0918 NYT Crossword Wednesday, Sept 18, 2024 | Puzzle Answers

Complete Guide to NYT Crossword Tuesday, Sept 18, 2024 | Puzzle Answers

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

NYT Connections answers and clues for wednesday, September 18, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. When les Jeux Olympiques de Paris took place. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ETE




• The clue is 4. Jewelry fastener. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: CLASP

  Possible Answer : clench, clasp, hold, grasp, grip, clutch, brooch, buckle, clutches

  Possible Opposite Answer : unbuckle, unclasp




• The clue is 9. Like the watches in Dali's "The Persistence of Memory". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LIMP

  Possible Answer : gimp, limp, wilted, hitch, hobble




• The clue is 13. Lawless princess. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: XENA




• The clue is 15. Meal with matzo. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SEDER

  Possible Answer : Seder, Passover_supper




• The clue is 16. Roughly 75% of Russia is in it. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ASIA

  Possible Answer : Asia




• The clue is 17. House of worship at the top of 67-Across. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (15 letters)

  The answer: TRINITADEIMONTI




• The clue is 20. Largest arboreal mammal, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ORANG

  Possible Answer : orangutan, orang, Pongo_pygmaeus, orangutang




• The clue is 21. Head honcho at a barbecue. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: PITMASTER




• The clue is 22. Unfilled space. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: LACUNA

  Possible Answer : blank, caisson, coffer, lacuna




• The clue is 24. Half of a Dashiell Hammett detective couple. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: NORA




• The clue is 25. Subreddit overseer, for short. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: MOD

  Possible Answer : modernistic, modern, mod




• The clue is 26. 24th and final letters. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: OMEGAS

  Possible Answer : Z, omega




• The clue is 31. Gum ball, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: WAD

  Possible Answer : compact, jampack, sight, deal, pile, spate, mass, wad, quid, muckle, plug, tidy_sum, great_deal, chaw, mountain, jam, peck, bundle, mess, ram, mickle, raft, chew, batch, passel, good_deal, pot, hatful, mint, lot, chock_up, plenty, flock, heap, cud, cram, slew, stack, pack, quite_a_little




• The clue is 34. Chests. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: BOSOMS

  Possible Answer : knocker, squeeze, embrace, breast, bosom, boob, hug, heart, tit, titty




• The clue is 38. Reference. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CITE

  Possible Answer : cite, summon, citation, quote, adduce, mention, quotation, acknowledgment, name, abduce, summons, refer, advert, reference, bring_up, credit




• The clue is 39. Disney daughter of King Triton. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ARIEL




• The clue is 41. Gave it one's all. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: TRIEDHARD




• The clue is 43. Cutesy term for a swap. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: TRADESIES




• The clue is 45. Region of ancient Greece. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: IONIA

  Possible Answer : Ionia




• The clue is 46. ___ Basil, singer of the 1982 hit "Mickey". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: TONI




• The clue is 47. Source of saffron. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: CROCUS

  Possible Answer : crocus




• The clue is 49. Color similar to hazelnut. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TAN

  Possible Answer : topaz, suntan, burn, tangent, bronze, sunburn, tan




• The clue is 50. Fabric sample. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SWATCH

  Possible Answer : swatch




• The clue is 52. Govt. agency that investigates, among other things, arson. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ATF

  Possible Answer : ATF, Bureau_of_Alcohol_Tobacco_and_Firearms




• The clue is 54. TV personality Kotb. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: HODA




• The clue is 57. Beethoven's Third. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: EROICA




• The clue is 61. Classic comedy that often plays during holiday movie marathons. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: HOMEALONE




• The clue is 66. Black-and-white predators. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ORCAS

  Possible Answer : sea_wolf, grampus, killer, orca, Orcinus_orca, killer_whale




• The clue is 67. Architectural attraction in Rome depicted by this puzzle's grid?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (15 letters)

  The answer: THESPANISHSTEPS




• The clue is 69. Money maker. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: MINT

  Possible Answer : sight, deal, pile, spate, mass, wad, muckle, coin, tidy_sum, great_deal, mountain, peck, mess, mickle, raft, batch, passel, good_deal, pot, hatful, mint, mint_candy, lot, plenty, flock, strike, heap, slew, stack, quite_a_little




• The clue is 70. Posteriors. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: RUMPS

  Possible Answer : croupe, derriere, fanny, nates, rear_end, stern, posterior, tail_end, ass, tush, prat, backside, bottom, bum, hindquarters, butt, keister, croup, fundament, can, rump, buttocks, hind_end, seat, buns, tooshie, arse, tail, rear, behind




• The clue is 71. Father. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SIRE

  Possible Answer : father, engender, beget, mother, get, generate, bring_forth, forefather, sire




• The clue is 72. Mother ___. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LODE

  Possible Answer : lode, load




• The clue is 73. Heart vessel support. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: STENT

  Possible Answer : stent




• The clue is 74. Louse egg. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NIT

  Possible Answer : nit

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Sing the praises of. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: EXTOL

  Possible Answer: extol, exalt, glorify, laud, proclaim

• The clue is 2. ___ firma. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TERRA

• The clue is 3. Pioneering 1940s computer. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ENIAC

• The clue is 4. Winter hrs. in Winnipeg. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: CST

  Possible Answer: Central_Time, Central_Standard_Time, CST

• The clue is 5. Go for a rebound, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LEAP

  Possible Answer: bounce, bound, spring, jump_off, saltation, leaping, jump, leap

• The clue is 6. Extra ingredient. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ADDIN

• The clue is 7. Make sure of. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SEETO

• The clue is 8. Flower on a proverbial "path". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: PRIMROSE

  Possible Answer: primrose, primula

• The clue is 9. Its capital is Vientiane. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LAOS

  Possible Answer: Lao_People's_Democratic_Republic, Laos, Lao, Laotian

• The clue is 10. Contradictory contraction. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ISNT

• The clue is 11. Small arachnid. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: MITE

  Possible Answer: pinch, mite, tinge, jot, hint, speck, soupcon, touch

• The clue is 12. Kings or queens, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: PAIR

  Possible Answer: brace, copulate, yoke, dyad, twin, couplet, duad, pair_off, couple, partner_off, pair, twosome, distich, duo, twain, mate, span, match, duet, geminate

• The clue is 14. Per ___. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ANNUM

  Possible Answer: annum

• The clue is 18. Dishonorable. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: IGNOBLE

  Possible Answer: untitled, ungentle, ignoble

  Possible Opposite Answer : noble

• The clue is 19. Palindromic term of address. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: MAAM

• The clue is 23. Hubbub. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ADO

  Possible Answer: fuss, stir, flurry, hustle, bustle, ado

• The clue is 27. Letter between Delta and Foxtrot. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ECHO

  Possible Answer: resound, reverberation, sound_reflection, echo, repeat, Echo, replication, recall, ring, reverberate

• The clue is 28. ___ sequoia, world's most massive tree species. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: GIANT

  Possible Answer: giant, heavyweight, gargantuan, goliath, behemoth, hulk, whale, giant_star, elephantine, jumbo, monster, titan, colossus

• The clue is 29. Bright spots?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ATRIA

  Possible Answer: atrium

• The clue is 30. Car with a three-box design. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SEDAN

  Possible Answer: sedan, saloon, sedan_chair

• The clue is 31. Bulb measures. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: WATTS

  Possible Answer: watt, Isaac_Watts, Watts, Watt, W, James_Watt

• The clue is 32. Exit sign feature. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ARROW

  Possible Answer: pointer, arrow

• The clue is 33. ___ Prince, a.k.a. Wonder Woman. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DIANA

  Possible Answer: Princess_of_Wales, Princess_Diana, Diana, Lady_Diana_Frances_Spencer

• The clue is 35. Mix up. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: STIR

  Possible Answer: fuss, agitate, ado, shift, bring_up, hustle, budge, stimulate, touch, conjure_up, put_forward, shake, call_forth, raise, arouse, conjure, call_down, stir, flurry, shake_up, bustle, splash, invoke, excite, evoke

• The clue is 36. "Oh! Oh! ___" (onetime snack brand slogan). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: OREO

  Possible Answer: oreo, oreo_cookie

• The clue is 37. Odds and ends: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: MISC

• The clue is 40. Correct type. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EDIT

  Possible Answer: redact, blue-pencil, edit, edit_out, delete, cut

• The clue is 42. Linux software packages, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: DISTROS

• The clue is 44. Well-read sorts. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: SCHOLARS

  Possible Answer: student, scholar, assimilator, scholarly_person, bookman, learner

• The clue is 48. Dubai's home: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: UAE

• The clue is 51. Fellow. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CHAP

  Possible Answer: chap, bloke, feller, cranny, fella, lad, crack, cuss, blighter, gent, fissure, crevice, fellow

• The clue is 53. Some stops along the Oregon Trail. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: FORTS

  Possible Answer: fort_up, garrison, fortress, fort, fortify

• The clue is 55. Toroidal treat. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DONUT

  Possible Answer: sinker, doughnut, donut

• The clue is 56. Japanese cartoons. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ANIME

  Possible Answer: anime, gum_anime, Zanzibar_copal

• The clue is 58. Entrap during a winter storm. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ICEIN

• The clue is 59. ___ pants. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: CAPRI

  Possible Answer: Capri

• The clue is 60. Something of value. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ASSET

  Possible Answer: plus, asset

  Possible Opposite Answer : liability

• The clue is 61. Web code letters. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: HTML

  Possible Answer: hypertext_mark-up_language, hypertext_markup_language, HTML

• The clue is 62. Home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: OHIO

  Possible Answer: Ohio, OH, Buckeye_State, Ohio_River

• The clue is 63. Repair. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: MEND

  Possible Answer: doctor, restore, darn, repair, bushel, fix, mending, mend, fixture, touch_on, heal, fixing, furbish_up, patch, reparation

  Possible Opposite Answer : break

• The clue is 64. Sunrise direction, in San Salvador. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ESTE

• The clue is 65. Its website has a Fantasy section. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ESPN

• The clue is 68. F.D.R.'s successor. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: HST

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Across Clues and Answers (37)

Clue #1: 1. Spaghetti-strapped top, for short

4-letter answer Answer: CAMI

Clue #2: 5. Turns sharply

5-letter answer Answer: VEERS

Word Help: Synonyms: swerve, curve, sheer
Antonyms: back

Clue #3: 10. Bullets and such, informally

4-letter answer Answer: AMMO

Word Help: Synonyms: ammunition, ammo

Clue #4: 14. Radar dot

4-letter answer Answer: BLIP

Word Help: Synonyms: radar_target, blip, pip

Clue #5: 15. J.F.K. Presidential Library architect

5-letter answer Answer: IMPEI

Clue #6: 16. Crackpot

4-letter answer Answer: LOON

Word Help: Synonyms: addle-head, loon, birdbrain

Clue #7: 17. Word repeated in "Que ___, ___"

4-letter answer Answer: SERA

Word Help: Synonyms: blood_serum, serum

Clue #8: 18. Word repeated in "___, ___, gone!"

5-letter answer Answer: GOING

Word Help: Synonyms: blend_in, break, proceed
Antonyms: malfunction, stop

Clue #9: 19. Norway's capital

4-letter answer Answer: OSLO

Word Help: Synonyms: capital_of_Norway, Oslo, Christiania

Clue #10: 20. Rules on how to behave

13-letter answer Answer: CODEOFCONDUCT

Clue #11: 23. Alan who played Pierce on "M*A*S*H"

4-letter answer Answer: ALDA

Clue #12: 24. Bother

3-letter answer Answer: ADO

Word Help: Synonyms: hustle, ado, fuss

Clue #13: 25. Baba ghanouj, e.g.

11-letter answer Answer: EGGPLANTDIP

Clue #14: 31. "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ a bear …"

3-letter answer Answer: WAS

Word Help: Synonyms: make_up, equal, Washington
Antonyms: differ

Clue #15: 34. Froot ___

5-letter answer Answer: LOOPS

Word Help: Synonyms: loop_topology, loop-the-loop, grommet
Antonyms: open_circuit, uncoil

Clue #16: 35. Two on a rowboat

4-letter answer Answer: OARS

Word Help: Synonyms: oar

Clue #17: 36. 65 to 75, typically, on an Interstate hwy.

3-letter answer Answer: MPH

Word Help: Synonyms: miles_per_hour, mph

Clue #18: 37. Boys

4-letter answer Answer: LADS

Word Help: Synonyms: chap, laddie, sonny_boy

Clue #19: 38. Feared scuba diving affliction, with "the"

5-letter answer Answer: BENDS

Word Help: Synonyms: bending, caisson_disease, crimp
Antonyms: straighten, unbend

Clue #20: 40. Roman goddess of the moon

4-letter answer Answer: LUNA

Word Help: Synonyms: Luna

Clue #21: 41. 2003 Will Ferrell Christmas movie

3-letter answer Answer: ELF

Word Help: Synonyms: gremlin, brownie, ELF

Clue #22: 42. Lead-in to truck or gloss

4-letter answer Answer: SEMI

Word Help: Synonyms: semi, trailer_truck, trucking_rig

Clue #23: 43. More whitish

5-letter answer Answer: PALER

Word Help: Synonyms: pale, sick, wan

Clue #24: 44. Fed. intelligence group

3-letter answer Answer: NSA

Word Help: Synonyms: National_Security_Agency, NSA

Clue #25: 45. Goofball

11-letter answer Answer: KNUCKLEHEAD

Word Help: Synonyms: dunderhead, dunce, loggerhead

Clue #26: 48. Prefix with athlete or angle

3-letter answer Answer: TRI

Clue #27: 50. Like diamonds and calculus problems

4-letter answer Answer: HARD

Word Help: Synonyms: operose, difficult, heavy
Antonyms: voiced, lightly

Clue #28: 51. Slangy greeting … or a hint to the starts of 20-, 25- and 45-Across

13-letter answer Answer: WHATSCRACKING

Clue #29: 57. What many dogs do in the spring and fall

4-letter answer Answer: SHED

Word Help: Synonyms: cast, spill, caducous
Antonyms: persistent

Clue #30: 58. Three-line poem from Japan

5-letter answer Answer: HAIKU

Word Help: Synonyms: haiku

Clue #31: 59. Blemish on a car

4-letter answer Answer: DING

Word Help: Synonyms: gouge, nick, dent

Clue #32: 61. Hatcher of "Desperate Housewives"

4-letter answer Answer: TERI

Clue #33: 62. Once more

5-letter answer Answer: AGAIN

Word Help: Synonyms: again, once_again, once_more

Clue #34: 63. Palm tree berry

4-letter answer Answer: ACAI

Clue #35: 64. Money in Mexico

4-letter answer Answer: PESO

Word Help: Synonyms: Philippine_peso, Mexican_peso, Guinea-Bissau_peso

Clue #36: 65. Elite group whose members include Steve Martin and Geena Davis

5-letter answer Answer: MENSA

Word Help: Synonyms: Mensa

Clue #37: 66. Chopped, as logs

4-letter answer Answer: HEWN

Word Help: Synonyms: hew, hewn, hand-hewn

Across Clues and Answers (37)

Clue #1: 1. "CSI" network

3-letter answer Answer: CBS

Clue #2: 2. Baldwin of "30 Rock"

4-letter answer Answer: ALEC

Clue #3: 3. Surrealist Joan

4-letter answer Answer: MIRO

Word Help: Synonyms: Joan_Miro, miro, Podocarpus_ferruginea

Clue #4: 4. Notes, Photos, FaceTime, etc.

8-letter answer Answer: IPADAPPS

Clue #5: 5. Actor Abe of "Barney Miller"

6-letter answer Answer: VIGODA

Clue #6: 6. My Chemical Romance groupie, e.g.

6-letter answer Answer: EMOFAN

Clue #7: 7. "The Divine Comedy" or "Beowulf"

4-letter answer Answer: EPIC

Word Help: Synonyms: epic, epical, larger-than-life

Clue #8: 8. Nevada's "Biggest Little City in the World"

4-letter answer Answer: RENO

Word Help: Synonyms: Reno

Clue #9: 9. Endorse, as a check

4-letter answer Answer: SIGN

Word Help: Synonyms: subscribe, ratify, star_sign

Clue #10: 10. Audibly

5-letter answer Answer: ALOUD

Word Help: Synonyms: loudly, aloud, loud
Antonyms: softly

Clue #11: 11. Cocktail served in a copper mug

10-letter answer Answer: MOSCOWMULE

Clue #12: 12. Slough off

4-letter answer Answer: MOLT

Word Help: Synonyms: molting, moult, molt

Clue #13: 13. Yoko who loved John Lennon

3-letter answer Answer: ONO

Word Help: Synonyms: Yoko_Ono, Ono

Clue #14: 21. 90° angles

4-letter answer Answer: ELLS

Word Help: Synonyms: ell

Clue #15: 22. Fist bumps

4-letter answer Answer: DAPS

Clue #16: 25. Funny DeGeneres

5-letter answer Answer: ELLEN

Clue #17: 26. Hockey scores

5-letter answer Answer: GOALS

Word Help: Synonyms: finish, destination, end

Clue #18: 27. Vito and Michael Corleone

10-letter answer Answer: GODFATHERS

Word Help: Synonyms: godfather

Clue #19: 28. Partner of 60-Down in a bar

5-letter answer Answer: TONIC

Word Help: Synonyms: restorative, soda, soda_pop
Antonyms: atonic

Clue #20: 29. Papa

3-letter answer Answer: DAD

Word Help: Synonyms: dada, daddy, dad

Clue #21: 30. Org. that reviews W-9s

3-letter answer Answer: IRS

Word Help: Synonyms: IRS, Internal_Revenue_Service

Clue #22: 32. Nighttime problem

5-letter answer Answer: APNEA

Word Help: Synonyms: apnea

Clue #23: 33. Sliver

5-letter answer Answer: SHARD

Word Help: Synonyms: shard, sherd, fragment

Clue #24: 38. ___ Folds Five (rock trio)

3-letter answer Answer: BEN

Word Help: Synonyms: ben

Clue #25: 39. Australia's largest bird

3-letter answer Answer: EMU

Word Help: Synonyms: Emu_novaehollandiae, electromagnetic_unit, Dromaius_novaehollandiae

Clue #26: 40. "Well, aren't you fancy!"

8-letter answer Answer: LAHDIDAH

Clue #27: 42. "Saturday Night Live" segment

4-letter answer Answer: SKIT

Word Help: Synonyms: skit

Clue #28: 43. Become more attentive, with "up"

4-letter answer Answer: PERK

Word Help: Synonyms: pick_up, perk, percolate

Clue #29: 46. Business-casual pants

6-letter answer Answer: KHAKIS

Word Help: Synonyms: khakis, khaki

Clue #30: 47. Gap

6-letter answer Answer: LACUNA

Word Help: Synonyms: caisson, lacuna, blank

Clue #31: 49. The "R" of NPR

5-letter answer Answer: RADIO

Word Help: Synonyms: radio_set, radio_receiver, wireless

Clue #32: 51. Roller coaster exclamation

4-letter answer Answer: WHEE

Clue #33: 52. Fake

4-letter answer Answer: SHAM

Word Help: Synonyms: pretended, impostor, put_on

Clue #34: 53. Shark-diving protection

4-letter answer Answer: CAGE

Word Help: Synonyms: coop, cage_in, John_Cage

Clue #35: 54. Film director Johnson

4-letter answer Answer: RIAN

Clue #36: 55. Pleasurable

4-letter answer Answer: NICE

Word Help: Synonyms: squeamish, courteous, gracious
Antonyms: nasty

Clue #37: 56. Chew (on)

4-letter answer Answer: GNAW

Word Help: Synonyms: erode, eat_at, gnaw_at

Clue #38: 57. Product known as "The Racer's Edge"

3-letter answer Answer: STP

Word Help: Synonyms: s.t.p., STP

Clue #39: 60. Partner of 28-Down in a bar

3-letter answer Answer: GIN

Word Help: Synonyms: gin_rummy, gin, snare

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Published on Thursday, July 31, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master today's NYT crossword with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun. Perfect for crossword lover who want that satisfying "aha!" moment.

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. The X-Men, e.g."

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
• Similar words include: mutation, sport, variation
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MUTANTS

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🧩 2A: "6. Way off"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AFAR

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🧩 3A: "10. Blowout victory"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an easy victory
• Similar words include: play, laugher, cavort
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROMP

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🧩 4A: "14. Home of the White Cloud Mountains"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a state in the rocky mountains
• Similar words include: Gem State, ID
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IDAHO

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🧩 5A: "15. Excellent sort of person to be a copy editor"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
• Similar words include: scholastic, bookworm
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PEDANT

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🧩 6A: "16. Dr. ___ (repeated Mike Myers film role)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that morally objectionable behavior
• Similar words include: wickedness, immorality, evilness
• Opposite of: good, goodness

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EVIL

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🧩 7A: "17. :"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
• Similar words include: Aspinwall, Costa Rican colon, El Salvadoran colon
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COLON

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🧩 8A: "18. One with a vision"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person with unusual powers of foresight
• Similar words include: prophesier, prophet, vaticinator
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEER

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🧩 9A: "19. Transfer from one bottle to another"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Similar words include: pour out, pour
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DECANT

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🧩 10A: "20. Ring"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
• Similar words include: hold in, close in, wrap
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENCLOSE

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🧩 11A: "22. Empty spaces"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a blank gap or missing part
• Similar words include: lacuna, caisson, blank
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LACUNAS

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🧩 12A: "24. Rita ___, "Anywhere" singer"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
• Similar words include: bone, oculus sinister, osmium
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORA

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🧩 13A: "25. Scout's work, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RECON

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🧩 14A: "26. Testing the limits, say"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVANTGARDE

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🧩 15A: "30. Little guys"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KIDDOS

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🧩 16A: "34. Bloom in several Monet paintings"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any liliaceous plant of the genus lilium having showy pendulous flowers
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: LILY

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🧩 17A: "35. Best Picture of 1958"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GIGI

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🧩 18A: "37. Bit of Chinese New Year décor"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that light in a transparent protective case
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LANTERN

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🧩 19A: "38. Filled up with"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Similar words include: consume, use up, run through
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATE

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🧩 20A: "39. Ones paying flat rates ... or, when read as two words, a hint to this puzzle's theme"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
• Similar words include: tenant, renter
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TENANTS

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🧩 21A: "41. Agcy. watching the skies"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an agency in the department of transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation
• Similar words include: Federal Aviation Agency
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FAA

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🧩 22A: "42. ___ Gras"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MARDI

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🧩 23A: "44. Cut deeply"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that make an etching of
• Similar words include: engrave
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETCH

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🧩 24A: "45. Use to the fullest"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
• Similar words include: Milk River
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MILK

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🧩 25A: "46. "Full House" pair"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OLSENS

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🧩 26A: "48. "There's no way!""

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THISCANTBE

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🧩 27A: "50. Award-winning Donald Glover TV series, or where it was filmed"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that state capital and largest city of georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern united states; was plundered and burned by sherman's army during the american civil war
• Similar words include: battle of Atlanta, capital of Georgia
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATLANTA

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🧩 28A: "52. Avalanche group, for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NHL

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🧩 29A: "53. Manage"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that watch and direct
• Similar words include: supervise, manage, superintend
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OVERSEE

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🧩 30A: "56. Bore importance"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MEANTALOT

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🧩 31A: "60. Ingredients in many potpies"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that seed of a pea plant used for food
• Similar words include: pea plant, pea
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PEAS

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🧩 32A: "61. Baby"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
• Similar words include: baby, babe
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INFANT

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🧩 33A: "63. Greek goddess of peace"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IRENE

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🧩 34A: "64. Out-of-bounds"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that straying from the right course or from accepted standards
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERRANT

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🧩 35A: "65. Shred the ___ (conquer a mountain, in skiing slang)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GNAR

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🧩 36A: "66. Start of a counting rhyme"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EENIE

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🧩 37A: "67. Launch party?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government responsible for aviation and spaceflight
• Similar words include: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NASA

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🧩 38A: "68. Tennis champ Mandlikova"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HANA

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🧩 39A: "69. Little brats"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
• Similar words include: snob, prig, snoot
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SNOTS

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Laptop accessories"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
• Similar words include: computer mouse, black eye, mouse
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MICE

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🧩 2D: "2. Thick Japanese noodle"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UDON

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🧩 3D: "3. Main component of steatite"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of 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
• Similar words include: talcum
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TALC

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🧩 4D: "4. Collection of literary works"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a collection of selected literary passages
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANTHOLOGY

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🧩 5D: "5. State bordering Arizona"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that ground snakes
• Similar words include: genus Sonora
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SONORA

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🧩 6D: "6. Only part of Italy's 900-year-old Basilica di Santa Giulia that remains"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar
• Similar words include: apsis
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: APSE

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🧩 7D: "7. Cost"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
• Similar words include: bung, tip
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FEE

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🧩 8D: "8. "River Lea" singer, 2015"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADELE

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🧩 9D: "9. Did laps, say"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RANTRACK

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🧩 10D: "10. Not adding any new information"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that more than is needed, desired, or required
• Similar words include: excess, spare, pleonastic
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REDUNDANT

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🧩 11D: "11. Where things might get heated"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OVEN

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🧩 12D: "12. Flaky rock"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity
• Similar words include: isinglass
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MICA

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🧩 13D: "13. Some spies"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that buildings for carrying on industrial labor
• Similar words include: plant life, industrial plant, set
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PLANTS

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🧩 14D: "21. Certain military leader, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SARGE

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🧩 15D: "23. Orderly arrangements of wiring"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
• Similar words include: loop, coil, spiral
• Opposite of: uncoil

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COILS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16D: "25. Something you might sail right through?"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a meeting for boat races
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REGATTA

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🧩 17D: "26. Thrifty competitor"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a siege and massacre at a mission in san antonio in 1836; mexican forces under santa anna besieged and massacred american rebels who were fighting to make texas independent of mexico
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALAMO

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🧩 18D: "27. Critical"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that urgently needed; absolutely necessary
• Similar words include: critical, life-sustaining, full of life
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VITAL

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🧩 19D: "28. Some hunting lodge décor"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
• Similar words include: antler
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANTLERS

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🧩 20D: "29. Have a nice meal, say"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that have supper; eat dinner
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DINE

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🧩 21D: "31. Untamable"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
• Similar words include: noncompliant
• Opposite of: compliant

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEFIANT

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🧩 22D: "32. Big name in dental care"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORALB

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🧩 23D: "33. Animal with sea and coral varieties"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
• Similar words include: ophidian, Snake River, serpent
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SNAKE

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🧩 24D: "36. Move like a sloth"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
• Similar words include: edge, column inch, in
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INCH

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🧩 25D: "39. Shades"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
• Similar words include: tone, tinge, touch
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TINTS

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🧩 26D: "40. Your, of yore"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THINE

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🧩 27D: "43. Start of a wish-list letter"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEARSANTA

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🧩 28D: "45. Ferrari's Formula 1 rival"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MCLAREN

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🧩 29D: "47. Seasonal carrier"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
• Similar words include: sled, sledge
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SLEIGH

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30D: "49. Huts"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that small crude shelter used as a dwelling
• Similar words include: sea chantey, hut, shack
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHANTIES

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🧩 31D: "51. Part of a bug"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
• Similar words include: feeler, transmitting aerial, aerial
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANTENNA

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🧩 32D: "53. Like some questions or doors"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
• Similar words include: loose, unfold, undetermined
• Opposite of: unreceptive, covert

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OPEN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33D: "54. ___ Farmiga, Best Supporting Actress nominee for 2009's "Up in the Air""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VERA

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🧩 34D: "55. Corn units"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
• Similar words include: pinna, spike, auricle
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EARS

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🧩 35D: "56. "Location, location, location," to many real estate agents"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a commonly repeated word or phrase
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MANTRA

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🧩 36D: "57. Jay in the Television Hall of Fame"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LENO

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🧩 37D: "58. Doing the job"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ONIT

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🧩 38D: "59. Some shirts"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
• Similar words include: golf tee, football tee, tee up
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TEES

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🧩 39D: "62. Item for which "This thing blows" would be a positive review"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
• Similar words include: rooter, lover, buff
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: FAN

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39 Across Clues

39 Down Clues

78 Total Clues

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