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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, May 17, 2024
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 72 (35 Across, 37 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.4 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle May 17, 2024
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Jordans, e.g. | 5 |
| 2A | 6. CNN political correspondent Bash | 4 |
| 3A | 10. Stuff | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Place for student mixers? | 10 |
| 5A | 16. Last thing left in Pandora's box | 4 |
| 6A | 17. Became smitten | 10 |
| 7A | 18. Barely made, with "out" | 4 |
| 8A | 19. Like some blankets and burritos | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Eccentric | 5 |
| 10A | 21. Long rows? | 5 |
| 11A | 22. "Sounds fun!" | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Awards won by George Strait in three separate decades, familiarly | 4 |
| 13A | 25. Capital of Punjab province | 6 |
| 14A | 28. 1873 invention first used in San Francisco | 8 |
| 15A | 32. Empty the Trash? | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Massive onrush | 9 |
| 17A | 34. Fade out | 5 |
| 18A | 35. Option for a road trip: Abbr. | 3 |
| 19A | 36. Proctor's directive | 5 |
| 20A | 37. Dessert skipper's explanation | 9 |
| 21A | 39. "Easy on Me" singer, 2021 | 5 |
| 22A | 40. Seven-piece puzzles | 8 |
| 23A | 41. Hill's partner in publishing | 6 |
| 24A | 42. Northernmost point in the Inner Hebrides | 4 |
| 25A | 43. Get a rise out of? | 4 |
| 26A | 44. Hidden treasures on "Survivor" | 5 |
| 27A | 47. Lovable rascal | 5 |
| 28A | 49. Merger agreement? | 3 |
| 29A | 52. It might run in the cold | 4 |
| 30A | 53. "Three-finger salute" to help reboot | 10 |
| 31A | 55. Skee-Ball target | 4 |
| 32A | 56. Outpaces the syllabus, say | 10 |
| 33A | 57. Not keep harping on | 4 |
| 34A | 58. Java servers | 4 |
| 35A | 59. Gets larger, visually | 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. Jordans, 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 (greek mythology) winged goddess of victory; identified with roman victoria
- Words that mean the same thing: Nike
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NIKES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "6. CNN political correspondent Bash"
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 celtic goddess who was the mother of the tuatha de danann; identified with the welsh don
- Words that mean the same thing: Danu
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DANA
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Clue 3 Across: "10. Stuff"
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 crowd or pack to capacity
- Words that mean the same thing: ram, jam, wad
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CRAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. Place for student mixers?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
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The answer is: SCIENCELAB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Last thing left in Pandora's box"
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 specific instance of feeling hopeful
- Words that mean the same thing: promise, desire, Leslie Townes Hope
- The opposite would be: despair
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOPE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. Became smitten"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
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The answer is: FELLINLOVE
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Clue 7 Across: "18. Barely made, with "out""
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!
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The answer is: EKED
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Like some blankets and burritos"
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 wetness caused by water
- Words that mean the same thing: loaded, sozzled, pixilated
- The opposite would be: dry
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. Eccentric"
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 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- Words that mean the same thing: barmy, loopy, haywire
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOTTY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Long rows?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a bitter quarrel between two parties
- Words that mean the same thing: feud
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FEUDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. "Sounds fun!""
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 brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
- Words that mean the same thing: rent, allow, get
- The opposite would be: disallow, forbid
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Awards won by George Strait in three separate decades, familiarly"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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!
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The answer is: CMAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "25. Capital of Punjab province"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that city in northeast pakistan
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAHORE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. 1873 invention first used in San Francisco"
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!
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The answer is: CABLECAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "32. Empty the Trash?"
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 remove from memory or existence
- Words that mean the same thing: rub out, score out, wipe out
- The opposite would be: record
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERASE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "33. Massive onrush"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIDALWAVE
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Clue 17 Across: "34. Fade out"
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!
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The answer is: GODIM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "35. Option for a road trip: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RTE
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Clue 19 Across: "36. Proctor's directive"
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 israeli statesman (born in russia) who (as prime minister of israel) negotiated a peace treaty with anwar sadat (then the president of egypt) (1913-1992)
- Words that mean the same thing: get down, Menachem Begin, get
- The opposite would be: end
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEGIN
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Clue 20 Across: "37. Dessert skipper's explanation"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IMONADIET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "39. "Easy on Me" singer, 2021"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADELE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "40. Seven-piece puzzles"
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 chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs
- Words that mean the same thing: tangram
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TANGRAMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "41. Hill's partner in publishing"
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 united states baseball player and manager (1873-1934)
- Words that mean the same thing: John McGraw, John Joseph McGraw
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MCGRAW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "42. Northernmost point in the Inner Hebrides"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SKYE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "43. Get a rise out of?"
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 cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- Words that mean the same thing: broil
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BAKE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "44. Hidden treasures on "Survivor""
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 material effigy that is worshipped
- Words that mean the same thing: god, graven image, matinee idol
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IDOLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "47. Lovable rascal"
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 one who is playfully mischievous
- Words that mean the same thing: imp, scalawag, rascal
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCAMP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "49. Merger agreement?"
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 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!
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The answer is: IDO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "52. It might run in the cold"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- Words that mean the same thing: poke, intrude, nozzle
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "53. "Three-finger salute" to help reboot"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
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The answer is: CTRLALTDEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "55. Skee-Ball target"
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 opening into or through something
- Words that mean the same thing: hole out, maw, kettle of fish
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "56. Outpaces the syllabus, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
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The answer is: READSAHEAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "57. Not keep harping 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 a shape that is spherical and small
- Words that mean the same thing: dip, throw, drop cloth
- The opposite would be: recuperate, sharpen
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DROP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "58. Java servers"
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 vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
- Words that mean the same thing: urn
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: URNS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "59. Gets larger, visually"
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 move towards
- Words that mean the same thing: approach, near, draw close
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEARS
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword May 17, 2024
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Letters next to a blurred image, perhaps | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Domed drink | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Pleated garment | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Animal that's catadromous, meaning it lives in fresh water but goes to sea to breed | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Cutting lines | 12 |
| 6D | 6. Arm raisers, informally | 5 |
| 7D | 7. "Thanks" follower | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Aspiring mariner | 9 |
| 9D | 9. Longest-serving prime minister of Japan | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Food item that's fittingly shaped like a mouse cursor | 11 |
| 11D | 11. Modern TV attachment | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Did an impression of | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Doc's orders | 4 |
| 14D | 15. Bill featuring Ben | 5 |
| 15D | 21. Contingency | 12 |
| 16D | 22. Tossing and turning, say | 11 |
| 17D | 24. Credential to climb the corp. ladder | 3 |
| 18D | 25. Not sketchy | 5 |
| 19D | 26. Bouquet feature | 5 |
| 20D | 27. Sported | 5 |
| 21D | 28. Credits | 5 |
| 22D | 29. Court figure, in old slang | 5 |
| 23D | 30. Spain's so-called "City of Saints and Stones" | 5 |
| 24D | 31. Keep up to date on the issues? | 5 |
| 25D | 33. Prenatal period | 9 |
| 26D | 38. Word on either side of "after" | 3 |
| 27D | 41. Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips, in a 1960s group | 5 |
| 28D | 43. Comes out on top? | 5 |
| 29D | 44. Very clear, as a stream | 4 |
| 30D | 45. Option in the Monty Hall problem | 4 |
| 31D | 46. Capital city that's home to the Vigeland sculpture park | 4 |
| 32D | 48. Prefix in some juice names | 4 |
| 33D | 49. Sneaking suspicion | 4 |
| 34D | 50. Treasured | 4 |
| 35D | 51. Onetime Ford rival | 4 |
| 36D | 53. Fine wine word | 3 |
| 37D | 54. Helpful word in a cryptogram, often | 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. Letters next to a blurred image, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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!
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The answer is: NSFW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Domed drink"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ICEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Pleated garment"
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 knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the highlands of northern scotland
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KILT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Animal that's catadromous, meaning it lives in fresh water but goes to sea to breed"
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 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!
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The answer is: EEL
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Clue 5 Down: "5. Cutting lines"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SNIDEREMARKS
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Clue 6 Down: "6. Arm raisers, 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!
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The answer is: DELTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. "Thanks" follower"
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!
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The answer is: ALOT
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Clue 8 Down: "8. Aspiring mariner"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NAVYCADET
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Longest-serving prime minister of Japan"
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!
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The answer is: ABE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Food item that's fittingly shaped like a mouse cursor"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHEESEWEDGE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Modern TV attachment"
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!
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The answer is: ROKU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Did an impression 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 imitate uncritically and in every aspect
- Words that mean the same thing: ape, caricature
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APED
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Clue 13 Down: "13. Doc's orders"
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 master's degree in education
- Words that mean the same thing: Master of Education, MEd
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MEDS
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Clue 14 Down: "15. Bill featuring Ben"
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!
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The answer is: CNOTE
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Clue 15 Down: "21. Contingency"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FALLBACKPLAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "22. Tossing and turning, say"
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!
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The answer is: LOSINGSLEEP
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Clue 17 Down: "24. Credential to climb the corp. ladder"
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 master's degree in business
- Words that mean the same thing: Master in Business, Master in Business Administration
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MBA
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Clue 18 Down: "25. Not sketchy"
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!
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The answer is: LEGIT
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Clue 19 Down: "26. Bouquet feature"
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 property detected by the olfactory system
- Words that mean the same thing: odour, fragrance, odor
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AROMA
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Clue 20 Down: "27. Sported"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HADON
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Clue 21 Down: "28. Credits"
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 short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- Words that mean the same thing: mention, advert, quotation
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CITES
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Clue 22 Down: "29. Court figure, in old slang"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an athlete who plays basketball
- Words that mean the same thing: basketball player, basketeer
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CAGER
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Clue 23 Down: "30. Spain's so-called "City of Saints and Stones""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: AVILA
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Clue 24 Down: "31. Keep up to date on the issues?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- Words that mean the same thing: regenerate, reincarnate
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: RENEW
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Clue 25 Down: "33. Prenatal period"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided
- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: TRIMESTER
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Clue 26 Down: "38. Word on either side of "after""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that time for earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
- Words that mean the same thing: twenty-four hour period, solar day, 24-hour interval
- The opposite would be: night
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The answer is: DAY
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Clue 27 Down: "41. Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips, in a 1960s group"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that informal terms for a mother
- Words that mean the same thing: mom, mommy, mammy
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: MAMAS
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Clue 28 Down: "43. Comes out on top?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that grow bald; lose hair on one's head
- Words that mean the same thing: bald
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BALDS
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Clue 29 Down: "44. Very clear, as a stream"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: INHD
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Clue 30 Down: "45. Option in the Monty Hall problem"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- Words that mean the same thing: room access, threshold, doorway
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: DOOR
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Clue 31 Down: "46. Capital city that's home to the Vigeland sculpture park"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
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- This could be something that the capital and largest city of norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on norway's southern coast
- Words that mean the same thing: Christiania, capital of Norway
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OSLO
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Clue 32 Down: "48. Prefix in some juice names"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: CRAN
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Clue 33 Down: "49. Sneaking suspicion"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- Words that mean the same thing: musical theme, thought, estimate
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: IDEA
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Clue 34 Down: "50. Treasured"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- Words that mean the same thing: near, pricy, love
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: DEAR
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Clue 35 Down: "51. Onetime Ford rival"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Words that mean the same thing: old
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OLDS
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Clue 36 Down: "53. Fine wine word"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: CRU
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Clue 37 Down: "54. Helpful word in a cryptogram, often"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: THE
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 55 | 76.4% |
| Short Answer | 8 | 11.1% |
| Geography | 3 | 4.2% |
| Food & Drink | 2 | 2.8% |
| History | 1 | 1.4% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.4% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 37 |
| Total Clues | 72 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.4 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 12 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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 25, 2025 at 04:49 PM
