January 22, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Published on Monday, January 22, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 22, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

Puzzle Difficulty: Medium

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

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

1A: "1. TV series featured herein"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LALAW

2A: "6. Entertainer Falana"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LOLA

3A: "10. Zany"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
• Similar words include: batty, whacky, loony
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DAFT

4A: "14. Attica's marketplace"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in israel
• Similar words include: public square
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: AGORA

5A: "15. Newspaper notice, for short"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
• Similar words include: necrology, obituary
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: OBIT

6A: "16. Understanding reply"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ISEE

7A: "17. College officials"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
• Similar words include: dean, James Byron Dean, James Dean
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DEANS

8A: "18. Jummy Smits plays Victor ___"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SIFUENTES

9A: "20. Signifies"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that be a sign or indication of
• Similar words include: announce, denote, refer
• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DENOTES

10A: "22. Groups of nine"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
• Similar words include: ennead, nine, IX
• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ENNEADS

11A: "23. Deighton or Dykstra"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LEN

12A: "24. Deputy"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect
• Similar words include: federal agent, broker, agentive role
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: AGENT

13A: "25. Retain"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of grasping
• Similar words include: time lag, handgrip, support
• Opposite of: disagree, let go of

Click to reveal answer

Answer: HOLD

14A: "28. Ballet skirt"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that south african prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)
• Similar words include: ballet skirt, Desmond Tutu
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: TUTU

15A: "30. Aquatic mammal"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fur of an otter
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: OTTER

16A: "34. Altar on high"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a constellation in the southern hemisphere near telescopium and norma
• Similar words include: genus Ara
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ARA

17A: "35. Five: Comb. form"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: PENTA

18A: "36. Grayish tan"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very light brown
• Similar words include: ecru
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: BEIGE

19A: "37. "Kidnapped" author's initials"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: RLS

20A: "38. Jackie's second spouse"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ARI

21A: "39. Electrical unit"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: REL

22A: "41. Land measure"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
• Similar words include: be, make up, follow
• Opposite of: differ

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ARE

23A: "42. Former big-game guns"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ROERS

24A: "44. Soup server"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
• Similar words include: laden, lade
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LADLE

25A: "46. Gun a motor"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
• Similar words include: rev up, revolutions per minute, rpm
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: REV

26A: "47. Belgian W.W. I battle site"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that battle in world war i (1917); an allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of flanders; germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the allied artillery
• Similar words include: second battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres, battle of Ypres
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: YPRES

27A: "48. U.S. holly"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ASSI

28A: "49. Social engagement"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the specified day of the month
• Similar words include: escort, engagement, appointment
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DATE

29A: "50. Tilts sideways"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
• Similar words include: lean, list, name
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LISTS

30A: "52. Susan ___ plays Grace Van Owen"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DEY

31A: "54. High-school subject"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a particular branch of scientific knowledge
• Similar words include: skill, scientific discipline
• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SCIENCE

32A: "57. Annual quartet"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
• Similar words include: time of year, flavour, mollify
• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SEASONS

33A: "61. Collection of animals"

9 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a collection of live animals for study or display
• Similar words include: zoo, zoological garden
• Pattern: _________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: MENAGERIE

34A: "63. Wooden shoe"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a shoe carved from a single block of wood
• Similar words include: patten, wooden shoe, geta
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SABOT

35A: "64. Sea eagles"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
• Similar words include: Haliatus albicilla, erne, grey sea eagle
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ERNS

36A: "65. Thurmond of N.B.A. fame"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: NATE

37A: "66. Irregular"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
• Similar words include: toothed, notched, jagged
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: EROSE

38A: "67. First word of the Bay State motto"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ENSE

39A: "68. ___ Rachins plays Douglas Brackman"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ALAN

40A: "69. Precipitous"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a steep place (as on a hill)
• Similar words include: exorbitant, engulf, extortionate
• Opposite of: gradual

Click to reveal answer

Answer: STEEP

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1D: "1. Alan or Cheryl"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LADD

2D: "2. Askew"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states novelist (1909-1955)
• Similar words include: James Agee
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: AGEE

3D: "3. Bank transaction"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
• Similar words include: lend, loanword
• Opposite of: borrow

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LOAN

4D: "4. Corbin Bernsen plays ___ Becker"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that english poet and literary critic (1822-1888)
• Similar words include: Benedict Arnold, Matthew Arnold
• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ARNOLD

5D: "5. Squander"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
• Similar words include: waste product, wasteland, languish
• Opposite of: conserve

Click to reveal answer

Answer: WASTE

6D: "6. Deprivation"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something that is lost
• Similar words include: exit, red ink, release
• Opposite of: gain

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LOSS

7D: "7. Kimono sash"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (west indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
• Similar words include: obeah
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: OBI

8D: "8. Pool attendants"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents
• Similar words include: lifeguard, lifesaver
• Pattern: __________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LIFEGUARDS

9D: "9. " ... I am incapable of ___": Lamb"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ATUNE

10D: "10. Small room off a kitchen"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining
• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DINETTE

11D: "11. Nick Charles's dog"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ASTA

12D: "12. Nourish"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that food for domestic livestock
• Similar words include: flow, prey, fertilise
• Opposite of: starve

Click to reveal answer

Answer: FEED

13D: "13. Hardy heroine"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: TESS

14D: "19. Dignify"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that confer dignity or honor upon
• Similar words include: gentle, entitle, dignify
• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ENNOBLE

15D: "21. Enroll"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that to come or go into
• Similar words include: recruit, figure, insert
• Opposite of: exit, drop out

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ENTER

16D: "24. Lawyer: Abbr."

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ATT

17D: "25. ___ Hamlin plays Michael Kuzak"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that annoy continually or chronically
• Similar words include: chivy, provoke, beset
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: HARRY

18D: "26. Lowest deck"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fourth or lowest deck
• Similar words include: orlop deck, fourth deck
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ORLOP

19D: "27. Intense beam"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
• Similar words include: optical maser
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LASER

20D: "29. One-sided"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that involving only one part or side
• Similar words include: one-sided
• Opposite of: multilateral

Click to reveal answer

Answer: UNILATERAL

21D: "31. Coronet"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: TIARA

22D: "32. Wading bird"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: EGRET

23D: "33. Superman portrayer"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that female ruff
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: REEVE

24D: "35. Making the grade"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (american football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
• Similar words include: release, expiration, super
• Opposite of: running, fail

Click to reveal answer

Answer: PASSING

25D: "40. Slur over"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that leave or strike out
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ELIDE

26D: "43. Free"

7 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
• Similar words include: issue, loose, sacking
• Opposite of: confine, block

Click to reveal answer

Answer: RELEASE

27D: "45. Fool"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: buttocks, seat, tooshie
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ASS

28D: "49. Richard ___ plays Leland McKenzie"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DYSART

29D: "51. Part of an opera"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SCENA

30D: "53. Mitigates"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
• Similar words include: comfort, alleviate, relieve
• Opposite of: difficulty

Click to reveal answer

Answer: EASES

31D: "54. Pintail duck"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SMEE

32D: "55. Decide: Rom. law"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: CERN

33D: "56. Guest houses"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
• Similar words include: hostelry, hostel, inn
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: INNS

34D: "57. Observed"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
• Similar words include: figure, visualize, understand
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SEEN

35D: "58. Hautboy"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
• Similar words include: hautbois, hautboy
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: OBOE

36D: "59. Proboscis"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
• Similar words include: intrude, poke, scent
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: NOSE

37D: "60. Pace"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
• Similar words include: stair, maltreat, whole tone
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: STEP

38D: "62. Give ___ go (try)"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ITA

Puzzle Stats

40 Across

38 Down

78 Total

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August 17, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (35 clues)
• Down Clues (43 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (35 Across, 43 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.8 letters

August 17, 2022 Wednesday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Repo job	3
2A	4. ___ gel (drying agent that comes in small packets)	6
3A	10. Upscale hotel amenities	4
4A	14. "Nasty!"	3
5A	15. Sneaker brand in a Run-D.M.C. hit	6
6A	16. Gather	4
7A	17. Breakfast cereal with a toucan mascot [69-Across!]	10
8A	19. Mediterranean erupter	4
9A	20. Cause of a mascara streak	4
10A	21. "Star Wars" cantina patrons, for short	3
11A	22. Hold sway	5
12A	23. Team that broke the "Curse of the Bambino" in 2004 [69-Across!]	12
13A	27. Reef dweller	3
14A	30. Group that often elects officers in Sept.	3
15A	31. Aurora's Greek counterpart	3
16A	32. Reward for giving a paw	5
17A	34. Didn't move	8
18A	39. Triple Crown winner of 2015 [69-Across!]	15
19A	42. Time for parting shots?	8
20A	43. "Buffalo soldier, dreadlock ___": Bob Marley	5
21A	44. Fury	3
22A	45. "Clear now?"	3
23A	47. Ax	3
24A	48. Video game franchise featuring Sub-Zero and Sonya Blade [69-Across!]	12
25A	54. Word with green or pearl	5
26A	55. "Traffic was terrible," maybe	3
27A	56. Designer Gucci	4
28A	60. One-term president	4
29A	61. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" rockers [69-Across!]	10
30A	64. Mahjong piece	4
31A	65. Largish jazz combos	6
32A	66. National Gallery architect	3
33A	67. A lot of these tend to go to waste	4
34A	68. Like the smell of fresh pine	6
35A	69. [not my typo]	3

Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!

Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!

Clue 1 Across: "1. Repo job"

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 act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope
• Words that mean the same thing: towage
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "4. ___ gel (drying agent that comes in small packets)"

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 white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (sio2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
• Words that mean the same thing: silicon dioxide, silicon oxide
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SILICA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Upscale hotel amenities"

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 athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training
• Words that mean the same thing: gym, gymnasium
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GYMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. "Nasty!""

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: UGH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Sneaker brand in a Run-D.M.C. hit"

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: ADIDAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Gather"

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 gather, as of natural products
• Words that mean the same thing: draw, glean, harvest
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Breakfast cereal with a toucan mascot [69-Across!]"

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: FROOTLOOPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Mediterranean erupter"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
• Words that mean the same thing: Mt Etna, Mount Etna, bunsen
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Cause of a mascara streak"

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 drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
• Words that mean the same thing: deplume, shoot, snap
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. "Star Wars" cantina patrons, for short"

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: ETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Hold sway"

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 period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
• Words that mean the same thing: prevail, predominate, dominate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REIGN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "23. Team that broke the "Curse of the Bambino" in 2004 [69-Across!]"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: BOSTONREDSOX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. Reef dweller"

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 fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "30. Group that often elects officers in Sept."

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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: PTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "31. Aurora's Greek counterpart"

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 (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "32. Reward for giving a paw"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that something considered choice to eat
• Words that mean the same thing: delicacy, dainty, deal
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TREAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "34. Didn't move"

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: SATTIGHT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "39. Triple Crown winner of 2015 [69-Across!]"

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: AMERICANPHAROAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "42. Time for parting shots?"

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: LASTCALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "43. "Buffalo soldier, dreadlock ___": Bob Marley"

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 follower of rastafarianism
• Words that mean the same thing: Rastafarian
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RASTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "44. Fury"

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 strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
• Words that mean the same thing: choler, wrath, ira
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "45. "Clear now?""

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 seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
• Words that mean the same thing: image, get wind, insure
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "47. Ax"

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 make or shape as with an axe
• Words that mean the same thing: hew 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: HEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "48. Video game franchise featuring Sub-Zero and Sonya Blade [69-Across!]"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: MORTALKOMBAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "54. Word with green or pearl"

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 bulb of an onion plant
• Words that mean the same thing: onion plant, Allium cepa
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ONION

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "55. "Traffic was terrible," maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a trivial lie
• Words that mean the same thing: story, tarradiddle, taradiddle
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FIB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "56. Designer Gucci"

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: ALDO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "60. One-term president"

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 united states sculptor (1860-1936)
• Words that mean the same thing: President Taft, William Howard Taft, Lorado Taft
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "61. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" rockers [69-Across!]"

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: DEFLEPPARD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "64. Mahjong piece"

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 31 Across: "65. Largish jazz combos"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OCTETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "66. National Gallery architect"

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 united states architect (born in china in 1917)
• Words that mean the same thing: Ieoh Ming Pei, I. M. Pei
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PEI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "67. A lot of these tend to go to waste"

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

  The answer is: ORES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "68. Like the smell of fresh pine"

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 characteristic or suggestive of woods
• Words that mean the same thing: woody, arboreous, arboraceous
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WOODSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "69. [not my typo]"

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 urge to attack someone
• 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: SIC

  Great job if you got it right!

August 17, 2022 Down Hints: NYT Wednesday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Clump of grass	4
2D	2. Dungeons & Dragons monster	4
3D	3. "Easy there!"	4
4D	4. H.S. hurdle	3
5D	5. Least active	6
6D	6. Ray of "GoodFellas"	6
7D	7. "Not true what you say about me!"	5
8D	8. Gown go-with	3
9D	9. Buffoon	3
10D	10. King Midas's vice	5
11D	11. Hairy cryptids	5
12D	12. Tropical flavor	5
13D	13. Big name in shapewear	5
14D	18. Planet, to a poet	3
15D	22. Place for a pit stop	8
16D	24. A sight for sore eyes?	8
17D	25. Like a half-moon tide	4
18D	26. With 35-Down, savings plan option	4
19D	27. And others, for short	4
20D	28. Humorist Bombeck	4
21D	29. Some jeans	4
22D	33. Verb with thou	3
23D	34. NBC hit since 1975, in brief	3
24D	35. See 26-Down	3
25D	36. "Gee whiz!"	4
26D	37. "It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet," per Maya Angelou	4
27D	38. Sign of spring	4
28D	40. Fast Lewis	4
29D	41. Supermodel Wek	4
30D	45. Said "cheese," say	6
31D	46. Field where Jackie Robinson played	6
32D	48. "Carpe diem," for one	5
33D	49. Sign in a radio booth	5
34D	50. Rummage (through)	5
35D	51. "___ adorbs"	5
36D	52. Leaving for	5
37D	53. Like some water	3
38D	57. Track units	4
39D	58. Trois : French :: ___ : German	4
40D	59. Like many of Horace's works	4
41D	61. Business index, with "the"	3
42D	62. Prefix with friendly	3
43D	63. "Gangnam Style" rapper	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. Clump of grass"

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 bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
• Words that mean the same thing: tussock
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TUFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Dungeons & Dragons monster"

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 cruel wicked and inhuman person
• Words that mean the same thing: monster, fiend, devil
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OGRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. "Easy there!""

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: WHOA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. H.S. hurdle"

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 seventh and last day of the week; observed as the sabbath by jews and some christians
• Words that mean the same thing: sit around, posture, seat
• The opposite would be: arise, stand
• 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 5 Down: "5. Least active"

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 not in action or at work
• Words that mean the same thing: idle, out of work, loose
• The opposite would be: busy
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDLEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Ray of "GoodFellas""

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: LIOTTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. "Not true what you say about me!""

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: IDOSO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Gown go-with"

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 tight-fitting headdress
• Words that mean the same thing: crest, detonating device, capital
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Buffoon"

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 fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Words that mean the same thing: As, screw, stern
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. King Midas's vice"

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 excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
• Words that mean the same thing: avaritia, covetousness, avarice
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GREED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Hairy cryptids"

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 large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the himalayas
• Words that mean the same thing: abominable snowman, yeti
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YETIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Tropical flavor"

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 large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
• Words that mean the same thing: Mangifera indica, mango 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: MANGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Big name in shapewear"

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: SPANX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Planet, to a poet"

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 ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
• Words that mean the same thing: eyeball, ball, orbit
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Place for a pit stop"

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: RESTAREA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. A sight for sore eyes?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
• Words that mean the same thing: lens maker
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OPTICIAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Like a half-moon tide"

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 less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
• Words that mean the same thing: neap tide
• The opposite would be: springtide
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. With 35-Down, savings plan option"

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 united states writer whose novels portray middle-class jewish life (born in 1933)
• Words that mean the same thing: Philip Milton Roth, Philip Roth
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROTH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "27. And others, for short"

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: ETAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "28. Humorist Bombeck"

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: ERMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "29. Some jeans"

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 sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
• Words that mean the same thing: Robert E. Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Lee
• The opposite would be: windward
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. Verb with thou"

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 products of human creativity; works of art collectively
• Words that mean the same thing: artwork, fine art, nontextual matter
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ART

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. NBC hit since 1975, in brief"

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: SNL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "35. See 26-Down"

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 militant organization of irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive british forces from northern ireland and achieve a united independent ireland
• Words that mean the same thing: ire, individual retirement account, anger
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "36. "Gee whiz!""

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: GOSH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "37. "It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet," per Maya Angelou"

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 emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
• Words that mean the same thing: detest, hatred
• The opposite would be: love
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "38. Sign of spring"

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 process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
• Words that mean the same thing: thawing, dissolve, dethaw
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "40. Fast Lewis"

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: CARL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "41. Supermodel Wek"

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: ALEK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Said "cheese," say"

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 change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
• Words that mean the same thing: smile
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SMILED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Field where Jackie Robinson played"

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: EBBETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "48. "Carpe diem," 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 favorite saying of a sect or political group
• Words that mean the same thing: slogan, catchword, shibboleth
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOTTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "49. Sign in a radio booth"

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: ONAIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "50. Rummage (through)"

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 shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
• Words that mean the same thing: foray, go, strip
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RIFLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "51. "___ adorbs""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a capacious bag or basket
• Words that mean the same thing: holdall, tote bag, tally
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOTES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "52. Leaving for"

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: OFFTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "53. Like some water"

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 sound made by a gentle blow
• Words that mean the same thing: strike, hydrant, spigot
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "57. Track units"

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 upper side of the thighs of a seated person
• Words that mean the same thing: wash, lap covering, circuit
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "58. Trois : French :: ___ : German"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DREI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "59. Like many of Horace's works"

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: ODIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "61. Business index, with "the""

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: DOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Down: "62. Prefix with friendly"

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 43 Down: "63. "Gangnam Style" rapper"

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: PSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	51	65.4%
Short Answer	22	28.2%
Sports	2	2.6%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.3%
History	1	1.3%
Abbreviation	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	43
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.8 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: September 07, 2025 at 11:17 PM