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2424 Sat Aug 24, 2024 | LA Times Crossword Clues Hints

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Sat Aug 24, 2024  LA Times Crossword Clues Hints


  • 1 Across - Price-less event (11 letters): RED TAG SALE
  • 11 Across - [You did what?] (4 letters): GASP
  • 15 Across - Square deals (11 letters): EVEN TRADES
  • 16 Across - Actress Shawkat (4 letters): ALIA
  • 17 Across - Surprise party request (11 letters): DON'T BE LATE
  • 18 Across - Lasses (4 letters): GALS
  • 19 Across - Two in a million? (3 letters): ELS
  • 20 Across - Peak performance (5 letters): A-GAME
  • 21 Across - Bags (5 letters): SACKS
  • 22 Across - Tennis great who won 18 Grand Slam singles championships (5 letters): EVERT
  • 24 Across - “Queen Sugar” role for Bianca Lawson (5 letters): DARLA
  • 26 Across - Parabola piece (3 letters): ARC
  • 27 Across - No more than (4 letters): MERE
  • 28 Across - Blues and bluegrass (6 letters): GENRES
  • 29 Across - Quintana __, Mexico (3 letters): ROO
  • 30 Across - Tool for making eyelet holes (3 letters): AWL
  • 32 Across - Some reunión familiar attendees (4 letters): TIAS
  • 33 Across - Trifling amount (3 letters): TAD
  • 34 Across - Big play ground (7 letters): STADIUM
  • 38 Across - Lead up to (7 letters): PRECEDE
  • 40 Across - Many a “Derry Girls” teacher (3 letters): NUN
  • 41 Across - Lacking a date (4 letters): STAG
  • 43 Across - Casual dating letters (3 letters): NSA
  • 44 Across - “Twisted Love” author Huang (3 letters): ANA
  • 45 Across - Inside looks (6 letters): DECORS
  • 47 Across - Connected notes (4 letters): SLUR
  • 51 Across - Super gp.? (3 letters): PAC
  • 52 Across - Japanese city known as The Nation’s Kitchen (5 letters): OSAKA
  • 53 Across - Social media action (5 letters): SHARE
  • 54 Across - Tourney format (5 letters): PRO-AM
  • 56 Across - Sauce served with biryani (5 letters): RAITA
  • 58 Across - Free spot (3 letters): PSA
  • 59 Across - Eternities (4 letters): EONS
  • 60 Across - Elote en vaso (11 letters): CORN IN A CUP
  • 62 Across - Emmy winner who hosts the “Clear+Vivid” podcast (4 letters): ALDA
  • 63 Across - Story that gets lost in time (10 letters): UNTOLD TALE
  • 64 Across - Smack (4 letters): SLAP
  • 65 Across - Brenda Song, once (10 letters): DISNEY STAR
  • 1 Down - Offset, in a way (6 letters): REDEEM
  • 2 Down - Change over time (6 letters): EVOLVE
  • 3 Down - More compact (6 letters): DENSER
  • 4 Down - Explosive letters (3 letters): TNT
  • 5 Down - Ready to swing (5 letters): AT BAT
  • 6 Down - “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” kid (4 letters): GREG
  • 7 Down - French course (6 letters): SALADE
  • 8 Down - Not moving (7 letters): ADAMANT
  • 9 Down - “Don’t hold back!” (11 letters): LET ‘ER RIP!
  • 10 Down - -babble (3 letters): -ESE
  • 11 Down - Totally smitten (4 letters): GAGA
  • 12 Down - Separately (9 letters): A LA CARTE
  • 13 Down - Route that facilitated the spread of Buddhism (8 letters): SILK ROAD
  • 14 Down - Face scan alternative (8 letters): PASSCODE
  • 21 Down - Gets smart (6 letters): SASSES
  • 23 Down - Scan (4 letters): READ
  • 25 Down - Picks up (6 letters): LEARNS
  • 28 Down - Squat muscles (6 letters): GLUTES
  • 31 Down - Sagacity (6 letters): WISDOM
  • 34 Down - Chikuzenni vegetables (8 letters): SNAP PEAS
  • 35 Down - Tekkamaki (8 letters): TUNA ROLL
  • 36 Down - Amazon predator (8 letters): ANACONDA
  • 37 Down - Kraft supply (8 letters): MACARONI
  • 39 Down - “Songwriter” country singer (4 letters): CASH
  • 42 Down - Small racers (7 letters): GO-KARTS
  • 46 Down - Spoil, as a barbecue (7 letters): RAIN ON
  • 48 Down - Purr-fect companion (7 letters): LAP-CAT
  • 49 Down - “The Little Mermaid” villain (7 letters): URSULA
  • 50 Down - Harvesting machine (6 letters): REAPER
  • 53 Down - Like used beach towels (5 letters): SANDY
  • 55 Down - Urgent letters (4 letters): ASAP
  • 57 Down - Rummikub piece (4 letters): TILE
  • 60 Down - Ruminant’s mouthful (3 letters): CUD
  • 61 Down - Mentions on X (3 letters): ATS
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

January 12, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Published on Friday, January 12, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 12, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

January 12, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions


Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

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

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1A: "1. Following"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that located farther aft
  • Similar words include: later on, subsequently, afterward
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AFTER

2A: "6. Droop"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a shape that sags
  • Similar words include: flag, swag, droop
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SAG

3A: "9. Baby"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a small amount (especially of a drink)
  • Similar words include: tote up, add, sum
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOT

4A: "12. Clamorous"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds
  • Opposite of: quiet
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NOISY

5A: "13. Mariposa lily"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SEGO

6A: "14. Japanese wrestling"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SUMO

7A: "15. How to make a belt catch a rod tightener"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an oblong metal coupling with a swivel at one end and an internal thread at the other into which a threaded rod can be screwed in order to form a unit that can be adjusted for length or tension
  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TURNBUCKLE

8A: "17. Review: Colloq."

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CRIT

9A: "18. Toward shelter, at sea"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that on or toward the lee
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALEE

10A: "19. Gael's republic"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
  • Similar words include: Irish Republic, Republic of Ireland, Ireland
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EIRE

11A: "20. Lone Ranger's sidekick"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TONTO

12A: "21. Record"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
  • Similar words include: mag tape, taping, videotape
  • Opposite of: erase
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TAPE

13A: "22. Severs"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a share of the profits
  • Similar words include: undercut, cutting off, cut back
  • Opposite of: switch on, expand
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CUTS

14A: "23. Kind of cross"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the 19th letter of the greek alphabet
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TAU

15A: "25. Bart or Brenda"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that rock star and drummer for the beatles (born in 1940)
  • Similar words include: Richard Starkey, Ringo Starr, Starkey
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STARR

16A: "27. Ratite bird"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
  • Similar words include: Dromaius novaehollandiae, electromagnetic unit, Emu novaehollandiae
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EMU

17A: "30. Imitates a partridge"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make a vibrant sound, as of some birds
  • Similar words include: whirr, churr
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CHURRS

18A: "33. Ornamentations on costumes"

8 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing
  • Similar words include: diamante, bespangle, sequin
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SPANGLES

19A: "35. Spouse"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a person's partner in marriage
  • Similar words include: married person, mate, better half
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PARTNER

20A: "37. Mounted"

7 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that with one leg on each side
  • Similar words include: astraddle
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASTRIDE

21A: "38. More cantankerous"

8 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ORNERIER

22A: "40. Fries, in a way"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a dish of sauteed food
  • Similar words include: saute
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SAUTES

23A: "41. But, to Britannicus"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SED

24A: "42. Finished"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
  • Similar words include: over, complete, stop
  • Opposite of: begin
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENDED

25A: "44. Fallen into disuse: Abbr."

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a major river of western siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the gulf of ob and the kara sea
  • Similar words include: tocology, Ob, OB
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OBS

26A: "45. Part of St. Patrick's Cathedral"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the central area of a church
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NAVE

27A: "47. Soft mineral"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder
  • Similar words include: talcum
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TALC

28A: "49. A Neptune neighbor"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a cartoon character created by walt disney
  • Similar words include: Hades, Aidoneus, Aides
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PLUTO

29A: "51. Take on"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a newly hired employee
  • Similar words include: charter, employ, engage
  • Opposite of: fire
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HIRE

30A: "52. In ___ (positioned)"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SITU

31A: "56. Potato or carrot"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
  • Similar words include: steady down, antecedent, ascendant
  • Opposite of: descendant
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROOT

32A: "57. How to make a tortoise capsize"

10 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TURNTURTLE

33A: "59. Cather's "One of ___""

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OURS

34A: "60. Eras"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that how long something has existed
  • Similar words include: historic period, age, old age
  • Opposite of: rejuvenate
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGES

35A: "61. Solo"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that isolated from others
  • Similar words include: unparalleled, unique, solo
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALONE

36A: "62. Boise's county"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia
  • Similar words include: adenosine deaminase
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ADA

37A: "63. Garden plot"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
  • Similar words include: have sex, hump, turn in
  • Opposite of: get up, turn out
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BED

38A: "64. Ice-cream holders"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any cone-shaped artifact
  • Similar words include: strobilus, con, rook
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CONES

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

1D: "1. Pier of a sort"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ANTA

2D: "2. Noisome"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an act that violates the rules of a sport
  • Similar words include: filthy, smelly, revolting
  • Opposite of: fair, unclog
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FOUL

3D: "3. Radial, e.g."

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that hoop that covers a wheel
  • Similar words include: fag, run down, outwear
  • Opposite of: refresh, interest
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TIRE

4D: "4. Feudal serf"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESNE

5D: "5. It crosses the bar"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the seed of the cereal grass
  • Similar words include: Secale cereale, rye whiskey, rye whisky
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RYE

6D: "6. Arcana"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
  • Similar words include: secret, enigma, arcanum
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SECRETS

7D: "7. Chills and fever"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a fit of shivering or shaking
  • Similar words include: acute accent, chills and fever, acute
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGUE

8D: "8. Tar"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a man who serves as a sailor
  • Similar words include: sea dog, maw, Jack
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GOB

9D: "9. How to make rural crossings subway entrances"

10 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering
  • Similar words include: turnstile
  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TURNSTILES

10D: "10. Leave out"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that prevent from being included or considered or accepted
  • Similar words include: miss, except, leave out
  • Opposite of: include, attend to
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OMIT

11D: "11. Oz dog"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOTO

12D: "13. Omits"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a gait in which steps and hops alternate
  • Similar words include: bound off, skitter, pass over
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SKIPS

13D: "14. Macbeth, for one"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a native or inhabitant of scotland
  • Similar words include: Scotsman, Scotchman
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SCOT

14D: "16. Meadow"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a unit of length of thread or yarn
  • Similar words include: pasture, grazing land, pastureland
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEA

15D: "20. How to make a jacket for a traitor"

8 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
  • Similar words include: ratter, renegade, apostate
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TURNCOAT

16D: "21. How to make a cricket series a dessert"

8 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers
  • Similar words include: dollar volume, upset, employee turnover
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TURNOVER

17D: "22. Unrefined"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CRASS

18D: "23. How to make more or less a traffic circle"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that time need to prepare a vessel or ship for a return trip
  • Similar words include: change of mind, flip-flop, turnround
  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TURNAROUND

19D: "24. Comedian Johnson"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARTE

20D: "26. River on Paraguay's border"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: APA

21D: "28. Ancient Iranian"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MEDE

22D: "29. Employs"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the act of using
  • Similar words include: role, the States, America
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: USES

23D: "30. Certain U S N men"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CPOS

24D: "31. Loser of a fabled race"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes
  • Similar words include: rabbit
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HARE

25D: "32. Net"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a french river that flows through the heart of paris and then northward into the english channel
  • Similar words include: Seine River
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SEINE

26D: "34. Chow"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that informal terms for a meal
  • Similar words include: eats, bum, chuck
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GRUB

27D: "36. Cincy player"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
  • Similar words include: redness, loss, cherry-red
  • Opposite of: gain
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RED

28D: "39. Abed"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
  • Similar words include: turn in, crawl in, pull back
  • Opposite of: get up, advance
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RETIRED

29D: "43. Repairs socks"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that something of little value
  • Similar words include: tinker's damn, hoot, mend
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DARNS

30D: "46. Members of an A.B.A."

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATTS

31D: "48. Confederate immortal"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
  • Similar words include: Robert Edward Lee, Rose Louise Hovick, Robert E. Lee
  • Opposite of: windward
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEE

32D: "49. Outrigger of Malay"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PROA

33D: "50. Stentorian"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
  • Similar words include: tatty, cheap, aloud
  • Opposite of: soft, softly
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOUD

34D: "51. Immense"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - w.r.inge
  • Similar words include: immense, Brobdingnagian, vast
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HUGE

35D: "52. W W II battle site"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STLO

36D: "53. Mashie or niblick"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
  • Similar words include: iron out, press, Fe
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IRON

37D: "54. Melody"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
  • Similar words include: strain, melodic phrase, tune up
  • Opposite of: untune
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TUNE

38D: "55. Western Indians"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
  • Similar words include: Ute
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: UTES

39D: "57. Bill"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the bill in a restaurant
  • Similar words include: check, yellow journalism, chit
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TAB

40D: "58. Varnish ingredient"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LAC

Puzzle Stats

38 Across
40 Down
78 Total

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Saturday, June 20, 2026

XWordHint Crossword Answers June 20, 2026 | Expert Breakdown & Tips

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

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June 20, 2026 NYT Crossword Solutions

Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

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

Across Clues - Complete List

No. Clue Letters
1A 1. Dad's pop, perhaps 9
2A 10. Attempt, informally 5
3A 15. One might be used to launch promotional materials 9
4A 16. It's often set on the stove while cooking 5
5A 17. That's not the whole story! 9
6A 18. Fancy and then some 5
7A 19. Like the eyes of an American coot 3
8A 20. Be prepared to take a weight off someone's shoulders? 4
9A 21. ___ Howard, activist known as the "Mother of Pride" 6
10A 22. Said who's who or what's what? 4
11A 24. Allies often share one 5
12A 26. Turnovers, but not crumpets 4
13A 27. "Be my guest" and "Go right ahead" 3
14A 29. Fixture at a chocolate factory 3
15A 30. Rate of passage 4
16A 31. With 28-Down, set hanging by a door 5
17A 34. Soprano Fleming 5
18A 36. Call for a pass? 3
19A 37. "I've done better" 15
20A 40. Hooter 3
21A 41. Resonates beautifully 5
22A 42. What might lead to a pile of dirty laundry 5
23A 43. ___ Ewbank, Hall-of-Fame football coach 4
24A 45. I 3
25A 46. Margaret featured in "Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution" 3
26A 47. Punch 4
27A 48. State-sponsored "wealth redistribution" scheme 5
28A 50. Support of a sort 4
29A 54. "I'm not sure what to make of that" 6
30A 56. Helen with the podcast "Go Fact Yourself" 4
31A 58. Natural resource seen in arboretums? 3
32A 59. Blushing matter 5
33A 60. Creature whose appendages allow it to camouflage in masses of kelp 9
34A 62. N.B.A. analyst Burke 5
35A 63. "That's what they say, anyway" 9
36A 64. Smooth and shiny 5
37A 65. Celebratory opening 9

Across Clues - Strategic Hints

1A: "1. Dad's pop, perhaps"

9 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: CREAMSODA

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2A: "10. Attempt, informally"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
  • Similar words include: swing over, drop, dangle
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWING

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3A: "15. One might be used to launch promotional materials"

9 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: AIRCANNON

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4A: "16. It's often set on the stove while cooking"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end
  • Similar words include: timekeeper
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIMER

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5A: "17. That's not the whole story!"

9 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: PLOTPOINT

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6A: "18. Fancy and then some"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that love intensely
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADORE

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7A: "19. Like the eyes of an American coot"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
  • Similar words include: red-faced, reddish, ruby
  • Opposite of: gain
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Answer: RED

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8A: "20. Be prepared to take a weight off someone's shoulders?"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a point located with respect to surface features of some region
  • Similar words include: maculation, tell apart, position
  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPOT

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9A: "21. ___ Howard, activist known as the "Mother of Pride""

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
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Answer: BRENDA

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10A: "22. Said who's who or what's what?"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDED

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11A: "24. Allies often share one"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an opposing military force
  • Similar words include: foe, opposition, foeman
  • Opposite of: friend
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Answer: ENEMY

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12A: "26. Turnovers, but not crumpets"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAT

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13A: "27. "Be my guest" and "Go right ahead""

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a state in south central united states
  • Similar words include: O.K., okeh, OK
  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: OKS

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14A: "29. Fixture at a chocolate factory"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
  • Similar words include: tub, value-added tax, ad valorem tax
  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: VAT

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15A: "30. Rate of passage"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
  • Similar words include: bell, price, cost
  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOLL

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16A: "31. With 28-Down, set hanging by a door"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
  • Similar words include: excess, spare part, trim
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPARE

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17A: "34. Soprano Fleming"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: RENEE

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18A: "36. Call for a pass?"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an affirmative
  • Similar words include: yeah
  • Opposite of: nay
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Answer: YEA

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19A: "37. "I've done better""

15 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______________
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Answer: NOTMYFINESTWORK

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20A: "40. Hooter"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
  • Similar words include: bird of night, bird of Minerva, hooter
  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: OWL

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21A: "41. Resonates beautifully"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that deliver by singing
  • Similar words include: blab out, tattle, blab
  • Opposite of: keep quiet
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Answer: SINGS

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22A: "42. What might lead to a pile of dirty laundry"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
  • Similar words include: slide, slideway, sloping trough
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CHUTE

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23A: "43. ___ Ewbank, Hall-of-Fame football coach"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: WEEB

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24A: "45. I"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
  • Similar words include: self-importance, self, egotism
  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: EGO

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25A: "46. Margaret featured in "Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution""

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: CHO

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26A: "47. Punch"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
  • Similar words include: vivification, spiritedness, animation
  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRIO

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27A: "48. State-sponsored "wealth redistribution" scheme"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
  • Similar words include: beano, keno, bingo
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LOTTO

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28A: "50. Support of a sort"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
  • Similar words include: prankish, arc, patronizing
  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARCH

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29A: "54. "I'm not sure what to make of that""

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
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Answer: ITSODD

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30A: "56. Helen with the podcast "Go Fact Yourself""

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: HONG

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31A: "58. Natural resource seen in arboretums?"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORE

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32A: "59. Blushing matter"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
  • Similar words include: paint, blusher
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROUGE

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33A: "60. Creature whose appendages allow it to camouflage in masses of kelp"

9 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: SEADRAGON

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34A: "62. N.B.A. analyst Burke"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (greek mythology) wife of nereus and mother of the nereids
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: DORIS

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35A: "63. "That's what they say, anyway""

9 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: ORSOIHEAR

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36A: "64. Smooth and shiny"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make slick or smooth
  • Similar words include: silken, silklike, flowing
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLEEK

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37A: "65. Celebratory opening"

9 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: LETSPARTY

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Down Clues - Complete List

No. Clue Letters
1D 1. Destination for a day trip from Sorrento 5
2D 2. Got to 5
3D 3. Break the bank, say? 5
4D 4. What one might put on to impress others 3
5D 5. Plans, with "out" 4
6D 6. Website with a "Submit a Rumor" tab 6
7D 7. Bulb that becomes translucent when heated 5
8D 8. "That's a subject you should absolutely avoid" 15
9D 9. Fire ___ 3
10D 10. Big name in lights 4
11D 11. Like Belmont's Big Sandy, among Triple Crown racetracks 6
12D 12. "Nice try, wise guy" 9
13D 13. Jokey warning before diving into a niche topic 9
14D 14. One of a noted quintet 9
15D 21. Small storage units 5
16D 23. Stories of college students? 4
17D 25. Things that lions and zebras have in common 5
18D 28. See 31-Across 4
19D 31. Fair weather followers 9
20D 32. Saw getting turned on, say 9
21D 33. Chillaxing, more formally 9
22D 34. Man's name whose first four letters spell a word describing its last letter 5
23D 35. Score with some acid 4
24D 38. Arena 5
25D 39. "Get outta here!" 4
26D 44. Get down 6
27D 46. Some vacation rentals 6
28D 49. Moment of high spirits? 5
29D 51. "Got it" 5
30D 52. Rijeka native 5
31D 53. ___ Louis Gates Jr., host of PBS's "Finding Your Roots" 5
32D 55. Anchor position 4
33D 57. Shakehand or penhold, in table tennis 4
34D 60. ___ de Mayo (symbol on the flags of Argentina and Uruguay) 3
35D 61. Sound made when something snaps into place? 3

Down Clues - Strategic Hints

1D: "1. Destination for a day trip from Sorrento"

5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an island (part of campania) in the bay of naples in southern italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful scenery
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CAPRI

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2D: "2. Got to"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
  • Similar words include: pissed, irritated, chafe
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: RILED

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3D: "3. Break the bank, say?"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that become ground down or deteriorate
  • Similar words include: fret, eat away, gnaw
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERODE

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4D: "4. What one might put on to impress others"

3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
  • Similar words include: represent, do, playact
  • Opposite of: refrain
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Answer: ACT

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5D: "5. Plans, with "out""

4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
  • Similar words include: map, represent, single-valued function
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MAPS

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6D: "6. Website with a "Submit a Rumor" tab"

6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SNOPES

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7D: "7. Bulb that becomes translucent when heated"

5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the bulb of an onion plant
  • Similar words include: Allium cepa, onion plant
  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONION

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8D: "8. "That's a subject you should absolutely avoid""

15 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______________
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Answer: DONTEVENGOTHERE

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9D: "9. Fire ___"

3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
  • Similar words include: emmet, pismire
  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANT

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10D: "10. Big name in lights"

4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
  • Similar words include: prima, wizard, asterisk
  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAR

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11D: "11. Like Belmont's Big Sandy, among Triple Crown racetracks"

6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
  • Similar words include: all-encompassing, spacious, panoptic
  • Opposite of: narrow
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Answer: WIDEST

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12D: "12. "Nice try, wise guy""

9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: IMONTOYOU

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13D: "13. Jokey warning before diving into a niche topic"

9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: NERDALERT

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14D: "14. One of a noted quintet"

9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: GREATLAKE

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15D: "21. Small storage units"

5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
  • Similar words include: byte
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BYTES

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16D: "23. Stories of college students?"

4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a college or university building containing living quarters for students
  • Similar words include: hall, dormitory, residence hall
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DORM

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17D: "25. Things that lions and zebras have in common"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a persian prophet who founded manichaeism (216-276)
  • Similar words include: man, head of hair, mane
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MANES

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18D: "28. See 31-Across"

4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
  • Similar words include: distinguish, discover, Francis Scott Key
  • Opposite of: atonality
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: KEYS

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19D: "31. Fair weather followers"

9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that medium-sized eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter
  • Similar words include: snow bunting, fieldfare, snowflake
  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: SNOWBIRDS

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20D: "32. Saw getting turned on, say"

9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: POWERTOOL

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21D: "33. Chillaxing, more formally"

9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
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Answer: ATLEISURE

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22D: "34. Man's name whose first four letters spell a word describing its last letter"

5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: RINGO

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23D: "35. Score with some acid"

4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make an etching of
  • Similar words include: engrave
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ETCH

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24D: "38. Arena"

5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
  • Similar words include: field of view, field of battle, subject
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: FIELD

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25D: "39. "Get outta here!""

4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: WHOA

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26D: "44. Get down"

6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
  • Similar words include: boogie-woogie
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BOOGIE

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27D: "46. Some vacation rentals"

6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that one of the dwelling units in a condominium
  • Similar words include: condominium, condo
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CONDOS

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28D: "49. Moment of high spirits?"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that slices of bread that have been toasted
  • Similar words include: crispen, drink, wassail
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TOAST

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29D: "51. "Got it""

5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ROGER

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30D: "52. Rijeka native"

5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a member of the slavic people living in croatia
  • Similar words include: Croatian
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CROAT

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31D: "53. ___ Louis Gates Jr., host of PBS's "Finding Your Roots""

5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
  • Similar words include: Patrick Henry, Joseph Henry, H
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: HENRY

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32D: "55. Anchor position"

4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DESK

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33D: "57. Shakehand or penhold, in table tennis"

4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the act of grasping
  • Similar words include: transfix, grasp, hold
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GRIP

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34D: "60. ___ de Mayo (symbol on the flags of Argentina and Uruguay)"

3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid
  • Similar words include: soh, so, colloidal solution
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SOL

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35D: "61. Sound made when something snaps into place?"

3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: AHA

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Expert Solving Strategies

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Today's Puzzle Stats

37 Across Clues
35 Down Clues
72 Total Clues

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