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NYT Crossword - January 08, 1990 | XWordHint

Published on Monday, January 08, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 08, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.



Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

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

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1A: "1. Actress Prentiss"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PAULA

2A: "6. Hemingway's sobriquet"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
  • Similar words include: pappa, pop, dad
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PAPA

3A: "10. G-men"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any federal law-enforcement officer
  • Similar words include: Federal Reserve, Fed, FRS
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FEDS

4A: "14. Hair styles"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a rounded thickly curled hairdo
  • Similar words include: Afro, Afro hairdo
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AFROS

5A: "15. Novelist Kingsley ___"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMIS

6A: "16. Soviet stream"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: URAL

7A: "17. Sitcom add-on"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LAUGHTRACK

8A: "19. Supreme Court number"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
  • Similar words include: 9, Nina from Carolina, ball club
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NINE

9A: "20. Gaelic"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of several related languages of the celts in ireland and scotland
  • Similar words include: Goidelic, Gaelic
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERSE

10A: "21. Speed"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
  • Similar words include: rush, hurriedness, hurry
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HASTE

11A: "22. Want"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a condition requiring relief
  • Similar words include: involve, motive, take
  • Opposite of: obviate
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NEED

12A: "23. Things with springs"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

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

13A: "24. Route"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that how something is done or how it happens
  • Similar words include: room, elbow room, path
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: WAY

14A: "26. Enchantress"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (greek mythology) a sorceress who detained odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CIRCE

15A: "30. Slippery one"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EEL

16A: "32. Metal beam"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IBAR

17A: "35. Negatively charged atoms"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a negatively charged ion
  • Similar words include: anion
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ANIONS

18A: "37. Ambassador or envoy"

8 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an official engaged in international negotiations
  • Similar words include: diplomatist
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DIPLOMAT

19A: "40. Letters to stars"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FANMAIL

20A: "42. 'Twixt 12 and 20"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that being of the age 13 through 19
  • Similar words include: teenaged, adolescent, teen
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TEENAGE

21A: "43. Surrounded"

8 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENGIRDED

22A: "45. Surpassing: Comb. form"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PRETER

23A: "46. Suffix with inchoative verbs"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESCE

24A: "47. Period"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
  • Similar words include: geological era, epoch, earned run average
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERA

25A: "49. Willow"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that flexible twig of a willow tree
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OSIER

26A: "50. Soviet div."

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SSR

27A: "52. Press"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
  • Similar words include: branding iron, Fe, atomic number 26
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IRON

28A: "54. Tear"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
  • Similar words include: charter, pull, engage
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RENT

29A: "57. Golfer Palmer"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARNIE

30A: "59. In the center"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMID

31A: "63. Jewish month"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the jewish calendar (in february and march)
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ADAR

32A: "64. Card-game phrase"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: JOKERSWILD

33A: "66. "La Bohème" heroine"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MIMI

34A: "67. First victim"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
  • Similar words include: Niels Henrik Abel, Niels Abel
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ABEL

35A: "68. Dance of Bohemian origin"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that music performed for dancing the polka
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: POLKA

36A: "69. Kind of mother or son"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
  • Similar words include: ill-use, stride, footfall
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STEP

37A: "70. Word on a towel"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HERS

38A: "71. Appease"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that lessen the intensity of or calm
  • Similar words include: slake, still, ease
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALLAY

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

1D: "1. Wan"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a wooden strip forming part of a fence
  • Similar words include: pallid, sick, blanch
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PALE

2D: "2. Way off"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

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

3D: "3. Wild ox"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that large recently extinct long-horned european wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
  • Similar words include: Bos primigenius, aurochs
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: URUS

4D: "4. Theater section"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine
  • Similar words include: box
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOGE

5D: "5. Wood for skis"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
  • Similar words include: ash tree
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASH

6D: "6. "I Love a ___," 1931 song"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a ceremonial procession including people marching
  • Similar words include: march, troop, exhibit
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PARADE

7D: "7. Gathered"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that collect or gather
  • Similar words include: hoard, amass, cumulate
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMASSED

8D: "8. Early inhabitant of Britain"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PICT

9D: "9. Awry"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that turned or twisted toward one side; - g.k.chesterton
  • Similar words include: lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASKEW

10D: "10. These often get tickled"

10 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FUNNYBONES

11D: "11. City in the Keystone State"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
  • Similar words include: Lake Erie
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERIE

12D: "12. Hamlet, e.g."

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a native or inhabitant of denmark
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DANE

13D: "13. Snow vehicle"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
  • Similar words include: sledge, sleigh
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SLED

14D: "18. "___ Best of Carson""

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: THE

15D: "23. Former name of Varanasi, India"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BENARES

16D: "25. Wing part"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an airfoil that controls lateral motion
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AILERON

17D: "26. Bistro"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
  • Similar words include: coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffee bar
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CAFE

18D: "27. Silly"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that devoid of intelligence
  • Similar words include: mindless, vacuous, fatuous
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: INANE

19D: "28. Collar woes?"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises
  • Similar words include: pack, annulus, telephone
  • Opposite of: open chain
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RINGS

20D: "29. "Peanuts," e.g."

10 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: COMICSTRIP

21D: "31. Kindled"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the humanistic study of a body of literature
  • Similar words include: lighted, dismount, light up
  • Opposite of: unlighted, extinguish
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LIT

22D: "33. Strad competitor"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that italian violin maker in cremona; taught the craft to guarneri and stradivari (1596-1684)
  • Similar words include: Nicola Amati, Nicolo Amati
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMATI

23D: "34. E. Indian cereal grass"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that east indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the orient
  • Similar words include: finger millet, Eleusine coracana, coracan
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAGEE

24D: "36. Caesar from Yonkers"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SID

25D: "38. Vim"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that liveliness and energy
  • Similar words include: peppiness, ginger
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PEP

26D: "39. Haw. before 1959"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TERR

27D: "41. Novelist Harper ___"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
  • Similar words include: Tsung Dao Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee
  • Opposite of: windward
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEE

28D: "44. A.A. candidate"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a person who drinks liquids
  • Similar words include: toper, juicer, imbiber
  • Opposite of: nondrinker
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DRINKER

29D: "48. Gazelles of Arabia"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARIELS

30D: "51. Rani's spouse"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prince or king in india
  • Similar words include: raja
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAJAH

31D: "53. Finished, to Keats"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OER

32D: "54. Bellwethers"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
  • Similar words include: cram, pound, RAM
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAMS

33D: "55. Redact"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
  • Similar words include: edit out, redact, cut
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EDIT

34D: "56. Appoint"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a language unit by which a person or thing is known
  • Similar words include: list, key, describe
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NAME

35D: "58. Gown"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any loose flowing garment
  • Similar words include: vest, gown, cloak
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROBE

36D: "59. G.I. truant"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
  • Similar words include: truant
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AWOL

37D: "60. Factory"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
  • Similar words include: mill about, factory, grinder
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MILL

38D: "61. Actress-writer Chase"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ILKA

39D: "62. June 6, 1944"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DDAY

40D: "65. Baden-Baden is one"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
  • Similar words include: health club, resort hotel, health spa
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SPA

Puzzle Stats

38 Across
40 Down
78 Total

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (31 Across, 45 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.9 letters

January 15, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions

January 15, 2020 Wednesday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No. Clue Letters
1A 1. Mary Stuart, for one 4
2A 5. Taiwan-based computer giant 4
3A 9. Secretly watched 5
4A 14. Tea made with milk, sugar and cardamom 4
5A 15. Rob of "Parks and Recreation" 4
6A 16. Attacked with a spray 5
7A 17. Engaged in foul play 15
8A 20. Burnt ___ (old Crayola color) 5
9A 21. Some batteries 4
10A 22. One engaged in friendly contention 15
11A 29. Lith., e.g., once 3
12A 30. Hands (out) 5
13A 31. 2020, por ejemplo 3
14A 32. "___ che macchiavi quell'anima" (aria opener) 5
15A 34. Invalidate 5
16A 36. "Oh, now they're really going to fight!" 15
17A 41. Puts up on a gallery wall 5
18A 42. Colorful spring flower 5
19A 43. A.B.A. member: Abbr. 3
20A 44. Stand in a mall 5
21A 46. HBO competitor 3
22A 49. Cry "Uncle!" 15
23A 54. Veg out 4
24A 55. ___ Gay (historic plane) 5
25A 56. Hold back 15
26A 62. Elude 5
27A 63. Gangster 4
28A 64. Turnabouts, informally 4
29A 65. Evasive 5
30A 66. Actor Rogen 4
31A 67. Crafty website 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. Mary Stuart, for one"

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 native or inhabitant of scotland
  • Words that mean the same thing: Scotchman, Scotsman
  • 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: SCOT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Taiwan-based computer giant"

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 type genus of the aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit
  • Words that mean the same thing: genus Acer
  • 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: ACER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Secretly watched"

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 catch sight of
  • Words that mean the same thing: stag, spot, snoop
  • 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: SPIED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Tea made with milk, sugar and cardamom"

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: CHAI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Rob of "Parks and Recreation""

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: LOWE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Attacked with a spray"

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: MACED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Engaged in foul play"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: HITBELOWTHEBELT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Burnt ___ (old Crayola color)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an earth pigment
  • Words that mean the same thing: burnt umber, deep brown, chocolate
  • 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: UMBER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Some batteries"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
  • Words that mean the same thing: abdominal aortic aneurysm, AAA
  • 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: AAAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. One engaged in friendly contention"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SPARRINGPARTNER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "29. Lith., e.g., once"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SSR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "30. Hands (out)"

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 share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
  • Words that mean the same thing: dole, pogy, pogey
  • 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: DOLES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "31. 2020, por ejemplo"

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 palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
  • Words that mean the same thing: Fatah Revolutionary Council, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Fatah-RC
  • 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: ANO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "32. "___ che macchiavi quell'anima" (aria opener)"

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: ERITU

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "34. Invalidate"

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 declare invalid
  • Words that mean the same thing: nullify, repeal, vacate
  • The opposite would be: validate
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ANNUL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "36. "Oh, now they're really going to fight!""

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: THEGLOVESAREOFF

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "41. Puts up on a gallery wall"

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 special way of doing something
  • Words that mean the same thing: fall, knack, attend
  • 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: HANGS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "42. Colorful spring flower"

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 large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of europe and having velvety petals of various colors
  • Words that mean the same thing: sissy, queen, poove
  • 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: PANSY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "43. A.B.A. member: 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: ATT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "44. Stand in a mall"

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 small area set off by walls for special use
  • Words that mean the same thing: cubicle, stall, booth
  • 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: KIOSK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "46. HBO competitor"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: TMC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "49. Cry "Uncle!""

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: THROWINTHETOWEL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "54. Veg out"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that hang loosely or laxly
  • Words that mean the same thing: lounge around, loaf, loll around
  • 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: LOLL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "55. ___ Gay (historic plane)"

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: ENOLA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "56. Hold back"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: PULLONESPUNCHES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "62. Elude"

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 stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
  • Words that mean the same thing: forefend, annul, nullify
  • The opposite would be: confront, validate
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AVOID

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "63. Gangster"

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 an aggressive and violent young criminal
  • Words that mean the same thing: strong-armer, toughie, hood
  • 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: THUG

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "64. Turnabouts, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: UIES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "65. Evasive"

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 showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
  • Words that mean the same thing: chary, canny, cagy
  • 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: CAGEY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "66. Actor Rogen"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that (old testament) third son of adam and eve; given by god in place of the murdered abel
  • Words that mean the same thing: Set
  • 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: SETH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "67. Crafty website"

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: ETSY

    Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Wednesday NYT Crossword January 15, 2020

No. Clue Letters
1D 1. Straight downhill ski run 6
2D 2. Some early "astronauts" 6
3D 3. Granola treat 6
4D 4. River of Tuscany 5
5D 5. Nothing but 3
6D 6. Corp. manager 3
7D 7. "Oh, gross!" 3
8D 8. Do over for radio, say 6
9D 9. ___ campaign 5
10D 10. Colt 45 brewer 5
11D 11. Knock off 3
12D 12. What has a long history in ichthyology? 3
13D 13. E.P.A.-banned pesticide 3
14D 18. Slip up 3
15D 19. Nine-time P.G.A. Tour winner Jay 4
16D 23. Individual: Prefix 4
17D 24. Timeout alternative 4
18D 25. Receptacle for one doing decoupage 7
19D 26. Smaller than micro- 4
20D 27. Ample, informally 4
21D 28. Deeply massage 4
22D 32. Meringue ingredient 3
23D 33. "Kidnapped" author's monogram 3
24D 34. "___ gratia artis" 3
25D 35. Napoleon's marshal 3
26D 36. "Take ___!" 4
27D 37. Possesses, biblically 4
28D 38. ___'acte 4
29D 39. Pageant wear 4
30D 40. Tennis great Huber 4
31D 44. Drying oven 4
32D 45. Coves 6
33D 46. Like a really good game for a pitcher, say 6
34D 47. Brawls 6
35D 48. Stylish and sophisticated 6
36D 50. Skateboarding jump 5
37D 51. Forested 5
38D 52. Full complement of limbs on a squid 3
39D 53. Exactly as scheduled 5
40D 56. Lead-in to Man or 12 3
41D 57. School founded by Thos. Jefferson 3
42D 58. Make a record of 3
43D 59. Gender-neutral pronoun spelled with a slash between the first and second letters 3
44D 60. Wager 3
45D 61. "Yuck!" 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. Straight downhill ski run"

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 ski downhill
  • 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: SCHUSS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Some early "astronauts""

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 intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial african forests
  • Words that mean the same thing: chimp, Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee
  • 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: CHIMPS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Granola treat"

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: OATBAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. River of Tuscany"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a river of central italy; flows through rome to the tyrrhenian sea
  • Words that mean the same thing: Tevere
  • 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: TIBER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Nothing but"

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 quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
  • Words that mean the same thing: wholly, totally, whole
  • The opposite would be: partly, some
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ALL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Corp. manager"

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 sound made by a pigeon
  • 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: COO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. "Oh, gross!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: EWW

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Do over for radio, say"

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: RETAPE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. ___ campaign"

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 slanderous defamation
  • Words that mean the same thing: malignment, slur, blot
  • 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: SMEAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Colt 45 brewer"

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: PABST

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Knock off"

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 water frozen in the solid state
  • Words that mean the same thing: chicken feed, deoxyephedrine, crank
  • 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: ICE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. What has a long history in ichthyology?"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
  • 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: EEL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. E.P.A.-banned pesticide"

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 an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the united states since 1972
  • Words that mean the same thing: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
  • 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: DDT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Slip up"

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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
  • Words that mean the same thing: mistake, drift, stray
  • 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: ERR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "19. Nine-time P.G.A. Tour winner Jay"

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: HAAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Individual: Prefix"

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: IDIO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Timeout alternative"

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: NOTV

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "25. Receptacle for one doing decoupage"

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: GLUEPOT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "26. Smaller than micro-"

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: NANO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "27. Ample, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: ENUF

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "28. Deeply massage"

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 norse chieftain who became the first duke of normandy (860-931)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Hrolf, Rollo
  • 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: ROLF

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "32. Meringue ingredient"

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 animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
  • Words that mean the same thing: ball, testicle, orchis
  • 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: EGG

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. "Kidnapped" author's monogram"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: RLS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "34. "___ gratia artis""

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 colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
  • Words that mean the same thing: argon, Arkansas, AR
  • 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: ARS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "35. Napoleon's marshal"

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 french marshal in the napoleonic wars (1769-1815)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Duc d'Elchingen, Michel Ney
  • 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: NEY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "36. "Take ___!""

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: THAT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "37. Possesses, biblically"

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: HATH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "38. ___'acte"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy 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: ENTR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "39. Pageant wear"

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 framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame
  • Words that mean the same thing: window sash, waistcloth, waistband
  • 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: SASH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "40. Tennis great Huber"

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: ANKE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "44. Drying oven"

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 32 Down: "45. Coves"

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 an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
  • Words that mean the same thing: intake, inlet, recess
  • 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: INLETS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "46. Like a really good game for a pitcher, say"

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: TWOHIT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "47. Brawls"

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 a noisy riotous fight
  • Words that mean the same thing: melee, battle royal, scrimmage
  • 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: MELEES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "48. Stylish and sophisticated"

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 elegant and fashionable; ; ; ; - julia child
  • Words that mean the same thing: posh, swish
  • 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: CLASSY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "50. Skateboarding jump"

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: OLLIE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "51. Forested"

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 made of or containing or resembling wood
  • Words that mean the same thing: arboreous, woodsy, arboraceous
  • The opposite would be: nonwoody
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WOODY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "52. Full complement of limbs on a squid"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
  • Words that mean the same thing: x, ten-spot, tenner
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TEN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "53. Exactly as scheduled"

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: ONCUE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "56. Lead-in to Man or 12"

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 committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates
  • Words that mean the same thing: political action committee
  • 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: PAC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "57. School founded by Thos. Jefferson"

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: UVA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Down: "58. Make a record of"

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 segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
  • Words that mean the same thing: logarithm, lumber
  • 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: LOG

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 43 Down: "59. Gender-neutral pronoun spelled with a slash between the first and second letters"

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: SHE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 44 Down: "60. Wager"

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 option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
  • Words that mean the same thing: invest, commit, position
  • The opposite would be: divest, call option
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PUT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 45 Down: "61. "Yuck!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: UGH

    Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category Number of Clues Percentage
General Knowledge 51 67.1%
Short Answer 19 25.0%
Celebrity/Entertainment 2 2.6%
Abbreviation 1 1.3%
Geography 1 1.3%
History 1 1.3%
Sports 1 1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric Value
Across Clues 31
Down Clues 45
Total Clues 76
Average Answer Length 4.9 letters
Shortest Answer 3 letters
Longest Answer 15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

  • Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
  • Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
  • When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
  • Today is Wednesday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
  • Most clues today are about general knowledge
  • The average word today has about 4 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 27, 2025 at 05:15 PM

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