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NYT Crossword - January 08, 1990 | XWordHint

Published on Monday, January 08, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 08, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.



Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1A: "1. Actress Prentiss"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PAULA

2A: "6. Hemingway's sobriquet"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
  • Similar words include: pappa, pop, dad
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PAPA

3A: "10. G-men"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any federal law-enforcement officer
  • Similar words include: Federal Reserve, Fed, FRS
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FEDS

4A: "14. Hair styles"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a rounded thickly curled hairdo
  • Similar words include: Afro, Afro hairdo
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AFROS

5A: "15. Novelist Kingsley ___"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMIS

6A: "16. Soviet stream"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: URAL

7A: "17. Sitcom add-on"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LAUGHTRACK

8A: "19. Supreme Court number"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
  • Similar words include: 9, Nina from Carolina, ball club
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NINE

9A: "20. Gaelic"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of several related languages of the celts in ireland and scotland
  • Similar words include: Goidelic, Gaelic
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERSE

10A: "21. Speed"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
  • Similar words include: rush, hurriedness, hurry
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HASTE

11A: "22. Want"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a condition requiring relief
  • Similar words include: involve, motive, take
  • Opposite of: obviate
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NEED

12A: "23. Things with springs"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
  • Similar words include: love, hump, know
  • Opposite of: get up, turn out
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BEDS

13A: "24. Route"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that how something is done or how it happens
  • Similar words include: room, elbow room, path
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: WAY

14A: "26. Enchantress"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (greek mythology) a sorceress who detained odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CIRCE

15A: "30. Slippery one"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EEL

16A: "32. Metal beam"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IBAR

17A: "35. Negatively charged atoms"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a negatively charged ion
  • Similar words include: anion
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ANIONS

18A: "37. Ambassador or envoy"

8 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an official engaged in international negotiations
  • Similar words include: diplomatist
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DIPLOMAT

19A: "40. Letters to stars"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FANMAIL

20A: "42. 'Twixt 12 and 20"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that being of the age 13 through 19
  • Similar words include: teenaged, adolescent, teen
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TEENAGE

21A: "43. Surrounded"

8 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENGIRDED

22A: "45. Surpassing: Comb. form"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PRETER

23A: "46. Suffix with inchoative verbs"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESCE

24A: "47. Period"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
  • Similar words include: geological era, epoch, earned run average
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERA

25A: "49. Willow"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that flexible twig of a willow tree
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OSIER

26A: "50. Soviet div."

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SSR

27A: "52. Press"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
  • Similar words include: branding iron, Fe, atomic number 26
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IRON

28A: "54. Tear"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
  • Similar words include: charter, pull, engage
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RENT

29A: "57. Golfer Palmer"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARNIE

30A: "59. In the center"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMID

31A: "63. Jewish month"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the jewish calendar (in february and march)
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ADAR

32A: "64. Card-game phrase"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: JOKERSWILD

33A: "66. "La Bohème" heroine"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MIMI

34A: "67. First victim"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
  • Similar words include: Niels Henrik Abel, Niels Abel
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ABEL

35A: "68. Dance of Bohemian origin"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that music performed for dancing the polka
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: POLKA

36A: "69. Kind of mother or son"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
  • Similar words include: ill-use, stride, footfall
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STEP

37A: "70. Word on a towel"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HERS

38A: "71. Appease"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that lessen the intensity of or calm
  • Similar words include: slake, still, ease
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALLAY

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

1D: "1. Wan"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a wooden strip forming part of a fence
  • Similar words include: pallid, sick, blanch
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PALE

2D: "2. Way off"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AFAR

3D: "3. Wild ox"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that large recently extinct long-horned european wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
  • Similar words include: Bos primigenius, aurochs
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: URUS

4D: "4. Theater section"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine
  • Similar words include: box
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOGE

5D: "5. Wood for skis"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
  • Similar words include: ash tree
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASH

6D: "6. "I Love a ___," 1931 song"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a ceremonial procession including people marching
  • Similar words include: march, troop, exhibit
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PARADE

7D: "7. Gathered"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that collect or gather
  • Similar words include: hoard, amass, cumulate
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMASSED

8D: "8. Early inhabitant of Britain"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PICT

9D: "9. Awry"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that turned or twisted toward one side; - g.k.chesterton
  • Similar words include: lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASKEW

10D: "10. These often get tickled"

10 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FUNNYBONES

11D: "11. City in the Keystone State"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
  • Similar words include: Lake Erie
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERIE

12D: "12. Hamlet, e.g."

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a native or inhabitant of denmark
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DANE

13D: "13. Snow vehicle"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
  • Similar words include: sledge, sleigh
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SLED

14D: "18. "___ Best of Carson""

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: THE

15D: "23. Former name of Varanasi, India"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BENARES

16D: "25. Wing part"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an airfoil that controls lateral motion
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AILERON

17D: "26. Bistro"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
  • Similar words include: coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffee bar
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CAFE

18D: "27. Silly"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that devoid of intelligence
  • Similar words include: mindless, vacuous, fatuous
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: INANE

19D: "28. Collar woes?"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises
  • Similar words include: pack, annulus, telephone
  • Opposite of: open chain
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RINGS

20D: "29. "Peanuts," e.g."

10 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: COMICSTRIP

21D: "31. Kindled"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the humanistic study of a body of literature
  • Similar words include: lighted, dismount, light up
  • Opposite of: unlighted, extinguish
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LIT

22D: "33. Strad competitor"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that italian violin maker in cremona; taught the craft to guarneri and stradivari (1596-1684)
  • Similar words include: Nicola Amati, Nicolo Amati
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMATI

23D: "34. E. Indian cereal grass"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that east indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the orient
  • Similar words include: finger millet, Eleusine coracana, coracan
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAGEE

24D: "36. Caesar from Yonkers"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SID

25D: "38. Vim"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that liveliness and energy
  • Similar words include: peppiness, ginger
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PEP

26D: "39. Haw. before 1959"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TERR

27D: "41. Novelist Harper ___"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
  • Similar words include: Tsung Dao Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee
  • Opposite of: windward
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEE

28D: "44. A.A. candidate"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a person who drinks liquids
  • Similar words include: toper, juicer, imbiber
  • Opposite of: nondrinker
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DRINKER

29D: "48. Gazelles of Arabia"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARIELS

30D: "51. Rani's spouse"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prince or king in india
  • Similar words include: raja
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAJAH

31D: "53. Finished, to Keats"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OER

32D: "54. Bellwethers"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
  • Similar words include: cram, pound, RAM
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAMS

33D: "55. Redact"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
  • Similar words include: edit out, redact, cut
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EDIT

34D: "56. Appoint"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a language unit by which a person or thing is known
  • Similar words include: list, key, describe
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NAME

35D: "58. Gown"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any loose flowing garment
  • Similar words include: vest, gown, cloak
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROBE

36D: "59. G.I. truant"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
  • Similar words include: truant
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AWOL

37D: "60. Factory"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
  • Similar words include: mill about, factory, grinder
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MILL

38D: "61. Actress-writer Chase"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ILKA

39D: "62. June 6, 1944"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DDAY

40D: "65. Baden-Baden is one"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
  • Similar words include: health club, resort hotel, health spa
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SPA

Puzzle Stats

38 Across
40 Down
78 Total

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January 10, 2024 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (35 Across, 41 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.0 letters

January 10, 2024 NYT Clues Solutions

Across Clues Explained - Wednesday NYT Crossword January 10, 2024

No. Clue Letters
1A 1. Podcasters' needs 4
2A 5. Meaty pasta sauce 4
3A 9. "Hey, by the way …" 5
4A 14. Apple with multiple cores 4
5A 15. Eurasian river 4
6A 16. Abstain from 5
7A 17. *Job for a coxswain with rowdy rowers? 15
8A 20. What's tolerated by every body? 5
9A 21. Natural hairstyles 5
10A 22. Poorly 3
11A 23. *Review for a so-so bakery? 12
12A 26. 2007 Michael Moore documentary about health care 5
13A 28. "You've got ___ nerve!" 4
14A 29. Melody 4
15A 30. It's often in stock 4
16A 34. Chose a course 5
17A 37. Dorothy Parker quality 3
18A 38. *Person who assigns the order of opening presents? 7
19A 40. "Yes," in Japanese 3
20A 41. Check box of last resort 5
21A 43. Norse protector of humankind 4
22A 44. Complain querulously 4
23A 45. Kyrgyzstan mountain range 4
24A 47. Extremist sects 5
25A 49. *Completes a superhero transformation? 12
26A 54. And others too numerous to mention 3
27A 55. Nary a soul 5
28A 56. Island nation whose currency is the tala 5
29A 60. Preschool teacher's mantra … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues 15
30A 63. Have a nibble of 5
31A 64. Brazilian berry 4
32A 65. She, on the Seine 4
33A 66. Expression that might accompany a mustache twirl 5
34A 67. Word repeated in a 1956 Doris Day single 4
35A 68. Brighter times 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. Podcasters' needs"

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: MICS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Meaty pasta sauce"

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: RAGU

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. "Hey, by the way …""

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: OHSAY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Apple with multiple cores"

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: IMAC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Eurasian river"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: URAL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Abstain from"

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: NOTDO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. *Job for a coxswain with rowdy rowers?"

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: TAMINGOFTHECREW

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. What's tolerated by every body?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: TYPEO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Natural hairstyles"

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 rounded thickly curled hairdo
  • Words that mean the same thing: Afro, Afro hairdo
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AFROS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Poorly"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
  • Words that mean the same thing: poorly, badly, complaint
  • The opposite would be: well
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ILL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. *Review for a so-so bakery?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: NOGREATCAKES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "26. 2007 Michael Moore documentary about health care"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SICKO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "28. "You've got ___ nerve!""

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 quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
  • Words that mean the same thing: approximately, about, close to
  • The opposite would be: no
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SOME

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. Melody"

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 succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
  • Words that mean the same thing: line, strain, tune up
  • The opposite would be: untune
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TUNE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. It's often in stock"

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

    The answer is: BONE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "34. Chose a course"

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 select as an alternative over another
  • Words that mean the same thing: prefer, choose, opt
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: OPTED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "37. Dorothy Parker quality"

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 message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
  • Words that mean the same thing: mental capacity, humor, card
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WIT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "38. *Person who assigns the order of opening presents?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: GIFTCOP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "40. "Yes," in Japanese"

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: HAI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "41. Check box of last resort"

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 not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; - the white queen
  • Words that mean the same thing: early, former
  • The opposite would be: same
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: OTHER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Norse protector of humankind"

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 (norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; identified with teutonic donar
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: THOR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. Complain querulously"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised
  • Words that mean the same thing: chicane, cavil
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CARP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. Kyrgyzstan mountain range"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: ALAI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "47. Extremist sects"

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 followers of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
  • Words that mean the same thing: fad, rage, craze
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CULTS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "49. *Completes a superhero transformation?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: GETSINTOCAPE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "54. And others too numerous to mention"

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: ETC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "55. Nary a soul"

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: NOONE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "56. Island nation whose currency is the tala"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of samoa in the south pacific
  • Words that mean the same thing: Western Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo, Independent State of Samoa
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SAMOA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "60. Preschool teacher's mantra … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: SHARINGISCARING

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "63. Have a nibble of"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
  • Words that mean the same thing: appreciation, try out, sense of taste
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TASTE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "64. Brazilian berry"

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: ACAI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "65. She, on the Seine"

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: ELLE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "66. Expression that might accompany a mustache twirl"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
  • Words that mean the same thing: leer
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SNEER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "67. Word repeated in a 1956 Doris Day single"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SERA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "68. Brighter times"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the time during which someone's life continues
  • Words that mean the same thing: years, daylight, sidereal day
  • The opposite would be: night
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DAYS

    Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Wednesday Puzzle January 10, 2024

No. Clue Letters
1D 1. It's catching 4
2D 2. "Not sure yet" 4
3D 3. Something to make or break 4
4D 4. "Magic that works," per Vonnegut 7
5D 5. Runner on the ground? 3
6D 6. Like an excited crowd 5
7D 7. Social blunder 5
8D 8. Marine leader? 5
9D 9. Small ice cream order 8
10D 10. Ad ___ 3
11D 11. "Never mind what I just said!" 10
12D 12. One of the Astaires 5
13D 13. Caterwauls 5
14D 18. Cozy corner 4
15D 19. Romantic attraction, slangily, with "the" 4
16D 24. Its name means "waterless place" in Mongolian 4
17D 25. Hype (up) 3
18D 26. Something to follow, in cards 4
19D 27. "If so, then …" 10
20D 29. Number of graduates in the first class at West Point (1802) 3
21D 31. Poetic frequency 3
22D 32. Utmost 3
23D 33. Writer Umberto 3
24D 35. Buds go in them 4
25D 36. Dance floor flourish 3
26D 38. Less sharp, as footage 8
27D 39. Animal whose brain has the most gray matter of any mammal 4
28D 42. They're raised in Chi-Town 3
29D 44. Found innocent 7
30D 46. Part of, as a plot 4
31D 48. "___-daisy!" 4
32D 49. Tales of daring 5
33D 50. Frome of fiction 5
34D 51. Classical cover-ups 5
35D 52. Chilling 5
36D 53. Labor activist Chavez 5
37D 57. "___ 18" (novel by Leon Uris) 4
38D 58. Exclusively 4
39D 59. Wrinkles in time? 4
40D 61. Its ways are numbered: Abbr. 3
41D 62. O.S.S. successor 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. It's catching"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: MITT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. "Not sure yet""

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: IMAY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Something to make or break"

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 temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
  • Words that mean the same thing: ingroup, pack, encampment
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CAMP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. "Magic that works," per Vonnegut"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a particular branch of scientific knowledge
  • Words that mean the same thing: scientific discipline, skill
  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SCIENCE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Runner on the ground?"

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 floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
  • Words that mean the same thing: carpet, carpeting
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RUG

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Like an excited crowd"

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: AROAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Social blunder"

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 socially awkward or tactless act
  • Words that mean the same thing: gaucherie, solecism, faux pas
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GAFFE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Marine leader?"

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 (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
  • Words that mean the same thing: extremist, radical
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ULTRA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Small ice cream order"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: ONESCOOP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Ad ___"

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: HOC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. "Never mind what I just said!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: STRIKETHAT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. One of the Astaires"

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: ADELE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Caterwauls"

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 very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
  • Words that mean the same thing: bellowing, bellow, yowl
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: YOWLS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Cozy corner"

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 sheltered and secluded place
  • Words that mean the same thing: corner
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: NOOK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "19. Romantic attraction, slangily, with "the""

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: HOTS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Its name means "waterless place" in Mongolian"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a desert in central china
  • Words that mean the same thing: Gobi Desert
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GOBI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Hype (up)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the basic unit of electric current adopted under the systeme international d'unites
  • Words that mean the same thing: A, ampere, adenosine monophosphate
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AMP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Something to follow, in cards"

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 set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
  • Words that mean the same thing: wooing, case, suit of clothes
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SUIT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "27. "If so, then …""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: INTHATCASE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "29. Number of graduates in the first class at West Point (1802)"

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 or a numeral representing this number
  • Words that mean the same thing: ii, deuce, 2
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TWO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "31. Poetic frequency"

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 many times at short intervals
  • Words that mean the same thing: ofttimes, often, oftentimes
  • The opposite would be: rarely, infrequently
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: OFT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "32. Utmost"

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 last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
  • Words that mean the same thing: n-th
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: NTH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. Writer Umberto"

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

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "35. Buds go in them"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
  • Words that mean the same thing: capitulum, pinna, spike
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EARS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "36. Dance floor flourish"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a depression in an otherwise level surface
  • Words that mean the same thing: angle of dip, fall, pickpocket
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DIP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "38. Less sharp, as footage"

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 composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
  • Words that mean the same thing: gritty, granular, farinaceous
  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GRAINIER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "39. Animal whose brain has the most gray matter of any mammal"

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 predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
  • Words that mean the same thing: grampus, sea wolf, killer
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ORCA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. They're raised in Chi-Town"

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 angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  • Words that mean the same thing: elevated railway, elevated, elevation
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ELS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "44. Found innocent"

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 rid of obstructions
  • Words that mean the same thing: solve, realise, authorize
  • The opposite would be: bounce, uncleared
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CLEARED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "46. Part of, as a plot"

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: INON

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "48. "___-daisy!""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: UPSA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "49. Tales of daring"

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: GESTS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "50. Frome of fiction"

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: ETHAN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "51. Classical cover-ups"

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 one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient rome
  • Words that mean the same thing: toga
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TOGAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "52. Chilling"

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: ONICE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "53. Labor activist Chavez"

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: CESAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "57. "___ 18" (novel by Leon Uris)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: MILA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "58. Exclusively"

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 being the only one; single and isolated from others
  • Words that mean the same thing: exclusively, solitary, simply
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ONLY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "59. Wrinkles in time?"

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 how long something has existed
  • Words that mean the same thing: years, maturate, historic period
  • The opposite would be: rejuvenate
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AGES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "61. Its ways are numbered: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: RTE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "62. O.S.S. successor"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an independent agency of the united states government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the director of central intelligence under the supervision of the president and national security council
  • Words that mean the same thing: Central Intelligence Agency
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CIA

    Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category Number of Clues Percentage
General Knowledge 56 73.7%
Short Answer 13 17.1%
Geography 2 2.6%
Literature 2 2.6%
History 1 1.3%
Celebrity/Entertainment 1 1.3%
Abbreviation 1 1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric Value
Across Clues 35
Down Clues 41
Total Clues 76
Average Answer Length 5.0 letters
Shortest Answer 3 letters
Longest Answer 15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

  • Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
  • Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
  • When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
  • Today is Wednesday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
  • Most clues today are about general knowledge
  • The average word today has about 4 letters
  • Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
  • Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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

Last Updated: August 28, 2025 at 09:41 AM

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