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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (32 Across, 38 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
May 14, 2022 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Stagger | 8 |
| 2A | 9. Incomplete Wikipedia entry | 4 |
| 3A | 13. Part of many a software demo, informally | 9 |
| 4A | 15. Former Philadelphia mayor Wilson | 5 |
| 5A | 16. Unanticipated deficit | 9 |
| 6A | 17. Bug | 5 |
| 7A | 18. Piercing tool | 3 |
| 8A | 19. Children's toy that's sprayed from a can | 11 |
| 9A | 21. Informal pronoun | 4 |
| 10A | 23. Prefix with pronoun | 3 |
| 11A | 24. You ___ (words before an amount after discount) | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Tautological words of resignation | 12 |
| 13A | 31. Something to take home | 6 |
| 14A | 34. [not our typo] | 3 |
| 15A | 35. Adviser, e.g. | 4 |
| 16A | 36. Room where a Peloton may double as a clothing rack | 7 |
| 17A | 38. Literally, "guilty mind" | 7 |
| 18A | 40. Codeshare partner of American Airlines | 4 |
| 19A | 41. Make a quick visit, with "in" | 3 |
| 20A | 43. Most alert to social justice issues | 6 |
| 21A | 44. "Let's move on" | 12 |
| 22A | 47. Broadway star Phillipa | 3 |
| 23A | 48. "Was ist ___?" | 3 |
| 24A | 49. Renders | 4 |
| 25A | 53. They're not always free with their advice | 11 |
| 26A | 58. "That'll be the day!" | 3 |
| 27A | 59. "Mae alsalama," across the Mediterranean | 5 |
| 28A | 60. Tex-Mex brand | 9 |
| 29A | 62. Writer of the line "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 5 |
| 30A | 63. Extent of a commuter rail system, perhaps | 9 |
| 31A | 64. Gender-neutral pronoun | 4 |
| 32A | 65. "This stays between us" | 8 |
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. Stagger"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that affect with wonder
- Words that mean the same thing: amaze, astound
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASTONISH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "9. Incomplete Wikipedia entry"
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 short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- Words that mean the same thing: nub, butt, counterfoil
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STUB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "13. Part of many a software demo, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert 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!
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The answer is: SCREENCAP
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Clue 4 Across: "15. Former Philadelphia mayor Wilson"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOODE
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Clue 5 Across: "16. Unanticipated deficit"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
- Words that mean the same thing: deficit, shortage
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHORTFALL
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Clue 6 Across: "17. Bug"
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 wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- Words that mean the same thing: misplay, fault, wrongdoing
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERROR
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Clue 7 Across: "18. Piercing tool"
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 pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AWL
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Children's toy that's sprayed from a can"
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!
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The answer is: SILLYSTRING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. Informal pronoun"
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!
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The answer is: YALL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "23. Prefix with pronoun"
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 (used as a combining form) recent or new
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEO
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Clue 11 Across: "24. You ___ (words before an amount after discount)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that something that remunerates
- Words that mean the same thing: pay off, remuneration, make up
- The opposite would be: default
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PAY
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Clue 12 Across: "25. Tautological words of resignation"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ITISWHATITIS
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Clue 13 Across: "31. Something to take home"
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 excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- Words that mean the same thing: net, lucre, turn a profit
- The opposite would be: lose
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PROFIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "34. [not our typo]"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that urge to attack someone
- Words that mean the same thing: set
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "35. Adviser, e.g."
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 officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- Words that mean the same thing: auxiliary, adjutant, aide-de-camp
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AIDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "36. Room where a Peloton may double as a clothing rack"
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!
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The answer is: HOMEGYM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "38. Literally, "guilty mind""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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!
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The answer is: MENSREA
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Clue 18 Across: "40. Codeshare partner of American Airlines"
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!
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The answer is: ELAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "41. Make a quick visit, with "in""
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 informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Words that mean the same thing: pour down, pop out, dad
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: POP
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Clue 20 Across: "43. Most alert to social justice issues"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WOKEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "44. "Let's move on""
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WEREDONEHERE
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Clue 22 Across: "47. Broadway star Phillipa"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "48. "Was ist ___?""
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 several small ungulate mammals of africa and asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
- Words that mean the same thing: dassie, DA, coney
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DAS
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Clue 24 Across: "49. Renders"
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 federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the united states; created in 1977
- Words that mean the same thing: act, practice, DOE
- The opposite would be: unmake
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "53. They're not always free with their advice"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an expert who gives advice
- Words that mean the same thing: consultant, advisor, adviser
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CONSULTANTS
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Clue 26 Across: "58. "That'll be the day!""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HAH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "59. "Mae alsalama," across the Mediterranean"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a farewell remark
- Words that mean the same thing: bye, good-by, goodby
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADIOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "60. Tex-Mex brand"
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!
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The answer is: OLDELPASO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "62. Writer of the line "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that english writer of stories for children (1882-1956)
- Words that mean the same thing: Alan Alexander Milne, A. A. Milne
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MILNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "63. Extent of a commuter rail system, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: METROAREA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "64. Gender-neutral pronoun"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: 1, I, unity
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "65. "This stays between us""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DONTTELL
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May 14, 2022 Down Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Test for purity | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Either side of Alaska? | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Online heckler | 5 |
| 4D | 4. "The Strife Is ___, the Battle Done" (Easter hymn) | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Table tennis equipment | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Luxury home installation with a vanishing edge | 12 |
| 7D | 7. Horoscope symbol | 6 |
| 8D | 8. Makes sacred | 7 |
| 9D | 9. "Oh, never mind – you clearly don't want to talk about it" | 11 |
| 10D | 10. Amos with the 1994 hit "Cornflake Girl" | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Soba alternative | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Icy detachment | 4 |
| 13D | 14. Practice | 3 |
| 14D | 15. Try to say | 5 |
| 15D | 20. Genre for "Cowboy Bebop" and "The Mandalorian" | 12 |
| 16D | 22. Subjects of some parental speeches | 11 |
| 17D | 26. Comedian Notaro | 3 |
| 18D | 27. "What's eating ___?!" | 3 |
| 19D | 28. Exhaust | 4 |
| 20D | 29. Day after Pi Day, e.g. | 4 |
| 21D | 30. Parking spot? | 4 |
| 22D | 31. "That was a close call!" | 4 |
| 23D | 32. Ensemble part | 4 |
| 24D | 33. One member of Congress's "Squad" | 4 |
| 25D | 37. Part of many a three-day weekend: Abbr. | 3 |
| 26D | 39. Here-there connection | 3 |
| 27D | 42. Biked | 7 |
| 28D | 45. Put out | 5 |
| 29D | 46. Give in person | 6 |
| 30D | 50. United hub | 5 |
| 31D | 51. Stand for something | 5 |
| 32D | 52. Large mass of swimming fish | 5 |
| 33D | 53. Purchase at a military supplies store, informally | 4 |
| 34D | 54. Anthony Hopkins's character in the Marvel Universe | 4 |
| 35D | 55. Shade of green | 4 |
| 36D | 56. ___ yum (hot-and-sour Thai soup) | 3 |
| 37D | 57. Blank on a sign-up sheet | 4 |
| 38D | 61. Down ___ | 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. Test for purity"
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 appraisal of the state of affairs
- Words that mean the same thing: try, essay, check
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASSAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Either side of Alaska?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
- Words that mean the same thing: shwa
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCHWA
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Clue 3 Down: "3. Online heckler"
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 (scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
- Words that mean the same thing: round, trolling
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TROLL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. "The Strife Is ___, the Battle Done" (Easter hymn)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Table tennis equipment"
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 computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the tcp/ip network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- Words that mean the same thing: sack up, sack, net
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NETS
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Clue 6 Down: "6. Luxury home installation with a vanishing edge"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INFINITYPOOL
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Horoscope symbol"
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 ordered reference standard
- Words that mean the same thing: weighing machine, ordered series, scale
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCALES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Makes sacred"
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 render holy by means of religious rites
- Words that mean the same thing: hallow, sanctify, consecrate
- The opposite would be: desecrate
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HALLOWS
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Clue 9 Down: "9. "Oh, never mind – you clearly don't want to talk about it""
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!
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The answer is: SORRYIASKED
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Amos with the 1994 hit "Cornflake Girl""
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 ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
- Words that mean the same thing: toroid, tore, torus
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TORI
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Clue 11 Down: "11. Soba alternative"
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!
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The answer is: UDON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Icy detachment"
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 large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
- Words that mean the same thing: iceberg, Alban Berg
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BERG
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Clue 13 Down: "14. Practice"
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 one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- Words that mean the same thing: cater, run, supply
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "15. Try to say"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GETAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. Genre for "Cowboy Bebop" and "The Mandalorian""
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPACEWESTERN
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Clue 16 Down: "22. Subjects of some parental speeches"
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!
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The answer is: LIFELESSONS
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Clue 17 Down: "26. Comedian Notaro"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIG
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Clue 18 Down: "27. "What's eating ___?!""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HIM
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Clue 19 Down: "28. Exhaust"
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 hoop that covers a wheel
- Words that mean the same thing: jade, outwear, play out
- The opposite would be: interest, refresh
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIRE
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Clue 20 Down: "29. Day after Pi Day, e.g."
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 in the roman calendar: the 15th of march or may or july or october or the 13th of any other month
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IDES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "30. Parking spot?"
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 space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- Words that mean the same thing: buns, arse, backside
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEAT
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Clue 22 Down: "31. "That was a close call!""
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!
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The answer is: PHEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "32. Ensemble part"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- Words that mean the same thing: part, use, purpose
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROLE
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Clue 24 Down: "33. One member of Congress's "Squad""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OMAR
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Clue 25 Down: "37. Part of many a three-day weekend: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- This could be something that the second day of the week; the first working day
- Words that mean the same thing: Monday
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MON
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Clue 26 Down: "39. Here-there connection"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NOR
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Clue 27 Down: "42. Biked"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that ride a bicycle
- Words that mean the same thing: pedal, wheel, cycle
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: PEDALED
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Clue 28 Down: "45. Put out"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that put out, as of a candle or a light
- Words that mean the same thing: dip, duck, dunk
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DOUSE
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Clue 29 Down: "46. Give in person"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: HANDTO
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Clue 30 Down: "50. United hub"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: OHARE
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Clue 31 Down: "51. Stand for something"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: EASEL
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Clue 32 Down: "52. Large mass of swimming fish"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
- Words that mean the same thing: school, shallow
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SHOAL
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Clue 33 Down: "53. Purchase at a military supplies store, informally"
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 fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
- Words that mean the same thing: camouflage
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: CAMO
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Clue 34 Down: "54. Anthony Hopkins's character in the Marvel Universe"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (norse mythology) ruler of the aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of frigg; identified with the teutonic wotan
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ODIN
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Clue 35 Down: "55. Shade of green"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
- Words that mean the same thing: Nile River
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NILE
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Clue 36 Down: "56. ___ yum (hot-and-sour Thai soup)"
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 (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to whites
- Words that mean the same thing: tomcat, tom turkey, Uncle Tom
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TOM
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Clue 37 Down: "57. Blank on a sign-up sheet"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
- Words that mean the same thing: one-armed bandit, expansion slot, time slot
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SLOT
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Clue 38 Down: "61. Down ___"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the sound made by a gentle blow
- Words that mean the same thing: slick, glib, dab
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: PAT
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 51 | 72.9% |
| Short Answer | 14 | 20.0% |
| History | 2 | 2.9% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.9% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 32 |
| Down Clues | 38 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.5 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 12 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 Saturday, 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!
Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.
Last Updated: September 10, 2025 at 02:56 AM
