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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, March 12, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 64 (31 Across, 33 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.8 letters
March 12, 2022 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Paid off | 6 |
| 2A | 7. Pinky swear, e.g. | 4 |
| 3A | 11. Pause in the middle of a line of poetry | 7 |
| 4A | 12. Creature also known as a greenfly | 5 |
| 5A | 14. Substitute for coffee | 15 |
| 6A | 17. Baptisms by fire | 7 |
| 7A | 18. Palmed, say | 3 |
| 8A | 19. Prefix with consciousness | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Last word of the first sentence of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" | 6 |
| 10A | 21. Pick | 3 |
| 11A | 22. "Don't Look Up" star, in tabloids | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Parts of baseballs and mines | 5 |
| 13A | 24. Country with two official languages - Guaraní and Spanish | 8 |
| 14A | 26. Move from side to side, as a ship | 3 |
| 15A | 27. 2000 Sisqó hit with a rhyming title | 9 |
| 16A | 29. 1924 tale of derring-do | 9 |
| 17A | 30. New Jersey's "unofficial rock theme of our State's youth" | 9 |
| 18A | 31. Something picked up by a silent butler | 3 |
| 19A | 34. Minions | 8 |
| 20A | 35. Basic technique in skateboarding | 5 |
| 21A | 37. Nitwit, to a Brit | 4 |
| 22A | 38. "What do you want me to do about it?" | 3 |
| 23A | 39. Be plucky? | 6 |
| 24A | 40. Hollywood, with "the" | 3 |
| 25A | 41. Astronaut Jemison | 3 |
| 26A | 42. Didn't cause trouble | 7 |
| 27A | 43. "Golly!" | 15 |
| 28A | 46. It might work on a block | 5 |
| 29A | 47. They might work on a block | 7 |
| 30A | 48. Floor | 4 |
| 31A | 49. Europe's oldest capital | 6 |
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. Paid off"
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 make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- Words that mean the same thing: buy, grease one's palms, corrupt
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BRIBED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "7. Pinky swear, e.g."
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 written agreement between two states or sovereigns
- Words that mean the same thing: accord, treaty
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PACT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "11. Pause in the middle of a line of poetry"
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 pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CAESURA
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Clue 4 Across: "12. Creature also known as a greenfly"
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 any of various small plant-sucking insects
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APHID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "14. Substitute for coffee"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: NONDAIRYCREAMER
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Clue 6 Across: "17. Baptisms by fire"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a severe or trying experience
- Words that mean the same thing: trial by ordeal, ordeal
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORDEALS
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Clue 7 Across: "18. Palmed, say"
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 prevent from being seen or discovered
- Words that mean the same thing: conceal, veil, shroud
- The opposite would be: show
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "19. Prefix with consciousness"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ECO
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Clue 9 Across: "20. Last word of the first sentence of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis""
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 small air-breathing arthropod
- Words that mean the same thing: dirt ball, louse, worm
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INSECT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Pick"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the sound made by a gentle blow
- Words that mean the same thing: knock, pat, water faucet
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. "Don't Look Up" star, in tabloids"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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!
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The answer is: JLAW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Parts of baseballs and mines"
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 joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
- Words that mean the same thing: line, furrow, seam
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEAMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "24. Country with two official languages - Guaraní and Spanish"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a landlocked republic in south central south america; achieved independence from spain in 1811
- Words that mean the same thing: Republic of Paraguay
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PARAGUAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "26. Move from side to side, as a ship"
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 erratic deflection from an intended course
- Words that mean the same thing: swerve, yawn, gape
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YAW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "27. 2000 Sisqó hit with a rhyming title"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THONGSONG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "29. 1924 tale of derring-do"
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: BEAUGESTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "30. New Jersey's "unofficial rock theme of our State's youth""
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert 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!
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The answer is: BORNTORUN
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Clue 18 Across: "31. Something picked up by a silent butler"
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 residue that remains when something is burned
- Words that mean the same thing: ash tree
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "34. Minions"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a male servant (especially a footman)
- Words that mean the same thing: lackey, yes-man, flunkey
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLUNKIES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "35. Basic technique in skateboarding"
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: OLLIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "37. Nitwit, to a Brit"
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 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Words that mean the same thing: butt, rump, behind
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PRAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "38. "What do you want me to do about it?""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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: AND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "39. Be plucky?"
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 pluck with tweezers
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TWEEZE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "40. Hollywood, with "the""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that your occupation or line of work
- Words that mean the same thing: game
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BIZ
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "41. Astronaut Jemison"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "42. Didn't cause trouble"
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 behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- Words that mean the same thing: do, bear, deport
- The opposite would be: misbehave
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEHAVED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "43. "Golly!""
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: JEEPERSCREEPERS
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Clue 28 Across: "46. It might work on a block"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DRANO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "47. They might work on a block"
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 detachment used for security or reconnaissance
- Words that mean the same thing: patrol, police
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PATROLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "48. Floor"
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 make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
- Words that mean the same thing: daze, bedaze, sandbag
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STUN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "49. Europe's oldest capital"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the capital and largest city of greece; named after athena (its patron goddess)
- Words that mean the same thing: capital of Greece, Greek capital, Athinai
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATHENS
Great job if you got it right!
NYT Saturday Crossword Down Clues - March 12, 2022 Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Lumbering tool | 7 |
| 2D | 2. Turn in | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Musician who helped save Carnegie Hall from demolition | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Put up | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Muffs | 4 |
| 6D | 6. "Against the ___" (Thomas Pynchon novel) | 3 |
| 7D | 7. On equal footing, in Latin | 9 |
| 8D | 8. Mirrored | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Tea, in Mandarin | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Result of a poor audio connection, perhaps | 7 |
| 11D | 11. Part of the body first successfully transplanted in 1905 | 6 |
| 12D | 13. Exponential ___ (function in physics) | 5 |
| 13D | 14. Like many street-level apartments | 5 |
| 14D | 15. Juice boxes? | 8 |
| 15D | 16. Rumpus | 3 |
| 16D | 21. Danced to the music of Carlos Acuña, say | 7 |
| 17D | 22. "We / Jazz ___" (line in Gwendolyn Brooks's "We Real Cool") | 4 |
| 18D | 24. Popular dishes in Québécois cuisine | 8 |
| 19D | 25. Went round and round in circles | 10 |
| 20D | 28. Record holder for the most M.L.B. All-Star selections | 9 |
| 21D | 29. Spell | 4 |
| 22D | 30. Attire at some academies | 7 |
| 23D | 31. Exams for British 18-year-olds | 7 |
| 24D | 32. Jewelry store tools | 6 |
| 25D | 33. Minds | 5 |
| 26D | 34. Mentally worn out | 5 |
| 27D | 36. Mount with facility | 6 |
| 28D | 37. Vegan sandwich, for short | 3 |
| 29D | 39. Enforcement mechanisms, metaphorically | 5 |
| 30D | 41. Where to pick sides? | 4 |
| 31D | 42. Handful, say | 4 |
| 32D | 44. Overly rehearsed | 3 |
| 33D | 45. Occupation of Leo Bloom in "The Producers," for short | 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. Lumbering tool"
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 an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels
- Words that mean the same thing: band saw
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BANDSAW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Turn in"
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 save from sins
- Words that mean the same thing: pay off, ransom, deliver
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REDEEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Musician who helped save Carnegie Hall from demolition"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about music.
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: ISAACSTERN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Put up"
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 make by combining materials and parts
- Words that mean the same thing: reinforced, construct, build up
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BUILT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Muffs"
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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Words that mean the same thing: drift, stray, slip
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERRS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. "Against the ___" (Thomas Pynchon novel)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that time for earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
- Words that mean the same thing: daylight, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours
- The opposite would be: night
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. On equal footing, in Latin"
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: PARIPASSU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Mirrored"
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 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
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Tea, in Mandarin"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Result of a poor audio connection, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIMELAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Part of the body first successfully transplanted in 1905"
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 the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CORNEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "13. Exponential ___ (function in physics)"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about science/technology.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the process of gradually becoming inferior
- Words that mean the same thing: decomposition, decline, radioactive decay
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DECAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "14. Like many street-level apartments"
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 full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds
- The opposite would be: quiet
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOISY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "15. Juice boxes?"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
- Words that mean the same thing: courser, battery charger, charger
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHARGERS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "16. Rumpus"
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 arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line
- Words that mean the same thing: course, rowing, quarrel
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "21. Danced to the music of Carlos Acuña, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that dance a tango
- Words that mean the same thing: tango
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TANGOED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "22. "We / Jazz ___" (line in Gwendolyn Brooks's "We Real Cool")"
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 month following may and preceding july
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JUNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "24. Popular dishes in Québécois cuisine"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard 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: POUTINES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "25. Went round and round in circles"
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: GOTNOWHERE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "28. Record holder for the most M.L.B. All-Star selections"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HANKAARON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "29. Spell"
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 (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
- Words that mean the same thing: binge, tear, round
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BOUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "30. Attire at some academies"
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 lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school
- Words that mean the same thing: sport jacket, sports jacket, blazer
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BLAZERS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "31. Exams for British 18-year-olds"
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!
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The answer is: ALEVELS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "32. Jewelry store tools"
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!
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The answer is: SIZERS
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Clue 25 Down: "33. Minds"
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 paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
- Words that mean the same thing: listen, attentiveness, heed
- The opposite would be: inattentiveness
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The answer is: HEEDS
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Clue 26 Down: "34. Mentally worn out"
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 be excessively hot
- Words that mean the same thing: electrocute, deep-fried, fry
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: FRIED
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Clue 27 Down: "36. Mount with facility"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: LEAPON
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Clue 28 Down: "37. Vegan sandwich, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: PBJ
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Clue 29 Down: "39. Enforcement mechanisms, metaphorically"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
- Words that mean the same thing: tooth, dentition
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: TEETH
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Clue 30 Down: "41. Where to pick sides?"
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 list of dishes available at a restaurant
- Words that mean the same thing: bill of fare, computer menu, carte
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MENU
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Clue 31 Down: "42. Handful, 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 a very troublesome child
- Words that mean the same thing: bratwurst, little terror, holy terror
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: BRAT
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Clue 32 Down: "44. Overly rehearsed"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the sound made by a gentle blow
- Words that mean the same thing: dab, tap, chuck
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: PAT
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Clue 33 Down: "45. Occupation of Leo Bloom in "The Producers," for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a united states state to be certified by that state
- Words that mean the same thing: certified public accountant
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: CPA
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 41 | 64.1% |
| Short Answer | 10 | 15.6% |
| Geography | 3 | 4.7% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 3.1% |
| Music | 2 | 3.1% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 3.1% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.6% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.6% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.6% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.6% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 31 |
| Down Clues | 33 |
| Total Clues | 64 |
| 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: September 11, 2025 at 09:40 AM
