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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 78 (39 Across, 39 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.8 letters
March 15, 2023 Across Hints: NYT Wednesday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Many a rescue | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Bit of wisdom | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Playful sound while tapping someone's nose | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Brainchild | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Buildup of tanks? | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Atmospheric glow | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Barrel of monkeys | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world's flags | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Catalog | 5 |
| 10A | 21. Person you might see in August? | 3 |
| 11A | 22. Whac-A-___ | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Word after high or seven | 4 |
| 13A | 26. Rice option | 5 |
| 14A | 28. With 50-Across, blue streak | 8 |
| 15A | 32. Shapes up | 6 |
| 16A | 35. Black, in verse | 4 |
| 17A | 36. Barrier in certain zoo enclosures | 4 |
| 18A | 38. Dora the Explorer's cousin | 5 |
| 19A | 39. Bit of ink | 3 |
| 20A | 40. Leather band used to sharpen razors | 5 |
| 21A | 42. Landon who lost in a landslide to F.D.R. | 3 |
| 22A | 43. Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell | 5 |
| 23A | 46. Eye affliction | 4 |
| 24A | 47. Voter on a failed 2014 independence referendum | 4 |
| 25A | 48. Ghost in the machine | 6 |
| 26A | 50. See 28-Across | 8 |
| 27A | 52. Partner of dreams | 5 |
| 28A | 54. Life-or-death | 4 |
| 29A | 55. Blue-green shade | 4 |
| 30A | 57. Florida politico Demings | 3 |
| 31A | 59. "Toodles," but more formally | 5 |
| 32A | 63. Rip | 4 |
| 33A | 64. Knock me down with a feather | 10 |
| 34A | 67. Start of a fairy tale | 4 |
| 35A | 68. Actress Messing | 5 |
| 36A | 69. What the fourth little piggy had | 4 |
| 37A | 70. Batik worker | 4 |
| 38A | 71. Like many theater camp productions | 5 |
| 39A | 72. Shred the ___ (skiing slang for conquering difficult terrain) | 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. Many a rescue"
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 inferior dog or one of mixed breed
- Words that mean the same thing: mongrel, cur
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MUTT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Bit of wisdom"
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 smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
- Words that mean the same thing: drop, bone, ivory
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEARL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "10. Playful sound while tapping someone's nose"
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!
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The answer is: BOOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. Brainchild"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- Words that mean the same thing: thought, melodic theme, estimate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IDEA
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Clue 5 Across: "15. Buildup of tanks?"
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 primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
- Words that mean the same thing: alga
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALGAE
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Clue 6 Across: "16. Atmospheric glow"
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 sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure
- Words that mean the same thing: gloriole, glory, air
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AURA
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Clue 7 Across: "17. Barrel of monkeys"
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!
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The answer is: DONKEYKONG
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world's flags"
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 (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Words that mean the same thing: genius, hotshot, star topology
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STAR
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Clue 9 Across: "20. Catalog"
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 numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number
- Words that mean the same thing: indicator, power, indicant
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INDEX
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Clue 10 Across: "21. Person you might see in August?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the largest and southernmost island in the marianas which is administered as a territory of the united states; it was ceded by spain to the united states in 1898
- Words that mean the same thing: GU, Guam
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GUS
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Clue 11 Across: "22. Whac-A-___"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Words that mean the same thing: groyne, breakwater, mol
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOLE
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Clue 12 Across: "23. Word after high or seven"
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 division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- Words that mean the same thing: sea, ocean
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. Rice option"
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 rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
- Words that mean the same thing: pilaff, pilaw, pilau
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PILAF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. With 50-Across, blue streak"
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!
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The answer is: SONICTHE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "32. Shapes up"
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 100 tetri equal 1 lari in georgia
- Words that mean the same thing: tetri
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TETRIS
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Clue 16 Across: "35. Black, in verse"
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 of a very dark black
- Words that mean the same thing: ebony
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EBON
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Clue 17 Across: "36. Barrier in certain zoo enclosures"
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 ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
- Words that mean the same thing: fosse
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "38. Dora the Explorer's cousin"
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!
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The answer is: DIEGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "39. Bit of ink"
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 tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- Words that mean the same thing: sleaze, cheapness, tackiness
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAT
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Clue 20 Across: "40. Leather band used to sharpen razors"
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 leather strap used to sharpen razors
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STROP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. Landon who lost in a landslide to F.D.R."
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!
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The answer is: ALF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell"
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!
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The answer is: UMASS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "46. Eye affliction"
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 infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Words that mean the same thing: hordeolum, sty, eye infection
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STYE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "47. Voter on a failed 2014 independence referendum"
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 native or inhabitant of scotland
- Words that mean the same thing: Scotchman, Scotsman
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Ghost in the machine"
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!
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The answer is: PACMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. See 28-Across"
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 relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
- Words that mean the same thing: Erinaceus europeaeus, Erinaceus europaeus, porcupine
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HEDGEHOG
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Clue 27 Across: "52. Partner of dreams"
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 specific instance of feeling hopeful
- Words that mean the same thing: Leslie Townes Hope, hop-skip, trust
- The opposite would be: despair
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOPES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "54. Life-or-death"
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 fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; ; - g.c.marshall
- Words that mean the same thing: horrific, frightening, desperate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DIRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. Blue-green shade"
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 blue-green color or pigment
- Words that mean the same thing: bluish green, blue green, blue-green
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "57. Florida politico Demings"
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!
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The answer is: VAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "59. "Toodles," but more formally"
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 farewell remark
- Words that mean the same thing: au revoir, adios, good-by
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADIEU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "63. Rip"
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 tear or be torn violently
- Words that mean the same thing: rip, pull, rive
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "64. Knock me down with a feather"
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!
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The answer is: ANGRYBIRDS
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Clue 34 Across: "67. Start of a fairy tale"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that on one occasion
- Words that mean the same thing: erst, in one case, formerly
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONCE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "68. Actress Messing"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEBRA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "69. What the fourth little piggy had"
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 canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NONE
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Clue 37 Across: "70. Batik worker"
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 someone whose job is to dye cloth
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DYER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 38 Across: "71. Like many theater camp productions"
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!
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The answer is: ARTSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 39 Across: "72. Shred the ___ (skiing slang for conquering difficult terrain)"
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!
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The answer is: GNAR
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March 15, 2023 Down Hints: NYT Wednesday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Skirt covering the knees | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Noodles often served in broth | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Oversee, as a flock | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Adopts | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Insert a token, say | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Sight at Rocky Mountain National Park | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Excited | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Accumulated, as charges | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Goes by foot, informally | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Rice option | 7 |
| 11D | 11. Unobtainable | 10 |
| 12D | 12. ___ motor skills (baby's development) | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Trim | 4 |
| 14D | 18. C.T.O. or C.F.O. | 4 |
| 15D | 24. Paper pushers? | 4 |
| 16D | 25. They can be parting | 5 |
| 17D | 27. Captained | 3 |
| 18D | 28. Sting operation, e.g. | 5 |
| 19D | 29. "A Promised Land" author, 2020 | 5 |
| 20D | 30. "No way!" | 10 |
| 21D | 31. "Mostly harmless" place, per "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 5 |
| 22D | 33. Home with a dome | 5 |
| 23D | 34. Giant head? | 5 |
| 24D | 37. Messed (with) | 5 |
| 25D | 41. Spa treatment, informally | 4 |
| 26D | 44. Burn like embers | 7 |
| 27D | 45. Chump | 3 |
| 28D | 47. Playoff ranking | 7 |
| 29D | 49. One side of the Hoover Dam | 6 |
| 30D | 51. Get, as a quick lunch | 4 |
| 31D | 53. More even-keeled | 5 |
| 32D | 55. Walked (on) | 4 |
| 33D | 56. Tiny, informally | 4 |
| 34D | 58. Orientation inits. | 4 |
| 35D | 60. It makes up about a third of our planet's mass | 4 |
| 36D | 61. ___ Mode, "no capes" advocate in "The Incredibles" | 4 |
| 37D | 62. Operator | 4 |
| 38D | 65. B&O and others | 3 |
| 39D | 66. "Huzzah!" | 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. Skirt covering the knees"
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 southern part of france
- Words that mean the same thing: musical instrument digital interface
- The opposite would be: maxi
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MIDI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Noodles often served in broth"
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!
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The answer is: UDON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Oversee, as a flock"
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 have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- Words that mean the same thing: be given, lean, incline
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Adopts"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAKESIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Insert a token, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that something that remunerates
- Words that mean the same thing: salary, pay up, ante up
- The opposite would be: default
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Sight at Rocky Mountain National Park"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
- Words that mean the same thing: European elk, Alces alces, moose
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELK
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Excited"
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 highly excited
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AGOG
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Clue 8 Down: "8. Accumulated, as charges"
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!
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The answer is: RANUP
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Goes by foot, informally"
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!
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The answer is: LEGSIT
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Rice option"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BASMATI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Unobtainable"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
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The answer is: OUTOFREACH
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Clue 12 Down: "12. ___ motor skills (baby's development)"
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 examination conducted by spoken communication
- Words that mean the same thing: oral exam, oral examination, unwritten
- The opposite would be: aboral, anal
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORAL
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Clue 13 Down: "13. Trim"
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 decrease gradually or bit by bit
- Words that mean the same thing: trim, skin, pare down
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PARE
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Clue 14 Down: "18. C.T.O. or C.F.O."
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 chief executive department of the united states government
- Words that mean the same thing: White House
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EXEC
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Clue 15 Down: "24. Paper pushers?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- Words that mean the same thing: atm, asynchronous transfer mode, standard atmosphere
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ATMS
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Clue 16 Down: "25. They can be parting"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the act of firing a projectile
- Words that mean the same thing: shooting, shaft, scene
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SHOTS
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Clue 17 Down: "27. Captained"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
- Words that mean the same thing: run, leave, extend
- The opposite would be: follow
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The answer is: LED
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Clue 18 Down: "28. Sting operation, e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
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- This could be something that equipment designed to serve a specific function
- Words that mean the same thing: apparatus, frame-up
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SETUP
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Clue 19 Down: "29. "A Promised Land" author, 2020"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: OBAMA
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Clue 20 Down: "30. "No way!""
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: __________
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The answer is: NOTACHANCE
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Clue 21 Down: "31. "Mostly harmless" place, per "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
- Words that mean the same thing: world, solid ground, earthly concern
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: EARTH
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Clue 22 Down: "33. Home with a dome"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- Words that mean the same thing: iglu
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: IGLOO
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Clue 23 Down: "34. Giant head?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SOFTG
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Clue 24 Down: "37. Messed (with)"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that behave carelessly or indifferently
- Words that mean the same thing: fiddle, dally, diddle
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: TOYED
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Clue 25 Down: "41. Spa treatment, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: PEDI
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Clue 26 Down: "44. Burn like embers"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
- Words that mean the same thing: smoulder
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: SMOLDER
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Clue 27 Down: "45. Chump"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- Words that mean the same thing: tomfool, run down, tire
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: SAP
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Clue 28 Down: "47. Playoff ranking"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that go to seed; shed seeds
- Words that mean the same thing: seed, sow
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: SEEDING
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Clue 29 Down: "49. One side of the Hoover Dam"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a state in the southwestern united states
- Words that mean the same thing: Silver State, Battle Born State, Sagebrush State
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: NEVADA
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Clue 30 Down: "51. Get, as a quick lunch"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a mechanical device for gripping an object
- Words that mean the same thing: seize, snap, catch
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: GRAB
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Clue 31 Down: "53. More even-keeled"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
- Words that mean the same thing: reasonable, sane
- The opposite would be: insane
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The answer is: SANER
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Clue 32 Down: "55. Walked (on)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that put down or press the foot, place the foot
- Words that mean the same thing: tread, step, trample
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: TROD
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Clue 33 Down: "56. Tiny, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EENY
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Clue 34 Down: "58. Orientation inits."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LGBT
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Clue 35 Down: "60. It makes up about a third of our planet's mass"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be 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
- Words that mean the same thing: Fe, cast-iron, atomic number 26
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: IRON
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Clue 36 Down: "61. ___ Mode, "no capes" advocate in "The Incredibles""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EDNA
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Clue 37 Down: "62. Operator"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about history.
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- This could be something that a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
- Words that mean the same thing: exploiter, drug user, substance abuser
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: USER
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Clue 38 Down: "65. B&O and others"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RRS
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Clue 39 Down: "66. "Huzzah!""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a branch of the tai languages
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: YAY
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 63 | 80.8% |
| Short Answer | 9 | 11.5% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 3 | 3.8% |
| History | 2 | 2.6% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 39 |
| Down Clues | 39 |
| Total Clues | 78 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.8 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 10 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 03, 2025 at 04:46 PM
