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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Thursday, December 02, 2021
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 76 (38 Across, 38 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.2 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Thursday Puzzle December 02, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Thwack | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Bow ties, e.g. | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Dollar alternative | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Like chocolate mousse | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Puckish | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Lunar plain | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Circadian rhythm regulator | 13 |
| 8A | 19. Heaps | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Tech executive, for short | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Labor leader Dolores Huerta or astronaut Ellen Ochoa | 6 |
| 11A | 23. Representative Bowman, the first male member of "The Squad" | 6 |
| 12A | 26. H.S. course that might have a unit on the Harlem Renaissance | 11 |
| 13A | 28. Singer Tori | 4 |
| 14A | 29. Mendelssohn work in E flat major, and others | 6 |
| 15A | 31. Make definite, informally | 3 |
| 16A | 32. Mojito ingredient | 4 |
| 17A | 33. Rejections | 4 |
| 18A | 34. Scepter topper | 3 |
| 19A | 36. Does dirty | 7 |
| 20A | 38. Word before oil or water | 7 |
| 21A | 42. Use a 56-Across | 3 |
| 22A | 43. "Sure, sure" | 4 |
| 23A | 45. Delicate textile | 4 |
| 24A | 46. Presidential nickname | 3 |
| 25A | 48. Ticks off | 6 |
| 26A | 50. Open ___ | 4 |
| 27A | 51. Performance artist portraying male characters | 8 |
| 28A | 53. Agree | 6 |
| 29A | 55. Hawaii is famous for them | 9 |
| 30A | 56. Boat propeller | 3 |
| 31A | 57. Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer | 4 |
| 32A | 58. One of a pair at the dinner table ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 10 |
| 33A | 65. Like texting during a conversation, to some | 4 |
| 34A | 66. Ancient Greek marketplace | 5 |
| 35A | 67. Refer to | 4 |
| 36A | 68. Symbol of Russia | 4 |
| 37A | 69. "Copy that" | 5 |
| 38A | 70. Checkup, e.g. | 4 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Thwack"
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 sharp blow
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWAT
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Clue 2 Across: "5. Bow ties, e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
- Words that mean the same thing: alimentary paste
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PASTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "10. Dollar alternative"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVIS
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Clue 4 Across: "14. Like chocolate mousse"
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 people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)
- Words that mean the same thing: fertile, plenteous, fat
- The opposite would be: poor, lean
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RICH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Puckish"
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 suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; ; - john mason brown
- Words that mean the same thing: elvish, elfish, elflike
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELFIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. Lunar plain"
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 female equine animal
- Words that mean the same thing: maria, female horse
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MARE
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Clue 7 Across: "17. Circadian rhythm regulator"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 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!
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The answer is: INTERNALCLOCK
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Heaps"
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 sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the pharaoh akhenaten
- Words that mean the same thing: Aten
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATON
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Clue 9 Across: "20. Tech executive, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a federation of north american industrial unions that merged with the american federation of labor in 1955
- Words that mean the same thing: Congress of Industrial Organizations
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CIO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Labor leader Dolores Huerta or astronaut Ellen Ochoa"
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!
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The answer is: LATINA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "23. Representative Bowman, the first male member of "The Squad""
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!
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The answer is: JAMAAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. H.S. course that might have a unit on the Harlem Renaissance"
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!
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The answer is: AMERICANLIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Singer Tori"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a hebrew shepherd and minor prophet
- Words that mean the same thing: Book of Amos
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. Mendelssohn work in E flat major, and others"
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 the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- Words that mean the same thing: ogdoad, octad, VIII
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OCTETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "31. Make definite, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that water frozen in the solid state
- Words that mean the same thing: ice-skating rink, chicken feed, methamphetamine
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ICE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "32. Mojito ingredient"
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 (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- Words that mean the same thing: mountain, flock, raft
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MINT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "33. Rejections"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 102, no, nobelium
- The opposite would be: yes
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "34. Scepter topper"
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 ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- Words that mean the same thing: revolve, eyeball, ball
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "36. Does dirty"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that reveal unintentionally
- Words that mean the same thing: deceive, tell on, give away
- The opposite would be: undeceive
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BETRAYS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "38. Word before oil or water"
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 solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MINERAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. Use a 56-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 arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line
- Words that mean the same thing: rowing, dustup, quarrel
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. "Sure, sure""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IBET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Delicate textile"
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 cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- Words that mean the same thing: enlace, spike, lacing
- The opposite would be: untwine
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LACE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Presidential nickname"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Ticks off"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Words that mean the same thing: see red, anger, ire
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANGERS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. Open ___"
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 weapons considered collectively
- Words that mean the same thing: weapons system, coat of arms, limb
- The opposite would be: disarm
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "51. Performance artist portraying male characters"
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!
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The answer is: DRAGKING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Agree"
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!
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The answer is: SAYYES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. Hawaii is famous for them"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
- Words that mean the same thing: volcano, vent
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: VOLCANOES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "56. Boat propeller"
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 implement used to propel or steer a boat
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "57. Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer"
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!
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The answer is: EGAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "58. One of a pair at the dinner table ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt
- Words that mean the same thing: salt shaker
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SALTSHAKER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "65. Like texting during a conversation, to some"
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 socially incorrect in behavior
- Words that mean the same thing: lowbred, uncivil, bad-mannered
- The opposite would be: civil
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RUDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "66. Ancient Greek marketplace"
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 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in israel
- Words that mean the same thing: public square
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AGORA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "67. Refer to"
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 short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- Words that mean the same thing: quote, refer, credit
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CITE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "68. Symbol of Russia"
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 massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws
- Words that mean the same thing: put up, yield, endure
- The opposite would be: bull
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "69. "Copy that""
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 mention of
- Words that mean the same thing: observe, note, take note
- The opposite would be: ignore
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOTED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 38 Across: "70. Checkup, 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 a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
- Words that mean the same thing: test, examination
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EXAM
Great job if you got it right!
Solve the Down: NYT Thursday Puzzle December 02, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Hindu honorific | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Success | 3 |
| 3D | 3. One may be tough to follow | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Historic Bay Area neighborhood with a 600-square-foot rainbow flag | 9 |
| 5D | 5. Australia, once | 11 |
| 6D | 6. Every last one | 3 |
| 7D | 7. West Coast air hub, for short | 3 |
| 8D | 8. First X or O | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Tarsal adornment | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Violin family name | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Papal collection overseen by a bibliothecarius | 14 |
| 12D | 12. 1996 hit for Alanis Morissette | 6 |
| 13D | 13. House mate? | 6 |
| 14D | 18. Narrow inlet | 3 |
| 15D | 22. Basis of some insurance fraud | 5 |
| 16D | 23. Place to hang a mezuzah | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Bestie in Bordeaux | 4 |
| 18D | 25. Largest French-speaking city in North America | 14 |
| 19D | 26. Consumed | 3 |
| 20D | 27. German physician who coined the term "animal magnetism" | 6 |
| 21D | 30. Vouch (for), in a way | 6 |
| 22D | 35. Something that's impossible to run by yourself | 9 |
| 23D | 37. Still up, say | 5 |
| 24D | 39. "A pity, really" | 8 |
| 25D | 40. Peak | 4 |
| 26D | 41. Word often confused with "fewer" | 4 |
| 27D | 44. Plead | 3 |
| 28D | 46. Too, for one | 6 |
| 29D | 47. Shoe with decorative perforations | 6 |
| 30D | 49. Leaf producer | 6 |
| 31D | 52. Hopeless case | 5 |
| 32D | 54. Contented sigh | 3 |
| 33D | 59. Earlier | 3 |
| 34D | 60. Park place? | 3 |
| 35D | 61. L'ora della siesta, maybe | 3 |
| 36D | 62. "Parent-approved" cereal | 3 |
| 37D | 63. GPS approximation | 3 |
| 38D | 64. "Stand" band, 1989 | 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. Hindu honorific"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SRI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Success"
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 victory (as in a race or other competition)
- Words that mean the same thing: winnings, pull ahead, bring home the bacon
- The opposite would be: losings, lose
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. One may be tough to follow"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- Words that mean the same thing: turn, routine, dissemble
- The opposite would be: refrain
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Historic Bay Area neighborhood with a 600-square-foot rainbow flag"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THECASTRO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Australia, once"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PENALCOLONY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Every last one"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
- Words that mean the same thing: entirely, altogether, wholly
- The opposite would be: some, partly
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. West Coast air hub, 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!
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The answer is: SFO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. First X or O"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Tarsal adornment"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle
- Words that mean the same thing: ankle bracelet, anklets, bobbysock
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANKLET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Violin family name"
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 italian violin maker in cremona; taught the craft to guarneri and stradivari (1596-1684)
- Words that mean the same thing: Nicolo Amati, Nicola Amati
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMATI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Papal collection overseen by a bibliothecarius"
Quick Info: This answer has 14 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: VATICANLIBRARY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. 1996 hit for Alanis Morissette"
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 humorously sarcastic or mocking
- Words that mean the same thing: wry, ironical, dry
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRONIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. House mate?"
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 assembly possessing high legislative powers
- Words that mean the same thing: U.S. Senate, US Senate, United States Senate
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SENATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "18. Narrow inlet"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "22. Basis of some insurance fraud"
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 malicious burning to destroy property
- Words that mean the same thing: fire-raising, incendiarism
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARSON
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Clue 16 Down: "23. Place to hang a mezuzah"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: JAMB
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Clue 17 Down: "24. Bestie in Bordeaux"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: AMIE
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Clue 18 Down: "25. Largest French-speaking city in North America"
Quick Info: This answer has 14 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.
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- The word looks like this: ______________
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The answer is: MONTREALCANADA
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Clue 19 Down: "26. Consumed"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Words that mean the same thing: exhaust, run through, eat on
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ATE
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Clue 20 Down: "27. German physician who coined the term "animal magnetism""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
- Words that mean the same thing: Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: MESMER
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Clue 21 Down: "30. Vouch (for), in a way"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that sign jointly
- Words that mean the same thing: co-sign
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: COSIGN
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Clue 22 Down: "35. Something that's impossible to run by yourself"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: RELAYRACE
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Clue 23 Down: "37. Still up, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that stop sleeping
- Words that mean the same thing: arouse, wake, waken
- The opposite would be: asleep, fall asleep
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The answer is: AWAKE
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Clue 24 Down: "39. "A pity, really""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: ITSSOSAD
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Clue 25 Down: "40. Peak"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- Words that mean the same thing: top, summit, tiptop
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ACME
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Clue 26 Down: "41. Word often confused with "fewer""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
- Words that mean the same thing: to a lesser extent
- The opposite would be: more
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The answer is: LESS
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Clue 27 Down: "44. Plead"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that call upon in supplication; entreat
- Words that mean the same thing: solicit, tap, implore
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: BEG
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Clue 28 Down: "46. Too, for one"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ADVERB
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Clue 29 Down: "47. Shoe with decorative perforations"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a thick and heavy shoe
- Words that mean the same thing: work shoe, brogan, clodhopper
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: BROGUE
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Clue 30 Down: "49. Leaf producer"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in march and april)
- Words that mean the same thing: Nisan
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: NISSAN
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Clue 31 Down: "52. Hopeless case"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
- Words that mean the same thing: toast
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GONER
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Clue 32 Down: "54. Contented sigh"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Words that mean the same thing: ooh
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: AAH
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Clue 33 Down: "59. Earlier"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that gone by; or in the past
- Words that mean the same thing: agone
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: AGO
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Clue 34 Down: "60. Park place?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- Words that mean the same thing: circle, mountain, flock
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LOT
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Clue 35 Down: "61. L'ora della siesta, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TRE
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Clue 36 Down: "62. "Parent-approved" cereal"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: KIX
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Clue 37 Down: "63. GPS approximation"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Words that mean the same thing: Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Basque Homeland and Freedom, Euskadi ta Askatasuna
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ETA
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Clue 38 Down: "64. "Stand" band, 1989"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
- Words that mean the same thing: paradoxical sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement sleep
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: REM
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 50 | 65.8% |
| Short Answer | 20 | 26.3% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.6% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.3% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.3% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 38 |
| Down Clues | 38 |
| Total Clues | 76 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.2 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 14 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 Thursday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.
Last Updated: September 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
