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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, December 25, 2021
Difficulty Level: Challenging Thursday Puzzle
Total Clues: 61 (26 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 6.1 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Saturday Puzzle December 25, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Things you might snap on, nowadays | 9 |
| 2A | 10. Something suddenly fashionable | 11 |
| 3A | 12. Welcome sign of spring | 13 |
| 4A | 14. Bases of support | 7 |
| 5A | 15. Writer whose initials, when doubled, become another answer in this puzzle | 7 |
| 6A | 17. Charge | 6 |
| 7A | 18. Fly far, far away? | 6 |
| 8A | 19. More familiar name for hydrated magnesium silicate | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Sam who directed "A Simple Plan" | 5 |
| 10A | 24. Ball ___ | 4 |
| 11A | 25. Body opening? | 3 |
| 12A | 26. Stuff | 7 |
| 13A | 28. Subject of some MK-Ultra experiments | 3 |
| 14A | 29. "Let's pray it never comes to that" | 9 |
| 15A | 31. Sarcastic response to an attempt at intimidation | 11 |
| 16A | 33. Java has a rare species of one | 5 |
| 17A | 34. "What ___?" | 5 |
| 18A | 36. Members of filmdom's Breakfast Club | 5 |
| 19A | 37. The oldest known one was found carved into a mammoth tusk (∼25,000 B.C.) | 3 |
| 20A | 40. Battery type | 5 |
| 21A | 42. They're filled with dough | 4 |
| 22A | 43. Aquaman portrayer | 5 |
| 23A | 45. Side (with) | 4 |
| 24A | 46. Listing in the Fortune 100 | 15 |
| 25A | 49. W.N.B.A. M.V.P. in 2015 and 2019 | 15 |
| 26A | 50. Jumper, e.g. | 15 |
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. Things you might snap on, nowadays"
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: PHOTOAPPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "10. Something suddenly fashionable"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 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: THENEWBLACK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "12. Welcome sign of spring"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHORTSWEATHER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. Bases of support"
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 architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
- Words that mean the same thing: pedestal, plinth, footstall
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PLINTHS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Writer whose initials, when doubled, become another answer in this puzzle"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
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: TSELIOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. Charge"
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 become converted into ions
- Words that mean the same thing: ionise
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IONIZE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "18. Fly far, far away?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that bloodsucking african fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: tsetse fly, glossina, tzetze fly
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TSETSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "19. More familiar name for hydrated magnesium silicate"
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 fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder
- Words that mean the same thing: talcum
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TALC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. Sam who directed "A Simple Plan""
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: RAIMI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "24. Ball ___"
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 part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes)
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "25. Body opening?"
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 one or some or every or all without specification
- Words that mean the same thing: whatsoever, whatever
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. Stuff"
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 crowd or pack to capacity
- Words that mean the same thing: ram, cram, chock up
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JAMPACK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Subject of some MK-Ultra experiments"
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 powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- Words that mean the same thing: lysergic acid diethylamide
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LSD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. "Let's pray it never comes to that""
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: GODFORBID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "31. Sarcastic response to an attempt at intimidation"
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: OOHIMSCARED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "33. Java has a rare species of one"
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 massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast asia and africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
- Words that mean the same thing: rhinoceros
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RHINO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "34. "What ___?""
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 the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- Words that mean the same thing: throw, break, generate
- The opposite would be: take, starve
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GIVES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "36. Members of filmdom's Breakfast Club"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
- Words that mean the same thing: adolescent, stripling, teenager
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEENS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "37. The oldest known one was found carved into a mammoth tusk (∼25,000 B.C.)"
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 diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
- Words that mean the same thing: represent, single-valued function, function
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "40. Battery type"
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 rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low discharge rate when not in use
- Words that mean the same thing: nickel-cadmium accumulator
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NICAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. They're filled with dough"
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 unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- Words that mean the same thing: automatic teller, cash machine, standard atmosphere
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Aquaman portrayer"
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: MOMOA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Side (with)"
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 friendly nation
- Words that mean the same thing: friend
- The opposite would be: foe
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Listing in the Fortune 100"
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: MEGACORPORATION
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "49. W.N.B.A. M.V.P. in 2015 and 2019"
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: ELENADELLEDONNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. Jumper, e.g."
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: SLEEVELESSDRESS
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Saturday NYT Crossword December 25, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Relating to sound | 6 |
| 2D | 2. One cycle per second | 5 |
| 3D | 3. 1979 Donna Summer hit ... or where it was heard | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Model and body positivity activist Holliday | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Pained expression | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Help lift something, maybe? | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Checkout choice | 10 |
| 8D | 8. Some spreads | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Lug | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Bad way to be disguised | 6 |
| 11D | 11. "Bad Lieutenant" star | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Dulcé ___, correspondent for "The Daily Show" beginning in 2017 | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Classic "I messed up" gift | 5 |
| 14D | 14. Souvlaki go-with | 4 |
| 15D | 16. Be behind bars? | 4 |
| 16D | 21. Switch letters | 4 |
| 17D | 22. Some news on Wall St. | 4 |
| 18D | 23. Linguist Okrand who created Klingon | 4 |
| 19D | 26. 21 popes | 5 |
| 20D | 27. Japanese beer | 5 |
| 21D | 29. Lose it completely | 8 |
| 22D | 30. One straying from the norm | 8 |
| 23D | 31. "No way!," spelled out in a text | 7 |
| 24D | 32. Refuse | 7 |
| 25D | 33. Pass on | 6 |
| 26D | 35. Places to get waxed | 6 |
| 27D | 36. Reins in | 5 |
| 28D | 37. Spongelike delicacy | 5 |
| 29D | 38. Enough | 5 |
| 30D | 39. Cannonball targets | 5 |
| 31D | 41. Units equal to 10 micronewtons | 5 |
| 32D | 43. Manner | 4 |
| 33D | 44. Father of many children with Aphrodite | 4 |
| 34D | 47. Ohio pro athlete, informally | 3 |
| 35D | 48. Kick in | 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. Relating to sound"
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 pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading
- Words that mean the same thing: phonetic
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PHONIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. One cycle per second"
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 unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
- Words that mean the same thing: cycles/second, cps, Hz
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HERTZ
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. 1979 Donna Summer hit ... or where it was heard"
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: ONTHERADIO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Model and body positivity activist Holliday"
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: TESS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Pained expression"
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: OWW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Help lift something, maybe?"
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 assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Checkout choice"
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: PLASTICBAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Some spreads"
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 liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
- Words that mean the same thing: poll, crown, pat
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PATES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Lug"
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 (yiddish) an awkward and stupid person
- Words that mean the same thing: shlep, shlepper, schlepper
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCHLEP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Bad way to be disguised"
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 without force or sincere effort
- Words that mean the same thing: thin, lightly
- The opposite would be: thickly
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THINLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. "Bad Lieutenant" star"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: KEITEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Dulcé ___, correspondent for "The Daily Show" beginning in 2017"
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: SLOAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Classic "I messed up" gift"
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 of many shrubs of the genus rosa that bear roses
- Words that mean the same thing: rosebush, pink wine, rosiness
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROSES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Souvlaki go-with"
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 usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
- Words that mean the same thing: pocket bread
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PITA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "16. Be behind bars?"
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 have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- Words that mean the same thing: run, incline, be given
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "21. Switch letters"
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: AMFM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "22. Some news on Wall St."
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 corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
- Words that mean the same thing: initial offering, IPO, initial public offering
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IPOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "23. Linguist Okrand who created Klingon"
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 made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MARC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "26. 21 popes"
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 united states artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)
- Words that mean the same thing: whoremaster, John the Evangelist, trick
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JOHNS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "27. Japanese beer"
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: KIRIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "29. Lose it completely"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOINSANE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "30. One straying from the norm"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEVIATOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "31. "No way!," spelled out in a text"
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: OHEMGEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "32. Refuse"
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 change toward something smaller or lower
- Words that mean the same thing: diminution, declination, decay
- The opposite would be: improvement, ascent
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DECLINE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Down: "33. Pass on"
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 render verbally,
- Words that mean the same thing: ingeminate, recite, reiterate
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RETELL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Down: "35. Places to get waxed"
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 gallery where works of art can be displayed
- Words that mean the same thing: salon, beauty parlor, beauty parlour
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SALONS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Down: "36. Reins in"
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 correct by punishment or discipline
- Words that mean the same thing: domesticize, tone down, tame
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAMES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Down: "37. Spongelike delicacy"
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 of various edible mushrooms of the genus morchella having a brownish spongelike cap
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOREL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Down: "38. Enough"
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 more than enough in size or scope or capacity
- Words that mean the same thing: rich, plentiful, plenteous
- The opposite would be: meager
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMPLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Down: "39. Cannonball targets"
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 excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- Words that mean the same thing: pond, puddle, pool
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: POOLS
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Clue 31 Down: "41. Units equal to 10 micronewtons"
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 unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram
- Words that mean the same thing: dyne
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DYNES
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Clue 32 Down: "43. Manner"
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 how something is done or how it happens
- Words that mean the same thing: fashion, style, manner
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MODE
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Clue 33 Down: "44. Father of many children with Aphrodite"
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 (greek mythology) greek god of war; son of zeus and hera; identified with roman mars
- Words that mean the same thing: ar, are
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARES
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Clue 34 Down: "47. Ohio pro athlete, informally"
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: CAV
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Clue 35 Down: "48. Kick in"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
- Words that mean the same thing: minimal brain dysfunction, tote up, hyperkinetic syndrome
- The opposite would be: subtract, take away
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The answer is: ADD
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 52 | 85.2% |
| Short Answer | 6 | 9.8% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.6% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.6% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.6% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 26 |
| Down Clues | 35 |
| Total Clues | 61 |
| Average Answer Length | 6.1 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 challenging level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 6 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 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
