January 19, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (39 clues)
• Down Clues (32 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 71 (39 Across, 32 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.5 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Wednesday Puzzle January 19, 2022

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Reposition an icon, maybe	11
2A	5. Key inspiration?	15
3A	10. Genre with a Hall of Fame in Ohio	11
4A	14. Chocolate-and-caramel candy	4
5A	15. Number of Brontë sisters or Karamazov brothers	5
6A	16. Ones with a lot of pull in agriculture?	4
7A	17. Major crop for Russia and Canada	4
8A	18. Checks held by Santa?	5
9A	19. Actor Jared	4
10A	20. One who wasn't due to arrive, informally	7
11A	22. Count	7
12A	24. Collect, as profit	4
13A	25. "___ dreaming?"	3
14A	26. WNW's opposite	3
15A	27. Principle of complementary duality	10
16A	29. Some protest handouts	8
17A	33. Gets comfortable with	8
18A	35. Plains tribe	4
19A	39. Things taken in class	5
20A	40. Mess up	3
21A	42. Pleasantly concise	13
22A	43. Joyful giddiness	4
23A	44. DC Comics antiheroine a.k.a. Selina Kyle	8
24A	46. Loud chewing, for some	8
25A	50. Lead-in to a culinary attribution	3
26A	51. Combine, as versatile wardrobe pieces	11
27A	54. Miracle-___	3
28A	55. Medieval adventure tale	4
29A	57. Beats easily	7
30A	59. Fashion accessories in a 1940s #1 Dinah Shore hit	14
31A	62. Neutral shades	4
32A	63. Author of macabre tales, in brief	5
33A	65. Stackable food item	4
34A	66. "Let's go already!"	4
35A	67. Hearty meal options	5
36A	68. Perceptive	4
37A	69. Ones tending to brood?	4
38A	70. Essential ingredient in Welsh rarebit	5
39A	71. Miniature whirlpool	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. Reposition an icon, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DRAGANDDROP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Key inspiration?"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: STARSANDSTRIPES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Genre with a Hall of Fame in Ohio"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ROCKANDROLL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Chocolate-and-caramel candy"

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: ROLO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Number of Brontë sisters or Karamazov brothers"

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 the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
• Words that mean the same thing: threesome, trine, III
• 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: THREE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Ones with a lot of pull in agriculture?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; ; ; - bible
• Words that mean the same thing: wild ox, ox, cattle
• 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: OXEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Major crop for Russia and Canada"

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 annual grass of europe and north africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
• Words that mean the same thing: oat
• 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: OATS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. Checks held by Santa?"

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 one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
• Words that mean the same thing: rule, rein in, rein
• 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: REINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. Actor Jared"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that wife or mistress of zeus and mother of apollo and artemis in ancient mythology; called latona in roman mythology
• Words that mean the same thing: Latona
• 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: LETO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. One who wasn't due to arrive, informally"

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 an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation
• Words that mean the same thing: preterm infant, premature baby, premature infant
• 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: PREEMIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Count"

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: TALLYUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Collect, as profit"

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 gather, as of natural products
• Words that mean the same thing: glean, harvest, draw
• 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: REAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. "___ dreaming?""

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: AMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. WNW's opposite"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ESE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "27. Principle of complementary duality"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: YINANDYANG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "29. Some protest handouts"

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 a thin triangular flap of a heart valve
• Words that mean the same thing: brochure, folder, pamphlet
• 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: LEAFLETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Gets comfortable with"

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: ADAPTSTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "35. Plains tribe"

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

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "39. Things taken in class"

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 brief written record
• Words that mean the same thing: take note, line, note
• The opposite would be: ignore
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOTES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "40. Mess up"

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

  The answer is: ERR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "42. Pleasantly concise"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 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: SHORTANDSWEET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. Joyful giddiness"

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 great merriment
• Words that mean the same thing: gleefulness, hilarity, mirth
• 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: GLEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "44. DC Comics antiheroine a.k.a. Selina Kyle"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CATWOMAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "46. Loud chewing, for some"

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: PETPEEVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "50. Lead-in to a culinary attribution"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
• 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: ALA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "51. Combine, as versatile wardrobe pieces"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIXANDMATCH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "54. Miracle-___"

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: GRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "55. Medieval adventure tale"

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: GEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "57. Beats easily"

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: ACESOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "59. Fashion accessories in a 1940s #1 Dinah Shore hit"

Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: BUTTONSANDBOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "62. Neutral shades"

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 browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
• Words that mean the same thing: tangent, topaz, suntan
• 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: TANS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "63. Author of macabre tales, in brief"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard 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: EAPOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "65. Stackable food item"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
• Words that mean the same thing: oreo cookie
• 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: OREO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "66. "Let's go already!""

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: CMON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "67. Hearty meal options"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that agitation resulting from active worry
• Words that mean the same thing: stew, sweat, lather
• 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: STEWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "68. Perceptive"

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 funeral lament sung with loud wailing
• Words that mean the same thing: slap-up, piercing, knifelike
• 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: KEEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "69. Ones tending to brood?"

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 adult female chicken
• Words that mean the same thing: biddy, hen
• 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: HENS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "70. Essential ingredient in Welsh rarebit"

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 slices of bread that have been toasted
• Words that mean the same thing: drink, goner, crispen
• 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: TOAST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "71. Miniature whirlpool"

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 founder of christian science in 1866 (1821-1910)
• Words that mean the same thing: purl, Mary Morse Baker Eddy, swirl
• 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: EDDY

  Great job if you got it right!

January 19, 2022 Wednesday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	2. Crowd's sound	4
2D	3. Sub	9
3D	4. "Check it out for yourself!"	5
4D	6. You, in hymns	4
5D	7. Grande of "The Voice," to fans	3
6D	8. Alamo offering	6
7D	9. Kind of fragrant oil in some Asian cuisines	6
8D	11. Daisy variety also called a marguerite	5
9D	12. Constellation known as the Whale	5
10D	13. Leslie ___, Amy Poehler's role on "Parks and Recreation"	5
11D	21. Fountain treats	5
12D	23. Poppin', as a party	3
13D	28. Some people bow to it	4
14D	30. Did some crunches at lunch?	3
15D	31. Mass x acceleration, in physics	5
16D	32. Area near TriBeCa in N.Y.C.	4
17D	34. Chewy Easter treat	4
18D	36. Bright color in the garden	9
19D	37. Spoken	4
20D	38. Italy's Mount ___	4
21D	41. Issa of "Insecure"	3
22D	45. Talk show visitor	7
23D	47. Id's counterpart	3
24D	48. Most faithful	6
25D	49. First vegetable grown in space	6
26D	52. "Veni"	5
27D	53. Strobe light gas	5
28D	56. Add fuel to	5
29D	58. Info collected by H.R.	4
30D	60. Scholarship consideration	4
31D	61. PlayStation maker	4
32D	64. Potpie bit	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: "2. Crowd's sound"

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 deep prolonged loud noise
• Words that mean the same thing: bellow, holloa, howl
• 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: ROAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "3. Sub"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that someone who takes the place of another person
• Words that mean the same thing: tack, jump, interchange
• The opposite would be: opposite
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALTERNATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "4. "Check it out for yourself!""

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: GOSEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "6. You, in hymns"

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: THEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "7. Grande of "The Voice," to fans"

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: ARI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "8. Alamo offering"

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 property that is leased or rented out or let
• Words that mean the same thing: letting, renting, lease
• 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: RENTAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "9. Kind of fragrant oil in some Asian cuisines"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that east indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil
• Words that mean the same thing: benni, benne, benny
• 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: SESAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "11. Daisy variety also called a marguerite"

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 any north american shrubby perennial herb of the genus heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers
• Words that mean the same thing: heliopsis
• 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: OXEYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "12. Constellation known as the Whale"

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 large constellation on the equator near pisces and aquarius
• 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: CETUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "13. Leslie ___, Amy Poehler's role on "Parks and Recreation""

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: KNOPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "21. Fountain treats"

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 milkshake made with malt powder
• Words that mean the same thing: malted milk, malt, malt liquor
• 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: MALTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "23. Poppin', as a party"

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 humanistic study of a body of literature
• Words that mean the same thing: literature, unhorse, get down
• The opposite would be: extinguish, unlighted
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "28. Some people bow to 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 material effigy that is worshipped
• Words that mean the same thing: graven image, god, perfection
• 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: IDOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "30. Did some crunches at lunch?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "31. Mass x acceleration, in physics"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a powerful effect or influence
• Words that mean the same thing: coerce, draw, forcefulness
• The opposite would be: pull, push
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FORCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "32. Area near TriBeCa in N.Y.C."

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 district in southwestern manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts
• Words that mean the same thing: South of Houston
• 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: SOHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "34. Chewy Easter treat"

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 short weak cry of a young bird
• Words that mean the same thing: chirrup, peek, cheep
• 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: PEEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "36. Bright color in the garden"

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: TOMATORED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "37. Spoken"

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 an examination conducted by spoken communication
• Words that mean the same thing: oral exam, viva, unwritten
• The opposite would be: anal, aboral
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "38. Italy's Mount ___"

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 inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
• Words that mean the same thing: bunsen burner, Mt Etna, bunsen
• 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: ETNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "41. Issa of "Insecure""

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: RAE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "45. Talk show visitor"

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: TVGUEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "47. Id's counterpart"

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 inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• Words that mean the same thing: self-importance, self, egotism
• 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: EGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "48. Most faithful"

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 consistent with fact or reality; not false; ; - b. russell
• Words that mean the same thing: lawful, dead on target, honest
• The opposite would be: untruthful, false
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRUEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "49. First vegetable grown in space"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an edible tuber native to south america; a staple food of ireland
• Words that mean the same thing: white potato vine, white potato, Irish potato
• 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: POTATO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "52. "Veni""

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: ICAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "53. Strobe light gas"

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 colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 54, Xe
• 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: XENON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "56. Add fuel to"

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 stir up or tend; of a fire
• 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: STOKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "58. Info collected by H.R."

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: SSNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "60. Scholarship consideration"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a condition requiring relief
• Words that mean the same thing: ask, postulate, demand
• The opposite would be: obviate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "61. PlayStation maker"

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: SONY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "64. Potpie bit"

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 seed of a pea plant used for food
• Words that mean the same thing: pea plant
• 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: PEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	52	73.2%
Short Answer	11	15.5%
History	3	4.2%
Food & Drink	3	4.2%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.8%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	39
Down Clues	32
Total Clues	71
Average Answer Length	5.5 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Wednesday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM

April 30, 2024 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (36 clues)
• Down Clues (42 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (36 Across, 42 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.8 letters

Across Clues Explained - Tuesday NYT Crossword April 30, 2024

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Ingredients in a green baby food purée	4
2A	5. Nabisco wafer brand	5
3A	10. Self-care?	3
4A	13. "Aye, aye" addressee	4
5A	14. Ingredients in some black-and-white cheesecakes	5
6A	15. Exam for college-bound jrs.	4
7A	16. Crop named for its doughy texture when cooked	10
8A	18. Starchy root vegetable	4
9A	19. More agile	6
10A	20. "Maybe yes, maybe no"	7
11A	22. Why Pinocchio's nose grows	5
12A	25. Like merlot or pinot noir	3
13A	26. Everything from ___ Z	3
14A	29. San Diego suburb whose name means "the table"	6
15A	31. Since Jan. 1, on pay stubs	3
16A	34. British territory visible from Africa	9
17A	37. Thin and transparent	5
18A	39. Meaning of "anti-"	7
19A	40. Contents of a pizzeria shaker	7
20A	42. Musical speeds	5
21A	43. Usual heir in patrilineal systems	9
22A	45. See 28-Down	3
23A	46. Auto setting	6
24A	48. Uno, due, ___	3
25A	49. Org. that funds PBS	3
26A	50. Three-word Last Supper question	5
27A	53. Metabolic state on a low-carb, high-fat diet	7
28A	57. Slight colorings	6
29A	61. Former queen of Jordan	4
30A	62. Space to maneuver, or a hint to five sets of circled letters in this puzzle	10
31A	65. One-named Irish singer with four Grammys	4
32A	66. Redheaded orphan of Broadway	5
33A	67. Light brown shade	4
34A	68. This + vertical line = dollar sign	3
35A	69. People, places and things	5
36A	70. ___ Blanc	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. Ingredients in a green baby food purée"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that seed of a pea plant used for food
• Words that mean the same thing: pea, pea plant
• 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: PEAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Nabisco wafer 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: NILLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Self-care?"

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 inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• Words that mean the same thing: self, egotism, self-importance
• 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: EGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. "Aye, aye" addressee"

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: CAPN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Ingredients in some black-and-white cheesecakes"

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 chocolate cookie with white cream filling
• Words that mean the same thing: oreo cookie, oreo
• 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: OREOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "15. Exam for college-bound jrs."

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: PSAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "16. Crop named for its doughy texture when cooked"

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 native to pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
• Words that mean the same thing: Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree, Artocarpus altilis
• 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: BREADFRUIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. Starchy root vegetable"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
• Words that mean the same thing: dalo, taro root, taro plant
• 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: TARO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. More agile"

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 moving quickly and lightly
• Words that mean the same thing: agile, quick, nimble
• 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: SPRIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. "Maybe yes, maybe no""

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: NOTSURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Why Pinocchio's nose grows"

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 deliberate act of deviating from the truth
• Words that mean the same thing: lie, fabrication, dwell
• 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: LYING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Like merlot or pinot noir"

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 red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
• Words that mean the same thing: cherry-red, bolshy, ruby
• The opposite would be: gain
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Everything from ___ Z"

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: ATO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. San Diego suburb whose name means "the table""

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: LAMESA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "31. Since Jan. 1, on pay stubs"

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: YTD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "34. British territory visible from Africa"

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 location of a colony of the united kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the mediterranean; one of the pillars of hercules
• Words that mean the same thing: Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe
• 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: GIBRALTAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "37. Thin and transparent"

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 turn sharply; change direction abruptly
• Words that mean the same thing: swerve, curve, bluff
• 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: SHEER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "39. Meaning of "anti-""

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: AGAINST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "40. Contents of a pizzeria shaker"

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 aromatic eurasian perennial
• Words that mean the same thing: wild marjoram, marjoram, winter sweet
• 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: OREGANO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "42. Musical speeds"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
• Words that mean the same thing: pace, tempo, pacing
• 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: TEMPI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Usual heir in patrilineal systems"

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: ELDESTSON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "45. See 28-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 a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• Words that mean the same thing: earned run average, geological era, epoch
• 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: ERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "46. Auto setting"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
• 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: STREET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "48. Uno, due, ___"

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: TRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "49. Org. that funds PBS"

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: NEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "50. Three-word Last Supper question"

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: ISITI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "53. Metabolic state on a low-carb, high-fat diet"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus
• Words that mean the same thing: acetonemia, ketonemia
• 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: KETOSIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "57. Slight colorings"

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 color lightly
• Words that mean the same thing: tint, touch, tinct
• 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: TINCTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "61. Former queen of Jordan"

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: NOOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "62. Space to maneuver, or a hint to five sets of circled letters in this puzzle"

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: WIGGLEROOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "65. One-named Irish singer with four Grammys"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard 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: ENYA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "66. Redheaded orphan of Broadway"

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: ANNIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "67. Light brown shade"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a very light brown
• Words that mean the same thing: beige
• 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: ECRU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "68. This + vertical line = dollar sign"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
• Words that mean the same thing: Es, atomic number 99, E
• 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: ESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "69. People, places and things"

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 content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
• Words that mean the same thing: noun
• 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: NOUNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "70. ___ Blanc"

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: MONT

  Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Tuesday Puzzle April 30, 2024

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Pollutants banned in the '70s, in brief	4
2D	2. Wyatt of the Old West	4
3D	3. One doing impersonations	4
4D	4. Slimy creeper	5
5D	5. Without bells and whistles	8
6D	6. Nonstandard: Abbr.	3
7D	7. Romanian currency	3
8D	8. Tender cut of meat	4
9D	9. Wealthiest couple on the Titanic	6
10D	10. Biblical twin of Jacob	4
11D	11. Actress Teri	4
12D	12. Siouan tribe	4
13D	15. Condition for some combat vets, for short	4
14D	17. Susan of "L.A. Law"	3
15D	21. "Still ahead ..." and "Coming up next ...," in broadcasting lingo	6
16D	23. Talk idly	6
17D	24. "Today" rival, in brief	3
18D	26. Playing marble material	5
19D	27. National animal of India	5
20D	28. With 45-Across, presidential period from 2009-17	5
21D	30. Wears away	6
22D	31. Ingredient in a sourdough starter	5
23D	32. Kind of sax	5
24D	33. Remote-controlled aircraft	5
25D	35. Unwelcome sound when bending over	3
26D	36. Plants with licorice-flavored seeds	6
27D	38. Fig. on a driver's license	3
28D	41. Changes the name of	8
29D	44. Fragrant neckwear	3
30D	47. Island north of the Philippines	6
31D	49. Writer Ephron	4
32D	51. Requirement for a "business formal" dress code, maybe	3
33D	52. When dreams occur, for short	5
34D	53. Where a pencil skirt typically ends	4
35D	54. Ages and ages	4
36D	55. Many holiday gifts for dogs	4
37D	56. Chinese: Prefix	4
38D	58. Pixar film set in Mexico	4
39D	59. Undecided	4
40D	60. Raunchy material	4
41D	63. Savanna grazer	3
42D	64. Alcohol flavored with juniper	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. Pollutants banned in the '70s, in brief"

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: PCBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Wyatt of the Old West"

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: EARP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. One doing impersonations"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that someone who copies the words or behavior of another
• Words that mean the same thing: emulator, ape, copycat
• 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: APER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Slimy creeper"

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 freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
• Words that mean the same thing: escargot
• 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: SNAIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Without bells and whistles"

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: NOFRILLS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Nonstandard: 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: IRR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Romanian currency"

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 basic unit of money in moldova
• 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: LEU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Tender cut of meat"

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 cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump
• Words that mean the same thing: lumbus
• 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: LOIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Wealthiest couple on the Titanic"

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 british politician (born in the united states) who was the first woman to sit in the british house of commons (1879-1964)
• Words that mean the same thing: Viscountess Astor, Nancy Witcher Astor, John Jacob Astor
• 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: ASTORS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Biblical twin of Jacob"

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 (old testament) the eldest son of isaac who would have inherited the covenant that god made with abraham and that abraham passed on to isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother jacob for a mess of pottage
• 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: ESAU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Actress Teri"

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: GARR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Siouan tribe"

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

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "15. Condition for some combat vets, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
• Words that mean the same thing: posttraumatic stress disorder
• 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: PTSD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "17. Susan of "L.A. Law""

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: DEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. "Still ahead ..." and "Coming up next ...," in broadcasting lingo"

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 someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
• Words that mean the same thing: annoyer, tantalize, vamp
• 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: TEASES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Talk idly"

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 talk socially without exchanging too much information
• Words that mean the same thing: claver, visit, chat
• 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: NATTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. "Today" rival, in brief"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: GMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Playing marble material"

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 impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
• 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: AGATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "27. National animal of India"

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 fierce or audacious person
• Words that mean the same thing: Panthera tigris
• 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: TIGER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "28. With 45-Across, presidential period from 2009-17"

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: OBAMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "30. Wears away"

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 become ground down or deteriorate
• Words that mean the same thing: erode, gnaw at, eat at
• 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: ERODES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. Ingredient in a sourdough starter"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
• Words that mean the same thing: barm
• 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: YEAST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "32. Kind of sax"

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 adult male singing voice above baritone
• Words that mean the same thing: tenor voice, strain
• 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: TENOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "33. Remote-controlled aircraft"

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 stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
• Words that mean the same thing: bourdon, trailer, drone pipe
• 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: DRONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "35. Unwelcome sound when bending over"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a dissolute man in fashionable society
• Words that mean the same thing: profligate, pull, blood
• 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: RIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "36. Plants with licorice-flavored seeds"

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 native to egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery
• Words that mean the same thing: aniseed, anise, anise plant
• 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: ANISES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "38. Fig. on a driver's license"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: HGT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "41. Changes the name of"

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: RETITLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "44. Fragrant neckwear"

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 flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
• Words that mean the same thing: wreath, chaplet, leu
• 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: LEI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "47. Island north of the Philippines"

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 government on the island of taiwan established in 1949 by chiang kai-shek after the conquest of mainland china by the communists led by mao zedong
• Words that mean the same thing: China, Nationalist China, Republic of China
• 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: TAIWAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "49. Writer Ephron"

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: NORA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "51. Requirement for a "business formal" dress code, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
• Words that mean the same thing: draw, bond, linkup
• The opposite would be: disconnect, untie
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "52. When dreams occur, for short"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: INREM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "53. Where a pencil skirt typically ends"

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 hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
• Words that mean the same thing: human knee, genu, stifle
• 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: KNEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "54. Ages and ages"

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 longest division of geological time
• Words that mean the same thing: eon, aeon
• 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: EONS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "55. Many holiday gifts for dogs"

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 artifact designed to be played with
• Words that mean the same thing: flirt, fiddle, dally
• 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: TOYS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "56. Chinese: Prefix"

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: SINO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "58. Pixar film set in Mexico"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
• Words that mean the same thing: coconut, coconut palm, coco palm
• 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: COCO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "59. Undecided"

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 separate or cause to separate abruptly
• Words that mean the same thing: bust, charge, pull
• 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: TORN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "60. Raunchy material"

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 black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
• Words that mean the same thing: filth, erotica, lampblack
• 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: SMUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "63. Savanna grazer"

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 large african antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
• Words that mean the same thing: wildebeest
• 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: GNU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Down: "64. Alcohol flavored with juniper"

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 strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
• Words that mean the same thing: noose, gin rummy, knock rummy
• 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: GIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	49	62.8%
Short Answer	16	20.5%
Celebrity/Entertainment	4	5.1%
Abbreviation	3	3.8%
Geography	2	2.6%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%
Music	1	1.3%
Literature	1	1.3%
Movies/Film	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	36
Down Clues	42
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.8 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	10 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is 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!

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: August 26, 2025 at 03:10 AM