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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 76 (39 Across, 37 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.9 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Tuesday Puzzle December 28, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Piquancy | 4 |
| 2A | 5. British fellow | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Treasure holder | 5 |
| 4A | 14. Pretentious in a painterly way | 4 |
| 5A | 15. March ___ (Lewis Carroll character) | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Recluse | 5 |
| 7A | 17. Racket handle | 4 |
| 8A | 18. Letter-shaped bridge support | 4 |
| 9A | 19. Extremely | 5 |
| 10A | 20. Food topping used at Abe Lincoln's birthplace? | 13 |
| 11A | 23. Stein filler | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Wash for gold | 3 |
| 13A | 26. Candidate for A.A. | 3 |
| 14A | 27. Ambulance letters | 3 |
| 15A | 28. Dairy product used at the Seven Dwarfs' dwelling? | 13 |
| 16A | 32. Lug around | 4 |
| 17A | 33. Tulsa sch. | 3 |
| 18A | 34. Sellout indicator | 3 |
| 19A | 35. Rant and rage | 5 |
| 20A | 37. "Good Morning America" network | 3 |
| 21A | 39. Took notice | 5 |
| 22A | 43. Old TV's "The Adventures of ___ Tin Tin" | 3 |
| 23A | 45. Always, in poems | 3 |
| 24A | 47. Vegetable whose name is also slang for "money" | 4 |
| 25A | 48. Turkey stuffing used at the Ewings' Southfork? | 13 |
| 26A | 51. Michael of "S.N.L." | 3 |
| 27A | 53. Calendar block | 3 |
| 28A | 54. Zoom or TikTok | 3 |
| 29A | 55. ___ Palmas, city in the Canary Islands | 3 |
| 30A | 56. Spreads using 20-, 28- and 48-Across? | 13 |
| 31A | 60. Jumper cable connection | 5 |
| 32A | 61. "Make it ___" | 4 |
| 33A | 62. Big lugs | 4 |
| 34A | 65. Candidate for a Booker Prize | 5 |
| 35A | 66. Helper: Abbr. | 4 |
| 36A | 67. Capital of Latvia | 4 |
| 37A | 68. Lead-in to line or setter | 5 |
| 38A | 69. Does as the sun does in the evening | 4 |
| 39A | 70. Kentucky's Fort ___ | 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. Piquancy"
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 vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- Words that mean the same thing: spice up, piquantness, nip
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ZEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. British fellow"
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 boy or man
- Words that mean the same thing: lad, crack, cuss
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHAP
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Clue 3 Across: "9. Treasure holder"
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 part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
- Words that mean the same thing: bureau, dresser, chest of drawers
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. Pretentious in a painterly way"
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 showily imitative of art or artists
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARTY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. March ___ (Lewis Carroll character)"
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 swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes
- Words that mean the same thing: rabbit
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HARE
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Clue 6 Across: "16. Recluse"
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 person who avoids the company or assistance of others
- Words that mean the same thing: lone wolf, lone hand
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LONER
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Clue 7 Across: "17. Racket handle"
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 act of grasping
- Words that mean the same thing: clutch, spellbind, bobby pin
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GRIP
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Clue 8 Across: "18. Letter-shaped bridge support"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IBAR
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Clue 9 Across: "19. Extremely"
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 (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- Words that mean the same thing: radical, extremist
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ULTRA
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Clue 10 Across: "20. Food topping used at Abe Lincoln's birthplace?"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOGCABINSYRUP
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Clue 11 Across: "23. Stein filler"
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 general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. Wash for gold"
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 cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- Words that mean the same thing: genus Pan, pan off, pan out
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PAN
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Clue 13 Across: "26. Candidate for A.A."
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 chronic drinker
- Words that mean the same thing: rummy, drunk, inebriate
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "27. Ambulance 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 quad with a square body
- Words that mean the same thing: pica, pica em, em
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "28. Dairy product used at the Seven Dwarfs' dwelling?"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert 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!
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The answer is: COTTAGECHEESE
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Clue 16 Across: "32. Lug around"
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 capacious bag or basket
- Words that mean the same thing: holdall, carryall, lug
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOTE
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Clue 17 Across: "33. Tulsa sch."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "34. Sellout indicator"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SRO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "35. Rant and rage"
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 violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- Words that mean the same thing: force, surprise, tempest
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STORM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "37. "Good Morning America" network"
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 elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Words that mean the same thing: first principle, ABCs, first rudiment
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABC
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Clue 21 Across: "39. Took notice"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SATUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Old TV's "The Adventures of ___ Tin Tin""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Always, in poems"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "47. Vegetable whose name is also slang for "money""
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 informal terms for money
- Words that mean the same thing: dough, lettuce, simoleons
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KALE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Turkey stuffing used at the Ewings' Southfork?"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RANCHDRESSING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Michael of "S.N.L.""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "53. Calendar block"
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 time for earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
- Words that mean the same thing: Clarence Shepard Day Jr., 24-hour interval, Clarence Day
- The opposite would be: night
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "54. Zoom or TikTok"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. ___ Palmas, city in the Canary Islands"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
- Words that mean the same thing: Pelican State, lanthanum, La
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "56. Spreads using 20-, 28- and 48-Across?"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOMEMADEMEALS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "60. Jumper cable connection"
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 positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device
- The opposite would be: cathode
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANODE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "61. "Make it ___""
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 water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
- Words that mean the same thing: pelting, rainwater, rain down
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RAIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "62. Big lugs"
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 of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Words that mean the same thing: ape, caricature, anthropoid
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "65. Candidate for a Booker Prize"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
- Words that mean the same thing: new, refreshing, fresh
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOVEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "66. Helper: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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!
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The answer is: ASST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "67. Capital of Latvia"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a port city on the gulf of riga that is the capital and largest city of latvia; formerly a member of the hanseatic league
- Words that mean the same thing: capital of Latvia
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIGA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "68. Lead-in to line or setter"
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 general direction in which something tends to move
- Words that mean the same thing: slew, cut, curve
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TREND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 38 Across: "69. Does as the sun does in the evening"
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 group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Words that mean the same thing: determine, congeal, arrange
- The opposite would be: rise
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 39 Across: "70. Kentucky's Fort ___"
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 scottish theologian who founded presbyterianism in scotland and wrote a history of the reformation in scotland (1514-1572)
- Words that mean the same thing: John Knox
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KNOX
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Solve the Down: NYT Tuesday Puzzle December 28, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Evasive maneuver | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Slip up | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Shoe named after a dagger | 8 |
| 4D | 4. Slip-up in writing | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Where Michelle Obama was born | 7 |
| 6D | 6. Dance named after Cuba's capital | 8 |
| 7D | 7. Prized mount | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Come to an end | 6 |
| 9D | 9. Groups of grapes, e.g. | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Word in many cathedral names | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Main course | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Injection at a hospital | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Pitfalls | 5 |
| 14D | 21. 4.0 for a valedictorian, maybe | 3 |
| 15D | 22. Rejections | 4 |
| 16D | 23. ___ of the Apostles | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Heist haul | 4 |
| 18D | 29. Earth, in science fiction | 5 |
| 19D | 30. Raised to the third power | 5 |
| 20D | 31. Enjoys a long, hot bath, say | 5 |
| 21D | 36. Vulcan's telepathic link | 8 |
| 22D | 38. Pottery maker | 8 |
| 23D | 40. Bad situation for an airplane | 8 |
| 24D | 41. Wrist/elbow connector | 4 |
| 25D | 42. Clothes holders on a clothesline | 4 |
| 26D | 44. March Madness org. | 4 |
| 27D | 46. Expresses sorrow for one's wrongdoing | 7 |
| 28D | 48. Jettison | 6 |
| 29D | 49. Mythical Greek monsters | 6 |
| 30D | 50. Destination for a rest cure | 3 |
| 31D | 51. "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!," e.g. | 5 |
| 32D | 52. Being named valedictorian, for one | 5 |
| 33D | 57. Heaven on earth | 4 |
| 34D | 58. Simplicity | 4 |
| 35D | 59. Frolic | 4 |
| 36D | 63. Narcissist's flaw | 3 |
| 37D | 64. Instrument in most jazz combos | 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. Evasive maneuver"
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 angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- Words that mean the same thing: zig, zigzag
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ZAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. 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: drift, stray, slip
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERR
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Clue 3 Down: "3. Shoe named after a dagger"
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 small dagger with a tapered blade
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STILETTO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Slip-up in writing"
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: typographical error, literal, literal error
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TYPO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Where Michelle Obama was born"
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 largest city in illinois; a bustling great lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of lake michigan
- Words that mean the same thing: stops, Michigan, Newmarket
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHICAGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Dance named after Cuba's capital"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HABANERA
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Prized mount"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a member of a semitic people originally from the arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks arabic and who inhabits much of the middle east and northern africa
- Words that mean the same thing: Arabian
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARAB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Come to an end"
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 pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- Words that mean the same thing: decease, pass, kick the bucket
- The opposite would be: be born
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PERISH
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Groups of grapes, e.g."
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 grouping of a number of similar things
- Words that mean the same thing: bunch up, bundle, clump
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CLUSTERS
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Word in many cathedral names"
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 sacred place of pilgrimage
- Words that mean the same thing: sanctum, holy place
- The opposite would be: unholy
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Main course"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the principal dish of a meal
- Words that mean the same thing: entranceway, admittance, entrance
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENTREE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Injection at a hospital"
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 amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates
- Words that mean the same thing: blood serum
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SERUM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Pitfalls"
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 device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- Words that mean the same thing: snare, pin, trammel
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: TRAPS
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Clue 14 Down: "21. 4.0 for a valedictorian, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted
- Words that mean the same thing: grade point average
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: GPA
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Clue 15 Down: "22. Rejections"
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 radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known
- Words that mean the same thing: nobelium, no, atomic number 102
- The opposite would be: yes
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The answer is: NOES
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Clue 16 Down: "23. ___ of the Apostles"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a new testament book describing the development of the early church from christ's ascension to paul's sojourn at rome
- Words that mean the same thing: work, move, dissemble
- The opposite would be: refrain
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The answer is: ACTS
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Clue 17 Down: "24. Heist haul"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that goods or money obtained illegally
- Words that mean the same thing: dough, lettuce, swag
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LOOT
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Clue 18 Down: "29. Earth, in science fiction"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about science/technology.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: TERRA
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Clue 19 Down: "30. Raised to the third power"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that raise to the third power
- Words that mean the same thing: dice, cub, cube
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CUBED
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Clue 20 Down: "31. Enjoys a long, hot bath, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- Words that mean the same thing: soaking, intoxicate, plume
- The opposite would be: undercharge
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The answer is: SOAKS
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Clue 21 Down: "36. Vulcan's telepathic link"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: MINDMELD
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Clue 22 Down: "38. Pottery maker"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
- Words that mean the same thing: ceramicist, thrower, potter
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: CERAMIST
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Clue 23 Down: "40. Bad situation for an airplane"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse
- Words that mean the same thing: spin
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: TAILSPIN
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Clue 24 Down: "41. Wrist/elbow connector"
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 inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
- Words that mean the same thing: elbow bone
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ULNA
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Clue 25 Down: "42. Clothes holders on a clothesline"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- Words that mean the same thing: stick, rowlock, thole
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: PEGS
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Clue 26 Down: "44. March Madness org."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NCAA
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Clue 27 Down: "46. Expresses sorrow for one's wrongdoing"
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 turn away from sin or do penitence
- Words that mean the same thing: atone, rue, repent
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: REPENTS
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Clue 28 Down: "48. Jettison"
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 degree of figurative distance or separation; or
- Words that mean the same thing: slay, bump off, transfer
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: REMOVE
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Clue 29 Down: "49. Mythical Greek monsters"
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 (greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones
- Words that mean the same thing: Hydra, Snake, hydra
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: HYDRAS
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Clue 30 Down: "50. Destination for a rest cure"
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 health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- Words that mean the same thing: watering place, health club, health spa
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: SPA
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Clue 31 Down: "51. "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!," e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
- Words that mean the same thing: intonate, tone, cantillate
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CHANT
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Clue 32 Down: "52. Being named valedictorian, 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 tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
- Words that mean the same thing: award, laurels, pureness
- The opposite would be: disrespect, dishonor
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The answer is: HONOR
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Clue 33 Down: "57. Heaven on earth"
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 place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Words that mean the same thing: paradise, Garden of Eden, nirvana
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EDEN
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Clue 34 Down: "58. Simplicity"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about geography.
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- This could be something that freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- Words that mean the same thing: relief, informality, alleviate
- The opposite would be: difficulty
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The answer is: EASE
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Clue 35 Down: "59. Frolic"
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 north american songbirds having a yellow breast
- Words that mean the same thing: frisk, romp, rollick
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LARK
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Clue 36 Down: "63. Narcissist's flaw"
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 inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Words that mean the same thing: self, self-importance, egotism
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: EGO
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Clue 37 Down: "64. Instrument in most jazz combos"
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 belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894)
- Words that mean the same thing: Adolphe Sax, saxophone
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: SAX
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 49 | 64.5% |
| Short Answer | 17 | 22.4% |
| Geography | 4 | 5.3% |
| Literature | 2 | 2.6% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.3% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.3% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 39 |
| Down Clues | 37 |
| Total Clues | 76 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.9 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 Tuesday, 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!
Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.
Last Updated: September 12, 2025 at 09:17 PM
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