June 24, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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

Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 74 (37 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.2 letters

June 24, 2020 Wednesday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Ansari of "Parks and Recreation"	4
2A	5. Lotion letters	3
3A	8. Class for expectant mothers	6
4A	14. Only	4
5A	15. ___-El (Superman's birth name)	3
6A	16. Roberto in Cooperstown	6
7A	17. It served as its state's capital before Des Moines	8
8A	19. Traditional Japanese sword	6
9A	20. Whack-a-mole implement	6
10A	21. Where dreams are made?	3
11A	22. Fleur-de-___	3
12A	23. Waste receptacle	3
13A	24. Joe and Jack, say?	11
14A	27. Voting against	4
15A	29. Latin "I love"	3
16A	30. Shows, as shows	4
17A	31. Set free	5
18A	33. Glossy coating	6
19A	35. Medical ethics topic	15
20A	40. In a drab way	6
21A	41. Bluesman Willie	5
22A	42. Asti Spumante, per esempio	4
23A	45. Noise from a nest	3
24A	46. Senate rebuke	4
25A	47. "Barrier" dismantled in 1991	11
26A	52. Word before or after pack	3
27A	53. Country's ___ Brown Band	3
28A	54. New Orleans-to-Tampa dir.	3
29A	55. Bratislava resident	6
30A	57. Even	6
31A	59. Start of each "S.N.L." episode ... or a hint to the initials of the words in 17-, 24-, 35- and 47-Across	8
32A	61. Adopt-a-Highway concern	6
33A	62. Director Lee	3
34A	63. Old-timey "not"	4
35A	64. Give a good looking-over	6
36A	65. Jed's adviser on "The West Wing"	3
37A	66. Where Southwest Airlines is LUV	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. Ansari of "Parks and Recreation""

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: AZIZ

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Lotion letters"

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 degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun
• Words that mean the same thing: sun protection factor
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "8. Class for expectant mothers"

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: LAMAZE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Only"

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 lacking companions or companionship
• Words that mean the same thing: alone, only, lonesome
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. ___-El (Superman's birth name)"

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: KAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Roberto in Cooperstown"

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: ALOMAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. It served as its state's capital before Des Moines"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: IOWACITY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Traditional Japanese sword"

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: KATANA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Whack-a-mole implement"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball
• Words that mean the same thing: hammer, beetle
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MALLET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Where dreams are made?"

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 recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
• Words that mean the same thing: rapid eye movement sleep, rapid eye movement, paradoxical sleep
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Fleur-de-___"

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 soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 3, lithium, li
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "23. Waste receptacle"

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 container; usually has a lid
• Words that mean the same thing: ABA transit number, binful, bank identification number
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "24. Joe and Jack, say?"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: IRISHCOFFEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. Voting against"

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 person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
• The opposite would be: pro
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "29. Latin "I love""

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: AMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. Shows, as shows"

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 affected manners intended to impress others
• Words that mean the same thing: tune, aura, zephyr
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AIRS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "31. Set free"

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 grant freedom to; free from confinement
• Words that mean the same thing: idle, lax, sluttish
• The opposite would be: compact, affixed
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOOSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "33. Glossy coating"

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 hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth
• Words that mean the same thing: tooth enamel
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENAMEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. Medical ethics topic"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: INFORMEDCONSENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "40. In a drab way"

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 having a grey appearance
• Words that mean the same thing: greyly
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GRAYLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "41. Bluesman Willie"

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: DIXON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "42. Asti Spumante, per esempio"

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 fermented juice (of grapes especially)
• Words that mean the same thing: wine
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VINO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. Noise from a nest"

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

  The answer is: COO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "46. Senate rebuke"

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: ETTU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "47. "Barrier" dismantled in 1991"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: IRONCURTAIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "52. Word before or after pack"

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 any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
• Words that mean the same thing: git, dirty dog, stag
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "53. Country's ___ Brown Band"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ZAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "54. New Orleans-to-Tampa dir."

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 compass point midway between east and southeast
• Words that mean the same thing: east southeast
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ESE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "55. Bratislava resident"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a native or inhabitant of slovakia
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLOVAK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "57. Even"

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 (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
• Words that mean the same thing: lame, foursquare, substantial
• The opposite would be: crooked, round
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SQUARE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "59. Start of each "S.N.L." episode ... or a hint to the initials of the words in 17-, 24-, 35- and 47-Across"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: COLDOPEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "61. Adopt-a-Highway concern"

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 offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
• Words that mean the same thing: bedding, bedding material
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LITTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "62. Director Lee"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a civilian reserve component of the united states air force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies
• Words that mean the same thing: Air National Guard
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "63. Old-timey "not""

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 (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NARY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "64. Give a good looking-over"

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 evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
• Words that mean the same thing: evaluate, measure, valuate
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASSESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "65. Jed's adviser on "The West Wing""

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 (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
• Words that mean the same thing: Leo the Lion, Lion
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "66. Where Southwest Airlines is LUV"

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 stock exchange in new york
• Words that mean the same thing: big board, N. Y. Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NYSE

  Great job if you got it right!

June 24, 2020 Wednesday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Subject of a Louisville museum	3
2D	2. Magnify	8
3D	3. Lacking	8
4D	4. True believer's quality	4
5D	5. Athlete in goggles	5
6D	6. Smith known as the Poet Laureate of Punk	5
7D	7. Stylish, slangily	3
8D	8. Italian tourist destination	8
9D	9. Car rental choice	5
10D	10. Bon ___	3
11D	11. Italian tourist destination	6
12D	12. More out there	6
13D	13. Wipes out	6
14D	18. 151, in old Rome	3
15D	21. Department store founder	6
16D	23. Indonesian tourist destination	4
17D	25. Place for a pickup baseball game	7
18D	26. Fake eyelash, slangily	6
19D	28. Geometric figure with equal angles	6
20D	32. Prove one's humanity, in a way	3
21D	33. Literary character who lives in the Gloomy Place	6
22D	34. Goal	3
23D	36. Apple pickers?	8
24D	37. Reward for working overtime	8
25D	38. "Anyone? ... ANYONE?"	8
26D	39. Threaded fastener	4
27D	42. Hungarian sporting dog	6
28D	43. Dinar spenders	6
29D	44. "Back of the line!"	6
30D	48. Closest dwarf planet	5
31D	49. Together	5
32D	50. "My turn"	5
33D	51. Start to snooze, with "off"	3
34D	56. Winter Olympics star Lindsey	4
35D	58. Downed	3
36D	59. Old presidential nickname	3
37D	60. December 31, in brief	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. Subject of a Louisville museum"

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 united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
• Words that mean the same thing: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Magnify"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: ZOOMINON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Lacking"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: INWANTOF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. True believer's quality"

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 feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
• Words that mean the same thing: eagerness, ardor, readiness
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ZEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Athlete in goggles"

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

  The answer is: SKIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Smith known as the Poet Laureate of Punk"

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: PATTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Stylish, slangily"

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 two-winged insects characterized by active flight
• Words that mean the same thing: flee, fly front, tent flap
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Italian tourist destination"

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: LAKECOMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Car rental choice"

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 siege and massacre at a mission in san antonio in 1836; mexican forces under santa anna besieged and massacred american rebels who were fighting to make texas independent of mexico
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALAMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Bon ___"

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 clever remark
• Words that mean the same thing: bon mot, Ministry of Transportation test, MOT test
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Italian tourist destination"

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: AMALFI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. More out there"

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 ludicrous, foolish
• Words that mean the same thing: whacky, goofy, buffoonish
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ZANIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Wipes out"

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 remove from memory or existence
• Words that mean the same thing: score out, rub out, wipe off
• The opposite would be: record
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERASES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. 151, in old Rome"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon
• Words that mean the same thing: command line interface
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Department store founder"

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: RHMACY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Indonesian tourist destination"

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 island in indonesia to the east of java; striking volcanic scenery; culture is known for elaborate dances and rituals and for handicrafts
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BALI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Place for a pickup baseball game"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a vacant lot used by city boys to play games
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SANDLOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Fake eyelash, slangily"

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 padding that is worn inside a brassiere
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FALSIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Geometric figure with equal angles"

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

  The answer is: ISOGON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "32. Prove one's humanity, in a way"

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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
• Words that mean the same thing: stray, mistake, drift
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. Literary character who lives in the Gloomy Place"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EEYORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "34. Goal"

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 either extremity of something that has length
• Words that mean the same thing: conclusion, goal, close
• The opposite would be: begin, beginning
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: END

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. Apple pickers?"

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: MACUSERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. Reward for working overtime"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EXTRAPAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. "Anyone? ... ANYONE?""

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: NOTAKERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. Threaded fastener"

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: TNUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "42. Hungarian sporting dog"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that hungarian hunting dog resembling the weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat
• Words that mean the same thing: Hungarian pointer
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VIZSLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "43. Dinar spenders"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a native or inhabitant of iraq
• Words that mean the same thing: Iraqi, Iraki
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRAQIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "44. "Back of the line!""

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: NOCUTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "48. Closest dwarf planet"

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 (roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of greek demeter
• Words that mean the same thing: cere
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CERES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "49. Together"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ASONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "50. "My turn""

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: ILLGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "51. Start to snooze, with "off""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a sign of assent or salutation or command
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "56. Winter Olympics star Lindsey"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: VONN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "58. Downed"

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 goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Words that mean the same thing: corrode, deplete, feed
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "59. Old presidential nickname"

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: CAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "60. December 31, 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: NYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	44	59.5%
Short Answer	19	25.7%
Celebrity/Entertainment	4	5.4%
History	3	4.1%
Geography	2	2.7%
Sports	2	2.7%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	37
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	74
Average Answer Length	5.2 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 moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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Last Updated: September 24, 2025 at 09:22 AM

Xwordhint Crossword Answers - August 07, 2025 | Today NYT Vibez

Published on Thursday, August 07, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master today's NYT crossword with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun. Perfect for crossword lover who want that satisfying "aha!" moment.

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (35 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Speeding check"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lump on the body caused by a blow
• Similar words include: gibbousness, excrescence, dislodge
• Opposite of: promote

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BUMP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "5. Vocally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that using the voice; not silently
• Similar words include: loudly, loud, out loud
• Opposite of: softly

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALOUD

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3A: "10. Source for some bubbly"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASTI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4A: "14. Where the the Magi journeyed from"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AFAR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5A: "15. "Over my dead body!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GODNO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6A: "16. One may be in default"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOAN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "17. Mixtures in copier cartridges"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOPEARNERS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "19. Target of an exfoliator"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
• Similar words include: rivet, stoma, concentrate
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PORE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9A: "20. Birthplace of Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the capital and largest city of the czech republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century
• Similar words include: Prag, Praha, Czech capital
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PRAGUE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10A: "21. Drink made with an artisanal flourish, maybe"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
• Similar words include: caffe latte
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LATTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11A: "22. Begins dealing with"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HASAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12A: "25. Chatted online, in brief"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that challenge the honesty or veracity of
• Similar words include: criminate, incriminate, accuse
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMPEACHED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13A: "27. Risk-___"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
• Similar words include: loath, indisposed, antipathetic
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVERSE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14A: "29. Sporting great who said "Tennis uses the language of life""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGASSI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15A: "30. School that's a rival of 37-Down"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a university in connecticut
• Similar words include: Elihu Yale, Yale University
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YALE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16A: "31. P.R. piece?"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PUERTO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 17A: "35. Stat used to calculate a QB's passer rating"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18A: "36. In vain ... or how to read the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in an unproductive manner
• Similar words include: unprofitably, unproductively
• Opposite of: profitably, productively

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FRUITLESSLY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19A: "39. Org. that monitors on-air obscenity"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite
• Similar words include: Federal Communications Commission
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FCC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20A: "41. Matter in a neon sign"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
• Similar words include: blood plasma, plasm
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PLASMA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 21A: "42. Subjects of some European fishing bans"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• Similar words include: eel
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EELS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22A: "45. Start of a lovelorn soliloquy"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OROMEO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23A: "47. Bridges in Baghdad cross it"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an asian river; a tributary of the euphrates river
• Similar words include: Tigris River
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TIGRIS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24A: "49. Some fishing gear"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROMANGODS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 25A: "53. Level in a social hierarchy"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that social status or position conferred by a system based on class
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CASTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 26A: "54. Street urchin"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
• Similar words include: throwaway, street arab
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAMIN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 27A: "55. Less merry"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a tool used by an engraver
• Similar words include: weighty, grievous, grave
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GRAVER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 28A: "57. Abbr. standing in for co-authors"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETAL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 29A: "58. Investigate in detail"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PROBLEMONE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30A: "62. Pitchfork point"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TINE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 31A: "63. Rivian competitor"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
• Similar words include: Nikola Tesla
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TESLA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 32A: "64. Gemstone found in hot springs"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OPAL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33A: "65. Org. promoting sober motoring"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SADD

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 34A: "66. Half-___ (desultory)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASSED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 35A: "67. Winter sports venue"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating
• Similar words include: skating rink
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RINK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Be up"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
• Similar words include: lick, drub, chiropteran
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2D: "2. What arrives in the film "Arrival""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
• Similar words include: flying saucer, unidentified flying object
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UFO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3D: "3. Dash display in some cars"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
• Similar words include: function, single-valued function, map out
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4D: "4. Tax ___"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PREPARER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5D: "5. Tourist destination outside of Delhi"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGRA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6D: "6. Nighttime sound?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LONGI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7D: "7. Classical performance space"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ODEUM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8D: "8. One with diplomatic plates in N.Y.C."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UNREP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9D: "9. "Mesa para ___" (request at a Spanish restaurant)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the federal department in the united states that sets and maintains foreign policies
• Similar words include: exercise, State, State Department
• Opposite of: unmake

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DOS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10D: "10. Wool source"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that wool of the alpaca
• Similar words include: Lama pacos
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALPACA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11D: "11. Futures experts?"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
• Similar words include: predictor, forecaster, prognosticator
• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOOTHSAYERS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12D: "12. Most pucker-inducing"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tasting sour like a lemon
• Similar words include: tangy, sharp, lemonlike
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TARTEST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13D: "13. "Gimme!""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INEEDIT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14D: "18. Culture vulture's concerns"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
• Similar words include: artistry, artistic creation, art
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARTS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15D: "21. Financial center of West Africa"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that chief port and economic center of nigeria; located in southwestern nigeria on the gulf of guinea; former capital of nigeria
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LAGOS

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🧩 16D: "22. Kind of "fever" that's not actually a fever, and is typically caused by pollen"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that grass mowed and cured for use as fodder
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HAY

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🧩 17D: "23. Director DuVernay"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: AVA

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🧩 18D: "24. It's needed to stay calm"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: SELFCOMMAND

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🧩 19D: "26. Rankles no end"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: EATSAT

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🧩 20D: "28. Prose postscript"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
• Similar words include: epilogue
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: EPILOG

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🧩 21D: "32. ___ Hagen, Tony-winning actress and theater practitioner"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a reptile genus of iguanidae
• Similar words include: genus Uta
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: UTA

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🧩 22D: "33. Trains for the Chicago White Sox?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• Similar words include: ALT, EL, altitude
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ELS

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🧩 23D: "34. Dreamily named rock group?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
• Similar words include: rapid eye movement sleep, paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: REM

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🧩 24D: "37. School that's a rival of 30-Across, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: UPENN

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🧩 25D: "38. Part of a jouster's protection"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: LEGARMOR

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🧩 26D: "39. Thinks nothing of"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
• Similar words include: blank out, draw a blank, leave
• Opposite of: mind, remember

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Answer: FORGETS

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🧩 27D: "40. European land where much of "Game of Thrones" was filmed"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a republic in the western balkans in south-central europe in the eastern adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the habsburg monarchy and yugoslavia; became independent in 1991
• Similar words include: Republic of Croatia, Hrvatska
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: CROATIA

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🧩 28D: "43. On fire"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the humanistic study of a body of literature
• Similar words include: illume, dismount, lighted
• Opposite of: extinguish, unlighted

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Answer: LIT

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🧩 29D: "44. Seattle-to-Mount Rainier dir."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the compass point midway between south and southeast
• Similar words include: south southeast, sou'-sou'-east
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SSE

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🧩 30D: "46. On its way, in a way"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that send via the postal service
• Similar words include: send, post, get off
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: MAILED

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🧩 31D: "48. Drink that might turn your tongue blue"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ICEE

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🧩 32D: "50. Fiends of folklore"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cruel wicked and inhuman person
• Similar words include: demon, fiend, monster
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OGRES

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🧩 33D: "51. Useless leftovers"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
• Similar words include: impurity, slag, scoria
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: DROSS

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🧩 34D: "52. Fur once favored by Russian royalty"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an artist's brush made of sable hairs
• Similar words include: soot black, sable's hair pencil, coal black
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SABLE

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🧩 35D: "56. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Guerrero, to fans"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: VLAD

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🧩 36D: "58. Org. that might sponsor a read-a-thon, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: PTA

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🧩 37D: "59. Mani-pedi brand"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: OPI

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🧩 38D: "60. Grammy, in the U.K."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that your grandmother
• Similar words include: Nan River, gran, nanna
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NAN

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🧩 39D: "61. Creature on the state flags of Michigan and Idaho"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
• Similar words include: Alces alces, European elk, American elk
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ELK

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35 Across Clues

39 Down Clues

74 Total Clues

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