April 10, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, April 10, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 68 (34 Across, 34 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.9 letters

April 10, 2020 Friday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Word with cake or shop	6
2A	7. Ones with something to prove?	8
3A	15. "Baba ___" ("CSI: NY" theme)	6
4A	16. Greek	8
5A	17. Time release?	6
6A	18. Shot in the back	8
7A	19. Pichelsteiner, pozole and pot-au-feu	5
8A	20. It can show you the way	3
9A	21. Rush	5
10A	22. Nickname for Eric Cartwright on "Bonanza"	4
11A	23. Starbucks 12-ouncers	5
12A	25. Go a few rounds	4
13A	26. Material in doblones	3
14A	27. Speaker of the words "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil," in Genesis	7
15A	29. Wanders around LAX or JFK?	3
16A	30. Deterrent to squatting	12
17A	33. Rather impressionable?	7
18A	34. Sam who won at the Battle of San Jacinto	7
19A	38. Metaphorical source of the next generation of coders and researchers	12
20A	40. Hoedown lass	3
21A	43. Played from the tipoff, say	7
22A	44. Largest labor union in the U.S.: Abbr.	3
23A	45. The Miners of Conference USA, informally	4
24A	47. "The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey": Edmund Clarence Stedman	5
25A	48. Company originally called Zimride	4
26A	49. With 6-Down, acute power of discernment	5
27A	51. ___ Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria	3
28A	52. Back at the track	5
29A	53. Coming after	8
30A	55. "Cut it out!"	6
31A	56. Big 12 college town	8
32A	57. Flourishes	6
33A	58. Like 4x4 sudoku, typically	8
34A	59. City in Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night"	6

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. Word with cake or shop"

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 beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
• Words that mean the same thing: umber, coffee berry, burnt umber
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COFFEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "7. Ones with something to prove?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a proposition deducible from basic postulates
• Words that mean the same thing: theorem
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THEOREMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. "Baba ___" ("CSI: NY" theme)"

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: ORILEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Greek"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the hellenic branch of the indo-european family of languages
• Words that mean the same thing: classical, Hellenistic, Graeco-Roman
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HELLENIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Time release?"

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 secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
• Words that mean the same thing: word of honor, word, password
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PAROLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Shot in the back"

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 regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery
• Words that mean the same thing: extradural, epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EPIDURAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Pichelsteiner, pozole and pot-au-feu"

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 agitation resulting from active worry
• Words that mean the same thing: stew, brood, grizzle
• The 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 8 Across: "20. It can show you the way"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
• Words that mean the same thing: mapping, single-valued function, mathematical function
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Rush"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• Words that mean the same thing: batch, pot, pile
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Nickname for Eric Cartwright on "Bonanza""

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: HOSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Starbucks 12-ouncers"

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 garment size for a tall person
• Words that mean the same thing: tall
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TALLS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Go a few rounds"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
• Words that mean the same thing: sparring
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Material in doblones"

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: ORO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. Speaker of the words "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil," in Genesis"

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 limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
• Words that mean the same thing: ophidian, snake
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SERPENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "29. Wanders around LAX or JFK?"

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 an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
• Words that mean the same thing: Transportation Security Administration
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. Deterrent to squatting"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: WIFIPASSWORD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Rather impressionable?"

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 somewhat soft
• Words that mean the same thing: semisoft
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOFTISH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. Sam who won at the Battle of San Jacinto"

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 the largest city in texas; located in southeastern texas near the gulf of mexico; site of the national aeronautics and space administration
• Words that mean the same thing: Sam Houston, Samuel 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: HOUSTON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Metaphorical source of the next generation of coders and researchers"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: STEMPIPELINE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "40. Hoedown lass"

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 united states liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
• Words that mean the same thing: gallon
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Played from the tipoff, say"

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 take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
• Words that mean the same thing: begin, get down, take off
• The opposite would be: stop, end
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STARTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. Largest labor union in the U.S.: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: NEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. The Miners of Conference USA, informally"

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: UTEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "47. "The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey": Edmund Clarence Stedman"

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 marked by skill in deception
• Words that mean the same thing: foxy, tricky, cunning
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLYER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "48. Company originally called Zimride"

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: LYFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "49. With 6-Down, acute power of discernment"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
• Words that mean the same thing: astute, knifelike, precipitous
• The opposite would be: flat, dull
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHARP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. ___ Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 57, Pelican State, la
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. Back at the track"

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: BETON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "53. Coming after"

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: TOFOLLOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "55. "Cut it out!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: NOMORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "56. Big 12 college town"

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: AMESIOWA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "57. Flourishes"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the organic process of bearing flowers
• Words that mean the same thing: efflorescence, peak, heyday
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLOOMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "58. Like 4x4 sudoku, typically"

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: VERYEASY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "59. City in Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a port and resort city on the french riviera; site of an annual film festival
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CANNES

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword April 10, 2020

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Series of crimes?	8
2D	2. Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," for one	8
3D	3. Sends in a huff	8
4D	4. Moves from the head to the mouth	5
5D	5. Fish in the order Anguilliformes	4
6D	6. See 49-Across	3
7D	7. Home to Blofeld's lair in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"	7
8D	8. Classic chairs with shield-shaped backs	12
9D	9. Part of REO	3
10D	10. Part of REO	4
11D	11. Avoids a service break?	5
12D	12. Hanging on every word	6
13D	13. Sporty Mazdas	6
14D	14. Cornea neighbor	6
15D	20. Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal	12
16D	23. Collections dating back to the Han dynasty	7
17D	24. Nosy Parker	7
18D	27. Hot rods?	5
19D	28. Set straight	5
20D	31. "___ all a blur"	3
21D	32. Broadband letters	3
22D	35. Any student at Acme Looniversity	8
23D	36. Self-serving comment?	8
24D	37. What ataxophobes crave	8
25D	39. Extricate with leverage	7
26D	40. Name shared by the composers Holst and Mahler	6
27D	41. In	6
28D	42. Certain autumn tourist, slangily	6
29D	46. Far from crisp, as text	5
30D	48. Clunker car	5
31D	50. Barre bend	4
32D	52. Weapon on a cord	4
33D	54. Mauna ___	3
34D	55. Home of "The Monkees" on 1960s TV	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. Series of crimes?"

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: COPSHOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," for one"

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 musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
• Words that mean the same thing: cantata
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORATORIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Sends in a huff"

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: FIRESOFF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Moves from the head to the mouth"

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 motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
• Words that mean the same thing: rate of flow, flux, flow rate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Fish in the order Anguilliformes"

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 fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• Words that mean the same thing: eel
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. See 49-Across"

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 organ of sight
• Words that mean the same thing: centre, center, oculus
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EYE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Home to Blofeld's lair in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: THEALPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Classic chairs with shield-shaped backs"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: HEPPLEWHITES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Part of REO"

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: ELI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Part of REO"

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 past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
• Words that mean the same thing: old
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OLDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Avoids a service break?"

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: REUPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Hanging on every word"

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: ENRAPT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Sporty Mazdas"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MIATAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Cornea neighbor"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball
• Words that mean the same thing: sclerotic coat
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCLERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "20. Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar
• Words that mean the same thing: marshmallow
• The word looks like this: ____________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MARSHMALLOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Collections dating back to the Han dynasty"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TEASETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Nosy Parker"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
• Words that mean the same thing: snoop
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SNOOPER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Hot rods?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
• Words that mean the same thing: ptyalise, tongue, spittle
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Set straight"

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 make level, square, balanced, or concentric
• Words that mean the same thing: true, true up
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRUED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. "___ all a blur""

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 branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
• Words that mean the same thing: information technology, 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: ITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Broadband letters"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds
• Words that mean the same thing: digital subscriber line
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DSL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "35. Any student at Acme Looniversity"

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: TINYTOON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. Self-serving comment?"

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: ONEFORME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. What ataxophobes crave"

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 the state of being neat and smart and trim
• Words that mean the same thing: spruceness, tidiness
• The opposite would be: untidiness
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEATNESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Extricate with leverage"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PRYAWAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Name shared by the composers Holst and Mahler"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: GUSTAV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. In"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ATHOME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. Certain autumn tourist, slangily"

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: LEAFER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "46. Far from crisp, as text"

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 lacking wit or imagination
• Words that mean the same thing: prosaic, pedestrian, earthbound
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PROSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "48. Clunker car"

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 yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
• Words that mean the same thing: maize, lemon tree, lemon yellow
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEMON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "50. Barre bend"

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: PLIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "52. Weapon on a cord"

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 cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie
• Words that mean the same thing: bolo tie, bola tie, bolo
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "54. Mauna ___"

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: LOA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "55. Home of "The Monkees" on 1960s TV"

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: NBC

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	50	73.5%
Short Answer	10	14.7%
History	2	2.9%
Geography	2	2.9%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.5%
Abbreviation	1	1.5%
Sports	1	1.5%
Music	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	34
Down Clues	34
Total Clues	68
Average Answer Length	5.9 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	12 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

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

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January 24, 2023 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (42 clues)
• Down Clues (37 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 79 (42 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.1 letters

Across Clues Explained - Tuesday NYT Crossword January 24, 2023

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Luxuriate	4
2A	5. Bread that may be stuffed with shawarma	4
3A	9. Moves like a dog's tail	4
4A	13. Clamp that transposes a guitar's pitch	4
5A	14. "Hurry! We're late!"	4
6A	15. Horse, in Latin	5
7A	17. Unfair dig in an argument	9
8A	19. "We ___ please"	5
9A	20. Actress Ward of "CSI: NY" and "FBI"	4
10A	21. Choose	5
11A	23. Red October in "The Hunt for Red October," e.g.	3
12A	24. San Francisco neighborhood with the GLBT Historical Society Museum, with "the"	6
13A	26. "I'm not THAT gullible!"	6
14A	28. "Not feeling it"	3
15A	30. Witnessed	4
16A	31. One pitching in	6
17A	32. Scratch like an unhappy tabby	6
18A	34. Sci-fi or horror	5
19A	36. Challenge for a translator, maybe	5
20A	37. What free TV usually comes with	3
21A	38. Elephant of children's literature	5
22A	42. "Me too!"	5
23A	43. Quick plunge	3
24A	44. Sky-blue	5
25A	45. Cataclysm in the lore of many world cultures	5
26A	47. Space missions that collect data without landing	6
27A	48. Professional occupation	6
28A	51. Actor ___ Patrick Harris	4
29A	53. Article of cricket equipment	3
30A	54. Opposed (to)	6
31A	55. Distilled coal product used to preserve wood	6
32A	57. Maya who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial	3
33A	58. Some travel packages	5
34A	60. Roughly half of binary code	4
35A	62. Unleavened Passover staple	5
36A	64. On again, as a flame or romance	9
37A	67. Oktoberfest vessel	5
38A	68. Swanky party	4
39A	69. In the area	4
40A	70. Upper hand	4
41A	71. Ice cream brand	4
42A	72. Green that might go in a smoothie	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. Luxuriate"

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 derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
• Words that mean the same thing: relish, savour, savor
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BASK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Bread that may be stuffed with shawarma"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
• Words that mean the same thing: pocket bread
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PITA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Moves like a dog's tail"

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 witty amusing person who makes jokes
• Words that mean the same thing: wit, card, shake
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WAGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Clamp that transposes a guitar's pitch"

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 the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAPO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. "Hurry! We're late!""

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 6 Across: "15. Horse, in Latin"

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 type genus of the equidae: only surviving genus of the family equidae
• Words that mean the same thing: genus Equus
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EQUUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Unfair dig in an argument"

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: CHEAPSHOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. "We ___ please""

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: AIMTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Actress Ward of "CSI: NY" and "FBI""

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: SELA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Choose"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an exclusive group of people
• Words that mean the same thing: elite, chosen
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELECT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Red October in "The Hunt for Red October," e.g."

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 large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the united states
• Words that mean the same thing: hoagie, hoagy, torpedo
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SUB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. San Francisco neighborhood with the GLBT Historical Society Museum, with "the""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a marxist socialist state in cuba (born in 1927)
• Words that mean the same thing: Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Ruz
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CASTRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. "I'm not THAT gullible!""

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: OHSURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. "Not feeling it""

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: NAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. Witnessed"

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 perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
• Words that mean the same thing: consider, watch, construe
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "31. One pitching in"

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 person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
• Words that mean the same thing: assistant, help, benefactor
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HELPER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "32. Scratch like an unhappy tabby"

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: CLAWAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. Sci-fi or horror"

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 kind of literary or artistic work
• Words that mean the same thing: literary genre, musical style, music genre
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GENRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "36. Challenge for a translator, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
• Words that mean the same thing: artistic style, parlance, phrase
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDIOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "37. What free TV usually comes with"

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 public promotion of some product or service
• Words that mean the same thing: ad, advertizing, advert
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "38. Elephant of children's literature"

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 an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of french books for children
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BABAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "42. "Me too!""

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: SODOI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "43. Quick plunge"

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 depression in an otherwise level surface
• Words that mean the same thing: dunk, souse, magnetic dip
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "44. Sky-blue"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a light shade of blue
• Words that mean the same thing: bright blue, lazuline, sapphire
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AZURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "45. Cataclysm in the lore of many world cultures"

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 rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
• Words that mean the same thing: alluvion, deluge, torrent
• The opposite would be: ebbtide
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLOOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "47. Space missions that collect data without landing"

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: FLYBYS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "48. Professional occupation"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the particular occupation for which you are trained
• Words that mean the same thing: calling, life history, vocation
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAREER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "51. Actor ___ Patrick Harris"

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: NEIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "53. Article of cricket equipment"

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 nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
• Words that mean the same thing: squash racquet, cream, flutter
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "54. Opposed (to)"

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 (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
• Words that mean the same thing: loath, loth, antipathetical
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AVERSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "55. Distilled coal product used to preserve wood"

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: TAROIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "57. Maya who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that united states sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the vietnam war in washington (born in 1959)
• Words that mean the same thing: Maya Lin
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "58. Some travel packages"

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 industrial city in western france on the loire river
• Words that mean the same thing: go, tour, hitch
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOURS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "60. Roughly half of binary code"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Words that mean the same thing: ace, single, one
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ONES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "62. Unleavened Passover staple"

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 brittle flat bread eaten at passover
• Words that mean the same thing: matzah, unleavened bread, matzoh
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MATZO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "64. On again, as a flame or romance"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that ignite anew, as of something burning
• Words that mean the same thing: reignite
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REIGNITED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "67. Oktoberfest vessel"

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 mug intended for serving beer
• Words that mean the same thing: beer mug, Gertrude Stein
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STEIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "68. Swanky party"

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 gay festivity
• Words that mean the same thing: gala affair, jamboree, blowout
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GALA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "69. In the area"

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 move towards
• Words that mean the same thing: almost, draw near, most
• The opposite would be: far
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Across: "70. Upper hand"

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 boundary of a surface
• Words that mean the same thing: boundary, adjoin, bound
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Across: "71. Ice cream brand"

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: EDYS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Across: "72. Green that might go in a smoothie"

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 informal terms for money
• Words that mean the same thing: clams, wampum, dinero
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KALE

  Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Tuesday Puzzle January 24, 2023

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Include covertly in an email thread	3
2D	2. Sounds of bliss	4
3D	3. Electronic device for a person with voice impairment	9
4D	4. Eucalyptus-eating "bear"	5
5D	5. Mac alternatives	3
6D	6. Egotist's "The party can start now!"	6
7D	7. Response from someone who merely glanced at an online post, maybe	16
8D	8. Poker buy-in	4
9D	9. What a U.F.O. might turn out to be	14
10D	10. E.P.A. pollution stat	3
11D	11. Clogs, as a machine or process	6
12D	12. Surgeon's stitch	6
13D	16. Clearheaded	5
14D	18. Go through one of life's significant moments	14
15D	22. Journalist/political analyst Nate	4
16D	25. Vietnamese New Year	3
17D	27. Sordid	6
18D	28. Long-running CBS police drama	4
19D	29. Designer Gucci	4
20D	33. Low-frequency speaker	6
21D	35. Mind reader's ability, in brief	3
22D	37. Hubbub	3
23D	39. Beverage mixed with tapioca pearls ... or a description of this puzzle's circled letters?	9
24D	40. One of the Starks on "Game of Thrones"	4
25D	41. Breather	4
26D	46. Black-and-white cookie	4
27D	47. Christmas tree	3
28D	48. Quiets	5
29D	49. Pilot a plane	6
30D	50. Like apartments and many tuxedos	6
31D	52. With little effort	6
32D	56. Bold way to solve a sudoku	5
33D	59. Impulse	4
34D	61. Notary public's authorizing stamp	4
35D	63. Sharp turn	3
36D	65. Nitrous oxide, e.g.	3
37D	66. "Dr." who performed at the Super Bowl LVI halftime show	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. Include covertly in an email thread"

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: BCC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Sounds of bliss"

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 express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
• Words that mean the same thing: aah, ooh
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AAHS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Electronic device for a person with voice impairment"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SPEECHAID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Eucalyptus-eating "bear""

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 sluggish tailless australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark
• Words that mean the same thing: kangaroo bear, koala bear, native bear
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KOALA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Mac alternatives"

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 small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
• Words that mean the same thing: PC, personal computer, microcomputer
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PCS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Egotist's "The party can start now!""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: IMHERE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Response from someone who merely glanced at an online post, maybe"

Quick Info: This answer has 16 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: TOOLONGDIDNTREAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Poker buy-in"

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 (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. What a U.F.O. might turn out to be"

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: WEATHERBALLOON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. E.P.A. pollution stat"

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: AQI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Clogs, as a machine or process"

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: GUMSUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Surgeon's stitch"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
• Words that mean the same thing: surgical seam, sutura, fibrous joint
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SUTURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "16. Clearheaded"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that cause to become sober
• Words that mean the same thing: drab, grave, serious
• The opposite would be: playful, intoxicated
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOBER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Go through one of life's significant moments"

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: PASSAMILESTONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Journalist/political analyst Nate"

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 german botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
• Words that mean the same thing: Ferdinand Julius Cohn
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COHN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Vietnamese New Year"

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 new year in vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after january 20th
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Sordid"

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 of cloth; thin and loosely woven
• Words that mean the same thing: bum, seamy, tinny
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLEAZY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Long-running CBS police drama"

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: NCIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. Designer Gucci"

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: ALDO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "33. Low-frequency speaker"

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 loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency sounds
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WOOFER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "35. Mind reader's ability, in brief"

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 apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
• Words that mean the same thing: clairvoyance, second sight, E.S.P.
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ESP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "37. Hubbub"

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 rapid active commotion
• Words that mean the same thing: fuss, flurry, stir
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "39. Beverage mixed with tapioca pearls ... or a description of this puzzle's circled letters?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BUBBLETEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "40. One of the Starks on "Game of Thrones""

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: ARYA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "41. Breather"

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 something left after other parts have been taken away
• Words that mean the same thing: catch one's breath, remainder, residual
• The opposite would be: change, be active
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "46. Black-and-white cookie"

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 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 27 Down: "47. Christmas tree"

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 nonresinous wood of a fir tree
• Words that mean the same thing: fir tree, true fir
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "48. Quiets"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that steadiness of mind under stress
• Words that mean the same thing: settle down, calmness, calm down
• The opposite would be: discomposure, stimulate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CALMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "49. Pilot a plane"

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 operate an airplane
• Words that mean the same thing: fly, pilot
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AVIATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "50. Like apartments and many tuxedos"

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 let for money
• Words that mean the same thing: rent, let, engage
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RENTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. With little effort"

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 with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
• Words that mean the same thing: easy, well
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EASILY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "56. Bold way to solve a sudoku"

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: ININK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "59. Impulse"

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 instinctive motive
• Words that mean the same thing: press, root on, itch
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: URGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "61. Notary public's authorizing stamp"

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 fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
• Words that mean the same thing: Navy SEAL, sealskin, cachet
• The opposite would be: unseal
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "63. Sharp turn"

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 angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
• Words that mean the same thing: zigzag, zag
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ZIG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "65. Nitrous oxide, e.g."

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 state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
• Words that mean the same thing: gasoline, blow, shoot a line
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "66. "Dr." who performed at the Super Bowl LVI halftime show"

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: DRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	54	68.4%
Short Answer	15	19.0%
History	5	6.3%
Celebrity/Entertainment	5	6.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	42
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	79
Average Answer Length	5.1 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	16 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 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 04, 2025 at 05:39 PM