Saturday NYT Crossword puzzle hints - August 03, 2024
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Break down the NYT Crosswords: August 03, 2024
Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.
Across Clues and Answers:
- 1. Election presence since the '40s - Show Answer
PACS
(4 letters)
Synonyms: PAC, political_action_committee
- 5. Retrieval speed of a computer - Show Answer
ACCESSTIME
(10 letters)
- 15. Latin I word - Show Answer
AMAT
(4 letters)
- 16. Professional pitcher? - Show Answer
PIANOTUNER
(10 letters)
- 17. Request for details - Show Answer
CARETOELABORATE
(15 letters)
- 19. What often can't be beat? - Show Answer
THERAP
(6 letters)
- 20. Light touch - Show Answer
CARESS
(6 letters)
Synonyms: fondle, caress
- 21. Minnesota W.N.B.A. team - Show Answer
LYNX
(4 letters)
Synonyms: lynx, catamount
- 22. Cousin voiced by Snoop Dogg in two films - Show Answer
ITT
(3 letters)
- 24. "Not ___" - Show Answer
YET
(3 letters)
Synonyms: even, still, nevertheless, all_the_same, however, even_so, notwithstanding, yet, up_to_now, thus_far, til_now, heretofore, until_now, so_far, as_yet, in_time, hitherto, withal, nonetheless
- 25. Heaven - Show Answer
ECSTASY
(7 letters)
Synonyms: go, cristal, X, XTC, rapture, disco_biscuit, exaltation, raptus, transport, ecstasy, Adam, hug_drug
- 28. Meryl Streep and Amy Adams played them in 2008's "Doubt" - Show Answer
NUNS
(4 letters)
Synonyms: conical_buoy, nun_buoy, nun
- 31. French resort town - Show Answer
STTROPEZ
(8 letters)
- 34. Unsolicited, in a way - Show Answer
ONSPEC
(6 letters)
- 36. More than just impress - Show Answer
AWE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: reverence, fear, awe, veneration
- 37. Block - Show Answer
DAM
(3 letters)
Synonyms: dyke, dam, decametre, dkm, dekametre, dam_up, dekameter, dike, decameter
- 38. Ref's decision - Show Answer
TKO
(3 letters)
Synonyms: technical_knockout, TKO
- 39. Supply at an I.V.F. clinic - Show Answer
OVA
(3 letters)
Synonyms: ovum, egg_cell
- 40. Home run, informally - Show Answer
DINGER
(6 letters)
- 42. Ready - Show Answer
PREPARED
(8 letters)
Synonyms: organize, make, groom, prepare, machinate, fain, disposed, train, set_up, set, educate, get_up, prepared, devise, ready, develop, inclined, organise, fix, cook, gear_up
Antonyms: unprepared
- 44. Vet - Show Answer
EXGI
(4 letters)
- 45. Word from the French for "rung" - Show Answer
ECHELON
(7 letters)
Synonyms: echelon
- 47. Scott in Illinois, e.g.: Abbr. - Show Answer
AFB
(3 letters)
- 49. Cultivate, in a way - Show Answer
HOE
(3 letters)
Synonyms: hoe
- 50. "Really?" - Show Answer
ITIS
(4 letters)
- 53. Last syllable of a word - Show Answer
ULTIMA
(6 letters)
Synonyms: ultima
- 55. Losers of the 1994 and 1999 N.B.A. Finals - Show Answer
KNICKS
(6 letters)
- 57. Virtually silently, in a classic poem - Show Answer
ONLITTLECATFEET
(15 letters)
- 60. [shrug] - Show Answer
IDONTGETIT
(10 letters)
- 61. Helen of Troy's mother - Show Answer
LEDA
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Leda
- 62. 1962 war epic loaded with A-listers, with "The" - Show Answer
LONGESTDAY
(10 letters)
- 63. Old map letters - Show Answer
USSR
(4 letters)
Synonyms: USSR, Soviet_Union, Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics, Russia
Down Clues and Answers:
- 1. Deal - Show Answer
PACT
(4 letters)
Synonyms: pact, accord, treaty
- 2. Title hero of a Menotti opera - Show Answer
AMAHL
(5 letters)
- 3. Drew using many lines? - Show Answer
CAREY
(5 letters)
- 4. "Ambition should be made of ___ stuff": "Julius Caesar" - Show Answer
STERNER
(7 letters)
Synonyms: stern, austere, severe, unrelenting, inexorable, relentless, stark, exacting, unappeasable, grim, strict, unforgiving
- 5. Per person - Show Answer
APOP
(4 letters)
- 6. Abbr. in French business names - Show Answer
CIE
(3 letters)
- 7. School with the mascot Oski the Bear, familiarly - Show Answer
CAL
(3 letters)
- 8. Puts on the books - Show Answer
ENACTS
(6 letters)
Synonyms: reenact, ordain, act_out, enact
- 9. Buckwheat noodle - Show Answer
SOBA
(4 letters)
- 10. Part of a child's bedtime routine, perhaps - Show Answer
STORY
(5 letters)
Synonyms: narration, floor, storey, tarradiddle, narrative, level, account, taradiddle, news_report, tale, report, write_up, story, history, fib, chronicle
- 11. Deep dishes - Show Answer
TUREENS
(7 letters)
Synonyms: tureen
- 12. Foggy - Show Answer
INASTUPOR
(9 letters)
- 13. M.L.B. team that's played in three different stadiums since its inception in 1962 - Show Answer
METS
(4 letters)
- 14. Old word of precedence - Show Answer
ERE
(3 letters)
- 18. It contains nearly 10,000 sections - Show Answer
TAXCODE
(7 letters)
- 22. Market unit - Show Answer
ITEM
(4 letters)
Synonyms: point, item, detail, token, particular
- 23. Looney Tunes menace, familiarly - Show Answer
TAZ
(3 letters)
- 26. Alley pickup - Show Answer
SPARE
(5 letters)
Synonyms: save, supernumerary, extra, excess, scanty, give_up, plain, unembellished, supererogatory, free, fifth_wheel, surplus, spare_part, superfluous, redundant, bare, dispense_with, part_with, trim, spare, unornamented
- 27. Sticks figure - Show Answer
YOKEL
(5 letters)
Synonyms: yokel, hick, chawbacon, hayseed, bumpkin, yahoo, rube
- 29. First name on the "Scream" poster - Show Answer
NEVE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: neve
- 30. Slew - Show Answer
SCAD
(4 letters)
Synonyms: scad
- 31. Only African-born headliner at London's Live Aid 1985 - Show Answer
SADE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: Sade, Marquis_de_Sade, de_Sade, Comte_Donatien_Alphonse_Francois_de_Sade
- 32. Bar from Mars - Show Answer
TWIX
(4 letters)
- 33. Clothing misnomer more aptly replaced by "three-quart" - Show Answer
TENGALLON
(9 letters)
- 35. Zero use - Show Answer
NOPOINT
(7 letters)
- 38. Stereotypical lowly role in a school play - Show Answer
TREE
(4 letters)
Synonyms: tree, shoetree, Tree, Sir_Herbert_Beerbohm_Tree, corner, tree_diagram
- 41. Christmas tradition - Show Answer
GIFTING
(7 letters)
Synonyms: give, present, invest, indue, gift, endow, endue, empower
- 42. ___-Nomenal, punny restaurant name - Show Answer
PHO
(3 letters)
- 43. Like some targeted winter meds - Show Answer
ANTIFLU
(7 letters)
- 46. Style of house with wide eaves - Show Answer
CHALET
(6 letters)
Synonyms: chalet
- 48. "S'il vous plaît," across the Rhine - Show Answer
BITTE
(5 letters)
- 51. Drinks mistakenly invented by a Dairy Queen owner in 1958 - Show Answer
ICEES
(5 letters)
Synonyms: frost, ice
- 52. Agendas, for short - Show Answer
SKEDS
(5 letters)
- 53. Useful command for the error-prone - Show Answer
UNDO
(4 letters)
Synonyms: undo, unmake, loosen, unwrap, untie
Antonyms: make, wrap
- 54. Many Zoom calls: Abbr. - Show Answer
MTGS
(4 letters)
- 55. Singer Perry - Show Answer
KATY
(4 letters)
- 56. Leading - Show Answer
STAR
(4 letters)
Synonyms: star_topology, starring, lead, ace, leading, sensation, hotshot, wiz, principal, mavin, genius, star, superstar, maven, headliner, prima, asterisk, adept, champion, whiz, stellar, whizz, virtuoso, wizard
- 57. Peanut ___ - Show Answer
OIL
(3 letters)
Synonyms: rock_oil, inunct, anoint, fossil_oil, vegetable_oil, oil_color, crude_oil, anele, oil_colour, embrocate, petroleum, crude, oil
- 58. Going concern, for short? - Show Answer
ETD
(3 letters)
Synonyms: ETD, explosive_trace_detection
- 59. Jack Ryan's org. in "The Hunt for Red October" - Show Answer
CIA
(3 letters)
Synonyms: CIA, Central_Intelligence_Agency