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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 79 (35 Across, 44 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.1 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Wednesday Puzzle May 18, 2022
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Sleeper, e.g. | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Suddenly spoke (up) | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Winner's gesture | 5 |
| 4A | 15. Apple product since 1998 | 4 |
| 5A | 16. Grassy plain | 5 |
| 6A | 17. "Here we go again …" | 5 |
| 7A | 18. Confess one's true feelings … or Step 1 for solving a jigsaw puzzle? | 16 |
| 8A | 21. Eventually | 6 |
| 9A | 22. Dirty money | 5 |
| 10A | 23. Holiday celebrating the first day of spring | 3 |
| 11A | 24. Lowdown | 4 |
| 12A | 26. Stop texting after a first date, say | 5 |
| 13A | 28. Recover after a heartbreak … or Step 2 for solving a jigsaw puzzle? | 15 |
| 14A | 34. Gift of ___ | 3 |
| 15A | 35. Plethora | 4 |
| 16A | 36. "Again!" | 6 |
| 17A | 37. N.B.A. star Westbrook, to fans | 4 |
| 18A | 39. Long, loose hood | 4 |
| 19A | 42. Word before loose or tight | 4 |
| 20A | 43. Div. for the Tampa Bay Rays | 6 |
| 21A | 46. Tiny bit | 4 |
| 22A | 49. Screening org. | 3 |
| 23A | 50. Look for an ideal partner ... or Step 3 for solving a jigsaw puzzle? | 15 |
| 24A | 54. Eat dirt? | 5 |
| 25A | 55. Cold-weather cryptid | 4 |
| 26A | 56. One volt divided by one ampere | 3 |
| 27A | 59. Performer's comment to the audience | 5 |
| 28A | 61. Tree that's a source of salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin | 6 |
| 29A | 65. Get some perspective … or what you do once you've solved a jigsaw puzzle? | 16 |
| 30A | 68. Animal that wears red pajamas in a popular children's book | 5 |
| 31A | 69. Porter alternative | 5 |
| 32A | 70. Residents of Splitsville? | 4 |
| 33A | 71. Choose to participate | 5 |
| 34A | 72. Run into a hitch? | 5 |
| 35A | 73. "The ___ is silence": Hamlet | 4 |
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. Sleeper, 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 an upholstered seat for more than one person
- Words that mean the same thing: lounge, couch
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOFA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Suddenly spoke (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 utter a shrill cry
- Words that mean the same thing: mop up, shoot, hit
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PIPED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "10. Winner's gesture"
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: VSIGN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "15. Apple product since 1998"
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: IMAC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Grassy plain"
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 extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in latin america)
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LLANO
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Clue 6 Across: "17. "Here we go again …""
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: OHBOY
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Clue 7 Across: "18. Confess one's true feelings … or Step 1 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?"
Quick Info: This answer has 16 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: LAYITALLOUTTHERE
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Clue 8 Across: "21. Eventually"
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: ONEDAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. Dirty money"
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 informal terms for money
- Words that mean the same thing: loot, moolah, earnings
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LUCRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "23. Holiday celebrating the first day of spring"
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 new year in vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after january 20th
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. Lowdown"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a message received and understood
- Words that mean the same thing: information
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INFO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. Stop texting after a first date, say"
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 mental representation of some haunting experience
- Words that mean the same thing: ghostwriter, obsess, specter
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GHOST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Recover after a heartbreak … or Step 2 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?"
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!
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The answer is: PICKUPTHEPIECES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "34. Gift of ___"
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 light informal conversation for social occasions
- Words that mean the same thing: gossip, chin wag, gabfest
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GAB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "35. Plethora"
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 (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- Words that mean the same thing: wad, mountain, veer
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "36. "Again!""
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 an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENCORE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "37. N.B.A. star Westbrook, to fans"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the medieval russian state established by scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in novgorod and then in kiev
- Words that mean the same thing: Rus
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RUSS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "39. Long, loose hood"
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 protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- Words that mean the same thing: cowling, bonnet, hood
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COWL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "42. Word before loose or tight"
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 special way of doing something
- Words that mean the same thing: cling, flow, fall
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HANG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "43. Div. for the Tampa Bay Rays"
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!
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The answer is: ALEAST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "46. Tiny bit"
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 tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- Words that mean the same thing: whit, scintilla, smidgen
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IOTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "49. Screening 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!
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The answer is: TSA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "50. Look for an ideal partner ... or Step 3 for solving a jigsaw puzzle?"
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!
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The answer is: FINDTHERIGHTFIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "54. Eat dirt?"
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 become ground down or deteriorate
- Words that mean the same thing: eat away, wear away, fret
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERODE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "55. Cold-weather cryptid"
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 hairy humanoid creature said to live in the himalayas
- Words that mean the same thing: abominable snowman
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YETI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "56. One volt divided by one ampere"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
- Words that mean the same thing: Georg Simon Ohm
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OHM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "59. Performer's comment to the audience"
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 line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
- Words that mean the same thing: divagation, away, parenthesis
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASIDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "61. Tree that's a source of salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin"
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 any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus salix
- Words that mean the same thing: willow tree
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WILLOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "65. Get some perspective … or what you do once you've solved a jigsaw puzzle?"
Quick Info: This answer has 16 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: SEETHEBIGPICTURE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "68. Animal that wears red pajamas in a popular children's book"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that wild or domesticated south american cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LLAMA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "69. Porter alternative"
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 camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
- Words that mean the same thing: lager beer, laager
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAGER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "70. Residents of Splitsville?"
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 man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
- Words that mean the same thing: ex, x, ex-wife
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EXES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "71. Choose to participate"
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: OPTIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "72. Run into a hitch?"
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 run away secretly with one's beloved
- Words that mean the same thing: run off
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELOPE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "73. "The ___ is silence": Hamlet"
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 something left after other parts have been taken away
- Words that mean the same thing: rest period, respite, balance
- The opposite would be: change, be active
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REST
Great job if you got it right!
May 18, 2022 Down Hints: NYT Wednesday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Something that may be raised on a farm | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Nation bordering the Arabian Sea | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Dunaway of "Mommie Dearest" | 4 |
| 4D | 4. By no means basic | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Like a frisky puppy | 7 |
| 6D | 6. Feeling crummy | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Gloomy atmosphere | 4 |
| 8D | 8. "Quit it!" | 6 |
| 9D | 9. Medicinal rinse | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Elects | 7 |
| 11D | 11. "This is a library!" | 3 |
| 12D | 12. "Yeah, right" | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Vice president in the 1990s | 4 |
| 14D | 14. Opposite of "da" | 4 |
| 15D | 19. Some scuba gear | 5 |
| 16D | 20. Evil clown in a horror film, e.g. | 5 |
| 17D | 25. Intl. group with members on three continents | 4 |
| 18D | 27. ___-savvy | 4 |
| 19D | 28. St. ___ Girl (beer brand) | 5 |
| 20D | 29. Playwright whose work inspired the Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in 56-Down | 5 |
| 21D | 30. Number of hole cards in Texas hold 'em | 3 |
| 22D | 31. Relative of a raccoon | 5 |
| 23D | 32. Dada pioneer Max | 5 |
| 24D | 33. Dreamcast console maker | 4 |
| 25D | 34. Steffi who achieved a Golden Slam in 1988 | 4 |
| 26D | 38. "The Sweetest Taboo" singer, 1985 | 4 |
| 27D | 40. Console whose name sounds like a pronoun | 3 |
| 28D | 41. Sluggish | 4 |
| 29D | 44. N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Michael | 7 |
| 30D | 45. Word that might be said while pointing | 5 |
| 31D | 47. TV series named second-best of all time by Rolling Stone, but which never won an Emmy | 7 |
| 32D | 48. Story used for storage | 5 |
| 33D | 51. What skullcap mushrooms aren't | 6 |
| 34D | 52. Call back | 6 |
| 35D | 53. Instagram effect | 6 |
| 36D | 56. See 29-Down | 4 |
| 37D | 57. "A little ___?" | 4 |
| 38D | 58. Charcuterie selection | 4 |
| 39D | 60. Brand originally called Froffles | 4 |
| 40D | 62. Sumptuous and expensive | 4 |
| 41D | 63. Minerals ending in -ite, often | 4 |
| 42D | 64. Mae who said "To err is human, but it feels divine" | 4 |
| 43D | 66. "All right, I've heard plenty" | 3 |
| 44D | 67. Vim | 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. Something that may be raised on a farm"
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 cylindrical tower used for storing silage
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SILO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Nation bordering the Arabian Sea"
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 strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the arabian peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil
- Words that mean the same thing: Muscat and Oman, Sultanate of Oman
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Dunaway of "Mommie Dearest""
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: FAYE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. By no means basic"
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 being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a ph of less than 7)
- Words that mean the same thing: acidulous, acidulent, acid
- The opposite would be: alkaline
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACIDIC
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Clue 5 Down: "5. Like a frisky puppy"
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 full of fun and high spirits
- The opposite would be: unplayful
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PLAYFUL
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Clue 6 Down: "6. Feeling crummy"
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 often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Words that mean the same thing: inauspicious, complaint, poorly
- The opposite would be: well
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ILL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Gloomy atmosphere"
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 sudden numbing dread
- Words that mean the same thing: cerement, dull, dash
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PALL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. "Quit it!""
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 an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
- Words that mean the same thing: plenty, sufficiency, decent
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENOUGH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Medicinal rinse"
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 small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas
- Words that mean the same thing: douche bag
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOUCHE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Elects"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: VOTESIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. "This is a library!""
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: SHH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. "Yeah, right""
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: IBET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Vice president in the 1990s"
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 vice president of the united states under bill clinton (born in 1948)
- Words that mean the same thing: Albert Gore Jr., bloodshed, Al Gore
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GORE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Opposite of "da""
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: NYET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "19. Some scuba gear"
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 enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- Words that mean the same thing: tankful, armored combat vehicle, army tank
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TANKS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "20. Evil clown in a horror film, e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- Words that mean the same thing: image, figure of speech, figure
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TROPE
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Clue 17 Down: "25. Intl. group with members on three continents"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum
- Words that mean the same thing: Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OPEC
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Clue 18 Down: "27. ___-savvy"
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 school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences
- Words that mean the same thing: technical school
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: TECH
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Clue 19 Down: "28. St. ___ Girl (beer brand)"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that united states physicist (born in austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958)
- Words that mean the same thing: Wolfgang Pauli
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: PAULI
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Clue 20 Down: "29. Playwright whose work inspired the Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in 56-Down"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that realistic norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)
- Words that mean the same thing: Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Johan Ibsen
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: IBSEN
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Clue 21 Down: "30. Number of hole cards in Texas hold 'em"
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 cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: II, ii, deuce
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TWO
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Clue 22 Down: "31. Relative of a raccoon"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that omnivorous mammal of central america and south america
- Words that mean the same thing: coon cat, coati-mundi, coati-mondi
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: COATI
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Clue 23 Down: "32. Dada pioneer Max"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that painter (born in germany, resident of france and the united states) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976)
- Words that mean the same thing: Max Ernst
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ERNST
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Clue 24 Down: "33. Dreamcast console maker"
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: SEGA
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Clue 25 Down: "34. Steffi who achieved a Golden Slam in 1988"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that german tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at wimbledon (born in 1969)
- Words that mean the same thing: Steffi Graf, Stephanie Graf
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: GRAF
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Clue 26 Down: "38. "The Sweetest Taboo" singer, 1985"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- This could be something that french soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
- Words that mean the same thing: de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SADE
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Clue 27 Down: "40. Console whose name sounds like a pronoun"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: WII
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Clue 28 Down: "41. Sluggish"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
- Words that mean the same thing: dazed, foggy, groggy
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LOGY
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Clue 29 Down: "44. N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Michael"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: STRAHAN
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Clue 30 Down: "45. Word that might be said while pointing"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: THOSE
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Clue 31 Down: "47. TV series named second-best of all time by Rolling Stone, but which never won an Emmy"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: THEWIRE
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Clue 32 Down: "48. Story used for storage"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- Words that mean the same thing: noggin, loft, bonce
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ATTIC
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Clue 33 Down: "51. What skullcap mushrooms aren't"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that any substance that can be used as food
- Words that mean the same thing: comestible, victual, pabulum
- The opposite would be: inedible
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The answer is: EDIBLE
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Clue 34 Down: "52. Call back"
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: REDIAL
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Clue 35 Down: "53. Instagram effect"
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 device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- Words that mean the same thing: sink in, dribble, percolate
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: FILTER
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Clue 36 Down: "56. See 29-Down"
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 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: capital of Norway, Christiania
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OSLO
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Clue 37 Down: "57. "A little ___?""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- Words that mean the same thing: assistance, supporter, facilitate
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: HELP
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Clue 38 Down: "58. Charcuterie selection"
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 flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- Words that mean the same thing: heart and soul, kernel, marrow
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MEAT
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Clue 39 Down: "60. Brand originally called Froffles"
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: EGGO
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Clue 40 Down: "62. Sumptuous and expensive"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that elegant and sumptuous
- Words that mean the same thing: deluxe, de luxe
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LUXE
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Clue 41 Down: "63. Minerals ending in -ite, often"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
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- This could be something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Words that mean the same thing: ore
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ORES
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Clue 42 Down: "64. Mae who said "To err is human, but it feels divine""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the countries of (originally) europe and (now including) north america and south america
- Words that mean the same thing: Occident, Dame Rebecca West, Benjamin West
- The opposite would be: east
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The answer is: WEST
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Clue 43 Down: "66. "All right, I've heard plenty""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TMI
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Clue 44 Down: "67. Vim"
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 liveliness and energy
- Words that mean the same thing: ginger, peppiness
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: PEP
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 64 | 81.0% |
| Short Answer | 10 | 12.7% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.5% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.3% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.3% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 44 |
| Total Clues | 79 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.1 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 16 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 Wednesday, 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 09, 2025 at 11:17 PM
