July 09, 2019 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (39 clues)
• Down Clues (39 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (39 Across, 39 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.9 letters

July 09, 2019 Tuesday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. So far	5
2A	6. Jazz style	5
3A	11. Not an exact amount: Abbr.	3
4A	14. Note from a 6-Down that might give you jitters	5
5A	15. Plains tribe	5
6A	16. To the ___ degree	3
7A	17. Experience, redundantly	11
8A	19. Opus ___	3
9A	20. Prefix with tourism	3
10A	21. Come after	5
11A	22. "Victory is mine!"	4
12A	23. Like some telephones and tires	6
13A	25. Snitch, redundantly	7
14A	28. Novelist Morrison	4
15A	29. Dark force, in Chinese philosophy	3
16A	32. Hoi polloi, with "the"	6
17A	33. Smidgen	5
18A	35. "The Highwayman" poet	5
19A	37. Angsty music genre	3
20A	38. Moolah, redundantly	9
21A	41. Automated producer of spam	3
22A	44. 5/8/1945	5
23A	45. Popeye's creator E. C. ___	5
24A	49. Spaced out mentally	6
25A	51. Track relentlessly	3
26A	53. Singer India.___	4
27A	54. Hack, redundantly	7
28A	56. F equivalent	6
29A	58. "Anybody ___?"	4
30A	59. Folgers alternative	5
31A	62. A/C meas.	3
32A	63. Word in brackets after a mistake	3
33A	64. Cottontail, redundantly	11
34A	67. Get ___ on (ace)	3
35A	68. Can't be found at the office	5
36A	69. One of 10 in bowling	5
37A	70. Pro ___	3
38A	71. Self-description after a major lifestyle change	5
39A	72. Exhorted	5

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. So far"

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: ASYET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "6. Jazz style"

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 an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
• Words that mean the same thing: bop
• 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: BEBOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "11. Not an exact amount: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
• Words that mean the same thing: Eastern Time, Eastern Standard Time
• 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: EST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Note from a 6-Down that might give you jitters"

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: SEEME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Plains tribe"

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 member of the siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the platte and missouri rivers in nebraska
• Words that mean the same thing: Oto, Otoe
• 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: OTOES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. To the ___ degree"

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

  The answer is: NTH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Experience, redundantly"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 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: PASTHISTORY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Opus ___"

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: DEI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Prefix with tourism"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ECO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Come after"

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 issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end
• Words that mean the same thing: result
• 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: ENSUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. "Victory is mine!""

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: IWIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "23. Like some telephones and tires"

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 stack in cords
• Words that mean the same thing: cord, twilled
• 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: CORDED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Snitch, redundantly"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RATFINK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. Novelist Morrison"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TONI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "29. Dark force, in Chinese philosophy"

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 dark negative feminine principle in chinese dualistic cosmology
• The opposite would be: yang
• 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: YIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "32. Hoi polloi, with "the""

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 the common people generally
• Words that mean the same thing: people, flock, heap
• 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: MASSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Smidgen"

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: SKOSH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "35. "The Highwayman" poet"

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 english poet (1880-1958)
• Words that mean the same thing: Alfred Noyes
• 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: NOYES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "37. Angsty music genre"

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

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: EMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "38. Moolah, redundantly"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: CASHMONEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "41. Automated producer of spam"

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 botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
• 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: BOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. 5/8/1945"

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: VEDAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. Popeye's creator E. C. ___"

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: SEGAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "49. Spaced out mentally"

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: INAFOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "51. Track relentlessly"

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 member of the genus canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
• Words that mean the same thing: Canis familiaris, tail, frump
• 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: DOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "53. Singer India.___"

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: ARIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "54. Hack, redundantly"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• Words that mean the same thing: taxi, hack, cab
• 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: TAXICAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "56. F equivalent"

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: ESHARP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "58. "Anybody ___?""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ELSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "59. Folgers alternative"

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: YUBAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "62. A/C meas."

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 unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories
• Words that mean the same thing: B.Th.U., British thermal unit
• 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: BTU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "63. Word in brackets after a mistake"

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 urge to attack someone
• Words that mean the same thing: set
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "64. Cottontail, redundantly"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 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: BUNNYRABBIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "67. Get ___ on (ace)"

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 mother of the ancient irish gods; sometimes identified with danu
• 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: ANA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "68. Can't be found at the office"

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: ISOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "69. One of 10 in bowling"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
• Words that mean the same thing: border, bod, skeletal frame
• 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: FRAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "70. Pro ___"

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: TEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "71. Self-description after a major lifestyle change"

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: NEWME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "72. Exhorted"

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 force or impel in an indicated direction
• Words that mean the same thing: root on, press, exhort
• 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: URGED

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Tuesday Crossword Down Clues - July 09, 2019 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Different sides to observe	7
2D	2. Ship's galley worker	7
3D	3. "Give me a simple answer!"	7
4D	4. 911 responder, for short	3
5D	5. Giggle	5
6D	6. Head honcho	4
7D	7. Question to a backstabber	4
8D	8. Rude person in the bleachers	5
9D	9. Contraction sung twice in the first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner"	3
10D	10. College subj. that covers Freud	3
11D	11. How train cars are linked	7
12D	12. Feminist Gloria	7
13D	13. "Really?"	7
14D	18. ___ 500	4
15D	22. Hypotheticals	3
16D	24. The "D" of D.J.	4
17D	26. "You got that right!"	4
18D	27. Shocks, in a way	5
19D	30. How many TV shows are viewed nowadays	4
20D	31. Wanderer	5
21D	34. Pandemonium	5
22D	36. Quickly change one's mind back and forth	4
23D	39. Video game giant	4
24D	40. "You got that right!"	4
25D	41. Goes for, as when bobbing for apples	7
26D	42. Like laundry being dried outdoors	7
27D	43. Subject of an I.R.S. consumer warning	7
28D	46. Potpourri	7
29D	47. Broadcast slot	7
30D	48. Said (to be)	7
31D	50. Shakespearean cry before "What, are you mad?"	3
32D	52. One of 10 in a ten-speed	4
33D	55. At this point	5
34D	57. Problem that has ballooned	5
35D	60. E pluribus ___	4
36D	61. Memory unit	4
37D	64. Recycling container	3
38D	65. Not let go to waste	3
39D	66. "I'm f-f-freezing!"	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. Different sides to observe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a distinct feature or element in a problem
• Words that mean the same thing: face, panorama, expression
• 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: ASPECTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Ship's galley worker"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEACOOK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. "Give me a simple answer!""

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: YESORNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. 911 responder, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EMT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Giggle"

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: TEHEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Head honcho"

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 exercises control over workers
• Words that mean the same thing: stamp, Bos, gaffer
• 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: BOSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Question to a backstabber"

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 8 Down: "8. Rude person in the bleachers"

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: BOOER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Contraction sung twice in the first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. College subj. that covers Freud"

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: PSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. How train cars are linked"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that on end or upright
• Words that mean the same thing: endways, end on
• 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: ENDWISE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Feminist Gloria"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that united states feminist (born in 1934)
• Words that mean the same thing: Gloria Steinem
• 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: STEINEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. "Really?""

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: THINKSO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. ___ 500"

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: INDY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Hypotheticals"

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: IFS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. The "D" of D.J."

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 sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
• Words that mean the same thing: phonograph recording, record, saucer
• 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: DISC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. "You got that right!""

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 primeval egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at thebes
• Words that mean the same thing: Amun, Amon
• 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: AMEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Shocks, in a way"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TASES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "30. How many TV shows are viewed nowadays"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: INHD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. Wanderer"

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 member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
• 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: NOMAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "34. Pandemonium"

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 violent and needless disturbance
• Words that mean the same thing: mayhem
• 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: HAVOC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "36. Quickly change one's mind back and forth"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: YOYO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "39. Video game giant"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SEGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "40. "You got that right!""

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 not only so, but
• Words that mean the same thing: yea
• 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: YEAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "41. Goes for, as when bobbing for apples"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: BITESAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "42. Like laundry being dried outdoors"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: ONALINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "43. Subject of an I.R.S. consumer warning"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: TAXSCAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "46. Potpourri"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GRABBAG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "47. Broadcast slot"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AIRTIME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "48. Said (to be)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that look on as or consider
• Words that mean the same thing: esteem, look upon, take to be
• 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: REPUTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "50. Shakespearean cry before "What, are you mad?""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: FIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "52. One of 10 in a ten-speed"

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 toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
• Words that mean the same thing: cogwheel, gear mechanism, paraphernalia
• 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: GEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "55. At this point"

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: BYNOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "57. Problem that has ballooned"

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 an acronym often used by soldiers in world war ii: situation normal all fucked up
• Words that mean the same thing: fucked-up
• 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: SNAFU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "60. E pluribus ___"

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: UNUM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "61. Memory unit"

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 sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
• 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: BYTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "64. Recycling container"

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: binful, bank identification number, ABA transit 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 38 Down: "65. Not let go to waste"

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 act of using
• Words that mean the same thing: consumption, economic consumption, manipulation
• 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: USE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "66. "I'm f-f-freezing!""

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: BRR

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	54	69.2%
Short Answer	16	20.5%
Abbreviation	2	2.6%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.6%
Literature	1	1.3%
Music	1	1.3%
Sports	1	1.3%
History	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	39
Down Clues	39
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.9 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	11 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 Tuesday, 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!

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (38 clues)
• Down Clues (38 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (38 Across, 38 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.0 letters

May 05, 2020 Tuesday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Strip bordering Israel and Egypt	4
2A	5. Antidote	4
3A	9. Up to now	5
4A	14. Boatloads	4
5A	15. "Now!," in an order	4
6A	16. Exuberant cry	5
7A	17. Riddle-de-dee: What is it that the more you take, the more you leave behind?	9
8A	19. Soup eater's sound	5
9A	20. ___ position	5
10A	21. Laughfest	4
11A	23. Galena and sphalerite	4
12A	24. Wheel tooth	3
13A	26. Place to conduct a paternity test	6
14A	28. Activity on a school playground	8
15A	32. Things tinier than minis	6
16A	35. What's flicked from a cigarette	3
17A	36. Prime minister between Cameron and Johnson	3
18A	37. Czar called "the Great"	6
19A	38. Severely cut, as prices	7
20A	41. American Impressionist Mary	7
21A	42. Greetings	6
22A	43. Classroom temp	3
23A	44. Thanksgiving day: Abbr.	3
24A	45. Invite on a date	6
25A	46. Purveyor of drug paraphernalia	8
26A	49. Dresser	6
27A	51. Assenting vote	3
28A	52. Swabbie's liquor allotment, once	4
29A	54. ___ of passage	4
30A	56. Writing in a blue book	5
31A	60. ___ ark	5
32A	62. Riddle-de-dee: What asks no questions but must be answered?	9
33A	64. Worker for a TV station or a mag	5
34A	65. Ink cartridge color	4
35A	66. "You said it!"	4
36A	67. One of the Kennedy brothers, familiarly	5
37A	68. Detained	4
38A	69. Trees used for archery bows	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. Strip bordering Israel and Egypt"

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 coastal region at the southeastern corner of the mediterranean bordering israel and egypt
• Words that mean the same thing: Gaza Strip
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GAZA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Antidote"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
• Words that mean the same thing: bring around, heal, therapeutic
• 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: CURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Up to now"

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: ASYET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Boatloads"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ALOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. "Now!," in an order"

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 as soon as possible
• 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: ASAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Exuberant cry"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium 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: BOOYA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Riddle-de-dee: What is it that the more you take, the more you leave behind?"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the sound of a step of someone walking
• Words that mean the same thing: step, pace, stride
• 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: FOOTSTEPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Soup eater's sound"

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 eat noisily
• 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: SLURP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. ___ position"

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 of or relating to a fetus
• Words that mean the same thing: foetal
• 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: FETAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Laughfest"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a public act of violence by an unruly mob
• Words that mean the same thing: saturnalia, wow, belly laugh
• 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: RIOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Galena and sphalerite"

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

  The answer is: ORES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Wheel tooth"

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 subordinate who performs an important but routine function
• Words that mean the same thing: sprocket
• 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: COG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Place to conduct a paternity test"

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: DNALAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. Activity on a school playground"

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: KICKBALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "32. Things tinier than minis"

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: MICROS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. What's flicked from a cigarette"

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 residue that remains when something is burned
• Words that mean the same thing: ash tree
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. Prime minister between Cameron and Johnson"

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 month following april and preceding june
• Words that mean the same thing: English hawthorn, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha
• 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: MAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. Czar called "the Great""

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: PETERI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Severely cut, as prices"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
• Words that mean the same thing: flog, convulse, thrash
• 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: SLASHED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "41. American Impressionist Mary"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CASSATT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "42. Greetings"

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 an expression of greeting
• Words that mean the same thing: hello, howdy, hullo
• 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: HELLOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. Classroom temp"

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 large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the united states
• Words that mean the same thing: bomber, stand in, hero
• 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: SUB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "44. Thanksgiving day: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: THU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. Invite on a date"

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: ASKOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "46. Purveyor of drug paraphernalia"

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: HEADSHOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "49. Dresser"

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 an administrative unit of government
• Words that mean the same thing: office, federal agency, chest of drawers
• 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: BUREAU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. Assenting vote"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an affirmative
• Words that mean the same thing: yeah
• The opposite would be: nay
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. Swabbie's liquor allotment, once"

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 rum cut with water
• 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: GROG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "54. ___ of passage"

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 established ceremony prescribed by a religion
• Words that mean the same thing: ritual, religious rite
• 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: RITE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "56. Writing in a blue book"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an analytic or interpretive literary composition
• Words that mean the same thing: seek, try, 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: ESSAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "60. ___ ark"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of noah and the flood is told in the book of genesis
• Words that mean the same thing: Noah
• 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: NOAHS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "62. Riddle-de-dee: What asks no questions but must be answered?"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
• Words that mean the same thing: phone, ring, call
• 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: TELEPHONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "64. Worker for a TV station or a mag"

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: ADREP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "65. Ink cartridge color"

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 primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color
• Words that mean the same thing: teal, bluish green, blue-green
• 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: CYAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "66. "You said it!""

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 primeval egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at thebes
• Words that mean the same thing: Amun, Amon
• 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: AMEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "67. One of the Kennedy brothers, familiarly"

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 plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials)
• Words that mean the same thing: chemise, shimmy, teddy bear
• 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: TEDDY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "68. Detained"

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 keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,
• Words that mean the same thing: deem, entertain, check
• The opposite would be: let go of, disagree
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HELD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "69. Trees used for archery bows"

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 wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the english yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows
• Words that mean the same thing: yew
• 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: YEWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Tuesday Puzzle May 05, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Fishing hook	4
2D	2. Soothing ointment	4
3D	3. ___ suit	4
4D	4. Go on the offensive	6
5D	5. Siamese or Persian	3
6D	6. ___-friendly	4
7D	7. Double-quick	7
8D	8. Printer brand	5
9D	9. "Six-pack" muscles	3
10D	10. Ones performing alone	8
11D	11. Riddle-de-dee: What's light as a feather but can't be held for long?	10
12D	12. Brontë heroine	4
13D	13. Nightly bugle call	4
14D	18. Neatnik's opposite	4
15D	22. Where the Rays play	8
16D	25. Professional poker player, e.g.	8
17D	27. Don't believe them!	4
18D	28. Buckwheat porridge	5
19D	29. St. Kitts and St. Vincent	5
20D	30. Riddle-de-dee: What's clean when black and dirty when white?	10
21D	31. Little chap	3
22D	33. Maker of Weed B Gon	5
23D	34. Exercise that targets the 9-Down	5
24D	39. Cast (off)	8
25D	40. Word after half or happy	4
26D	41. Maestro's wave of a baton, say	3
27D	43. Sleep, informally	7
28D	47. Low-pitched	4
29D	48. Walk with a swing of the hips and shoulders	6
30D	50. Letter after gee	5
31D	52. Flier in a black cloud	4
32D	53. Got transported	4
33D	55. Airline to Ben Gurion	4
34D	57. "That's ___ nerve!"	4
35D	58. With a clean slate	4
36D	59. Yearnings	4
37D	61. One lurking in the shadows	3
38D	63. Bring to a close	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. Fishing hook"

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 sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock
• 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: GAFF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Soothing ointment"

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 succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
• 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: ALOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. ___ suit"

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: ZOOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Go on the offensive"

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 (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
• Words that mean the same thing: tone-beginning, lash out, aggress
• The opposite would be: defend
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATTACK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Siamese or Persian"

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 feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
• Words that mean the same thing: computerized axial tomography, spue, African tea
• The opposite would be: keep down
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. ___-friendly"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
• Words that mean the same thing: exploiter, substance abuser, drug user
• 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: USER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Double-quick"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that with rapid movements
• Words that mean the same thing: quickly, apace, chop-chop
• The opposite would be: slowly
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAPIDLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Printer brand"

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: EPSON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. "Six-pack" muscles"

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 any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances
• Words that mean the same thing: Bachelor of Arts, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, AB
• 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: ABS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Ones performing alone"

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: SOLOACTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Riddle-de-dee: What's light as a feather but can't be held for long?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: YOURBREATH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Brontë heroine"

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 shallow salt lake in south central australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
• Words that mean the same thing: Lake Eyre
• 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: EYRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Nightly bugle call"

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 (military) signal to turn the lights out
• Words that mean the same thing: wiretap, intercept, hydrant
• 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: TAPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Neatnik's opposite"

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 coarse obnoxious person
• Words that mean the same thing: sloven, pig, slovenly person
• 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: SLOB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Where the Rays play"

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: TAMPABAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Professional poker player, e.g."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: GAMESTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Don't believe them!"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
• Words that mean the same thing: Trygve Halvden Lie, rest, lie
• The opposite would be: arise, stand
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LIES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Buckwheat porridge"

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 boiled or baked buckwheat
• 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: KASHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. St. Kitts and St. Vincent"

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 small island
• Words that mean the same thing: isle, islet
• 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: ISLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "30. Riddle-de-dee: What's clean when black and dirty when white?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that sheet of slate; for writing with chalk
• Words that mean the same thing: blackboard
• 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: CHALKBOARD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "31. Little chap"

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 boy or man
• Words that mean the same thing: laddie, fella, chap
• 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: LAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. Maker of Weed B Gon"

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: ORTHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. Exercise that targets the 9-Down"

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: SITUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "39. Cast (off)"

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 cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
• Words that mean the same thing: moult, slough, shed
• 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: SLOUGHED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "40. Word after half or happy"

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 period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
• Words that mean the same thing: minute, time of day, hr
• 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: HOUR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "41. Maestro's wave of a baton, 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 an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
• Words that mean the same thing: clew, remind, prompt
• 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: CUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "43. Sleep, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that informal term for 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: SHUTEYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "47. Low-pitched"

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 central and most intense or profound part
• Words that mean the same thing: deeply, bass, cryptical
• The opposite would be: shallow
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DEEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "48. Walk with a swing of the hips and shoulders"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps
• Words that mean the same thing: junket, strut, jaunt
• 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: SASHAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "50. Letter after gee"

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: AITCH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. Flier in a black cloud"

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 any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
• 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: GNAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "53. Got transported"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
• Words that mean the same thing: twit, hinge on, taunt
• The opposite would be: walk
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RODE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "55. Airline to Ben Gurion"

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: ELAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "57. "That's ___ nerve!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SOME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "58. With a clean slate"

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 again but in a new or different way
• Words that mean the same thing: afresh
• 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: ANEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "59. Yearnings"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a yearning for something or to do something
• Words that mean the same thing: yearn, ache, hankering
• 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: YENS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "61. One lurking in the shadows"

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 (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
• Words that mean the same thing: spot, sleuth, snoop
• 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: SPY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "63. Bring to a close"

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 either extremity of something that has length
• Words that mean the same thing: cease, destruction, conclusion
• 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!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	60	78.9%
Short Answer	11	14.5%
Sports	2	2.6%
History	1	1.3%
Abbreviation	1	1.3%
Literature	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	38
Down Clues	38
Total Clues	76
Average Answer Length	5.0 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 Tuesday, and these puzzles are usually medium 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 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM