-letter answer Answer: OLGA

Clue #24: 52. Rapper Kid ___

4-letter answer Answer: CUDI

Clue #25: 54. Style of writing?

4-letter answer Answer: FONT

Word Help: Synonyms: font, case, fount

Clue #26: 55. Renaissance locale of the early 20th century

6-letter answer Answer: HARLEM

Word Help: Synonyms: Harlem

Clue #27: 57.

13-letter answer Answer: SEARCHHISTORY

Clue #28: 60. Longtime Japanese camera brand

6-letter answer Answer: PENTAX

Clue #29: 61. Either of the two statues in front of the New York Public Library

4-letter answer Answer: LION

Word Help: Synonyms: lion, social_lion, Leo_the_Lion

Clue #30: 62. Root word?

3-letter answer Answer: OLE

Clue #31: 63. Riverbank material

4-letter answer Answer: SILT

Word Help: Synonyms: silt, silt_up

Clue #32: 64. Lucky lottery winner's cry

6-letter answer Answer: IMRICH

Clue #33: 67.

13-letter answer Answer: BALLETSLIPPER

Clue #34: 73. Sleazeball

6-letter answer Answer: CREEPO

Clue #35: 74. Shipshape

4-letter answer Answer: TIDY

Word Help: Synonyms: respectable, clean_up, straighten_out
Antonyms: untidy

Clue #36: 75. They're rising over time

4-letter answer Answer: SEAS

Word Help: Synonyms: ocean, sea

Clue #37: 76. Humorist Bombeck

4-letter answer Answer: ERMA

Clue #38: 77. When tripled, "You know what I'm sayin' …"

4-letter answer Answer: YADA

Clue #39: 78. ___ Tour (record-breaking music event of 2023-24)

4-letter answer Answer: ERAS

Word Help: Synonyms: epoch, geological_era, earned_run_average

Clue #40: 79. Suffix with proverb

3-letter answer Answer: IAL

Clue #41: 80. Shepherd's staff

5-letter answer Answer: CROOK

Word Help: Synonyms: felon, twist, criminal

Clue #42: 81.

9-letter answer Answer: STILETTOS

Word Help: Synonyms: stiletto

Clue #43: 84.

11-letter answer Answer: EMILYBRONTE

Clue #44: 87. It's in the bag!

3-letter answer Answer: TEA

Word Help: Synonyms: Camellia_sinensis, tea_leaf, afternoon_tea

Clue #45: 88. Heart

4-letter answer Answer: GIST

Word Help: Synonyms: heart, heart_and_soul, inwardness

Clue #46: 89. ___ Tour (annual sporting series)

3-letter answer Answer: PGA

Clue #47: 90. Like some marriages, seating and musical compositions

8-letter answer Answer: ARRANGED

Word Help: Synonyms: ordered, staged, arranged
Antonyms: disarrange, disarranged

Clue #48: 91. Like the weather around a lighthouse, maybe

5-letter answer Answer: FOGGY

Word Help: Synonyms: muzzy, logy, blurry

Clue #49: 93. Baseball features

5-letter answer Answer: SEAMS

Word Help: Synonyms: crease, bed, crinkle

Clue #50: 95. "By the way …"

3-letter answer Answer: SAY

Word Help: Synonyms: pronounce, tell, aver

Clue #51: 96. ___ Moriarty, novelist who wrote "Big Little Lies"

5-letter answer Answer: LIANE

Clue #52: 98. Tolkien character who dies as "the Grey" and returns as "the White"

7-letter answer Answer: GANDALF

Clue #53: 100. Some opinion pieces

5-letter answer Answer: OPEDS

Clue #54: 105. How to read the "words" written on this puzzle's 108-Across

10-letter answer Answer: UPSIDEDOWN

Clue #55: 108. Device used to read the eight visual clues in this puzzle

10-letter answer Answer: CALCULATOR

Word Help: Synonyms: estimator, figurer, calculating_machine

Clue #56: 111. Some large structures for pet owners

9-letter answer Answer: CATCONDOS

Clue #57: 112. Head honcho

9-letter answer Answer: TOPBANANA

Clue #58: 113. Gave a thumbs up

8-letter answer Answer: ASSENTED

Word Help: Synonyms: assent, acquiesce, accede
Antonyms: dissent

Clue #59: 114. Goes to the mat?

8-letter answer Answer: WRESTLES

Word Help: Synonyms: writhe, wrestling, wriggle

Across Clues and Answers (59)

Clue #1: 1. Government org. that investigates accidents

4-letter answer Answer: NTSB

Clue #2: 2. Spoken

4-letter answer Answer: ORAL

Word Help: Synonyms: viva_voce, oral, unwritten
Antonyms: aboral, anal

Clue #3: 3. What a whistler whistles

4-letter answer Answer: TUNE

Word Help: Synonyms: strain, tune, melodic_phrase
Antonyms: untune

Clue #4: 4. "___ girl!"

4-letter answer Answer: ATTA

Clue #5: 5. "Nevertheless …"

8-letter answer Answer: THATSAID

Clue #6: 6. Jimmy Kimmel's network

3-letter answer Answer: ABC

Word Help: Synonyms: first_rudiment, first_principle, alphabet

Clue #7: 7. 😂

3-letter answer Answer: LOL

Clue #8: 8. 😂😂😂

4-letter answer Answer: LMAO

Clue #9: 9. Down for the count, in brief

4-letter answer Answer: KOED

Clue #10: 10. Italian diminutive suffix

3-letter answer Answer: INO

Clue #11: 11. Word whose letters are aptly found from left to right in "scion"

3-letter answer Answer: SON

Word Help: Synonyms: son, Word, Logos
Antonyms: girl, daughter

Clue #12: 12. Bear's counterpart on Wall Street, once

7-letter answer Answer: STEARNS

Clue #13: 13. Courtyards

5-letter answer Answer: ATRIA

Word Help: Synonyms: atrium

Clue #14: 14. Tough customer for a wedding planner

10-letter answer Answer: BRIDEZILLA

Clue #15: 15. Debussy's "Clair de ___"

4-letter answer Answer: LUNE

Clue #16: 16. Brain tests, for short

4-letter answer Answer: EEGS

Word Help: Synonyms: encephalogram, EEG, electroencephalogram

Clue #17: 18. Rolls

4-letter answer Answer: BUNS

Word Help: Synonyms: ass, rump, bum

Clue #18: 19. Bogus

4-letter answer Answer: SHAM

Word Help: Synonyms: dissemble, pretender, fake

Clue #19: 21. Cannabis variety contrasted with indica

6-letter answer Answer: SATIVA

Clue #20: 22. Bush Senior and Carter each had one

4-letter answer Answer: TERM

Word Help: Synonyms: term, terminus, terminal_figure

Clue #21: 25. Headquarter?

4-letter answer Answer: LOBE

Word Help: Synonyms: lobe

Clue #22: 28. "The Source" channel

3-letter answer Answer: CNN

Clue #23: 29. Swiatek of women's tennis

3-letter answer Answer: IGA

Word Help: Synonyms: IgA, immunoglobulin_A

Clue #24: 31. ___ point

4-letter answer Answer: MOOT

Word Help: Synonyms: consider, arguable, deliberate

Clue #25: 32. Six-pack component

3-letter answer Answer: CAN

Word Help: Synonyms: put_up, ass, potty
Antonyms: hire

Clue #26: 33. PC platform of the 1980s

5-letter answer Answer: MSDOS

Clue #27: 34. Of service

5-letter answer Answer: UTILE

Word Help: Synonyms: useful, utile
Antonyms: useless

Clue #28: 35. Hundred Acre Wood resident

5-letter answer Answer: KANGA

Clue #29: 36. One way to "play it"

5-letter answer Answer: BYEAR

Clue #30: 37. Reached a base horizontally

6-letter answer Answer: SLIDIN

Clue #31: 39. Show that, uh, didn't win 43 of its 54 Emmy nominations

4-letter answer Answer: LOST

Word Help: Synonyms: helpless, mazed, preoccupied
Antonyms: profit, found

Clue #32: 41. Page that points to other pages

5-letter answer Answer: INDEX

Word Help: Synonyms: forefinger, power, indicator

Clue #33: 42. Crew

4-letter answer Answer: TEAM

Word Help: Synonyms: squad, team, team_up

Clue #34: 44. Floral subject for van Gogh, Monet or O'Keeffe

4-letter answer Answer: IRIS

Word Help: Synonyms: fleur-de-lis, iris_diaphragm, flag

Clue #35: 45. Oodles of

4-letter answer Answer: MANY

Word Help: Synonyms: many
Antonyms: few

Clue #36: 46. Adult male deer

4-letter answer Answer: HART

Word Help: Synonyms: Moss_Hart, stag, Lorenz_Milton_Hart

Clue #37: 49. Gourmet mushroom type

5-letter answer Answer: MOREL

Word Help: Synonyms: morel

Clue #38: 52. One of the Marx Brothers

5-letter answer Answer: CHICO

Word Help: Synonyms: Leonard_Marx, Chico, Marx

Clue #39: 53. "Yikes!"

4-letter answer Answer: UHOH

Clue #40: 54. Lunacy

5-letter answer Answer: FOLLY

Word Help: Synonyms: folly, foolery, lunacy
Antonyms: wisdom

Clue #41: 55. Word with Kitchen or Angels

5-letter answer Answer: HELLS

Word Help: Synonyms: pit, Inferno, underworld
Antonyms: Heaven

Clue #42: 56. Naysayer

4-letter answer Answer: ANTI

Word Help: Synonyms: anti
Antonyms: pro

Clue #43: 58. Film excerpt

4-letter answer Answer: CLIP

Word Help: Synonyms: jog, prune, snip_off
Antonyms: unclip

Clue #44: 59. Bumpy jumpers

5-letter answer Answer: TOADS

Word Help: Synonyms: frog, anuran, salientian

Clue #45: 60. City where tourists take photos pretending to hold up its famous landmark

4-letter answer Answer: PISA

Word Help: Synonyms: Pisa

Clue #46: 63. Name shouted in "A Streetcar Named Desire"

6-letter answer Answer: STELLA

Word Help: Synonyms: Frank_Stella, Stella, Frank_Philip_Stella

Clue #47: 64. Boiling

5-letter answer Answer: IRATE

Word Help: Synonyms: ireful, irate

Clue #48: 65. Periods of abstinence from TV, news, social platforms, etc.

10-letter answer Answer: MEDIAFASTS

Clue #49: 66. Honest-to-goodness

4-letter answer Answer: REAL

Word Help: Synonyms: existent, real_number, very
Antonyms: insubstantial, unreal

Clue #50: 67. Possible polling problem

4-letter answer Answer: BIAS

Word Help: Synonyms: bias, preconception, diagonal

Clue #51: 68. Morales on the screen

4-letter answer Answer: ESAI

Clue #52: 69. Evita in "Evita"

5-letter answer Answer: PERON

Word Help: Synonyms: Peron, Juan_Domingo_Peron

Clue #53: 70. Pitchfork feature

5-letter answer Answer: PRONG

Word Help: Synonyms: prong

Clue #54: 71. Chew the scenery

5-letter answer Answer: EMOTE

Word Help: Synonyms: emote

Clue #55: 72. Tended to a Zen garden, in a way

5-letter answer Answer: RAKED

Word Help: Synonyms: skim, crease, scan

Clue #56: 73. Anatomical sac

4-letter answer Answer: CYST

Word Help: Synonyms: vesicle, cyst

Clue #57: 74. Gait faster than a walk

4-letter answer Answer: TROT

Word Help: Synonyms: jog, lope, Trot

Clue #58: 78. Website with a "Personalized and Custom Jewelry" page

4-letter answer Answer: ETSY

Clue #59: 79. Line in old Apple ads

6-letter answer Answer: IMAMAC

Clue #60: 80. Some kindergarten art supplies

8-letter answer Answer: CRAYOLAS

Clue #61: 82. Goaded

7-letter answer Answer: EGGEDON

Clue #62: 83. Comedian Notaro

3-letter answer Answer: TIG

Clue #63: 84. "Yikes!"

4-letter answer Answer: EGAD

Clue #64: 85. Junior and senior: Abbr.

3-letter answer Answer: YRS

Word Help: Synonyms: yr, year, twelvemonth

Clue #65: 86. Garment for one who's wearing a wire?

3-letter answer Answer: BRA

Word Help: Synonyms: brassiere, bra, bandeau

Clue #66: 89. Half of a noted magic duo

4-letter answer Answer: PENN

Word Help: Synonyms: Pennsylvania, William_Penn, Penn

Clue #67: 92. In reserve for now

5-letter answer Answer: ONICE

Clue #68: 93. Old sayings

4-letter answer Answer: SAWS

Word Help: Synonyms: saw, power_saw, proverb

Clue #69: 94. Adirondack chair part

4-letter answer Answer: SLAT

Word Help: Synonyms: slat, spline

Clue #70: 96. Coming-of-age Pixar film of 2021

4-letter answer Answer: LUCA

Clue #71: 97. Beers that might punnily have "hop" in their names, for short

4-letter answer Answer: IPAS

Clue #72: 98. "Splendid!"

4-letter answer Answer: GOOD

Word Help: Synonyms: salutary, serious, just
Antonyms: evilness, badness

Clue #73: 99. Steady stream

4-letter answer Answer: FLOW

Word Help: Synonyms: fall, menstruum, course

Clue #74: 101. What a hot dog might do

4-letter answer Answer: PANT

Word Help: Synonyms: trouser, pant, heave

Clue #75: 102. List-ending abbr.

4-letter answer Answer: ETAL

Clue #76: 103. Cry after putting one's pencil down

4-letter answer Answer: DONE

Word Help: Synonyms: do, through, manage
Antonyms: unmake

Clue #77: 104. Married mujeres: Abbr.

4-letter answer Answer: SRAS

Clue #78: 106. Sinus specialist, for short

3-letter answer Answer: ENT

Clue #79: 107. POTUS 34

3-letter answer Answer: DDE

Clue #80: 109. Subj. of a class with dummies in it

3-letter answer Answer: CPR

Word Help: Synonyms: cardiopulmonary_resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth_resuscitation, CPR

Clue #81: 110. Purple yam in Philippine cuisine

3-letter answer Answer: UBE

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