November 16, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (37 clues)
• Down Clues (41 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Monday, November 16, 2020

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (37 Across, 41 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.7 letters

November 16, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Monday Crossword Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Tricked by doing something unexpectedly, with "out"	5
2A	6. Original airer of "Doctor Who" and "Monty Python's Flying Circus"	3
3A	9. Jitter-free jitter juice	5
4A	14. Slicker, as winter highways	5
5A	15. Writer Tolstoy	3
6A	16. Speechify	5
7A	17. Sweet item at a bakery	9
8A	19. One streaming on Twitch, maybe	5
9A	20. Wedding vow	3
10A	21. "In memoriam" piece	4
11A	22. Drinking mug	5
12A	23. Keep watch while a homeowner's away	8
13A	26. Drs.' co-workers	3
14A	27. Categorize	6
15A	30. Zippo	4
16A	32. Not an original, informally	5
17A	33. Bar-to-bar activity	8
18A	37. Skater Lipinski	4
19A	38. Heart chambers	5
20A	39. What a smiley or frowny emoji indicates	4
21A	41. What a speaker or musician may adjust before starting	8
22A	43. Immature bug	5
23A	44. Tidy	4
24A	45. Wagered	6
25A	46. Green item proffered by Sam-I-Am	3
26A	48. Easy win	8
27A	52. Tally mark	5
28A	54. The "E" in PG&E: Abbr.	4
29A	55. "___ unto them that call evil good, and good evil": Isaiah	3
30A	58. In flames	5
31A	59. Small advances ... or the progression suggested by the ends of 17-, 23-, 33-, 41- and 48-Across	9
32A	62. Police trainee	5
33A	63. Convenience for withdrawing $$$	3
34A	64. Appear out of nowhere	5
35A	65. Maples and myrtles	5
36A	66. Mattress's place	3
37A	67. Nervous about what's ahead	5

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. Tricked by doing something unexpectedly, with "out""

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 make a copy of with the intent to deceive
• Words that mean the same thing: cook, wangle, fudge
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FAKED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "6. Original airer of "Doctor Who" and "Monty Python's Flying Circus""

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: BBC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Jitter-free jitter juice"

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 coffee with the caffeine removed
• Words that mean the same thing: decaffeinated coffee
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DECAF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Slicker, as winter highways"

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 devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
• Words that mean the same thing: glacial, frozen, arctic
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ICIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Writer Tolstoy"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
• Words that mean the same thing: Leo the Lion, Lion
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Speechify"

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

  The answer is: ORATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Sweet item at a bakery"

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 thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake
• Words that mean the same thing: Swiss roll
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JELLYROLL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. One streaming on Twitch, 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 disabled in the feet or legs
• Words that mean the same thing: halting, game, gamey
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GAMER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Wedding vow"

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 artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. "In memoriam" piece"

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 notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
• Words that mean the same thing: obituary, necrology
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OBIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Drinking mug"

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 a mug intended for serving beer
• Words that mean the same thing: Gertrude Stein, beer mug
• The 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 12 Across: "23. Keep watch while a homeowner's away"

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: HOUSESIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Drs.' co-workers"

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 radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health
• Words that mean the same thing: registered nurse, Rn, RN
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. Categorize"

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 keep company with; hang out with
• Words that mean the same thing: class, separate, sort out
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASSORT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. Zippo"

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 quantity of no importance
• Words that mean the same thing: nil, zero, nix
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NADA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "32. Not an original, informally"

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: REPRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Bar-to-bar activity"

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: PUBCRAWL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. Skater Lipinski"

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 village in eastern ireland (northwest of dublin); seat of irish kings until 6th century
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TARA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Heart chambers"

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 any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
• Words that mean the same thing: atrium
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATRIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "39. What a smiley or frowny emoji indicates"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
• Words that mean the same thing: modality, climate, mode
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "41. What a speaker or musician may adjust before starting"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert 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: MICSTAND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. Immature bug"

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 immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LARVA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "44. Tidy"

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 clean or organized
• Words that mean the same thing: dandy, slap-up, bully
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. Wagered"

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 expose to a chance of loss or damage
• Words that mean the same thing: chance, take a chance, put on the 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: RISKED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "46. Green item proffered by Sam-I-Am"

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 animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
• Words that mean the same thing: testis, eggs, orchis
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EGG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "48. Easy win"

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 strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among black dancers to win a cake
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAKEWALK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "52. Tally mark"

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 v-shaped indentation
• Words that mean the same thing: nick, snick, pass
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOTCH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "54. The "E" in PG&E: Abbr."

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: ELEC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "55. "___ unto them that call evil good, and good evil": Isaiah"

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 misery resulting from affliction
• Words that mean the same thing: woefulness, suffering
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "58. In flames"

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 lighted up by or as by fire or flame
• Words that mean the same thing: ablaze, alight, aflame
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AFIRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "59. Small advances ... or the progression suggested by the ends of 17-, 23-, 33-, 41- and 48-Across"

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: BABYSTEPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "62. Police trainee"

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 military trainee (as at a military academy)
• Words that mean the same thing: plebe
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CADET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "63. Convenience for withdrawing $$$"

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 unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
• Words that mean the same thing: atmosphere, automatic teller, standard atmosphere
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "64. Appear out of nowhere"

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: POPUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "65. Maples and myrtles"

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 tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
• Words that mean the same thing: corner, tree, Tree
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TREES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "66. Mattress's place"

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 piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
• Words that mean the same thing: layer, screw, make out
• The opposite would be: get up, turn out
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "67. Nervous about what's ahead"

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 nervous and unable to relax
• Words that mean the same thing: fidgety, fretful, itchy
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANTSY

  Great job if you got it right!

November 16, 2020 Down Hints: NYT Monday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Island group whose name is a brand of water	4
2D	2. Got an A on	4
3D	3. Metric weight, informally	4
4D	4. Slithery fish	3
5D	5. Thirsty	3
6D	6. Ill-defined shapes	5
7D	7. Misrepresent	5
8D	8. Fillies' counterparts	5
9D	9. Sirius ... or Lassie, for example?	7
10D	10. It was: Lat.	4
11D	11. Job for a cinematographer	10
12D	12. Didn't go out to a restaurant	5
13D	13. Some greenery on forest floors	5
14D	18. Give a drubbing	4
15D	23. Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!"	6
16D	24. Spanish gold	3
17D	25. Member of an early Andean civilization	4
18D	27. Field of Frida Kahlo or El Greco	3
19D	28. Coal deposit	4
20D	29. Shore phenomenon around the time of the new and full moons	10
21D	31. Tablecloth fabric	6
22D	33. School fund-raising org.	3
23D	34. "Ode on a Grecian ___"	3
24D	35. Action on eBay	3
25D	36. Score before 15, in tennis	4
26D	38. Lead-in to girl or boy	4
27D	40. Family man	3
28D	42. Scented bags	7
29D	43. Rap's ___ Wayne	3
30D	45. R-rated, say	4
31D	46. Put into law	5
32D	47. Succeed in life	5
33D	49. Shish ___	5
34D	50. Gladden	5
35D	51. Popular health info source	5
36D	53. First Nations group	4
37D	55. Shed tears	4
38D	56. Magnum ___	4
39D	57. Catch sight of	4
40D	60. Place to get a mani-pedi	3
41D	61. Truckload unit	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. Island group whose name is a brand of water"

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 an independent state within the british commonwealth located on the fiji islands
• Words that mean the same thing: Republic of Fiji
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FIJI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Got an A on"

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 succeed at easily
• Words that mean the same thing: breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Metric weight, informally"

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 one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the systeme international d'unites
• Words that mean the same thing: kilogram, kg
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KILO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Slithery fish"

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

  The answer is: EEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Thirsty"

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 reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
• Words that mean the same thing: wry, ironical, dry out
• The opposite would be: sweet, wet
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Ill-defined shapes"

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 indistinct shapeless form
• Words that mean the same thing: spot, blob, blot
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLOBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Misrepresent"

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 be in contradiction with
• Words that mean the same thing: negate, misrepresent, contradict
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BELIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Fillies' counterparts"

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 young male horse under the age of four
• Words that mean the same thing: colt, Colt
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: COLTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Sirius ... or Lassie, for example?"

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: DOGSTAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. It was: Lat."

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: ERAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Job for a cinematographer"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.

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: CAMERAWORK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Didn't go out to a restaurant"

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: ATEIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Some greenery on forest floors"

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 any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
• Words that mean the same thing: fern
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FERNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Give a drubbing"

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 disorderly crowd of people
• Words that mean the same thing: expel, spread-eagle, root
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "23. Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!""

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 roman lyric poet said to have influenced english poetry (65-8 bc)
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HORACE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Spanish gold"

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 17 Down: "25. Member of an early Andean civilization"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a ruler of the incas (or a member of his family)
• Words that mean the same thing: Incan, Inka
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INCA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Field of Frida Kahlo or El Greco"

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 products of human creativity; works of art collectively
• Words that mean the same thing: artwork, artistry, graphics
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ART

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Coal deposit"

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 joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
• Words that mean the same thing: crease, line, wrinkle
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "29. Shore phenomenon around the time of the new and full moons"

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 a swelling rush of anything
• The opposite would be: neap tide
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPRINGTIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "31. Tablecloth fabric"

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 table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DAMASK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. School fund-raising org."

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: PTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. "Ode on a Grecian ___""

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 vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: URN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "35. Action on eBay"

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 authoritative direction or instruction to do something
• Words that mean the same thing: press, entreat, tender
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "36. Score before 15, in tennis"

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 strong positive emotion of regard and affection
• Words that mean the same thing: screw, make out, dearest
• The opposite would be: hate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "38. Lead-in to girl or boy"

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: ATTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "40. Family man"

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 informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
• Words that mean the same thing: daddy, pa, papa
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. Scented bags"

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 small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest
• Words that mean the same thing: sachet
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SACHETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "43. Rap's ___ Wayne"

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: LIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. R-rated, say"

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 full of zest or vigor
• Words that mean the same thing: gamey, spicy, gamy
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RACY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Put into law"

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 order by virtue of superior authority; decree
• Words that mean the same thing: reenact, ordain, act out
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENACT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "47. Succeed in life"

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: GOFAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "49. Shish ___"

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 cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
• Words that mean the same thing: shish kebab, kabob
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KEBAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "50. Gladden"

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 fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
• Words that mean the same thing: lift up, intoxicate, uplift
• The opposite would be: depress
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "51. Popular health info source"

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: WEBMD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "53. First Nations group"

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 an algonquian people living in central canada
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CREE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "55. Shed tears"

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 shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
• Words that mean the same thing: weep, cry
• The opposite would be: laugh
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WEPT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "56. Magnum ___"

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 musical work that has been created
• Words that mean the same thing: piece of music, composition, piece
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OPUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "57. Catch sight of"

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 catch sight of
• Words that mean the same thing: spot, spy, descry
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ESPY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "60. Place to get a mani-pedi"

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 health resort near a spring or at the seaside
• Words that mean the same thing: health club, resort hotel, watering place
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "61. Truckload unit"

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 united states unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
• Words that mean the same thing: gross ton, long ton, short ton
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TON

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	55	70.5%
Short Answer	18	23.1%
Literature	1	1.3%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.3%
Abbreviation	1	1.3%
Movies/Film	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	37
Down Clues	41
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.7 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 Monday, 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!

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Last Updated: September 21, 2025 at 08:23 AM

Xwordhint Crossword Answers - August 11, 2025 | Today NYT Vibez

Published on Monday, August 11, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

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

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Improvises during a gig"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a berber living in northern morocco
• Similar words include: flick, riffle, Riffian
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIFFS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "6. Consider"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
• Similar words include: hold, take for, view as
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEEM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3A: "10. Workers alongside R.N.s"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DRS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4A: "13. Loved to bits"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that love intensely
• Similar words include: idolised, worshipped, adore
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADORED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5A: "15. "You are something ___!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELSE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6A: "16. "Yipes!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EEK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "17. Independence Day banger"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
• Similar words include: cracker, banger
• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FIRECRACKER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "19. Tuna type in a poke bowl"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AHI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9A: "20. Apt anagram of NOTE"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
• Similar words include: tone up, tincture, tint
• Opposite of: atonicity

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TONE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10A: "21. Tissue torn by some athletes, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11A: "22. "I couldn't ___ less""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
• Similar words include: concern, give care, handle
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CARE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12A: "24. Handle some personal baggage?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fill by packing tightly
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STOW

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13A: "25. Rush hour snarl"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TRAFFICJAM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14A: "29. Big gulp"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large and hurried swallow
• Similar words include: draft, draught, slog
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SWIG

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15A: "31. Great Lake with the most consumable 26-Down"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
• Similar words include: Lake Erie
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERIE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16A: "32. Dance in which the guest of honor is often raised in a chair"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HORA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 17A: "33. In good physical shape"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a display of bad temper
• Similar words include: burst, conniption, agree
• Opposite of: disagree, unfit

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FIT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18A: "35. "Cómo ___ usted?""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESTA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19A: "37. Channel with a call to order?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HSN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20A: "38. Lego piece in the shape of a person or animal"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MINIFIG

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 21A: "42. Warm greeting to a spouse or partner"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HIHONEY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22A: "44. Chowed down"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Similar words include: eat, consume, deplete
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23A: "45. Herbal refreshments"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
• Similar words include: tea, Camellia sinensis, afternoon tea
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEAS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24A: "47. Actor Levy of "Schitt's Creek""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DAN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 25A: "48. Actor Damon of the "Bourne" movies"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
• Similar words include: matted, matte, flat
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MATT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 26A: "50. ___ Way, block in Lower Manhattan where a popular cookie originated"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
• Similar words include: oreo cookie
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OREO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 27A: "52. Religious faction"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a subdivision of a larger religious group
• Similar words include: religious order, religious sect, faction
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SECT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 28A: "55. Recipient of two Golden Globe Best Actress nominations for Netflix's "GLOW""

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALISONBRIE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 29A: "58. Dry, like Champagne"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (of champagne) extremely dry
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRUT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30A: "60. Some hoppy brews, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IPAS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 31A: "61. Thickness of wood or paper"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
• Similar words include: provide, supply, run
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PLY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 32A: "62. Yesteryear"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that time long past
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YORE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33A: "63. ___ Paulo, Brazil"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 34A: "64. Cocktail party staple that may contain the ends of 17-, 25-, 38-, 42- and 55-Across"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tray on which cheeses are served
• Similar words include: cheese tray
• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHEESEBOARD

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 35A: "68. Tonsil-examining M.D."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 36A: "69. Astronomically long time"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the supreme being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
• Similar words include: eon
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AEON

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 37A: "70. Completed an alley-oop"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
• Similar words include: dip, plunge, douse
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DUNKED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 38A: "71. Total jerk"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: fuck, butt, arse
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 39A: "72. This is not working!"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something left after other parts have been taken away
• Similar words include: lie, rest period, sleep
• Opposite of: change, be active

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 40A: "73. Short-tempered"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that easily irritated or annoyed
• Similar words include: pettish, petulant, fractious
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TESTY

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Vessels that may be propelled with poles"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large number or amount
• Similar words include: gobs, dozens, mint
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RAFTS

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🧩 2D: "2. "Complete ___ Guides" (how-to series)"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person of subnormal intelligence
• Similar words include: imbecile, cretin, idiot
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: IDIOTS

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🧩 3D: "3. "Unless something changes …""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: FORNOW

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🧩 4D: "4. Typical hotel or library amenity"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: FREEWIFI

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🧩 5D: "5. One of 60 in a min."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the systeme international d'unites
• Similar words include: s, second, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SEC

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🧩 6D: "6. State with certainty"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that state emphatically and authoritatively
• Similar words include: announce, hold, adjudge
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: DECLARE

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🧩 7D: "7. Reindeer relative"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
• Similar words include: Alces alces, European elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ELK

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🧩 8D: "8. WNW's opposite"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
• Similar words include: east southeast
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ESE

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🧩 9D: "9. Gracias : Spanish :: ___ : French"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: MERCI

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🧩 10D: "10. Salutation in a breakup letter"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: DEARJOHN

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🧩 11D: "11. Practice for opening night"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that engage in a rehearsal (of)
• Similar words include: practise, practice
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: REHEARSE

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🧩 12D: "12. Bit of Winter Olympics gear"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SKI

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🧩 13D: "14. "Shucks!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: DRAT

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🧩 14D: "18. 43,560 square feet"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
• Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ACRE

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🧩 15D: "23. German cry of annoyance"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ACH

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🧩 16D: "26. See 31-Across"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
• Similar words include: Pisces the Fishes, angle, Pisces
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: FISH

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🧩 17D: "27. Stinking to high heaven"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that offensively malodorous
• Similar words include: funky, smelly, stinking
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: FETID

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🧩 18D: "28. Quite a few"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
• Opposite of: few
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MANY

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🧩 19D: "30. Special talent"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something acquired without compensation
• Similar words include: endowment, giving, give
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: GIFT

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🧩 20D: "34. Attach with string"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TIEON

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🧩 21D: "36. Sounds of realization"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AHAS

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🧩 22D: "38. Parental term that is phonetically more difficult to say than "dada""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that informal terms for a mother
• Similar words include: mammy, mamma, mum
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MAMA

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🧩 23D: "39. Citizens of Venice and Verona"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or inhabitant of italy
• Similar words include: Italian
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: ITALIANS

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🧩 24D: "40. Nasal irrigation devices"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: NETIPOTS

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🧩 25D: "41. Attire"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
• Similar words include: garment, enclothe, fit out
• Opposite of: undress

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Answer: GARB

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🧩 26D: "43. In single file"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: ONEBYONE

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🧩 27D: "46. Craftiest animal in the Garden of Eden"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
• Similar words include: ophidian, snake
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: SERPENT

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🧩 28D: "49. PreCheck org."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
• Similar words include: Transportation Security Administration
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: TSA

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🧩 29D: "51. Deep fryer liquids"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
• Similar words include: inunct, anele, fossil oil
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OILS

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🧩 30D: "53. Chorus from frogs"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
• Similar words include: pass away, murmur, pop off
• Opposite of: be born

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Answer: CROAKS

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🧩 31D: "54. Small tower on a castle"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small tower extending above a building
• Similar words include: gun turret, gun enclosure
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TURRET

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🧩 32D: "56. Muppet who lives in a trash can"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an annual award by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
• Similar words include: Academy Award
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OSCAR

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🧩 33D: "57. Gave a look"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination
• Similar words include: eye, eyeball
• Opposite of: eyeless

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Answer: EYED

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🧩 34D: "59. Stereotypical name for a stuffed bear"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials)
• Similar words include: shimmy, shift, teddy bear
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TEDDY

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🧩 35D: "63. ___ of Galilee"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
• Similar words include: ocean
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SEA

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🧩 36D: "65. Tee-___ (giggle)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HEE

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🧩 37D: "66. Dawn goddess"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EOS

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🧩 38D: "67. Conjunction that might start an objection"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that and nothing more
• Similar words include: only, merely, just
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BUT

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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38 Down Clues

78 Total Clues

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