Today Crossword puzzle hints - July 26, 2024
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Break down the NYT Crosswords: July 26, 2024
Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.
Across Clues and Answers:
- 1. Letters of coverage - Show Answer
SPF
(3 letters)
Synonyms: sun_protection_factor, SPF
- 4. Roadside buildup on a warm winter day - Show Answer
SLUSH
(5 letters)
Synonyms: splosh, slush_around, slush, slosh_around, splash, slosh
- 9. They're often around two feet - Show Answer
SOCKS
(5 letters)
Synonyms: whap, air_sock, drogue, whop, windsock, bonk, bop, bash, wind_sock, wind_sleeve, air-sleeve, sock, wind_cone
- 14. Metonym for attention - Show Answer
EAR
(3 letters)
Synonyms: spike, capitulum, auricle, pinna, ear
- 15. Spotted - Show Answer
PINTO
(5 letters)
Synonyms: pinto
- 16. Lost intentionally - Show Answer
THREW
(5 letters)
Synonyms: shake_off, contrive, bedevil, confuse, throw_off, cast, have, throw, hold, make, bewilder, flip, drop, switch, confound, fox, fuddle, cast_off, hurl, befuddle, bemuse, thrust, discombobulate, give, throw_away, project, shed
- 17. Phase - Show Answer
ERA
(3 letters)
Synonyms: geological_era, ERA, epoch, earned_run_average, era
- 18. Departure announcement - Show Answer
IMOUTTAHERE
(11 letters)
- 20. Samurai's sword - Show Answer
KATANA
(6 letters)
- 22. French buns - Show Answer
DERRIERE
(8 letters)
Synonyms: stern, ass, fundament, rear, nates, butt, tail_end, seat, rear_end, buns, derriere, tail, hindquarters, arse, tush, posterior, rump, backside, bum, keister, tooshie, fanny, can, prat, bottom, buttocks, hind_end, behind
- 23. Garment for a vaquero - Show Answer
SERAPE
(6 letters)
Synonyms: serape, sarape
- 25. First word in the name of the U.S.'s most populous county - Show Answer
LOS
(3 letters)
- 26. Center of a 63-Across - Show Answer
PIT
(3 letters)
Synonyms: fossa, cavity, stone_pit, Inferno, pit, mark, pock, scar, play_off, quarry, endocarp, perdition, stone, colliery, Hell, oppose, pitfall, orchestra_pit, match, nether_region, infernal_region
Antonyms: Heaven
- 27. Melville character with the mantra "I would prefer not to" - Show Answer
BARTLEBY
(8 letters)
- 29. Up to - Show Answer
TIL
(3 letters)
- 31. Pitchfork part - Show Answer
TINE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: tine
- 32. Bush bounders - Show Answer
ROOS
(4 letters)
- 34. "Shoo!" - Show Answer
GIT
(3 letters)
Synonyms: git, stinker, dirty_dog, crumb, rotter, rat, lowlife, bum, skunk, puke, so-and-so, stinkpot, scum_bag
- 36. Jam session? - Show Answer
SLAMDUNKCONTEST
(15 letters)
- 41. "That's a ___!" - Show Answer
LIE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: lie, lie_down, rest, lie_in, consist, prevarication, Trygve_Lie, Lie, dwell, Trygve_Halvden_Lie
Antonyms: stand, arise
- 42. Best Actress Oscar winner of 2022 - Show Answer
YEOH
(4 letters)
- 43. First Nations people - Show Answer
CREE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Cree
- 44. Tearing up, perhaps - Show Answer
SAD
(3 letters)
Synonyms: distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, deplorable, sorry
Antonyms: glad
- 46. Breed once known as the "Tax Collector's Dog" - Show Answer
DOBERMAN
(8 letters)
Synonyms: Doberman, Doberman_pinscher
- 48. Landscaper's supply - Show Answer
SOD
(3 letters)
Synonyms: sod, bugger, sodomite, superoxide_dismutase, greensward, sodomist, sward, turf, SOD
- 51. ___ Lipa ("Dance the Night" singer) - Show Answer
DUA
(3 letters)
- 53. Threats - Show Answer
PERILS
(6 letters)
Synonyms: menace, jeopardize, queer, jeopardy, risk, jeopardise, scupper, expose, danger, endanger, riskiness, threaten, peril, hazard, imperil, endangerment
- 54. Predictive text? - Show Answer
PROPHECY
(8 letters)
Synonyms: divination, prognostication, vaticination, prophecy
- 57. Not at all into - Show Answer
HATING
(6 letters)
Synonyms: hate, hat, detest
Antonyms: love
- 59. Best-selling author of 2017's "The Hate U Give" - Show Answer
ANGIETHOMAS
(11 letters)
- 61. Kid's cry - Show Answer
MAA
(3 letters)
- 62. Jason of "Aquaman" - Show Answer
MOMOA
(5 letters)
- 63. Divisive pizza topping - Show Answer
OLIVE
(5 letters)
Synonyms: Olea_europaea, European_olive_tree, olive
- 64. "South Park" kid - Show Answer
IKE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: President_Eisenhower, Dwight_D._Eisenhower, Dwight_Eisenhower, Ike, Dwight_David_Eisenhower, Eisenhower
- 65. Vacate a seat - Show Answer
STAND
(5 letters)
Synonyms: bear, abide, support, tie-up, stick_out, stomach, rack, bandstand, fend, place_upright, stand_up, stall, sales_booth, resist, remain_firm, pedestal, tolerate, standstill, point_of_view, put_up, digest, endure, suffer, base, standpoint, brook, viewpoint, stand, outdoor_stage
Antonyms: sit, yield
- 66. Was syrupy, in a way - Show Answer
OOZED
(5 letters)
Synonyms: exudate, seep, ooze_out, ooze, transude, exude
- 67. Sachet filler - Show Answer
TEA
(3 letters)
Synonyms: tea, teatime, Camellia_sinensis, tea_leaf, afternoon_tea
Down Clues and Answers:
- 1. Go after - Show Answer
SEEK
(4 letters)
Synonyms: seek, look_for, try, assay, essay, attempt, search
- 2. Chute behind a boat - Show Answer
PARASAIL
(8 letters)
Synonyms: parasail
- 3. Not identical, say - Show Answer
FRATERNAL
(9 letters)
Synonyms: brotherly, biovular, brotherlike, fraternal
Antonyms: identical, sisterly
- 4. Kind of column - Show Answer
SPINAL
(6 letters)
Synonyms: spinal_anaesthesia, spinal_anesthesia, spinal
- 5. Capital city whose main governmental building is known as the "House of Pizarro" - Show Answer
LIMAPERU
(8 letters)
- 6. Game with a draw pile - Show Answer
UNO
(3 letters)
- 7. Term of endearment akin to "handsome" - Show Answer
STUD
(4 letters)
Synonyms: macho-man, constellate, dot, scantling, rivet, stud, studhorse, he-man, stud_poker
- 8. Monopoly piece - Show Answer
HOTEL
(5 letters)
Synonyms: hotel
- 9. Personality indicator, some say - Show Answer
STARSIGN
(8 letters)
- 10. "I didn't see you there!" - Show Answer
OHHI
(4 letters)
- 11. Radiohead's highest-selling single - Show Answer
CREEP
(5 letters)
Synonyms: pussyfoot, crawl, grovel, weirdie, mouse, fawn, spook, creep, weirdy, cower, creeping, cringe, weirdo, crawling, sneak
- 12. Three-time Olympic gold medalist ___ Walsh Jennings - Show Answer
KERRI
(5 letters)
- 13. Like port - Show Answer
SWEET
(5 letters)
Synonyms: seraphic, unfermented, angelical, sweetly, sweet, scented, honeyed, dessert, Sweet, sweet-smelling, sweetened, afters, Henry_Sweet, odoriferous, sweet-scented, sugared, odorous, perfumed, sugariness, sweet-flavored, gratifying, mellifluous, cherubic, dulcet, sweetness, angelic, mellisonant, fresh, confection
Antonyms: salty, sour, dry
- 19. Race pace - Show Answer
TROT
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Trotskyite, pony, Trotskyist, crib, jog, lope, clip, trot, Trot
- 21. Lunar mission of the 2020s - Show Answer
ARTEMIS
(7 letters)
Synonyms: Cynthia, Artemis
- 24. Wood that sinks in water - Show Answer
EBONY
(5 letters)
Synonyms: soot_black, Diospyros_ebenum, sable, ebon, jet_black, ebony_tree, pitch_black, coal_black, ebony
- 27. "The world's biggest band," per a 2021 Rolling Stone cover - Show Answer
BTS
(3 letters)
- 28. Joined together - Show Answer
YOKED
(5 letters)
Synonyms: link, yoke
Antonyms: unyoke
- 30. Rhyming subject for an English major - Show Answer
LITCRIT
(7 letters)
- 33. Feat on a beat - Show Answer
SCOOP
(5 letters)
Synonyms: soap, exclusive, trump, easy_lay, scoopful, outflank, liquid_ecstasy, max, outdo, lift_out, best, scoop_out, Georgia_home_boy, take_up, grievous_bodily_harm, goop, pocket, scoop, scoop_up, scoop_shovel
- 35. Office max? - Show Answer
TERMLIMIT
(9 letters)
- 37. Fan associated with a red, white and blue skull logo - Show Answer
DEADHEAD
(8 letters)
Synonyms: deadhead
- 38. Catchphrase for Austin Powers - Show Answer
OHBEHAVE
(8 letters)
- 39. Venomous reef dweller - Show Answer
SEASNAKE
(8 letters)
- 40. "Powers of ___" (landmark documentary about the scale of the universe) - Show Answer
TEN
(3 letters)
Synonyms: 10, decade, tenner, X, x, ten, ten-spot
- 45. Two-piece? - Show Answer
DUET
(4 letters)
Synonyms: pair, distich, span, duad, brace, twosome, couplet, duet, duette, couple, pas_de_deux, duo, yoke, twain, dyad
- 47. Took off the board - Show Answer
ERASED
(6 letters)
Synonyms: rub_out, wipe_off, score_out, erase, delete, efface, wipe_out
Antonyms: record
- 48. Floods with junk - Show Answer
SPAMS
(5 letters)
Synonyms: junk_e-mail, Spam, spam
- 49. "... oops, my mistake" - Show Answer
ORNOT
(5 letters)
- 50. Set of beliefs - Show Answer
DOGMA
(5 letters)
Synonyms: tenet, dogma
- 52. Cold call? - Show Answer
ACHOO
(5 letters)
- 55. Subatomic particle named for a Greek letter - Show Answer
PION
(4 letters)
Synonyms: pion, pi-meson
- 56. "Well, here goes nothing!" - Show Answer
YOLO
(4 letters)
- 58. Mother of the Titans - Show Answer
GAEA
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Ge, Gaea, Gaia
- 60. "Les ___" - Show Answer
MIZ
(3 letters)
