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NYT Crossword - January 04, 1990 | XWordHint

Published on Thursday, January 04, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 04, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

1A: "1. Snatch"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a mechanical device for gripping an object
  • Similar words include: catch, snatch, snap
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GRAB

2A: "5. Shore up"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling
  • Similar words include: prop up, shore, airplane propeller
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PROP

3A: "9. Arrest"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the event of something ending
  • Similar words include: terminate, barricade, hitch
  • Opposite of: continue, start
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STOP

4A: "13. Wedding missiles"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
  • Similar words include: Elmer Rice, Sir Tim Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RICE

5A: "14. One of Jupiter's satellites"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (greek mythology) a queen of sparta who was raped by zeus who had taken the form of a swan; helen of troy was conceived in the rape of leda
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEDA

6A: "15. Sugar-maple spout"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
  • Similar words include: stilt, bung, pile
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SPILE

7A: "16. Indian tourist town"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGRA

8A: "17. Currier's partner"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)
  • Similar words include: Charles Edward Ives, James Merritt Ives, James Ives
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IVES

9A: "18. Boccaccio's "The ___ Heart""

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that take in solid food
  • Similar words include: deplete, run through, rust
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EATEN

10A: "19. Start of a quip"

14 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: THEMINISTERWHO

11A: "22. Ands, in Avignon"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ETS

12A: "23. Tippler's trouble"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning
  • Similar words include: delirium tremens
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DTS

13A: "24. Factories, to Fifi"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: USINES

14A: "25. Quip: Part II"

9 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that engage in a rehearsal (of)
  • Similar words include: practice, rehearse, practise
  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REHEARSES

15A: "27. Portends"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that indicate by signs
  • Similar words include: omen, augur, prefigure
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BODES

16A: "30. Dregs"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
  • Similar words include: Rose Louise Hovick, lee, Robert E. Lee
  • Opposite of: windward
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEES

17A: "31. "High ___," M. Anderson play"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOR

18A: "34. Saharan"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  • Similar words include: desiccated, desiccate, waterless
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARID

19A: "35. Pansy's pad"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
  • Similar words include: know, sleep together, bonk
  • Opposite of: get up, turn out
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BED

20A: "36. Mayor of Palm Springs"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BONO

21A: "37. Crest"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the upper part of anything
  • Similar words include: meridian, tiptop, top out
  • Opposite of: bottom
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOP

22A: "38. Kodiak, e.g."

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws
  • Similar words include: carry, have, birth
  • Opposite of: bull
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BEAR

23A: "40. Emulated Clementine's dad"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that get from the earth by excavation
  • Similar words include: mine
  • Opposite of: unmined
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MINED

24A: "41. Quip: Part III"

9 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a customary way of operation or behavior
  • Similar words include: drill, practice, rehearse
  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PRACTICES

25A: "44. Emulate Delbert Mann"

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that command with authority
  • Similar words include: conduct, lineal, straight
  • Opposite of: inverse, collateral
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DIRECT

26A: "46. Today's jrs., next year"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite
  • Similar words include: sr, steradian, atomic number 38
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SRS

27A: "47. Ditty syllable"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TRA

28A: "50. End of the quip"

14 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: WHATHEPREACHES

29A: "53. Former Pacific defense gp."

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SEATO

30A: "54. Harvest"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that gather, as of natural products
  • Similar words include: draw, harvest, glean
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REAP

31A: "55. "Scourge of mortals": Homer"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (greek mythology) greek god of war; son of zeus and hera; identified with roman mars
  • Similar words include: are, ar
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARES

32A: "56. Of the distant past, poetically"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OLDEN

33A: "57. Bright thought in Toulon"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IDEE

34A: "58. Ancient Persian's contemporary"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MEDE

35A: "59. Play the lead"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
  • Similar words include: hotshot, wiz, superstar
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STAR

36A: "60. Has the misery"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that aromatic bulb used as seasoning
  • Similar words include: pain, trouble, garlic
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AILS

37A: "61. Gnat or rat"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
  • Similar words include: pestilence, blighter, cuss
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PEST

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

1D: "1. Rasp"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
  • Similar words include: grind, fret, rankle
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GRATE

2D: "2. Correct"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; ; - eleanor roosevelt
  • Similar words include: correctly, mighty, right wing
  • Opposite of: falsify, wrong
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RIGHT

3D: "3. Character in "The Rivals""

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
  • Similar words include: Akka, land, Accho
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACRES

4D: "4. Grin"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather
  • Similar words include: ray of light, irradiation, shine
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BEAM

5D: "5. Column base"

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
  • Similar words include: pedestal, footstall
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PLINTH

6D: "6. Change the text"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the act of rewriting something
  • Similar words include: revision, revisal, rescript
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REVISE

7D: "7. Genethliacons"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  • Similar words include: ode
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ODES

8D: "8. Grazed upon"

8 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
  • Similar words include: graze, range, pasture
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PASTURED

9D: "9. Generates"

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
  • Similar words include: engender, spawn, breed
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SPAWNS

10D: "10. Give a tenth of one's income"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a levy of one tenth of something
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TITHE

11D: "11. Lineup in a supermarket"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
  • Similar words include: oleomargarine, margarine, marge
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OLEOS

12D: "12. Stylograph"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
  • Similar words include: write, playpen, indite
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PEN

13D: "15. Sequential events"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that similar things placed in order or happening one after another
  • Similar words include: serial, serial publication
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SERIES

14D: "20. Roman date"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that in the roman calendar: the 15th of march or may or july or october or the 13th of any other month
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IDES

15D: "21. Being"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESSE

16D: "25. ___ rover (children's game)"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
  • Similar words include: reddened, scarlet, violent
  • Opposite of: gain
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RED

17D: "26. Raid warning"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
  • Similar words include: watchful, spanking, alerting
  • Opposite of: unalert
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALERT

18D: "27. Belfry occupant"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
  • Similar words include: lick, cream, squash racquet
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BAT

19D: "28. Pizarro's quest"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ORO

20D: "29. Pickpocket"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a depression in an otherwise level surface
  • Similar words include: fall, plunge, duck
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DIP

21D: "31. Heavy weight"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a united states unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
  • Similar words include: net ton, short ton, gross ton
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TON

22D: "32. Bill passed regularly"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
  • Similar words include: unmatched, unmatchable, ace
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ONE

23D: "33. If spared, it spoils"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a long thin implement made of metal or wood
  • Similar words include: pole, retinal rod, gat
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROD

24D: "35. One-celled microorganisms"

8 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants
  • Similar words include: bacterium
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BACTERIA

25D: "36. Encore!"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
  • Similar words include: bismuth, atomic number 83, Bi
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BIS

26D: "38. Type of lace"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a native or inhabitant of brittany (especially one who speaks the breton language)
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BRETON

27D: "39. Apiece"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
  • Similar words include: to each one, from each one, for each one
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EACH

28D: "40. Tableland"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that flat tableland with steep edges
  • Similar words include: table
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MESA

29D: "41. Famous Vienna park"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
  • Similar words include: chatterbox, magpie, babbler
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PRATER

30D: "42. ___ Baline (Irving Berlin)"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that jewish republic in southwestern asia at eastern end of mediterranean; formerly part of palestine
  • Similar words include: Zion, State of Israel, Yisrael
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ISRAEL

31D: "43. Delicate pancakes"

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations
  • Similar words include: crepe paper, crepe, French pancake
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CREPES

32D: "44. Resided"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that think moodily or anxiously about something
  • Similar words include: populate, dwell, lie
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DWELT

33D: "45. "___ little pony ... ""

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IHADA

34D: "47. Unlucky number on a match"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
  • Similar words include: trio, trinity, 3
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: THREE

35D: "48. Bulrushes"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera arundo and phragmites
  • Similar words include: vibrating reed, beating-reed instrument, reed
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REEDS

36D: "49. Plus item"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a useful or valuable quality
  • Similar words include: plus
  • Opposite of: liability
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASSET

37D: "51. Foot: Comb. form"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PEDI

38D: "52. Corny"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
  • Similar words include: cantonment, summer camp, clique
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CAMP

39D: "53. Mayday's cousin"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code
  • Similar words include: so, sol, soh
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SOS

Puzzle Stats

37 Across
39 Down
76 Total

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Date: Thursday, December 31, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 70 (37 Across, 33 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.5 letters

December 31, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions

NYT Thursday Crossword Across Clues - December 31, 2020 Solutions

No. Clue Letters
1A 1. N.B.A. stat 3
2A 4. Number of stripes on la bandera mexicana 4
3A 8. Relay, e.g. 5
4A 13. Oscar-winning actor for "Moonlight" and "Green Book" 3
5A 14. Chew (out) 4
6A 15. Actress Clarke of "Game of Thrones" 6
7A 16. Rapper MC ___ 3
8A 17. Plant that lacks true roots and leaves 4
9A 18. Be surpassed by 6
10A 19. Broker's request for funds 10
11A 21. Averts, with "off" 6
12A 22. Product with the slogan "Trust the power within" 8
13A 24. James Merritt ___, pioneer in American lithography 4
14A 25. Modest 6
15A 26. Digital currency 7
16A 28. Foot with a short part and a long part 4
17A 29. Places to crash 6
18A 30. Layer 3
19A 31. Goes downhill 7
20A 33. Game that's 100% luck 3
21A 36. ___-vivre (ability to live elegantly) 6
22A 37. Modern know-it-all 4
23A 38. Epic collapse 8
24A 39. Literally, "way of the gods" 6
25A 41. Capital of Italy's Apulia region 4
26A 42. Sums set aside, say 8
27A 44. One of 64 divisions of Louisiana 6
28A 46. Highlighter of tihs clue? 10
29A 48. Certain tailored suit 6
30A 49. Capital of Fiji 4
31A 50. Not-so-great grade 3
32A 51. Put together, as assets 6
33A 52. Send off 4
34A 53. Like Haydn's Symphony No. 12 3
35A 54. Squirming, maybe 5
36A 55. Goes out with 4
37A 56. Something to take or hang 3

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. N.B.A. stat"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PPG

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "4. Number of stripes on la bandera mexicana"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TRES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "8. Relay, e.g."

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that something that happens at a given place and time
  • Words that mean the same thing: effect, outcome, issue
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EVENT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Oscar-winning actor for "Moonlight" and "Green Book""

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Cassius Marcellus Clay, Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ALI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Chew (out)"

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 quantity of written matter
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: REAM

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "15. Actress Clarke of "Game of Thrones""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that tropical african herbs
  • Words that mean the same thing: genus Emilia
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EMILIA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "16. Rapper MC ___"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: REN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "17. Plant that lacks true roots and leaves"

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 primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
  • Words that mean the same thing: algae
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ALGA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "18. Be surpassed by"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: LOSETO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "19. Broker's request for funds"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MARGINCALL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "21. Averts, with "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 (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
  • Words that mean the same thing: rung, staff, round
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: STAVES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "22. Product with the slogan "Trust the power within""

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DURACELL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "24. James Merritt ___, pioneer in American lithography"

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 united states composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)
  • Words that mean the same thing: James Merritt Ives, James Ives, Charles Edward Ives
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: IVES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "25. Modest"

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 affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
  • Words that mean the same thing: overmodest, coy
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DEMURE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "26. Digital currency"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BITCOIN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "28. Foot with a short part and a long part"

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 metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
  • Words that mean the same thing: iambus
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: IAMB

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "29. Places to crash"

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 mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame
  • Words that mean the same thing: futon
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: FUTONS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "30. Layer"

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 one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
  • Words that mean the same thing: provide, cater, run
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PLY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "31. Goes downhill"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • Words that mean the same thing: aggravate, worsen, exasperate
  • The opposite would be: better
  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WORSENS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "33. Game that's 100% luck"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
  • Words that mean the same thing: state of war, warfare
  • The opposite would be: make peace, peace
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "36. ___-vivre (ability to live elegantly)"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SAVOIR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "37. Modern know-it-all"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SIRI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "38. Epic collapse"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping
  • Words that mean the same thing: nuclear meltdown
  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MELTDOWN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "39. Literally, "way of the gods""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the native religion and former ethnic cult of japan
  • Words that mean the same thing: Shintoist, Shintoistic, Shintoism
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SHINTO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "41. Capital of Italy's Apulia region"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that capital city of the apulia region on the adriatic coast
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BARI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "42. Sums set aside, say"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: NESTEGGS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "44. One of 64 divisions of Louisiana"

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 a local church community
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PARISH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "46. Highlighter of tihs clue?"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SPELLCHECK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "48. Certain tailored suit"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ARMANI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "49. Capital of Fiji"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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 fiji (on viti levu island)
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SUVA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "50. Not-so-great grade"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DEE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "51. Put together, as assets"

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 combine into a common fund
  • Words that mean the same thing: pool
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: POOLED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "52. Send off"

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 expel (gases or odors)
  • Words that mean the same thing: breathe, utter, give off
  • The opposite would be: absorb
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EMIT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "53. Like Haydn's Symphony No. 12"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: INE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "54. Squirming, maybe"

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 nervous and unable to relax
  • Words that mean the same thing: itchy, fidgety, fretful
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ANTSY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "55. Goes out 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 the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
  • Words that mean the same thing: ascertain, run into, go steady
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SEES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "56. Something to take or hang"

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 nine and one; the base of the decimal system
  • Words that mean the same thing: decade, tenner, 10
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TEN

    Great job if you got it right!

December 31, 2020 Down Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Guide

No. Clue Letters
1D 1. Chicken ___ (certain entree, informally) 4
2D 2. District attorney's offering, maybe 8
3D 3. Game with sets and runs 8
4D 4. Diner or sleeper 8
5D 5. Adjust, as skates 6
6D 6. Two under 5
7D 7. Local economy makeup ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme 15
8D 8. Faces of the digital age? 9
9D 9. In relation to 7
10D 10. Big roll 6
11D 11. Informal times, in ads 5
12D 12. New Mexico's ___ Ski Valley 4
13D 15. Legal limits? 3
14D 20. Chow 4
15D 23. Quantity equal to about seven glasses of wine 5
16D 25. Minor market move 3
17D 27. Shipload 3
18D 29. :-( 5
19D 31. Winner of a record 26 Oscars 10
20D 32. Ab ___ (from the start) 3
21D 33. Went forward without a plan 8
22D 34. Manhattan's SoHo has a noted one 8
23D 35. Where swimmer Katie Ledecky won four Olympic golds 3
24D 36. "Flash Gordon" and others 7
25D 37. Pine (for) 4
26D 38. Woodchuck of the western U.S. 6
27D 39. A one-hit Wonder he's not 6
28D 40. Violently temperamental sorts 8
29D 41. Titan of industry 5
30D 43. Froth 5
31D 44. Old man 4
32D 45. Shrouded 3
33D 47. Razor-sharp 4

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. Chicken ___ (certain entree, informally)"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PARM

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. District attorney's offering, maybe"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PLEADEAL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Game with sets and runs"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GINRUMMY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Diner or sleeper"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TRAINCAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Adjust, as skates"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RELACE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Two under"

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 large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
  • Words that mean the same thing: bird of Jove, double birdie
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EAGLE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Local economy makeup ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SMALLBUSINESSES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Faces of the digital age?"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email
  • Words that mean the same thing: emoticon
  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EMOTICONS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. In relation to"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: VISAVIS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Big roll"

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 the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one
  • Words that mean the same thing: 11, XI, xi
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ELEVEN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Informal times, in ads"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: NITES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. New Mexico's ___ Ski Valley"

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 member of the pueblo people living in northern new mexico
  • Words that mean the same thing: Taoist, Tao
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TAOS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "15. Legal limits?"

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 angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  • Words that mean the same thing: elevated, elevation, overhead railway
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ELS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "20. Chow"

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 informal terms for a meal
  • Words that mean the same thing: bum, chuck, eats
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GRUB

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "23. Quantity equal to about seven glasses of wine"

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 metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
  • Words that mean the same thing: cubic decimeter, litre, cubic decimetre
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: LITER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Minor market move"

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 depression in an otherwise level surface
  • Words that mean the same thing: drop, souse, duck
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DIP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Shipload"

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 united states unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
  • Words that mean the same thing: gross ton, short ton, long ton
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TON

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "29. :-("

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a facial expression of dislike or displeasure
  • Words that mean the same thing: lower, lour, scowl
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: FROWN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "31. Winner of a record 26 Oscars"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about movies/film.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: __________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WALTDISNEY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "32. Ab ___ (from the start)"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: OVO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. Went forward without a plan"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WINGEDIT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "34. Manhattan's SoHo has a noted one"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ARTSCENE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "35. Where swimmer Katie Ledecky won four Olympic golds"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the former capital and 2nd largest city of brazil; chief brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
  • Words that mean the same thing: Rio de Janeiro
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RIO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. "Flash Gordon" and others"

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 serialized set of programs
  • Words that mean the same thing: serial publication, serial, series
  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SERIALS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "37. Pine (for)"

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 utterance made by exhaling audibly
  • Words that mean the same thing: suspiration, suspire
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SIGH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "38. Woodchuck of the western U.S."

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 stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MARMOT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "39. A one-hit Wonder he's not"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: STEVIE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "40. Violently temperamental sorts"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a malicious woman with a fierce temper
  • Words that mean the same thing: vixen, harpy, hellcat
  • The word looks like this: ________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HELLCATS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "41. Titan of industry"

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 nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank
  • Words that mean the same thing: big businessman, mogul, tycoon
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BARON

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "43. Froth"

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 foam or froth on the sea
  • Words that mean the same thing: suds, froth
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SPUME

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "44. Old man"

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 informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
  • Words that mean the same thing: pop, pa, pappa
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PAPA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "45. Shrouded"

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, hide, obliterate
  • The opposite would be: show
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HID

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "47. Razor-sharp"

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 funeral lament sung with loud wailing
  • Words that mean the same thing: incisive, sharp, corking
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: KEEN

    Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category Number of Clues Percentage
General Knowledge 47 67.1%
Short Answer 9 12.9%
History 4 5.7%
Celebrity/Entertainment 3 4.3%
Sports 3 4.3%
Geography 2 2.9%
Music 1 1.4%
Movies/Film 1 1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric Value
Across Clues 37
Down Clues 33
Total Clues 70
Average Answer Length 5.5 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 Thursday, 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!

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Last Updated: September 20, 2025 at 09:38 AM

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