November 02, 2019 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, November 02, 2019

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.6 letters

November 02, 2019 Saturday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. 2008 Lil Wayne hit whose title is slang for lots of money	6
2A	7. Geographical features that Mexico City and Kathmandu are built on	8
3A	15. Weakness of note?	6
4A	16. Emphatic refusal	8
5A	17. Laffy Taffy flavor	6
6A	18. "You wanna fight, bro?!"	8
7A	19. "That's my cue!"	4
8A	20. Speedy, in adspeak	4
9A	22. Relative of a tweet	5
10A	23. Puts through a sieve	5
11A	25. Tool used in angioplasty	5
12A	27. Ways: Abbr.	3
13A	28. Others	7
14A	30. Middle of a bell curve	4
15A	32. ___ party (all-female get-together)	3
16A	33. Like a milquetoast	4
17A	35. Rabid fan	5
18A	38. Commanding lead?	13
19A	41. Pomme de ___ (potato: Fr.)	5
20A	42. Like the daughter in 2018's "A Quiet Place"	4
21A	43. After-dinner offering	3
22A	45. Woman's name that's an anagram of two men's names	4
23A	47. Snowflake shape	7
24A	49. Shade of gray	3
25A	52. Shell material	5
26A	54. Mourner in the Book of Ruth	5
27A	55. Abu ___	5
28A	57. Org. that operates the Large Hadron Collider	4
29A	59. Shapes of some bacterial cells	4
30A	60. They'll show you what's what	8
31A	62. Try to counteract	6
32A	64. Conspiring (with)	8
33A	65. Use one's noodle, formally	6
34A	66. Allen Ginsberg, e.g.	8
35A	67. Name over a return address	6

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. 2008 Lil Wayne hit whose title is slang for lots of money"

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: AMILLI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "7. Geographical features that Mexico City and Kathmandu are built on"

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

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: LAKEBEDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. Weakness of note?"

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: TINEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Emphatic refusal"

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: IWILLNOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Laffy Taffy flavor"

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 any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
• Words that mean the same thing: banana tree
• 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: BANANA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. "You wanna fight, bro?!""

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: COMEATME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. "That's my cue!""

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: IMON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Speedy, in adspeak"

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: QUIK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. Relative of a tweet"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the short weak cry of a young bird
• Words that mean the same thing: chirrup, chirp, peep
• 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: CHEEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "23. Puts through a sieve"

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 grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
• Words that mean the same thing: Timothy Miles Bindon Rice, Elmer Rice, rice
• 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: RICES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "25. Tool used in angioplasty"

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 slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
• 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: STENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "27. Ways: Abbr."

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.

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: RDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "28. Others"

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: THEREST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "30. Middle of a bell curve"

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 standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
• Words that mean the same thing: average
• 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: NORM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "32. ___ party (all-female get-together)"

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 adult female chicken
• Words that mean the same thing: biddy
• 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: HEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "33. Like a milquetoast"

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 humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
• Words that mean the same thing: spiritless, mild, modest
• 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: MEEK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "35. Rabid fan"

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 cruel wicked and inhuman person
• Words that mean the same thing: devil, daimon, monster
• 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: FIEND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "38. Commanding lead?"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ACTORDIRECTOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "41. Pomme de ___ (potato: Fr.)"

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: TERRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "42. Like the daughter in 2018's "A Quiet Place""

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 people who have severe hearing impairments
• Words that mean the same thing: indifferent, deafen
• The opposite would be: hearing
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DEAF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. After-dinner offering"

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 beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
• Words that mean the same thing: Camellia sinensis, tea leaf, afternoon tea
• 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: TEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "45. Woman's name that's an anagram of two men's names"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EDNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "47. Snowflake shape"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry
• 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: FRACTAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "49. Shade of gray"

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 the residue that remains when something is burned
• Words that mean the same thing: ash tree
• 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: ASH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "52. Shell material"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell
• Words that mean the same thing: mother-of-pearl
• 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: NACRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "54. Mourner in the Book of Ruth"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the mother-in-law of ruth whose story is told in the book of ruth in the old testament
• Words that mean the same thing: Noemi
• 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: NAOMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "55. Abu ___"

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: DHABI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "57. Org. that operates the Large Hadron Collider"

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: CERN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "59. Shapes of some bacterial cells"

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 long thin implement made of metal or wood
• Words that mean the same thing: perch, gat, rod cell
• 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: RODS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "60. They'll show you what's what"

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: LABELERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "62. Try to counteract"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an engagement fought between two military forces
• Words that mean the same thing: battle, fight, scrap
• 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: COMBAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "64. Conspiring (with)"

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: INLEAGUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "65. Use one's noodle, formally"

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 form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
• Words that mean the same thing: conceive of, envisage, imagine
• 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: IDEATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "66. Allen Ginsberg, e.g."

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: BEATPOET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "67. Name over a return address"

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 someone who transmits a message
• Words that mean the same thing: transmitter
• 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: SENDER

  Great job if you got it right!

November 02, 2019 Saturday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. When Apgar tests are performed	7
2D	2. Southernmost team in the N.B.A.	9
3D	3. Purity	9
4D	4. One-point throw in horseshoes	6
5D	5. Computer connection letters	3
6D	6. Modern-day home of where the biblical Abraham was born	4
7D	7. O.K.	5
8D	8. Disturbed, say	6
9D	9. Despot with a nuclear arsenal	3
10D	10. Cooler filled with juice?	11
11D	11. Low on the excite-o-meter	4
12D	12. Arrive on the scene	5
13D	13. Round up?	5
14D	14. Things that creak in haunted houses	5
15D	21. Spanish counterpart of the French "vous"	5
16D	24. Reversible word	11
17D	26. "Don't worry"	6
18D	29. ___ Slam (sports feat)	6
19D	31. Congregated	3
20D	34. Josh	3
21D	36. "I've seen worse"	9
22D	37. Best of all possible whirls?	9
23D	39. Pope Francis III?	3
24D	40. Point (to)	5
25D	44. Celeb	7
26D	46. Pile up	6
27D	48. 1875 premiere at Paris's Opéra-Comique	6
28D	49. Jack Nicholson's classic line "You can't handle the truth," for one	5
29D	50. 1949 Jack Schaefer novel made into an Oscar-nominated film	5
30D	51. "Se ___ español"	5
31D	53. Zero, in a way	5
32D	56. Cardiologist's favorite vegetable?	4
33D	58. Longtime CBS drama spinoff	4
34D	61. Word hidden in this clue that might hold up negotiations	3
35D	63. Ben Jonson wrote one to himself	3

Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!

Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!

Clue 1 Down: "1. When Apgar tests are performed"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ATBIRTH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Southernmost team in the N.B.A."

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: MIAMIHEAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Purity"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the quality of innocent naivete
• Words that mean the same thing: artlessness, purity, whiteness
• The opposite would be: guilt
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INNOCENCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. One-point throw in horseshoes"

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 (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake
• Words that mean the same thing: skimpy, lean, thin
• The opposite would be: rich, fat
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEANER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Computer connection letters"

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 local computer network for communication between computers; especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices
• Words that mean the same thing: local area network
• 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: LAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Modern-day home of where the biblical Abraham was born"

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 republic in the middle east in western asia; the ancient civilization of mesopotamia was in the area now known as iraq
• Words that mean the same thing: Al-Iraq, Irak, Republic of Iraq
• 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: IRAQ

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. O.K."

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 sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality
• Words that mean the same thing: lawful, legitimate
• The opposite would be: illicit
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LICIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Disturbed, say"

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 stop sleeping
• Words that mean the same thing: awaken, wake up, awake
• The opposite would be: fall asleep
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AWOKEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Despot with a nuclear arsenal"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: KIM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Cooler filled with juice?"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ELECTRICFAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Low on the excite-o-meter"

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 pompous or pretentious talk or writing
• Words that mean the same thing: bombast, rant, fustian
• 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: BLAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Arrive on the scene"

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 to come or go into
• Words that mean the same thing: go in, introduce, get into
• The opposite would be: drop out, exit
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Round up?"

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 having a hemispherical vault or dome
• Words that mean the same thing: vaulted
• 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: DOMED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Things that creak in haunted houses"

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 flight of stairs or a flight of steps
• Words that mean the same thing: whole step, pace, tread
• 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: STEPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Spanish counterpart of the French "vous""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: USTED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Reversible word"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SEMORDNILAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "26. "Don't worry""

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: NOFEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "29. ___ Slam (sports feat)"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: SERENA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "31. Congregated"

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 come together
• Words that mean the same thing: run across, match, encounter
• The opposite would be: diverge
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "34. Josh"

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 young person of either sex
• Words that mean the same thing: Thomas Kid, small fry, Kyd
• The opposite would be: parent
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "36. "I've seen worse""

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: NOTTOOBAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "37. Best of all possible whirls?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DREAMDATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "39. Pope Francis III?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "40. Point (to)"

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 make reference to
• Words that mean the same thing: denote, name, consult
• 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: REFER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "44. Celeb"

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: ALISTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "46. Pile up"

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 grow by addition
• Words that mean the same thing: fall
• 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: ACCRUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "48. 1875 premiere at Paris's Opéra-Comique"

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: CARMEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "49. Jack Nicholson's classic line "You can't handle the truth," for one"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ADLIB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "50. 1949 Jack Schaefer novel made into an Oscar-nominated film"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SHANE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "51. "Se ___ español""

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: HABLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "53. Zero, in a way"

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 device for resetting instruments or controls
• Words that mean the same thing: readjust
• 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: RESET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "56. Cardiologist's favorite vegetable?"

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 biennial eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
• Words that mean the same thing: common beet, Beta vulgaris, beetroot
• 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: BEET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "58. Longtime CBS drama spinoff"

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: NCIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "61. Word hidden in this clue that might hold up negotiations"

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 an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• Words that mean the same thing: self, self-importance, egotism
• 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: EGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "63. Ben Jonson wrote one to himself"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
• 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: ODE

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	52	74.3%
Short Answer	10	14.3%
Literature	2	2.9%
History	2	2.9%
Sports	2	2.9%
Geography	1	1.4%
Abbreviation	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	35
Total Clues	70
Average Answer Length	5.6 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	13 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Saturday, and these puzzles are usually 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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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
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• Down Clues (35 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, June 04, 2021

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 68 (33 Across, 35 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.6 letters

Across Clues Explained - Friday NYT Crossword June 04, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Hot pot spot	4
2A	5. Thriller with a two-note theme	4
3A	9. Certain fund-raising orgs.	4
4A	13. Something said while nodding	9
5A	15. Or	5
6A	16. "Quit looking at me like that"	9
7A	17. Actor and L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist George	5
8A	18. A child who's lying might make one	9
9A	19. What's always found in bed?	5
10A	20. More than suspicious of	4
11A	21. ___ bar	5
12A	23. ___ bar	6
13A	26. Bigwigs	8
14A	29. Bread crumbs used as a coating	5
15A	30. Mythological figure who nearly managed to flee Hades	8
16A	31. Anxiety condition, for short	3
17A	32. Measure of a heart rate	5
18A	34. "Pachinko" author ___ Jin Lee	3
19A	35. Tight squeezes for Santa	8
20A	38. Riffles (through)	5
21A	40. Small organic food producer	8
22A	41. One whom you might tell *everything*	6
23A	42. Fixes, as unruly hair	5
24A	43. Hardly a long shot	4
25A	44. Spectacle	5
26A	46. Not all it's cracked up to be	9
27A	51. Honor ... or a goner	5
28A	52. Genre for "The Truman Show" in 1998's "The Truman Show"	9
29A	53. Actor Elba	5
30A	54. Space out?	9
31A	55. Time out?	4
32A	56. Manual part	4
33A	57. Sequel to Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth"	4

Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!

Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!

Clue 1 Across: "1. Hot pot spot"

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 furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
• 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: KILN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Thriller with a two-note theme"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
• Words that mean the same thing: reproof, lambast, chat
• 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: JAWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Certain fund-raising orgs."

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: PTAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Something said while nodding"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: INEEDANAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Or"

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 wound made by cutting
• Words that mean the same thing: diagonal, whip, stroke
• 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: SLASH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. "Quit looking at me like that""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DONTJUDGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Actor and L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist George"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard 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: TAKEI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. A child who's lying might make one"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SNOWANGEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. What's always found in bed?"

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 large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
• Words that mean the same thing: sea
• 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: OCEAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. More than suspicious of"

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: ONTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "21. ___ bar"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and pipturus albidus
• Words that mean the same thing: tapa, tappa, tapa bark
• 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: TAPAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "23. ___ bar"

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 (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
• Words that mean the same thing: Energy Department, vigour, zip
• 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: ENERGY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Bigwigs"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: TOPBRASS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. Bread crumbs used as a coating"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PANKO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "30. Mythological figure who nearly managed to flee Hades"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (greek mythology) the wife of orpheus
• 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: EURYDICE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "31. Anxiety condition, for short"

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

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: OCD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "32. Measure of a heart rate"

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 united states youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
• Words that mean the same thing: crush, tick, quiver
• 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: BEATS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. "Pachinko" author ___ Jin Lee"

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 a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
• Words that mean the same thing: Fukien, Amoy, Hokkianese
• 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: MIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. Tight squeezes for Santa"

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 a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building
• Words that mean the same thing: chimney, lamp chimney
• 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: CHIMNEYS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "38. Riffles (through)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
• Words that mean the same thing: folio, riffle, leafage
• 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: LEAFS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "40. Small organic food producer"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
• Words that mean the same thing: Apis mellifera
• 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: HONEYBEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "41. One whom you might tell *everything*"

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: BESTIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "42. Fixes, as unruly hair"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that correct by punishment or discipline
• Words that mean the same thing: chasten, tone down, domesticise
• 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: TAMES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "43. Hardly a long shot"

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 hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter
• Words that mean the same thing: putting
• 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: PUTT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "44. Spectacle"

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 the place where some action occurs
• Words that mean the same thing: shot, fit, picture
• 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: SCENE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "46. Not all it's cracked up to be"

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 make too high an estimate of
• Words that mean the same thing: overestimate, overrate
• The opposite would be: underestimate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OVERRATED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. Honor ... or a goner"

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 slices of bread that have been toasted
• Words that mean the same thing: pledge, drink, crispen
• 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: TOAST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. Genre for "The Truman Show" in 1998's "The Truman Show""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: REALITYTV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "53. Actor Elba"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: IDRIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "54. Space out?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ESCAPEPOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "55. Time out?"

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 something left after other parts have been taken away
• Words that mean the same thing: breathe, quietus, reside
• The opposite would be: change, be active
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "56. Manual part"

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 any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
• Words that mean the same thing: gradation, tread, abuse
• 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: STEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "57. Sequel to Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth""

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 male human offspring
• Words that mean the same thing: Word, Logos, Son
• The opposite would be: girl, daughter
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SONS

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Friday Crossword Down Clues - June 04, 2021 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Jokes	4
2D	2. Words after walk or cash	4
3D	3. Jay between Johnny and Jimmy	4
4D	4. Business school alumni, collectively	7
5D	5. Cheerful and self-confident	6
6D	6. "Wait for it ... wait for it ... NOW!"	5
7D	7. Pay	4
8D	8. Explicit, to a Brit	8
9D	9. Sign	7
10D	10. Sets sights on	10
11D	11. Befuddled	4
12D	12. Well-guarded area in sports?	4
13D	14. 2012 title role for Jamie Foxx	6
14D	15. Drop in	6
15D	22. Loan figs.	4
16D	23. Anthropocene, for one	5
17D	24. Guac go-with	5
18D	25. Turn out badly for everyone involved	10
19D	26. Rib	5
20D	27. Bookstore section, informally	5
21D	28. Savvy	5
22D	32. One in the care of una madre	4
23D	33. Concerns for homeowner associations	8
24D	36. Is serious	7
25D	37. Queens squad, for short	6
26D	38. Unleash	6
27D	39. They get left behind	7
28D	41. Gunny	6
29D	43. "See ya later!"	5
30D	44. Hubbub	4
31D	45. Veiled language	4
32D	47. Common item of fishing apparel	4
33D	48. Cars for cats, say	4
34D	49. One of the schools named in the Public Schools Act of 1868	4
35D	50. Certain Netflix offerings	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. Jokes"

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 young person of either sex
• Words that mean the same thing: josh, jolly, fry
• The opposite would be: parent
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KIDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Words after walk or cash"

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: INON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Jay between Johnny and Jimmy"

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: LENO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Business school alumni, collectively"

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 an interconnected system of things or people
• Words that mean the same thing: meshwork, web, meshing
• 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: NETWORK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Cheerful and self-confident"

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 marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
• Words that mean the same thing: spiffy, snappy, debonair
• 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: JAUNTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. "Wait for it ... wait for it ... NOW!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ANDGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Pay"

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 something that remunerates
• Words that mean the same thing: pay, earnings, engage
• 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: WAGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Explicit, to a Brit"

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: SPELTOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Sign"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
• Words that mean the same thing: poster, posting, card
• 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: PLACARD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Sets sights on"

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: TAKESAIMAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Befuddled"

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 in the direction of the sea
• Words that mean the same thing: seawards, seaward
• 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: ASEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Well-guarded area in sports?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
• Words that mean the same thing: shinbone, shin bone, struggle
• 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: SHIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. 2012 title role for Jamie Foxx"

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: DJANGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "15. Drop in"

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: STOPBY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Loan figs."

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 month following march and preceding may
• Words that mean the same thing: Apr, April
• 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: APRS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Anthropocene, for one"

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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• Words that mean the same thing: era, date of reference
• 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: EPOCH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Guac go-with"

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 tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled
• 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: NACHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "25. Turn out badly for everyone involved"

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: ENDINTEARS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "26. Rib"

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 someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
• Words that mean the same thing: ride, pester, tantalize
• 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: TEASE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "27. Bookstore section, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SCIFI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "28. Savvy"

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 general conscious awareness
• Words that mean the same thing: sentiency, good sense, smell
• 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: SENSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "32. One in the care of una madre"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BEBE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. Concerns for homeowner associations"

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 something very ugly and offensive
• Words that mean the same thing: eyesore
• 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: EYESORES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. Is serious"

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: MEANSIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "37. Queens squad, for short"

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

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: NYMETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "38. Unleash"

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: LETRIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "39. They get left behind"

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 everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
• Words that mean the same thing: estate of the realm, estate, landed estate
• 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: ESTATES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "41. Gunny"

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 coarse jute fabric
• Words that mean the same thing: gunny
• 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: BURLAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "43. "See ya later!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the state prevailing during the absence of war
• Words that mean the same thing: peacefulness, pacification, serenity
• The opposite would be: war
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PEACE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "44. Hubbub"

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 prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
• Words that mean the same thing: arouse, conjure up, hustle
• 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: STIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "45. Veiled language"

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 set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
• Words that mean the same thing: computer code, encrypt, codification
• 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: CODE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "47. Common item of fishing apparel"

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 man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
• Words that mean the same thing: invest, robe, singlet
• The opposite would be: divest
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "48. Cars for cats, say"

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 mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
• Words that mean the same thing: erratum, misprint, typographical error
• 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: TYPO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "49. One of the schools named in the Public Schools Act of 1868"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ETON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "50. Certain Netflix offerings"

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 digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set
• Words that mean the same thing: videodisc, videodisk, DVD
• 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: DVDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	60	88.2%
Celebrity/Entertainment	3	4.4%
Abbreviation	2	2.9%
Food & Drink	1	1.5%
Sports	1	1.5%
Literature	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	33
Down Clues	35
Total Clues	68
Average Answer Length	5.6 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	10 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 Friday, 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 17, 2025 at 04:42 AM