July 30, 2024 Crosswords - CrosswordHints Blog
Welcome to NYT Puzzle and answers. The New York Times Crossword is one of the most popular puzzles. Here are the clues and answers for today's puzzle
NYT Crosswords
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. Sluglike "Star Wars" bad guy - Show Answer
JABBA
(5 letters)
- 6. Man, on the Isle of Man - Show Answer
BLOKE
(5 letters)
Synonyms: gent, bloke, cuss, chap, fellow, lad, blighter, fella, feller
- 11. Number cruncher, for short - Show Answer
CPA
(3 letters)
Synonyms: certified_public_accountant, CPA
- 14. Garlicky sauce - Show Answer
AIOLI
(5 letters)
Synonyms: garlic_sauce, aioli_sauce, aioli
- 15. Certain bib wearer - Show Answer
RACER
(5 letters)
Synonyms: automobile_driver, racing_car, race_car, racer, race_driver
- 16. Played the first card - Show Answer
LED
(3 letters)
Synonyms: lead, conduct, top, light-emitting_diode, LED, precede, leave, contribute, head, go, take, extend, conduce, chair, run, moderate, pass, direct, result, guide
Antonyms: follow
- 17. Television pro - Show Answer
BROADCASTER
(11 letters)
Synonyms: spreader, broadcaster
- 19. "... ___ lack thereof" - Show Answer
ORA
(3 letters)
Synonyms: osmium, oculus_sinister, os, bone, Os, OS, operating_system, atomic_number_76
- 20. Passionately discuss minutiae, with "out" - Show Answer
NERD
(4 letters)
Synonyms: swot, grind, dweeb, nerd, wonk
- 21. Bares one's soul - Show Answer
OPENSUP
(7 letters)
- 23. Expose the vulnerabilities of, in a way - Show Answer
HACK
(4 letters)
Synonyms: chop, plug, literary_hack, hack_on, ward-heeler, whoop, taxi, nag, hacker, cut, hack_writer, cab, cut_up, jade, drudge, hack, political_hack, taxicab, machine_politician
- 26. Each - Show Answer
APOP
(4 letters)
- 28. Benjamin Franklin, by religious philosophy - Show Answer
DEIST
(5 letters)
Synonyms: freethinker, deistic, deist
- 29. Grandchild of Adam and Eve - Show Answer
ENOS
(4 letters)
- 30. Copy - Show Answer
MIMIC
(5 letters)
Synonyms: mimic, mimicker, mime
- 32. The first two digits of every Brooklyn ZIP code - Show Answer
ONES
(4 letters)
Synonyms: one, single, I, 1, ace, unity
- 33. Cable channel with its own awards show - Show Answer
MTV
(3 letters)
- 34. Goes (for) - Show Answer
OPTS
(4 letters)
Synonyms: opt, prefer, choose
- 35. Like T.S.A. lines on holiday weekends - Show Answer
LONG
(4 letters)
Synonyms: foresightful, farseeing, long, longsighted, retentive, recollective, farsighted, hanker, foresighted, tenacious, yearn, prospicient
Antonyms: short, unretentive
- 37. Overlook, as a flaw - Show Answer
SEEPAST
(7 letters)
- 39. Eat plenty of - Show Answer
FEASTON
(7 letters)
- 42. Video streaming giant - Show Answer
ROKU
(4 letters)
- 43. Fly high - Show Answer
SOAR
(4 letters)
Synonyms: hang_glide, sailplane, zoom, soar, soar_up, soar_upwards, surge
- 44. N.Y.S.E. debut - Show Answer
IPO
(3 letters)
Synonyms: initial_offering, initial_public_offering, IPO
- 45. Shaving cut - Show Answer
NICK
(4 letters)
Synonyms: chip, nick, ding, notch, gouge, dent, snick
- 47. Downright - Show Answer
PLAIN
(5 letters)
Synonyms: sound_off, sheer, kvetch, unmixed, manifest, unvarnished, apparently, evidently, unmistakable, unembellished, knit, plainly, complain, patent, patently, plain_stitch, kick, field, obviously, champaign, homely, knit_stitch, bare, spare, evident, unmingled, manifestly, quetch, unpatterned, unornamented, plain, apparent
Antonyms: fancy, cheer, patterned
- 49. Full of oneself - Show Answer
SMUG
(4 letters)
Synonyms: self-satisfied, smug
- 50. Aftereffects from working out - Show Answer
ACHES
(5 letters)
Synonyms: suffer, ache, languish, aching, hurt, smart, yen, yearn, pine
- 52. C.F.O. or C.I.O - Show Answer
EXEC
(4 letters)
Synonyms: White_House, EXEC
- 53. Currency of Colombia - Show Answer
PESO
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Cuban_peso, Chilean_peso, peso, Mexican_peso, Uruguayan_peso, Dominican_peso, Philippine_peso, Colombian_peso, Guinea-Bissau_peso
- 54. Strong squeeze - Show Answer
BEARHUG
(7 letters)
- 56. Rave (about) - Show Answer
GUSH
(4 letters)
Synonyms: ebullition, outpouring, jet, outburst, spout, effusion, blowup, flush, gush, rave, spirt, spurt
- 58. Where shots are taken - Show Answer
BAR
(3 letters)
Synonyms: banish, measure, exclude, cake, blockade, barroom, legal_profession, stop, Browning_automatic_rifle, BAR, block_up, prevention, ginmill, relegate, bar, block_off, block, taproom, barricade, debar, saloon, streak, legal_community, stripe
Antonyms: unbar
- 59. Song from "The Little Mermaid" that's a phonetic hint to interpreting the answers to the starred clues - Show Answer
UNDERTHESEA
(11 letters)
- 64. Part of a which-came-first debate - Show Answer
EGG
(3 letters)
Synonyms: bollock, orchis, ballock, testicle, ball, eggs, testis, nut, egg
- 65. Pageant accessory - Show Answer
TIARA
(5 letters)
Synonyms: tiara
- 66. Straightens things out, say - Show Answer
IRONS
(5 letters)
Synonyms: smoothing_iron, iron_out, irons, Fe, chains, iron, atomic_number_26, branding_iron, press
- 67. Discussion starter? - Show Answer
DEE
(3 letters)
- 68. Afflictions that rhyme with the body parts they're found in - Show Answer
STYES
(5 letters)
Synonyms: stye, sty, hordeolum, eye_infection
- 69. Isn't settled - Show Answer
PENDS
(5 letters)
Down Clues and Answers:
- 1. Vaccine, informally - Show Answer
JAB
(3 letters)
Synonyms: thrusting, poke, prod, jabbing, thrust, dig, stab, poking, jab
- 2. Word with France or Force - Show Answer
AIR
(3 letters)
Synonyms: publicize, melody, gentle_wind, publicise, aerate, air_out, air_travel, line, atmosphere, breeze, send, aura, ventilate, air, melodic_phrase, bare, vent, airwave, transmit, zephyr, beam, melodic_line, aviation, tune, strain, broadcast
- 3. What it would be a mistake to write twice? - Show Answer
BOO
(3 letters)
Synonyms: snort, boo, hoot, Bronx_cheer, razz, razzing, bird, raspberry, hiss
Antonyms: applaud
- 4. Valuable Scrabble tiles - Show Answer
BLANKS
(6 letters)
Synonyms: dummy, blank, blank_shell, lacuna, space
- 5. Right hand, so to speak - Show Answer
AIDE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: auxiliary, aide-de-camp, adjutant, aide
- 6. Actor in "12 Years a Slave" and "12 Monkeys" - Show Answer
BRADPITT
(8 letters)
- 7. ___ Cruces, N.M. - Show Answer
LAS
(3 letters)
Synonyms: atomic_number_57, la, La, Louisiana, lah, lanthanum, LA, Pelican_State
- 8. Ocean creatures with three hearts - Show Answer
OCTOPI
(6 letters)
Synonyms: octopus, devilfish
- 9. Label for a box during a household purge - Show Answer
KEEP
(4 letters)
Synonyms: keep_on, sustain, livelihood, living, proceed, keep, hold, hold_on, bread_and_butter, support, donjon, maintain, dungeon, observe, continue, sustenance, go_along, keep_back, keep_open, restrain, prevent, go_on, hold_open, celebrate, retain, stay_fresh, hold_back, preserve, save
Antonyms: let, discontinue, lose, break
- 10. Messed up - Show Answer
ERRED
(5 letters)
Synonyms: stray, slip, drift, err, mistake
- 11. *Not moving fast enough - Show Answer
CLOSINGTIME
(11 letters)
- 12. Read over - Show Answer
PERUSE
(6 letters)
Synonyms: peruse
- 13. Gets used to new surroundings - Show Answer
ADAPTS
(6 letters)
Synonyms: adapt, adjust, conform, accommodate
- 18. *Increases sharply - Show Answer
CRAMPSUP
(8 letters)
- 22. Highlighter colors, usually - Show Answer
NEONS
(5 letters)
Synonyms: neon, Ne, atomic_number_10
- 23. Traps, with "in" - Show Answer
HEMS
(4 letters)
Synonyms: hem, ahem
- 24. Before: Prefix - Show Answer
ANTE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: ante
- 25. *Rip off - Show Answer
COVERCHARGE
(11 letters)
- 27. Meditation mantras - Show Answer
OMS
(3 letters)
- 31. *Like 10%-fat beef - Show Answer
CLEANCUT
(8 letters)
- 34. Wood used to age brandy - Show Answer
OAK
(3 letters)
Synonyms: oak_tree, oak
- 36. Boat propeller - Show Answer
OAR
(3 letters)
Synonyms: oar
- 38. ___ face - Show Answer
POKER
(5 letters)
Synonyms: salamander, poker_game, poker, stove_poker, fire_hook
- 39. Duck delicacy - Show Answer
FOIEGRAS
(8 letters)
- 40. Great work - Show Answer
OPUS
(4 letters)
Synonyms: opus, piece, musical_composition, piece_of_music, composition
- 41. Something that's not going to happen - Show Answer
NOGO
(4 letters)
- 43. Bill Clinton's is displayed at the Smithsonian, for short - Show Answer
SAX
(3 letters)
Synonyms: saxophone, Adolphe_Sax, sax, Sax
- 45. Caught - Show Answer
NABBED
(6 letters)
Synonyms: apprehend, nab, collar, arrest, pick_up, cop, nail
- 46. Time when glaciers form - Show Answer
ICEAGE
(6 letters)
- 48. Gym session devoted to squats, dead lifts, etc. - Show Answer
LEGDAY
(6 letters)
- 49. It's a ball - Show Answer
SPHERE
(6 letters)
Synonyms: heavens, vault_of_heaven, sphere, firmament, arena, celestial_sphere, empyrean, domain, orbit, sector, sphere_of_influence, field, welkin, area
- 51. Powers (down) - Show Answer
SHUTS
(5 letters)
Synonyms: exclude, close, shut_out, shut, keep_out
Antonyms: admit, open
- 55. Textbook section - Show Answer
UNIT
(4 letters)
Synonyms: whole, unit_of_measurement, unit, building_block, social_unit
- 57. Tanker, e.g. - Show Answer
SHIP
(4 letters)
Synonyms: ship, transport, embark, send
Antonyms: disembark
- 60. Before, poetically - Show Answer
ERE
(3 letters)
- 61. "Mushnik & ___" ("Little Shop of Horrors" song) - Show Answer
SON
(3 letters)
Synonyms: son, Logos, boy, Word, Son
Antonyms: daughter, girl
- 62. Extra-crusty piece of bread - Show Answer
END
(3 letters)
Synonyms: goal, closing, stop, end, finish, terminate, final_stage, ending, remnant, remainder, close, death, oddment, terminal, destruction, conclusion, last, cease
Antonyms: begin, beginning
- 63. Bad thing to make of oneself - Show Answer
ASS
(3 letters)
Synonyms: stern, tooshie, American_Samoa, posterior, fucking, derriere, ass, butt, arse, roll_in_the_hay, hind_end, As, fanny, behind, bum, backside, tail, keister, fundament, buttocks, piece_of_ass, seat, buns, rear_end, nookie, nooky, nates, rear, screwing, Eastern_Samoa, rump, prat, tush, bottom, shag, atomic_number_33, can, piece_of_tail, shtup, AS, screw, tail_end, fuck, arsenic, hindquarters
