0907 NYT Crossword: September 07, 2024 | Puzzle Breakdown

NYT Crossword September 07, 2024 Puzzle Breakdown: Your Complete Guide

Here are the puzzles for New York Times Crossword of September 07, 2024 which brings another set of fun and enticing clues and questions. Below are the explanations for the across and down clues which will assist you in completing today’s puzzle.

Breakdown of the NYT Crossword September 07, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Labor tactic. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: LAMAZE




• The clue is 7. Ding-dong. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: DOOFUS

  Possible Answer : nitwit, half-wit, doofus, dimwit




• The clue is 13. Etymologists' interests. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ORIGINS

  Possible Answer : blood_line, bloodline, origin, extraction, ancestry, stemma, blood, pedigree, line_of_descent, rootage, root, origination, parentage, line, source, stock, descent, beginning, lineage, inception




• The clue is 15. Out-of-the-blue. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ABRUPT

  Possible Answer : sharp, precipitous, abrupt, disconnected




• The clue is 16. Family inheritance?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: GENEPOOL




• The clue is 18. Give temporarily. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: LOANTO




• The clue is 19. Signs up for. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: JOINS

  Possible Answer : sum, bring_together, unite, fall_in, articulation, get_together, joint, juncture, connect, union, link, conjoin, link_up, join, junction

  Possible Opposite Answer : disjoin




• The clue is 20. Apologue. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: FABLE

  Possible Answer : parable, apologue, fable, fiction, legend, allegory, fabrication




• The clue is 22. Cool off, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: FAN

  Possible Answer : fan, winnow, sports_fan, rooter, buff, lover, devotee




• The clue is 23. Scores. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ALOT




• The clue is 24. How someone might be in love. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MADLY

  Possible Answer : dementedly, deucedly, insanely, frantically, devilishly, crazily, deadly, madly

  Possible Opposite Answer : sanely




• The clue is 25. Tesla, for one. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: MAKE

  Possible Answer : score, relieve_oneself, draw, crap, progress_to, reach, defecate, piss, pull_in, make, stimulate, puddle, cause, work, realize, pee, make_water, have, attain, construct, form, hold, make_up, constitute, ca-ca, earn, clear, fix, do, cook, produce, ready, name, lay_down, urinate, get_to, shuffle, build, bring_in, make_believe, shit, spend_a_penny, shuffling, get, hit, piddle, give, pass_water, gain, micturate, nominate, establish, seduce, realise, pretend, stool, take_a_shit, prepare, wee, arrive_at, brand, take, wee-wee, create, induce, throw, pee-pee, take_a_crap, take_in, take_a_leak

  Possible Opposite Answer : break, unmake




• The clue is 26. "I mean, come on!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: MAN

  Possible Answer : human_beings, valet_de_chambre, serviceman, man, gentleman's_gentleman, human_being, humanity, military_man, humankind, valet, military_personnel, mankind, humans, Isle_of_Man, homo, piece, human_race, world, adult_male, gentleman, human, Man

  Possible Opposite Answer : civilian, woman




• The clue is 27. Pain ___ (French toast, in French). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PERDU




• The clue is 28. Like soffritto ingredients. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DICED

  Possible Answer : cube, dice




• The clue is 29. Deep fears?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: SEASERPENTS




• The clue is 31. Methods for sharing pirated material. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: BITTORRENTS




• The clue is 32. Details. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: NITTYGRITTY




• The clue is 33. One of the Goonies in "The Goonies". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MIKEY




• The clue is 34. It might be fluid. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: OUNCE

  Possible Answer : ounce, Panthera_uncia, troy_ounce, snow_leopard, apothecaries'_ounce, oz.




• The clue is 35. Mediocre, in modern slang. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: MID

  Possible Answer : mid




• The clue is 38. Whizzes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ACES

  Possible Answer : ace, genius, adept, star, mavin, unity, sail_through, virtuoso, whizz, nail, champion, angiotensin-converting_enzyme, sweep_through, superstar, whiz, angiotensin_converting_enzyme, I, breeze_through, maven, sensation, single, ACE, 1, wiz, one, wizard, Allied_Command_Europe, hotshot, pass_with_flying_colors




• The clue is 39. Word in two African country names. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: CONGO

  Possible Answer : Zaire_River, Belgian_Congo, French_Congo, English_breakfast_tea, Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo, Congo, Congo_River, congo, Zaire, congou_tea, congou, Republic_of_the_Congo




• The clue is 40. Somewhat, musically. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: POCO




• The clue is 41. Poivre go-with. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: SEL




• The clue is 42. Videographer's words before recording, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ANDGO




• The clue is 43. Pass it on!. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BATON

  Possible Answer : truncheon, billy, nightstick, billy_club, baton, billystick, wand




• The clue is 44. Reach, as new heights. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SOARTO




• The clue is 46. Sporting venue also known as a dohyo. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: SUMORING




• The clue is 48. Fast-food chain with palm trees on its packaging. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: INNOUT




• The clue is 49. First word in the opening crawl for "Star Wars: Episode I". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: TURMOIL

  Possible Answer : convulsion, agitation, excitement, hullabaloo, tumult, upheaval, turmoil




• The clue is 50. Weak. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: FEEBLE

  Possible Answer : rickety, debile, nerveless, faint, lame, weakly, infirm, decrepit, weak, feeble, sapless




• The clue is 51. Where you might say "That's the spirit!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SEANCE

  Possible Answer : session, sitting, seance

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Impasse. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: LOGJAM

  Possible Answer: logjam

• The clue is 2. Iris feature. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: AREOLA

  Possible Answer: areola, ring_of_color

• The clue is 3. Flunky. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: MINION

  Possible Answer: minion

• The clue is 4. One running the showing, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: AGENT

  Possible Answer: federal_agent, agent, broker, factor, agentive_role

• The clue is 5. Whizzes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ZIPS

  Possible Answer: zero, zippo, postcode, postal_code, nothing, energy, zip_fastener, zilch, travel_rapidly, aught, goose_egg, vigor, cipher, zipper, nada, ZIP_code, cypher, nil, null, ZIP, hurry, slide_fastener, naught, nix, zip_up, speed, zip, vigour

  Possible Opposite Answer : unzip

• The clue is 6. Experimental music documentary of 2024. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ENO

• The clue is 7. Move slowly. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DALLY

  Possible Answer: philander, dally, romance, chat_up, flirt, play, toy, coquet, coquette, mash, butterfly, dawdle, trifle

• The clue is 8. Relative of a heckelphone. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: OBOE

  Possible Answer: hautboy, oboe, hautbois

• The clue is 9. "Se Non ___, Quando?" (Primo Levi novel whose title translates to "If not now, when?"). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ORA

  Possible Answer: os, osmium, bone, oculus_sinister, operating_system, Os, OS, atomic_number_76

• The clue is 10. Trivia worth learning. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: FUNFACTS

• The clue is 11. Moments of comprehension, in an idiom. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: UPTAKES

  Possible Answer: intake, ingestion, uptake, consumption

• The clue is 12. High. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: STONED

  Possible Answer: stoned, stone, pit, lapidate, hopped-up

• The clue is 14. "Everything's coming along great!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: SOFARSOGOOD

• The clue is 17. Levels of corporate hierarchy, so to speak. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: LADDERRUNGS

• The clue is 21. Censoring, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: BLURRINGOUT

• The clue is 24. Like material you can sink your teeth into. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MEATY

  Possible Answer: substantive, meaty

  Possible Opposite Answer : meatless

• The clue is 25. Like mojitos. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MINTY

  Possible Answer: minty

• The clue is 27. Small-minded. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PETTY

  Possible Answer: fiddling, niggling, subaltern, lowly, piddling, junior-grade, petit_larceny, small-minded, footling, picayune, little, petty, petty_larceny, lower-ranking, secondary, trivial, lilliputian, piffling

  Possible Opposite Answer : grand_larceny

• The clue is 28. Sausage grinder in Italy?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DENTE

• The clue is 29. Listings on a blogroll. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SITES

  Possible Answer: web_site, model, place, ride, baby-sit, sit_around, sit_down, pose, posture, site, land_site, sit, seat, internet_site, website, locate, situation

  Possible Opposite Answer : stand, arise

• The clue is 30. Competitor of Chewy. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PETCO

• The clue is 31. Stretch near a shoulder, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: BIKELANE

• The clue is 32. "Zing!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: NICEONE

• The clue is 33. Mountain grouping. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: MASSIF

  Possible Answer: massif

• The clue is 35. Courtroom request. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: MOTION

  Possible Answer: gesticulate, motion, movement, apparent_motion, apparent_movement, gesture, motility, question, move

  Possible Opposite Answer : motionlessness

• The clue is 36. Seriously memorable. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ICONIC

  Possible Answer: iconic

• The clue is 37. Computer accessory. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: DONGLE

  Possible Answer: dongle

• The clue is 39. Big bill, casually. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: CNOTE

• The clue is 40. City famous for its ham and cheese. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PARMA

• The clue is 42. Surgeon/writer Gawande. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ATUL

• The clue is 43. Drill. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: BORE

  Possible Answer: assume, stomach, calibre, bear, acquit, aegir, have_a_bun_in_the_oven, gestate, suffer, eagre, tire, drill_hole, abide, eager, tidal_bore, support, have, stick_out, dullard, hold, brook, behave, conduct, take_over, stand, bore, caliber, give_birth, wear, deport, contain, digest, endure, yield, put_up, tolerate, deliver, gauge, pay, drill, accept, carry, expect, turn_out, birth, comport, bore-hole

  Possible Opposite Answer : interest

• The clue is 45. Deprive (of). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ROB

  Possible Answer: surcharge, gazump, rob, fleece, soak, pluck, hook, overcharge, plume

  Possible Opposite Answer : undercharge

• The clue is 47. Some fraternity letters. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: MUS

  Possible Answer: mu, genus_Mus, Mus

October 21, 2023 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (30 clues)
• Down Clues (36 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 66 (30 Across, 36 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.8 letters

Across Clues Explained - Saturday NYT Crossword October 21, 2023

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Stores with fixed costs?	11
2A	12. What might be sought before a major decision	13
3A	14. 1998 rap hit by Big Pun (feat. Joe)	15
4A	16. Shortcut, of a sort	5
5A	17. Like many attics	5
6A	18. N.C.A.A. women's basketball champs of 2023, for short	3
7A	19. Settled	4
8A	20. Modern way to pay	5
9A	21. ___ Domino	4
10A	22. Son of, in Hebrew	3
11A	23. Ships	5
12A	24. Some beach fliers	5
13A	25. Chick with multiple Grammys	5
14A	26. World Trade ___ (fixture of Hong Kong or Toronto)	6
15A	27. Trading off?	7
16A	30. Least robust-looking	7
17A	31. "Get it?"	6
18A	32. Cancels	5
19A	33. Word often accompanied by an arrow	5
20A	34. Haka dance performers	5
21A	35. Home, spun?	3
22A	38. A bunch	4
23A	39. Astronaut Cooper, informally	5
24A	40. Cocktail fruta	4
25A	41. Corp. debut	3
26A	42. Kind of badge	5
27A	43. Coastal formations	5
28A	44. Reprimand to one who spoke too soon	15
29A	47. Nonessential, as spending	13
30A	48. "I HAVE to have this — whatever it costs"	11

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. Stores with fixed costs?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: REPAIRSHOPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "12. What might be sought before a major decision"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 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: SECONDOPINION

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "14. 1998 rap hit by Big Pun (feat. Joe)"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: STILLNOTAPLAYER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Shortcut, of a sort"

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 (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
• Words that mean the same thing: duct, canalize, epithelial duct
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CANAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Like many attics"

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 covered with or smelling of mold
• Words that mean the same thing: fusty, frowsty, moldy
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MUSTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. N.C.A.A. women's basketball champs of 2023, for short"

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: LSU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Settled"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ALIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Modern way to pay"

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: VENMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. ___ Domino"

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 soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
• Words that mean the same thing: avoirdupois, blubber, fatten
• The opposite would be: leanness
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FATS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Son of, in Hebrew"

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

  The answer is: BEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Ships"

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 go somewhere
• Words that mean the same thing: send off, transmit, ship
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SENDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Some beach fliers"

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 bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
• Words that mean the same thing: kit, kit up, kit 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: KITES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Chick with multiple Grammys"

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: COREA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. World Trade ___ (fixture of Hong Kong or Toronto)"

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 low-lying region in central france
• Words that mean the same thing: centre of attention, marrow, pore
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CENTRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "27. Trading off?"

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 a government order imposing a trade barrier
• Words that mean the same thing: trade embargo, trade stoppage
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EMBARGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. Least robust-looking"

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 (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
• Words that mean the same thing: wan, pallid, pale
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WANNEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "31. "Get it?""

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: YOUSEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "32. Cancels"

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 the state of nonexistence
• Words that mean the same thing: nullify, nihility, invalidate
• The opposite would be: validate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VOIDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "33. Word often accompanied by an arrow"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that to come or go into
• Words that mean the same thing: embark, introduce, go in
• The opposite would be: drop out, exit
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "34. Haka dance performers"

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 ethnic minority of polynesian and melanesian descent who speak maori and live in new zealand
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAORI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "35. Home, spun?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
• Words that mean the same thing: net, vane, WWW
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WEB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "38. A bunch"

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 large number or amount
• Words that mean the same thing: raft, draw, shell 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: LOTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "39. Astronaut Cooper, 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: GORDO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "40. Cocktail fruta"

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: PINA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "41. Corp. debut"

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 corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
• Words that mean the same thing: initial public offering, initial offering
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IPO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "42. Kind of badge"

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 admirable quality or attribute
• Words that mean the same thing: deserve, deservingness, virtue
• The opposite would be: demerit
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MERIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "43. Coastal formations"

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 ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans
• Words that mean the same thing: dune, frustrate, torment
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DUNES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "44. Reprimand to one who spoke too soon"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DONTINTERRUPTME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "47. Nonessential, as spending"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment
• Words that mean the same thing: discretional
• The word looks like this: _____________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DISCRETIONARY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "48. "I HAVE to have this — whatever it costs""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TAKEMYMONEY

  Great job if you got it right!

October 21, 2023 Saturday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Curb, as spending	6
2D	2. Sparkle	5
3D	3. Sample, say	4
4D	4. ___ Radcliffe, pioneer in Gothic fiction	3
5D	5. 1781 Mozart opera seria	8
6D	6. Jeffersonian design at the heart of the University of Virginia	7
7D	7. Some contractions	6
8D	8. Aware of, informally	5
9D	9. Sole	4
10D	10. ___ mater	3
11D	11. Vegan coffee order	8
12D	12. Lacking creativity	5
13D	13. Ones who build their homes bit by bit	7
14D	14. One crossing the line?	4
15D	15. Autumn hue	6
16D	20. Cusp	5
17D	21. Many Laplanders	5
18D	23. More irritated	5
19D	24. Ibram X. ___, author of "How to Be an Antiracist"	5
20D	25. Concerns for a linguist	5
21D	26. City with the oldest metro system in Africa	5
22D	27. Blinker	6
23D	28. Tech support?	7
24D	29. "Shut your pie hole!"	8
25D	30. Feature of a Craftsman home	8
26D	32. Magazine that originated the words "payola" and "striptease"	7
27D	34. Post-___	6
28D	35. Bleak	6
29D	36. "Man has no greater ___ than himself": Petrarch	5
30D	37. Foundation	4
31D	39. Mystery, e.g.	5
32D	40. Ones going through a stage	5
33D	42. Bandmate of Keith and Brian	4
34D	43. Country duo Brooks & ___	4
35D	45. Inspection org.	3
36D	46. Joey of children's literature	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. Curb, as spending"

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: REININ

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Sparkle"

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 enthusiastic approval
• Words that mean the same thing: plaudit, acclaim, plaudits
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ECLAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Sample, 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 an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
• Words that mean the same thing: pate, pollard, poll parrot
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POLL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. ___ Radcliffe, pioneer in Gothic fiction"

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: ANN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. 1781 Mozart opera seria"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard 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: IDOMENEO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Jeffersonian design at the heart of the University of Virginia"

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 a building having a circular plan and a dome
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROTUNDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Some contractions"

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 painful and involuntary muscular contraction
• Words that mean the same thing: spasm, muscle spasm, cramp
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPASMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Aware of, informally"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: HIPTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Sole"

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 being the only one; single and isolated from others
• Words that mean the same thing: only when, merely, lonesome
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ONLY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. ___ mater"

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 perennial herb of east indies to polynesia and australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding otaheite arrowroot starch
• Words that mean the same thing: Indian arrowroot, Tacca pinnatifida, Tacca leontopetaloides
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Vegan coffee order"

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: SOYLATTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Lacking creativity"

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 urinate, of cattle and horses
• Words that mean the same thing: moth-eaten, dusty, cold
• The opposite would be: fresh
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STALE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Ones who build their homes bit by bit"

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 someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
• Words that mean the same thing: squatter, nester, homesteader
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NESTERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. One crossing the line?"

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 someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
• Words that mean the same thing: fink, strikebreaker, blackleg
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "15. Autumn hue"

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

  The answer is: RUSSET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "20. Cusp"

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 region marking a boundary
• Words that mean the same thing: sceptre, threshold, wand
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VERGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "21. Many Laplanders"

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 native or inhabitant of finland
• Words that mean the same thing: Finn
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FINNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "23. More irritated"

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 causing misery or pain or distress
• Words that mean the same thing: painful, raw, huffy
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SORER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "24. Ibram X. ___, author of "How to Be an Antiracist""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: KENDI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "25. Concerns for a linguist"

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 occurrence of something
• Words that mean the same thing: causa, eccentric, typeface
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CASES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "26. City with the oldest metro system in Africa"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a town at the southern tip of illinois at the confluence of the ohio and mississippi rivers
• Words that mean the same thing: El Qahira, Al Qahira, Egyptian capital
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAIRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "27. Blinker"

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 either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
• Words that mean the same thing: lid, palpebra
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EYELID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "28. Tech support?"

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: MONOPOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "29. "Shut your pie hole!""

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: BUTTONIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "30. Feature of a Craftsman home"

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: WOODTRIM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "32. Magazine that originated the words "payola" and "striptease""

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 a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
• Words that mean the same thing: salmagundi, kind, change
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VARIETY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "34. Post-___"

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: MORTEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "35. Bleak"

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 characteristic of or occurring in winter
• Words that mean the same thing: frozen, wintery, frigid
• The opposite would be: vernal
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WINTRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "36. "Man has no greater ___ than himself": Petrarch"

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 an opposing military force
• Words that mean the same thing: foe, foeman, opposition
• The opposite would be: friend
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENEMY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "37. Foundation"

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 installation from which a military force initiates operations
• Words that mean the same thing: base of operations, understructure, 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: BASE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "39. Mystery, e.g."

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: musical 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 32 Down: "40. Ones going through a stage"

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 insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
• Words that mean the same thing: pupa
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PUPAE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "42. Bandmate of Keith and Brian"

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 (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of irish descent
• Words that mean the same thing: Paddy, Mickey
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MICK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "43. Country duo Brooks & ___"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DUNN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "45. Inspection org."

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 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 36 Down: "46. Joey of children's literature"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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: ROO

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	53	80.3%
Short Answer	6	9.1%
History	3	4.5%
Geography	2	3.0%
Abbreviation	1	1.5%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	30
Down Clues	36
Total Clues	66
Average Answer Length	5.8 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Saturday, 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: August 30, 2025 at 03:32 AM

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints - July 12, 2025 | XWordHint Today Vibez

Published on Saturday, July 12, 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.

July 12, 2025 | XWordHint Today Trends & Vibez

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Medium

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (36 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. "That was fun!""

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WHATABLAST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "11. Actress Diana of "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIGG

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3A: "15. One might start fermenting in the kitchen"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HOMEBREWER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4A: "16. Classic Langston Hughes poem with a comma in its title"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ITOO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5A: "17. It features high wind movements"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OBOESONATA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6A: "18. Latin for "goodbye""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
• Similar words include: valley
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VALE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "19. What might be seen around a star"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a temporary police force
• Similar words include: posse comitatus
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: POSSE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "20. Shape of Saturn's rings"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
• Similar words include: magnetic disc, platter, disk
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DISC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9A: "21. Star of TV and film who wrote the memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALDA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10A: "22. Spot for newborn care"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
• Similar words include: nestle, cuddle, nuzzle
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NEST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11A: "24. Awards honoring excellence in magazine publishing"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELLIES

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12A: "26. Earth's crust and others"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
• Similar words include: layer, level, social class
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STRATA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13A: "30. Shade akin to bone or eggshell"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very light brown
• Similar words include: beige
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ECRU

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14A: "32. "No preference""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one or some or every or all without specification
• Similar words include: whatever, whatsoever
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANY

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🧩 15A: "33. Snobby sort"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
• Similar words include: snoot, snot, snob
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PRIG

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🧩 16A: "34. Bring up to date, perhaps"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that do over, as of (part of) a house
• Similar words include: reconstruct, remodel, make over
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REDO

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🧩 17A: "36. Terms of a trade"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
• Similar words include: cant, slang, argot
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LINGO

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🧩 18A: "38. With 8-Down, like the upcoming release from one's favorite band"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that with eagerness; in an eager manner
• Similar words include: thirstily
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EAGERLY

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🧩 19A: "40. Quinta of "Abbott Elementary""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRUNSON

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🧩 20A: "42. Lose, as a tail"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
• Similar words include: hedge, elude, put off
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: EVADE

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🧩 21A: "43. Build up"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a growth in strength or number or importance
• Similar words include: wax, develop, ascend
• Opposite of: descent, go to bed

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Answer: RISE

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🧩 22A: "45. Its official languages are Chamorro and English"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the largest and southernmost island in the marianas which is administered as a territory of the united states; it was ceded by spain to the united states in 1898
• Similar words include: GU
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: GUAM

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🧩 23A: "46. "Dese ___ Dose" (Glenn Miller composition)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEM

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🧩 24A: "47. Mideast port with a natural harbor"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an important port of yemen; located on the gulf of aden; its strategic location has made it a major trading center of southern arabia since ancient times
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ADEN

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🧩 25A: "49. Faint"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
• Similar words include: sapless, decrepit, weak
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FEEBLE

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🧩 26A: "51. Smith who was the first woman to receive the Baseball Writers' Association of America's Career Excellence Award"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CLAIRE

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🧩 27A: "53. Symbol of defiance and solidarity"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)
• Similar words include: clenched fist
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FIST

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🧩 28A: "55. Period ender"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
• Similar words include: saddle horn, trump, French horn
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HORN

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🧩 29A: "56. Waste"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
• Similar words include: botch up, bump, black eye
• Opposite of: conserve

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BLOW

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🧩 30A: "58. Member of a sub-Saharan matriarchal clan"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that doglike nocturnal mammal of africa and southern asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
• Similar words include: hyaena
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HYENA

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🧩 31A: "63. Big ones can be difficult to manage"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• Similar words include: self, ego, self-importance
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EGOS

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🧩 32A: "64. One tirelessly making calls ahead of Election Day"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROBODIALER

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🧩 33A: "66. ___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SULU

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🧩 34A: "67. Convention challenger"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a destroyer of images used in religious worship
• Similar words include: image breaker
• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ICONOCLAST

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🧩 35A: "68. Look"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
• Similar words include: look, appear
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEEM

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🧩 36A: "69. Adjunct faculty?"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SIXTHSENSE

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (36 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Smack"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Similar words include: wallop, whack, wham
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WHOP

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🧩 2D: "2. Kind of spider believed to spread to distant areas via railway"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a disreputable vagrant
• Similar words include: bum, tramp
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HOBO

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🧩 3D: "3. Biblical prophet whom Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "an extremist for justice" in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hebrew shepherd and minor prophet
• Similar words include: Book of Amos
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMOS

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🧩 4D: "4. Youth baseball supporters"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
• Similar words include: golf tee, tee up, teeing ground
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEES

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🧩 5D: "5. Skipping music, say"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that go away or leave
• Similar words include: lacking, remove, wanting
• Opposite of: present

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ABSENT

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🧩 6D: "6. "Amigo!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRO

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🧩 7D: "7. Spots, so to speak"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that bestow a quality on
• Similar words include: loan, impart, add
• Opposite of: borrow

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LENDS

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🧩 8D: "8. See 38-Across"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that look forward to the probable occurrence of
• Similar words include: expect, anticipated, await
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AWAITED

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🧩 9D: "9. Staging areas"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
• Similar words include: define, go under, band
• Opposite of: rise

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SETS

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🧩 10D: "10. Detective, at times"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
• Similar words include: tracer bullet
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TRACER

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🧩 11D: "11. Sooner, to a Longhorn"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the contestant you hope to defeat
• Similar words include: touch, equal, challenger
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIVAL

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🧩 12D: "12. Order that might include mortadella and capicola"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ITALIANSUB

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🧩 13D: "13. First score during extra time in sudden-death soccer"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOLDENGOAL

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🧩 14D: "14. "I'm ready, but be nice""

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOEASYONME

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🧩 15D: "23. Rap's ___ Sweatshirt"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a british peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EARL

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🧩 16D: "25. Doozy"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very attractive or seductive looking woman
• Similar words include: sweetheart, knockout, mantrap
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LULU

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🧩 17D: "26. Rush to find a mate?"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SPEEDCHESS

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🧩 18D: "27. Many a book by Paul Theroux"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a film or illustrated lecture on traveling
• Similar words include: travelog
• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TRAVELOGUE

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🧩 19D: "28. Series of hoops and hurdles"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a set of confused and meaningless statements
• Similar words include: rigmarole
• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIGAMAROLE

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🧩 20D: "29. Went from 0 to 60?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that people who are old collectively
• Similar words include: older, of age, age
• Opposite of: young, rejuvenate

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGED

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🧩 21D: "31. Cylindrical grain holders"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that nut of any of several trees of the genus corylus
• Similar words include: cobnut, hazelnut, great black-backed gull
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COBS

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🧩 22D: "35. Jane who says "Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a shallow salt lake in south central australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
• Similar words include: Lake Eyre
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EYRE

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🧩 23D: "37. Kansas-born playwright with a Pulitzer"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that english prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954)
• Similar words include: Gloomy Dean, William Ralph Inge, William Inge
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INGE

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🧩 24D: "39. Buns"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the back of a military formation or procession
• Similar words include: keister, hindquarters, can
• Opposite of: level, front

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REAR

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🧩 25D: "41. Enforcers of rules, informally"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or american football) who is expected to ensure fair play
• Similar words include: ref, referee
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REFS

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🧩 26D: "44. Fixed-format summary of an article, as on Wikipedia"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INFOBOX

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🧩 27D: "48. Waste"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
• Similar words include: detritus, junk, dust
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEBRIS

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🧩 28D: "50. Important subject in law school"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
• Similar words include: morals, value orientation, moral philosophy
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETHICS

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🧩 29D: "52. "What it boils down to is this …""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INSUM

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🧩 30D: "54. [stomps foot down]"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IWONT

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🧩 31D: "57. Spots"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
• Similar words include: locale, venue, locus
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOCI

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🧩 32D: "59. Law school for Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a university in connecticut
• Similar words include: Elihu Yale, Yale University
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YALE

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🧩 33D: "60. Zip"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
• Similar words include: panache, ardour, flair
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELAN

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🧩 34D: "61. Wit's end?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a strip of land projecting into a body of water
• Similar words include: cape
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NESS

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🧩 35D: "62. Las pinturas de Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARTE

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🧩 36D: "65. "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say ___" ("The Simpsons" episode)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
• Similar words include: do, ut
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DOH

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🎯 Start Smart

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