March 26, 2021 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Across Clues (29 clues)
• Down Clues (37 clues)
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, March 26, 2021

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 66 (29 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.7 letters

Across Clues Explained - Friday NYT Crossword March 26, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Parts of a leak	11
2A	12. Pop around a lot?	13
3A	14. "Whoa, there!"	15
4A	16. One with a nest egg	3
5A	17. They provide added height for a swing	4
6A	18. Achieved success	6
7A	19. Where to find the Whiffenpoofs, who have been singing since 1909	4
8A	21. Like sauces in French cuisine, typically	4
9A	23. Result of a good pitch	4
10A	24. Seafarer's patron	6
11A	27. Darth Vader, e.g.	4
12A	29. Org. with 1-Across	3
13A	30. Voluptuary	8
14A	32. Warms up the crowd, say	5
15A	34. Steadiness	9
16A	36. Stravinsky's "Le ___ du Printemps"	5
17A	39. Loser that loses it, say	8
18A	42. Club club, for short	3
19A	43. Assist with some heavy lifting	4
20A	45. Like a tingly foot, maybe	6
21A	47. Composer's "forte"	4
22A	49. V.P., e.g.	4
23A	51. "Cimarron" novelist Ferber	4
24A	52. Animator Klasky who co-created "Rugrats"	6
25A	54. Water under the bridge?	4
26A	57. Zonked	3
27A	58. "Stop ... don't panic"	15
28A	61. Phil Silvers character of 1950s TV	13
29A	62. Place for a hot date?	11

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. Parts of a leak"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SECRETFILES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "12. Pop around a lot?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: STAYATHOMEDAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "14. "Whoa, there!""

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: WHATSTHEBIGIDEA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. One with a nest egg"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that adult female chicken
• Words that mean the same thing: biddy
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. They provide added height for a swing"

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 the starting place for each hole on a golf course
• Words that mean the same thing: tee, teeing ground, football tee
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Achieved success"

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: GOTFAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Where to find the Whiffenpoofs, who have been singing since 1909"

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 university in connecticut
• Words that mean the same thing: Yale University, Elihu Yale
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YALE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "21. Like sauces in French cuisine, typically"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)
• Words that mean the same thing: plentiful, racy, robust
• The opposite would be: lean, poor people
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RICH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "23. Result of a good pitch"

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 particular instance of selling
• Words that mean the same thing: cut-rate sale, sales agreement, sales event
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SALE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "24. Seafarer's patron"

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: STELMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "27. Darth Vader, e.g."

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: SITH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "29. Org. with 1-Across"

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 independent agency of the united states government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the director of central intelligence under the supervision of the president and national security council
• Words that mean the same thing: Central Intelligence Agency
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "30. Voluptuary"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
• Words that mean the same thing: pagan, pleasure seeker
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEDONIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "32. Warms up the crowd, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
• Words that mean the same thing: open air, outdoors, surface
• The opposite would be: close, fold
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OPENS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "34. Steadiness"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: EVENTENOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "36. Stravinsky's "Le ___ du Printemps""

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: SACRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "39. Loser that loses it, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BADSPORT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "42. Club club, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "43. Assist with some heavy lifting"

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 point located with respect to surface features of some region
• Words that mean the same thing: maculation, situation, tell apart
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "45. Like a tingly foot, maybe"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that in a state of sleep
• Words that mean the same thing: deceased, departed, at rest
• The opposite would be: awake
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASLEEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "47. Composer's "forte""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
• Words that mean the same thing: loudly, flash, forte
• The opposite would be: soft, softly
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOUD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "49. V.P., e.g."

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 chief executive department of the united states government
• Words that mean the same thing: White House
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EXEC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "51. "Cimarron" novelist Ferber"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EDNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "52. Animator Klasky who co-created "Rugrats""

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: ARLENE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "54. Water under the bridge?"

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 ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
• Words that mean the same thing: fosse
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "57. Zonked"

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 (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
• Words that mean the same thing: extinct, away, come out of the closet
• The opposite would be: safe
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "58. "Stop ... don't panic""

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: TAKEADEEPBREATH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "61. Phil Silvers character of 1950s TV"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SERGEANTBILKO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "62. Place for a hot date?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: DESERTOASIS

  Great job if you got it right!

March 26, 2021 Down Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Provenance of many superheroes	7
2D	2. Not fast	3
3D	3. Dermatologist's concern	4
4D	4. Going amount	4
5D	5. Fifth element, to Aristotle	5
6D	6. Heart of an academic paper	15
7D	7. Key ___	3
8D	8. "We'll see"	6
9D	9. Kind of block	4
10D	10. Corrects copy	5
11D	11. :(	7
12D	12. Place to store a weapon	6
13D	13. Give a hand	6
14D	14. Reasons	4
15D	15. Spaces	5
16D	20. Matriarch, for example	5
17D	22. Gave credit	5
18D	25. Rolls the dice, say	5
19D	26. What a raised index finger may stand for	3
20D	28. Stud alternatives	5
21D	31. ___ zero (status of no unanswered emails)	5
22D	33. Member of the working class	5
23D	35. Org. with 1-Across	3
24D	36. Sound associated with rotten tomatoes	5
25D	37. Ancient markets	6
26D	38. Filled in some gaps	7
27D	40. Amazon comedy/drama set in a New Jersey country club in the 1980s	7
28D	41. "Hold it," in music	6
29D	44. River through the Carolinas	6
30D	46. Track	4
31D	48. Mower handle?	5
32D	50. Admit	5
33D	53. Bugs	4
34D	55. Group with a member-centric acronym	4
35D	56. Push-up targets, for short	4
36D	59. Distinctive part of a Batman costume	3
37D	60. Restaurateur Zabar	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. Provenance of many superheroes"

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: STANLEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Not fast"

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 take in solid food
• Words that mean the same thing: exhaust, rust, eat on
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Dermatologist's concern"

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 closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure
• Words that mean the same thing: vesicle
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CYST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Going amount"

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 magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
• Words that mean the same thing: range, value, pace
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Fifth element, to Aristotle"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
• Words that mean the same thing: quintessence, diethyl ether, aether
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETHER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Heart of an academic paper"

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: THESISSTATEMENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Key ___"

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 vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
• Words that mean the same thing: watch pocket, watch chain, watch guard
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FOB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. "We'll see""

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: IMIGHT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Kind of block"

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 (trademark) a child's plastic construction set for making mechanical models
• Words that mean the same thing: Lego 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: LEGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Corrects copy"

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 prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
• Words that mean the same thing: edit out, blue-pencil, cut
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. :("

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SADFACE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Place to store a weapon"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a protective covering (as for a knife or sword)
• Words that mean the same thing: cocktail dress, case
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHEATH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Give a hand"

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: DEALIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Reasons"

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 the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
• Words that mean the same thing: wherefore, why
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WHYS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "15. Spaces"

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 particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
• Words that mean the same thing: surface area, expanse, orbit
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AREAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "20. Matriarch, for example"

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 person who is older than you are
• Words that mean the same thing: older, sr., senior
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELDER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "22. Gave credit"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that make reference to
• Words that mean the same thing: quote, abduce, summon
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CITED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "25. Rolls the dice, say"

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 act of deciding to do something
• Words that mean the same thing: move, run, displace
• The opposite would be: stay, rest
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOVES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "26. What a raised index finger may stand for"

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 smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Words that mean the same thing: ace, unitary, unrivalled
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "28. Stud alternatives"

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 game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
• Words that mean the same thing: basketball game, basket, hoop
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOOPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "31. ___ zero (status of no unanswered emails)"

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: INBOX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. Member of the working class"

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 member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
• Words that mean the same thing: proletarian, worker
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PROLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "35. Org. with 1-Across"

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 united states cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect united states information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information
• Words that mean the same thing: National Security Agency
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NSA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. Sound associated with rotten tomatoes"

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

  The answer is: SPLAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "37. Ancient markets"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in israel
• Words that mean the same thing: public square, agora
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AGORAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "38. Filled in some gaps"

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 seal with caulking
• Words that mean the same thing: caulk, calk
• The opposite would be: uncaulked
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAULKED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "40. Amazon comedy/drama set in a New Jersey country club in the 1980s"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: REDOAKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "41. "Hold it," in music"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TENUTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "44. River through the Carolinas"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PEEDEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "46. Track"

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 course of conduct
• Words that mean the same thing: way, itinerary, route
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PATH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "48. Mower handle?"

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 united states industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
• Words that mean the same thing: John Deere
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DEERE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "50. Admit"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: COPTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "53. Bugs"

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 someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
• Words that mean the same thing: plug, peck, jade
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "55. Group with a member-centric acronym"

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: ABBA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "56. Push-up targets, for short"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "59. Distinctive part of a Batman costume"

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 sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
• Words that mean the same thing: pinna, auricle, capitulum
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "60. Restaurateur Zabar"

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: ELI

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	46	69.7%
Short Answer	9	13.6%
History	2	3.0%
Abbreviation	2	3.0%
Music	2	3.0%
Geography	2	3.0%
Food & Drink	1	1.5%
Literature	1	1.5%
Science/Technology	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	29
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	66
Average Answer Length	5.7 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 Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
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Last Updated: September 18, 2025 at 03:22 PM

Xwordhint Crossword Answers - August 07, 2025 | Today NYT Vibez

Published on Thursday, August 07, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

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

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (35 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Speeding check"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lump on the body caused by a blow
• Similar words include: gibbousness, excrescence, dislodge
• Opposite of: promote

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BUMP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "5. Vocally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that using the voice; not silently
• Similar words include: loudly, loud, out loud
• Opposite of: softly

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALOUD

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🧩 3A: "10. Source for some bubbly"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASTI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4A: "14. Where the the Magi journeyed from"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AFAR

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🧩 5A: "15. "Over my dead body!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GODNO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6A: "16. One may be in default"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
• Similar words include: loanword, lend
• Opposite of: borrow

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOAN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "17. Mixtures in copier cartridges"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOPEARNERS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "19. Target of an exfoliator"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
• Similar words include: rivet, stoma, concentrate
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PORE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9A: "20. Birthplace of Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the capital and largest city of the czech republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century
• Similar words include: Prag, Praha, Czech capital
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PRAGUE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10A: "21. Drink made with an artisanal flourish, maybe"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
• Similar words include: caffe latte
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LATTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11A: "22. Begins dealing with"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HASAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12A: "25. Chatted online, in brief"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that challenge the honesty or veracity of
• Similar words include: criminate, incriminate, accuse
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMPEACHED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13A: "27. Risk-___"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
• Similar words include: loath, indisposed, antipathetic
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVERSE

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🧩 14A: "29. Sporting great who said "Tennis uses the language of life""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGASSI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15A: "30. School that's a rival of 37-Down"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a university in connecticut
• Similar words include: Elihu Yale, Yale University
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YALE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16A: "31. P.R. piece?"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PUERTO

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🧩 17A: "35. Stat used to calculate a QB's passer rating"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATT

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🧩 18A: "36. In vain ... or how to read the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in an unproductive manner
• Similar words include: unprofitably, unproductively
• Opposite of: profitably, productively

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FRUITLESSLY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19A: "39. Org. that monitors on-air obscenity"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite
• Similar words include: Federal Communications Commission
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FCC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20A: "41. Matter in a neon sign"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
• Similar words include: blood plasma, plasm
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PLASMA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 21A: "42. Subjects of some European fishing bans"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 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
• Similar words include: eel
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EELS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22A: "45. Start of a lovelorn soliloquy"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OROMEO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23A: "47. Bridges in Baghdad cross it"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an asian river; a tributary of the euphrates river
• Similar words include: Tigris River
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TIGRIS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24A: "49. Some fishing gear"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROMANGODS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 25A: "53. Level in a social hierarchy"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that social status or position conferred by a system based on class
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CASTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 26A: "54. Street urchin"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
• Similar words include: throwaway, street arab
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAMIN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 27A: "55. Less merry"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a tool used by an engraver
• Similar words include: weighty, grievous, grave
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GRAVER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 28A: "57. Abbr. standing in for co-authors"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETAL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 29A: "58. Investigate in detail"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PROBLEMONE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30A: "62. Pitchfork point"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TINE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 31A: "63. Rivian competitor"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
• Similar words include: Nikola Tesla
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TESLA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 32A: "64. Gemstone found in hot springs"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OPAL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33A: "65. Org. promoting sober motoring"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SADD

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 34A: "66. Half-___ (desultory)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASSED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 35A: "67. Winter sports venue"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating
• Similar words include: skating rink
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RINK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Be up"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
• Similar words include: lick, drub, chiropteran
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2D: "2. What arrives in the film "Arrival""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
• Similar words include: flying saucer, unidentified flying object
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UFO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3D: "3. Dash display in some cars"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
• Similar words include: function, single-valued function, map out
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4D: "4. Tax ___"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PREPARER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5D: "5. Tourist destination outside of Delhi"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGRA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6D: "6. Nighttime sound?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LONGI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7D: "7. Classical performance space"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ODEUM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8D: "8. One with diplomatic plates in N.Y.C."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UNREP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9D: "9. "Mesa para ___" (request at a Spanish restaurant)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the federal department in the united states that sets and maintains foreign policies
• Similar words include: exercise, State, State Department
• Opposite of: unmake

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DOS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10D: "10. Wool source"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that wool of the alpaca
• Similar words include: Lama pacos
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALPACA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11D: "11. Futures experts?"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
• Similar words include: predictor, forecaster, prognosticator
• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOOTHSAYERS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12D: "12. Most pucker-inducing"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tasting sour like a lemon
• Similar words include: tangy, sharp, lemonlike
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TARTEST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13D: "13. "Gimme!""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INEEDIT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14D: "18. Culture vulture's concerns"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
• Similar words include: artistry, artistic creation, art
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARTS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15D: "21. Financial center of West Africa"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that chief port and economic center of nigeria; located in southwestern nigeria on the gulf of guinea; former capital of nigeria
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LAGOS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16D: "22. Kind of "fever" that's not actually a fever, and is typically caused by pollen"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that grass mowed and cured for use as fodder
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 17D: "23. Director DuVernay"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18D: "24. It's needed to stay calm"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SELFCOMMAND

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19D: "26. Rankles no end"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EATSAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20D: "28. Prose postscript"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
• Similar words include: epilogue
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EPILOG

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 21D: "32. ___ Hagen, Tony-winning actress and theater practitioner"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a reptile genus of iguanidae
• Similar words include: genus Uta
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UTA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22D: "33. Trains for the Chicago White Sox?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• Similar words include: ALT, EL, altitude
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23D: "34. Dreamily named rock group?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
• Similar words include: rapid eye movement sleep, paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24D: "37. School that's a rival of 30-Across, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UPENN

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🧩 25D: "38. Part of a jouster's protection"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ________

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Answer: LEGARMOR

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🧩 26D: "39. Thinks nothing of"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
• Similar words include: blank out, draw a blank, leave
• Opposite of: mind, remember

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Answer: FORGETS

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🧩 27D: "40. European land where much of "Game of Thrones" was filmed"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a republic in the western balkans in south-central europe in the eastern adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the habsburg monarchy and yugoslavia; became independent in 1991
• Similar words include: Republic of Croatia, Hrvatska
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: CROATIA

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🧩 28D: "43. On fire"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the humanistic study of a body of literature
• Similar words include: illume, dismount, lighted
• Opposite of: extinguish, unlighted

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Answer: LIT

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🧩 29D: "44. Seattle-to-Mount Rainier dir."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the compass point midway between south and southeast
• Similar words include: south southeast, sou'-sou'-east
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SSE

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🧩 30D: "46. On its way, in a way"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that send via the postal service
• Similar words include: send, post, get off
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: MAILED

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🧩 31D: "48. Drink that might turn your tongue blue"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ICEE

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🧩 32D: "50. Fiends of folklore"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cruel wicked and inhuman person
• Similar words include: demon, fiend, monster
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OGRES

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🧩 33D: "51. Useless leftovers"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
• Similar words include: impurity, slag, scoria
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: DROSS

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🧩 34D: "52. Fur once favored by Russian royalty"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an artist's brush made of sable hairs
• Similar words include: soot black, sable's hair pencil, coal black
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SABLE

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🧩 35D: "56. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Guerrero, to fans"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: VLAD

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🧩 36D: "58. Org. that might sponsor a read-a-thon, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: PTA

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🧩 37D: "59. Mani-pedi brand"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: OPI

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🧩 38D: "60. Grammy, in the U.K."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that your grandmother
• Similar words include: Nan River, gran, nanna
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NAN

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🧩 39D: "61. Creature on the state flags of Michigan and Idaho"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
• Similar words include: Alces alces, European elk, American elk
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ELK

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39 Down Clues

74 Total Clues

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