Saturday April 11, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clue Hints

NYT Crossword Breakdown: April 11, 2025

Let's solve the puzzle, starting with across and down clues and answers.

Friday April 11, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clue Hints

Across Clues with Answers:

• Clue 1. Some pops. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: COCACOLAS

  
  



• Clue 10. Line accompanying a doorbell ring. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: ITSME

  
  



• Clue 15. Richard Nixon or Mao Zedong, in a 1987 premiere. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: OPERAROLE

  
  



• Clue 16. Moved in bounds. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: LOPED

  
  

  Possible synonyms: lop, dress, snip, clip, prune, discerp, lope, trim, cut_back, crop, sever




• Clue 17. Activity with pints and points. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: BARTRIVIA

  
  



• Clue 18. Not straight. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: LYING

  
  

  Possible synonyms: rest, lying, fabrication, lie_in, prevarication, dwell, lie, lie_down, consist

  Possible antonyms: stand, arise




• Clue 19. Ones in a war of words?. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: SLAMPOETS

  
  



• Clue 20. Like Iceland's weather most of the year. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: WINDY

  
  

  Possible synonyms: verbose, impractical, windy, breezy, tedious, airy, Laputan, wordy, visionary, blowy, long-winded




• Clue 21. Longtime email provider. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (3 letters)

  Answer: AOL

  
  



• Clue 22. They're high-pressure at their low points. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: OCEANS

  
  

  Possible synonyms: ocean, sea




• Clue 24. Action figures from Hasbro. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: GIJOES

  
  



• Clue 27. Japanese "thank you". Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (7 letters)

  Answer: ARIGATO

  
  



• Clue 30. Morris who directed "The Thin Blue Line". Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: ERROL

  
  



• Clue 31. It's one step down from an F. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: EFLAT

  
  



• Clue 33. "Uh-huh". Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (3 letters)

  Answer: YUP

  
  



• Clue 34. Vulgarian. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: BOOR

  
  

  Possible synonyms: boor, tike, churl, barbarian, Goth, tyke, peasant




• Clue 35. What ice skaters might turn into?. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: AXELS

  
  



• Clue 36. "Sort by" option in a credit card history. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: DATE

  
  

  Possible synonyms: escort, date, go_out, particular_date, see, go_steady, date_stamp, appointment, engagement, day_of_the_month




• Clue 37. Messy ___ (hairstyle). Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (3 letters)

  Answer: BUN

  
  

  Possible synonyms: bun, roll




• Clue 38. Liquid-Plumr alternative. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: DRANO

  
  



• Clue 39. Pilot returning to the air, e.g.. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: RERUN

  
  

  Possible synonyms: rerun, rebroadcast




• Clue 40. Popeye's fare. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (7 letters)

  Answer: SPINACH

  
  

  Possible synonyms: prickly-seeded_spinach, spinach, spinach_plant, Spinacia_oleracea




• Clue 42. Passionate tributes. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: PAEANS

  
  

  Possible synonyms: encomium, pean, eulogy, paean, panegyric




• Clue 44. Screen mover. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: CURSOR

  
  

  Possible synonyms: pointer, cursor




• Clue 46. Dose of unreality?. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (3 letters)

  Answer: LSD

  
  

  Possible synonyms: LSD, lysergic_acid_diethylamide




• Clue 47. Sign of romantic chemistry. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: SPARK

  
  

  Possible synonyms: actuate, arc, sparkle, Spark, spark_off, twinkle, trip, flicker, light, electric_arc, set_off, trigger, Muriel_Sarah_Spark, spark, trigger_off, Dame_Muriel_Spark, glint, touch_off, discharge, activate, Muriel_Spark, electric_discharge




• Clue 49. Dropped, as a touchy subject. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: LEFTALONE

  
  



• Clue 54. Sign of vitality. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: PULSE

  
  

  Possible synonyms: throb, heartbeat, heart_rate, pulsate, beat, pulse_rate, impulse, pulsation, pulse, pulsing




• Clue 55. Neptune, e.g.. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: ICEPLANET

  
  



• Clue 56. French city whose last three letters are a French article. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: ARLES

  
  

  Possible synonyms: earnest_money, arles




• Clue 57. Simple question written with two question marks. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: COMOESTAS

  
  



• Clue 58. Private affair. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: TRYST

  
  

  Possible synonyms: tryst, rendezvous, assignation




• Clue 59. Certain ephemeral social media post, informally. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (9 letters)

  Answer: SNAPSTORY

  
  

Down Clues with Answers:

• Clue 1. Makings of some homemade pipes. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: COBS

  
  

  Possible synonyms: Larus_marinus, filbert, great_black-backed_gull, cob, hazelnut, cobnut, black-backed_gull




• Clue 2. Fitting name for a girl born in October. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: OPAL

  
  

  Possible synonyms: opal




• Clue 3. Michael who played Allan in "Barbie". Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: CERA

  
  



• Clue 4. One into modeling at school. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (8 letters)

  Answer: ARTMAJOR

  
  



• Clue 5. Go on a full ride, say?. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (7 letters)

  Answer: CARPOOL

  
  



• Clue 6. Maryland's state bird. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: ORIOLE

  
  

  Possible synonyms: New_World_oriole, American_oriole, oriole, Old_World_oriole




• Clue 7. What crossing your hands in front of your chest means in American Sign Language. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: LOVE

  
  

  Possible synonyms: bonk, know, get_it_on, love, honey, lie_with, sleep_together, hump, enjoy, dearest, sexual_love, eff, bed, sleep_with, have_it_away, bang, roll_in_the_hay, have_a_go_at_it, make_out, make_love, be_intimate, jazz, have_it_off, have_intercourse, lovemaking, have_sex, erotic_love, love_life, passion, making_love, screw, do_it, beloved, fuck, dear, get_laid

  Possible antonyms: hate




• Clue 8. Bush nominee to the Supreme Court. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: ALITO

  
  



• Clue 9. Creature with over 200 tiny eyes along its shell. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (10 letters)

  Answer: SEASCALLOP

  
  



• Clue 10. "Finish what you're doing". Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (7 letters)

  Answer: ILLWAIT

  
  



• Clue 11. Futzing (with). Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: TOYING

  
  

  Possible synonyms: flirt, toy, toying, dalliance, dally, diddle, flirtation, play, fiddle, flirting, coquetry




• Clue 12. Fabulizes. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (10 letters)

  Answer: SPINSAYARN

  
  



• Clue 13. On the ___. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: MEND

  
  

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

  Possible antonyms: break




• Clue 14. Pushing boundaries. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: EDGY

  
  

  Possible synonyms: highly_strung, jumpy, edgy, restive, jittery, overstrung, nervy, high-strung, uptight




• Clue 23. Things sometimes named after kings and queens. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: ERAS

  
  

  Possible synonyms: geological_era, era, epoch, earned_run_average, ERA




• Clue 24. Party. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: GROUP

  
  

  Possible synonyms: radical, group, aggroup, chemical_group, grouping, mathematical_group




• Clue 25. How Romeo dies, in the eyes of the audience. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (10 letters)

  Answer: IRONICALLY

  
  

  Possible synonyms: ironically




• Clue 26. Ones lost in lust. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (10 letters)

  Answer: SEXAHOLICS

  
  



• Clue 28. Some attire worn with tights. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: TUTUS

  
  

  Possible synonyms: Tutu, ballet_skirt, Desmond_Tutu, tutu




• Clue 29. P.G.A. Tour event. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: OPEN

  
  

  Possible synonyms: unfastened, undefendable, unresolved, outdoors, opened, unfold, loose, out-of-doors, heart-to-heart, give, open_up, undecided, receptive, subject, undefended, assailable, open_air, overt, clear, afford, spread, open, exposed, candid, surface, spread_out, capable, undetermined

  Possible antonyms: close, shut, covert, fold, closed, unreceptive




• Clue 30. Wanes. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: EBBS

  
  

  Possible synonyms: ebbing, ebb_down, ebb, ebb_out, reflux, wane, ebb_off, ebb_away

  Possible antonyms: tide




• Clue 32. Boggy land. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (3 letters)

  Answer: FEN

  
  

  Possible synonyms: marsh, marshland, fenland, fen




• Clue 35. Characters' trajectories. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: ARCS

  
  

  Possible synonyms: discharge, arc, electric_arc, bow, arch, curve, spark, electric_discharge




• Clue 36. At the absolute back of the pack. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (8 letters)

  Answer: DEADLAST

  
  



• Clue 38. Like the night right before dawn, proverbially. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (7 letters)

  Answer: DARKEST

  
  

  Possible synonyms: moody, grim, sullen, sour, black, blue, gloomy, dreary, sinister, drear, dismal, glowering, obscure, coloured, non-white, saturnine, sorry, drab, dark, dark-skinned, benighted, disconsolate, dingy, colored, dour, morose, glum

  Possible antonyms: light




• Clue 39. Some real estate deals. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (7 letters)

  Answer: RESALES

  
  

  Possible synonyms: resale




• Clue 41. Tends to. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: NURSES

  
  

  Possible synonyms: suckle, entertain, nursemaid, harbour, harbor, breastfeed, lactate, hold, nanny, wet-nurse, suck, give_suck, nurse

  Possible antonyms: bottlefeed




• Clue 43. Music genre that's experimental yet radio-friendly. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (6 letters)

  Answer: ALTPOP

  
  



• Clue 45. Means of intel gathering. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (5 letters)

  Answer: RECON

  
  



• Clue 47. Minor disagreement. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: SPAT

  
  

  Possible synonyms: spew, pettifoggery, patter, bicker, spatter, acclaim, tiff, gaiter, ptyalize, skewer, sprinkle, squabble, clap, spue, spat, fuss, ptyalise, applaud, spit, pitter-patter, spit_out, bickering

  Possible antonyms: boo




• Clue 48. [Please keep scratching me!]. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: PURR

  
  

  Possible synonyms: whirr, whir, make_vibrant_sounds, whizz, purr, birr, whiz




• Clue 50. Org. that's busy after disasters. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: FEMA

  
  

  Possible synonyms: FEMA, Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency




• Clue 51. "You're ___ something!". Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: ONTO

  
  



• Clue 52. Word with mint or miss. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: NEAR

  
  

  Possible synonyms: good, cheeseparing, come_near, almost, skinny, come_on, virtually, about, nigh, draw_near, near, draw_close, well-nigh, approach, close, nearly, approximate, dear, most, go_up, penny-pinching

  Possible antonyms: far




• Clue 53. Site with shops from around the world. Can you guess the answer?

  Hint: (4 letters)

  Answer: ETSY

  
  

Xwordhint Crossword Answers - August 03, 2025 | Today NYT Vibez

Published on Sunday, August 03, 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: Challenging

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (77 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Final act of a play?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
• Similar words include: bow down, defer, bowknot
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BOW

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "4. Iconic sci-fi setting spelled out in this puzzle's shaded squares"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THEE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3A: "8. Skyrocket"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a growth in strength or number or importance
• Similar words include: mount, acclivity, wage increase
• Opposite of: sit down, descent

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RISE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4A: "12. "Reckon so!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YUP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5A: "15. Working without ___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANET

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6A: "17. Seemingly forever"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the supreme being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
• Similar words include: aeon, eon
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AEONS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "19. Some spa jobs, in brief"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PEDIS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "20. Manner of speaking"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
• Similar words include: tonus, shade, step
• Opposite of: atonicity

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TONE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9A: "21. Like used BBQ pits"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that of a light grey
• Similar words include: ash-gray, ash-grey
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASHY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10A: "22. Member of this puzzle's shaded squares who might say "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!""

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MISTERSCOTT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11A: "24. Like being late or cutting in line"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that socially incorrect in behavior
• Similar words include: bounderish, ill-mannered, raw
• Opposite of: civil

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RUDE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12A: "25. Something clicked to add an attachment"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together
• Similar words include: stapling machine
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STAPLER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13A: "27. Take up space"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that have an existence, be extant
• Similar words include: subsist, live, be
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EXIST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14A: "28. Kind of protagonist in "Lethal Weapon" or "Die Hard""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEROCOP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15A: "30. Swear"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
• Similar words include: swan, assert, swear
• Opposite of: disavow

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVOW

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16A: "31. Digital investment choices, informally"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CRYPTOS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 17A: "33. Not much, as of wasabi"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADAB

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18A: "34. Narrowly get (by)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EKE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19A: "35. "Now that we're all here, please proceed""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OKGO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20A: "38. Lab reports?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARFS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 21A: "41. Overzealous sort"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that usually large hard-shelled seed
• Similar words include: egg, junky, ballock
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NUT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22A: "43. Got acquainted"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that come together
• Similar words include: fit, touch, run across
• Opposite of: diverge

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MET

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23A: "44. D.M.V.-issued card authenticated by airport security"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REALID

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24A: "47. Build a stockpile"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAVEUP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 25A: "49. Didn't go fast?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Similar words include: wipe out, use up, exhaust
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 26A: "50. Employee's status meaning "I'm currently away""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OOO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 27A: "51. Take down a notch"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
• Similar words include: relegate, bump, break
• Opposite of: promote

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEMOTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 28A: "52. Purveyors of provocative posts"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
• Similar words include: round, trolling, troll
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TROLLS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 29A: "53. 8.5" x 11": Abbr."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LTR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30A: "54. Kris Kross #1 hit with the lyric "How high? Real high, 'cause I'm just so fly""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sudden and decisive increase
• Similar words include: spring, skip over, derail
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: JUMP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 31A: "56. El presidente ousted in a 1955 coup"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that argentine soldier who became president of argentina (1895-1974)
• Similar words include: Juan Domingo Peron
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PERON

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 32A: "57. Danger"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
• Similar words include: danger, jeopardize, risk
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PERIL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33A: "58. Cry from a victor"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IWON

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 34A: "59. Type that tends to be right-leaning"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
• Similar words include: italic, Italic, Italic language
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ITALICS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 35A: "61. Like quality vocals"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONKEY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 36A: "63. Looks inside?"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CTSCANS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 37A: "65. Drug-busting unit"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the systeme international d'unites
• Similar words include: kg, kilogram
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KILO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 38A: "66. City whose Fushimi Inari shrine features 10,000+ red torii gates"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a city in central japan on southern honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of japan
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KYOTO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 39A: "67. Brother of Disney's Louie and Dewey Duck"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HUEY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 40A: "68. Something hit to get fit"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THEGYM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 41A: "70. Hands-on professional?"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male massager
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MASSEUR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 42A: "72. Baseball team whose mascot is Wally the Green Monster"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REDSOX

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 43A: "75. Seeing romantically"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WITH

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 44A: "76. Humble hold 'em holding"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a set of two similar things considered as a unit
• Similar words include: dyad, match, pair off
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PAIR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 45A: "78. "The Bear" streamer"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HULU

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 46A: "80. Cold War weapon inits."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
• Similar words include: intercontinental ballistic missile
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ICBM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 47A: "81. Beethoven's No. 8?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACHT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 48A: "82. Line of luxury hotels"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OMNIS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 49A: "84. Takes to school, in a way"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
• Similar words include: bus topology, heap, motorcoach
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BUSES

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 50A: "85. Cosmic explosion"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOVA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 51A: "86. It goes on the run"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SKI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 52A: "87. Be a wingman, e.g."

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
• Similar words include: attend, wait on, aid
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASSIST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 53A: "88. False"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
• Similar words include: substitute
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERSATZ

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 54A: "90. Inits. for this puzzle's shaded squares"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
• Similar words include: U.S., America, United States
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: USS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 55A: "91. Move like a supermodel"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a proud stiff pompous gait
• Similar words include: ruffle, sashay, swagger
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STRUT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 56A: "93. Unit of purity"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
• Similar words include: carat, kt
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KARAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 57A: "95. Lower oneself"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
• Similar words include: condescend, descend
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEIGN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 58A: "97. They study how knights move"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that young nobleman attendant on a knight
• Similar words include: squire, gallant
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SQUIRES

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 59A: "99. Canyon's edge"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
• Similar words include: brim, flange, lip
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 60A: "100. On the ___ (raging)"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that hostile or belligerent mood
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WARPATH

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 61A: "102. Gone skinny-dipping, e.g."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that travel through water
• Similar words include: float, swim, drown
• Opposite of: sink

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SWUM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 62A: "103. Significant stretch"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 63A: "104. Mr. Turkey"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to whites
• Similar words include: tom turkey, turkey cock, gobbler
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 64A: "105. Some window installations, informally"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores
• Similar words include: alternating electric current, alternating current, actinium
• Opposite of: direct current

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 65A: "106. Warp-driven device"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
• Similar words include: tower, hulk, predominate
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOOM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 66A: "108. Major exporter of mangoes"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a republic in the west indies on the western part of the island of hispaniola; achieved independence from france in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere
• Similar words include: Hispaniola, Hayti, Republic of Haiti
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAITI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 67A: "110. One giving the highlights?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone whose job is to dye cloth
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DYER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 68A: "112. By dawn's early light?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
• Similar words include: due east, E, eastward
• Opposite of: west

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EAST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 69A: "114. Intending to, casually"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GONNA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 70A: "115. Bring upon oneself"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to
• Similar words include: receive, get, find
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INCUR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 71A: "116. Wordlessly indicate "Please give me a hand""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 72A: "117. "___ a broken heart" (Emily Dickinson poem)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UNTO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 73A: "118. Iron Man's suit, e.g."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that protective covering made of metal and used in combat
• Similar words include: armour
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARMOR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 74A: "119. "Fire away!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASKME

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 75A: "120. False"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of mocking or ridiculing
• Similar words include: bemock
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MOCK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 76A: "121. Docking station"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
• Similar words include: dock, wharf, wharfage
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PIER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 77A: "122. Some draft picks"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
• Similar words include: beer
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BEERS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (63 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Some farm sounds"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that south african term for `boss'
• Similar words include: blat, blate, baa
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BAAS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2D: "2. Camped nearby and surveilling, in police jargon"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONSTAKEOUT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3D: "3. "Our window is closing for escape w-elocity!," as [circled letters] might say"

📏 21 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WEHAVETOMAKETHISQUICK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4D: "4. Hardly spicy"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that correct by punishment or discipline
• Similar words include: tone down, meek, domesticate
• Opposite of: wild

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAME

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5D: "5. Next in line"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
• Similar words include: inheritor, successor, heritor
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEIR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6D: "6. Goddess of daybreak"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EOS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7D: "7. Fill in"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that to come or go into
• Similar words include: insert, go into, accede
• Opposite of: exit, drop out

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENTER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8D: "8. Direct opposite of verso (found hidden in this clue!)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that right-hand page
• Opposite of: verso
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RECTO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9D: "9. It's a promise"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IDO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10D: "10. Enemy of the Jedi"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SITH

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11D: "11. By Juan's early light?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12D: "12. "Any time! I'm a doctor, not a do-nothing!," as [circled letters] might say"

📏 21 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YOUCANALWAYSCOUNTONME

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13D: "13. Way back?"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UNDOBUTTON

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14D: "14. Slight gripe, so to speak"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the short weak cry of a young bird
• Similar words include: chirrup, chirp, cheep
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PEEP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15D: "16. Slip of the pen"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
• Similar words include: typographical error, erratum, literal
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TYPO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16D: "18. Tantalizing"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
• Similar words include: aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal
• Opposite of: unsexy, anaphrodisiac

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEXY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 17D: "19. A low "Yo!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PSST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18D: "20. Trampled (on)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that put down or press the foot, place the foot
• Similar words include: trample, step, tread
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TROD

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19D: "23. Sound of a wardrobe malfunction"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a dissolute man in fashionable society
• Similar words include: profligate, roue, pull
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20D: "26. Euphemistic expression of commitment"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LWORD

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 21D: "29. Speaks roughly"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that uttering in an irritated tone
• Similar words include: wood file, rasping, rasp
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RASPS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22D: "31. Cherry or lime"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
• Similar words include: colouring material, discolour, people of color
• Opposite of: black-and-white, discolor

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COLOR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23D: "32. Bask in"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
• Similar words include: bask, savour, flavour
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAVOR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24D: "34. Reaction to a social media post, maybe"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EMOJI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 25D: "36. "Logic dictates that you control your emotions," as [circled letters] might say"

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KEEPCOMPOSURE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 26D: "37. Sneakily exploits"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a contest with rules to determine a winner
• Similar words include: plot, bet on, gage
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAMES

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 27D: "39. Thing of the past"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an antiquity that has survived from the distant past
• Similar words include: souvenir, token, keepsake
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RELIC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 28D: "40. "Stepping on the gas, Captain!," as [circled letters] might say"

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FULLTHRUSTERS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 29D: "42. Seaside flock"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
• Similar words include: tern
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TERNS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30D: "45. "To protect my crew, the gamble was necessary," as [circled letters] might say"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ITOOKARISK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 31D: "46. IHOP rival"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DENNYS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 32D: "47. Florida beach town, informally"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STPETE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33D: "48. "We received a distress signal. Any injuries?," as [circled letters] might say"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AREYOUHURT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 34D: "55. Tough spot"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
• Similar words include: pledge, betroth, quandary
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PLIGHT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 35D: "58. Stranded during a winter storm, say"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ICEDIN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 36D: "60. Texter's sweet sentiment"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ILY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 37D: "62. Big hits, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (in india) a unit of length having different values in different localities
• Similar words include: knockout, kayo, KO
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KOS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 38D: "64. Make a case against?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that french writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
• Similar words include: process, litigate, action
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SUE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 39D: "68. Old-fashioned contraction"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TWAS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 40D: "69. Backwoods bumpkin"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
• Similar words include: chawbacon, hayseed, rube
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HICK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 41D: "70. Bite-size"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very short skirt
• Similar words include: miniskirt
• Opposite of: midi

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MINI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 42D: "71. Former Wisconsin senator Feingold"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the medieval russian state established by scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in novgorod and then in kiev
• Similar words include: Rus
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RUSS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 43D: "73. "Clearly!," in textspeak"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OBVS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 44D: "74. Major e-tailing season"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a christian holiday celebrating the birth of christ; a quarter day in england, wales, and ireland
• Similar words include: Christmas Day, Christmas, Dec 25
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: XMAS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 45D: "77. World capital with 400 kilometers of bike lanes"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an industrial center and the nominal capital of the netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum
• Similar words include: capital of The Netherlands, Dutch capital
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMSTERDAM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 46D: "79. He might be carrying a big picture"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LEADACTOR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 47D: "83. This puzzle's theme"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STARTREK

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 48D: "84. "I want to come back to the ship," as everyone circled in this puzzle seems to have said to 22-Across"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BEAMMEUP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 49D: "87. NPR journalist Shapiro"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 50D: "89. Punch"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantity of no importance
• Similar words include: zero, nil, cipher
• Opposite of: unzip

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ZIP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 51D: "92. Belly, in kidspeak"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TUMTUM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 52D: "94. Carnival-themed Vegas hotel"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the former capital and 2nd largest city of brazil; chief brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
• Similar words include: Rio de Janeiro
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 53D: "96. In spades"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in great numbers
• Similar words include: abounding
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GALORE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 54D: "97. Symbols of grace"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
• Similar words include: roam, swan, avow
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SWANS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 55D: "98. Object"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAYNO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 56D: "100. Garbage"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
• Similar words include: macerate, waste material, liquidate
• Opposite of: conserve

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WASTE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 57D: "101. "___ is more important than life" (Klingon proverb)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
• Similar words include: respect, laurels, abide by
• Opposite of: dishonor, disrespect

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HONOR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 58D: "102. "Transformers" actor ___ LaBeouf"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of the two main branches of orthodox islam; mainly in iran
• Similar words include: Shiah, Shiah Islam
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHIA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 59D: "107. 2004 landing site for Spirit"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
• Similar words include: deflower, spoil, mar
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MARS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 60D: "109. Land west of Eng."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
• Similar words include: ira, anger, choler
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IRE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 61D: "111. "You get the gist": Abbr."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 62D: "113. Alt-rocker DiFranco"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that black tropical american cuckoo
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 63D: "114. Chinwag"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that light informal conversation for social occasions
• Similar words include: yak, chin wagging, gossip
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAB

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.

❓ Decode the Clues

Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.

🔤 Use Cross-References

Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.

📚 Build Vocabulary

Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.

📊 Today's Puzzle Stats

77 Across Clues

63 Down Clues

140 Total Clues

🗂️ More NYT Crossword Help

Looking for more puzzle solutions? Check out our comprehensive archive of NYT crossword hints and answers. We update daily with expert analysis and solving strategies.

• Complete NYT Crossword Archive
• Advanced Solving Techniques
• Common Crossword Words

Disclaimer: Crossword clues and grid © The New York Times. This site provides hints and educational content for puzzle enthusiasts. XWordHint is not affiliated with The New York Times.

Last updated: August 03, 2025 at 04:36 AM