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January 15, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Published on Monday, January 15, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 15, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

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

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

1A: "1. Comedian Bob ___"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a specific instance of feeling hopeful
  • Similar words include: Bob Hope, trust, desire
  • Opposite of: despair
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HOPE

2A: "5. Comedian Byron ___"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, george burns (1906-1964)
  • Similar words include: Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Gracie Allen, Woody Allen
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALLEN

3A: "10. "But thou art ___ ready to pardon ... ": Neh. 9:17"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGOD

4A: "14. Actor Richard ___"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EGAN

5A: "15. Coronet"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TIARA

6A: "16. Custody"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
  • Similar words include: give care, attention, wish
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CARE

7A: "17. Master of slapstick and pathos"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REDSKELTON

8A: "19. He, to Hadrian"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ILLE

9A: "20. Type of TV show"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a program that is broadcast again
  • Similar words include: rebroadcast
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RERUN

10A: "21. Confirmation reply"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an affirmative
  • Opposite of: no
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: YES

11A: "22. Harmonica player Larry ___"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ADLER

12A: "23. Ancient Chinese"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SERES

13A: "25. Eye part"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RETINA

14A: "27. Fitzgerald of songdom"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELLA

15A: "29. Beaver State"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a state in northwestern united states on the pacific
  • Similar words include: Beaver State, OR
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OREGON

16A: "32. Track circuit"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
  • Similar words include: circuit, lap covering, lick
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LAP

17A: "35. Savors"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
  • Similar words include: try out, sense of taste, sample
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TASTES

18A: "38. Mets' territory"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SHEA

19A: "39. Ardor"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
  • Similar words include: ardor, panache, style
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELAN

20A: "41. Halts"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
  • Similar words include: arrest, discontinue, check
  • Opposite of: continue, start
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STOPS

21A: "42. Tennis units"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
  • Similar words include: exercise set, specify, localize
  • Opposite of: rise
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SETS

22A: "43. Thurmond of N.B.A. fame"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NATE

23A: "44. Impede"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
  • Similar words include: trammel, bond, cramp
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HAMPER

24A: "46. Cheer"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAH

25A: "47. Beginning, to Burns"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ONCOME

26A: "49. Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g."

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root
  • Similar words include: aroid
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARUM

27A: "51. "Ernani" and "Orfeo""

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
  • Similar words include: opera, Opera, opera house
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OPERAS

28A: "54. Trap"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
  • Similar words include: trammel, hook, trap
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SNARE

29A: "57. Ring-shaped coral island"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATOLL

30A: "59. Caviar"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
  • Similar words include: hard roe
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROE

31A: "61. Elba or Sicilia"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ISOLA

32A: "63. "Oh, My ___," Fisher hit"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

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

33A: "64. Master of insult humor"

10 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DONRICKLES

34A: "66. Hot times in Paris"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ETES

35A: "67. Last Greek letter"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the ending of a series or sequence; --revelation
  • Similar words include: Z
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OMEGA

36A: "68. Shady trees"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of various trees of the genus ulmus: important timber or shade trees
  • Similar words include: elm tree, elmwood, elm
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELMS

37A: "69. Skin: Comb. form"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DERM

38A: "70. Comedian Jackie ___"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that american revolutionary leader from virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the bill of rights (1725-1792)
  • Similar words include: Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, A. E. W. Mason, Freemason
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MASON

39A: "71. "Let George ___""

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DOIT

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

1D: "1. Mister, in Germany"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a german man; used before the name as a title equivalent to mr in english
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HERR

2D: "2. S-shaped moldings"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a molding that (in section) has the shape of an s with the convex part above and the concave part below
  • Similar words include: ogee, cyma reversa
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OGEES

3D: "3. Chaplain, to a G.I."

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a chaplain in one of the military services
  • Similar words include: sky pilot, Father, Holy Joe
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PADRE

4D: "4. Guarantee"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make certain of
  • Similar words include: guarantee, ascertain, secure
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENSURE

5D: "5. Mischievous Olympian"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
  • Similar words include: eat up, wipe out, feed
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATE

6D: "6. Calla ___"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any liliaceous plant of the genus lilium having showy pendulous flowers
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LILY

7D: "7. Subsequently"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that coming at a subsequent time or stage
  • Similar words include: ulterior, later on, posterior
  • Opposite of: early
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LATER

8D: "8. Irregular"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
  • Similar words include: toothed, jaggy, notched
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EROSE

9D: "9. Fabray, to friends"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that your grandmother
  • Similar words include: gran, nanna, Nan River
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NAN

10D: "10. Quality of being sour"

8 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACIDNESS

11D: "11. Comedian featuring inventive props"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GALLAGHER

12D: "12. Heraldry border"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ORLE

13D: "13. Venison source"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that distinguished from bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
  • Similar words include: cervid
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DEER

14D: "18. Genuflected"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that rest one's weight on one's knees
  • Similar words include: kneel
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: KNELT

15D: "22. Atmosphere"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
  • Similar words include: airwave, send, melody
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AIR

16D: "24. Swordsman"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who slashes another person
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SLASHER

17D: "26. Quoits players"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that terms of abuse for a masturbator
  • Similar words include: tosser, jerk-off, wanker
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOSSERS

18D: "28. Movie barker"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASTA

19D: "30. Mountain chain in Greece"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OETA

20D: "31. Old car or poet"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971)
  • Similar words include: Ogden Nash
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NASH

21D: "32. Comedian Jay ___"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LENO

22D: "33. Comedian King"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALAN

23D: "34. Master of Italian mimicry"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PATCOOPER

24D: "36. Comedian Dreesen"

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: turkey cock, gobbler, tomcat
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOM

25D: "37. Rixey of pitching fame"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EPPA

26D: "40. Abnormal tissue growth"

8 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose
  • Similar words include: tumor, tumour
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NEOPLASM

27D: "45. Mystical"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that relating to or consisting of runes
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RUNIC

28D: "48. Comedian Brooks"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MEL

29D: "50. Disguised"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that hide under a false appearance
  • Similar words include: cloaked, disguised, dissemble
  • Opposite of: unmask
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MASKED

30D: "52. Fragrance"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any property detected by the olfactory system
  • Similar words include: odor, perfume, olfactory property
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AROMA

31D: "53. Loudness units"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 db above threshold
  • Similar words include: sone
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SONES

32D: "55. Viking chieftain"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that norse chieftain who became the first duke of normandy (860-931)
  • Similar words include: Rolf, Hrolf
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROLLO

33D: "56. Oleoresin used in incense"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family burseraceae and used as incense
  • Similar words include: gum elemi
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELEMI

34D: "57. Imitated"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that imitate uncritically and in every aspect
  • Similar words include: ape, caricature
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: APED

35D: "58. London art gallery"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states poet and critic (1899-1979)
  • Similar words include: John Orley Allen Tate, Allen Tate
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TATE

36D: "60. Therefore"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERGO

37D: "62. Vice prin., e.g."

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASST

38D: "64. Comedian DeLuise"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DOM

39D: "65. Author Fleming"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IAN

Puzzle Stats

39 Across
39 Down
78 Total

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August 19, 2023 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, August 19, 2023

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 66 (33 Across, 33 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.7 letters

August 19, 2023 NYT Clues Solutions

Master Today's Across: NYT Saturday Puzzle August 19, 2023

No. Clue Letters
1A 1. "Excuse me while I light my ___" (Bob Marley lyric) 6
2A 7. Theater backers? 6
3A 13. Ho-hum 7
4A 15. 11-sided coin, informally 6
5A 16. "Damn right!" 8
6A 18. Not learned 6
7A 19. Word shortened from a three-word phrase that can be further shortened by dropping its first, fourth and fifth letters 5
8A 20. Ball game 5
9A 22. Very much in 3
10A 23. Narragansett Bay and New York Harbor, for two 4
11A 24. Broadcast alternative 5
12A 25. Labor demand? 4
13A 26. Numbers after a no. 3
14A 27. "The Swedish Sphinx" 5
15A 28. Uncanny 5
16A 29. Coupons, e.g. 11
17A 31. Embellish something unnecessarily 11
18A 32. Baby 11
19A 33. Asian appetizer 5
20A 34. Locale of van Gogh's "The Bedroom" paintings 5
21A 35. Ones calling the shots, in brief? 3
22A 38. Ending with cyclo- 4
23A 39. Harsh lighting? 5
24A 40. Acquiescent 4
25A 41. Routine 3
26A 42. Component of a Zoom call 5
27A 43. Dig, say 5
28A 44. "Tough cookies" 6
29A 46. Bronze finish, maybe 8
30A 48. Foolish 6
31A 49. Skeptical look 7
32A 50. Takes a little hair off, perhaps 6
33A 51. Minimal 6

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. "Excuse me while I light my ___" (Bob Marley lyric)"

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 marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
  • Words that mean the same thing: joint, marijuana cigarette, stick
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SPLIFF

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "7. Theater backers?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater
  • Words that mean the same thing: scrim
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SCRIMS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "13. Ho-hum"

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 not fanciful or imaginative
  • Words that mean the same thing: earthbound, matter-of-fact, pedestrian
  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PROSAIC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "15. 11-sided coin, informally"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the basic unit of money in canada
  • Words that mean the same thing: Canadian dollar
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: LOONIE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "16. "Damn right!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: HELLYEAH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Not learned"

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 not established by conditioning or learning
  • Words that mean the same thing: unlearned, unconditioned, congenital
  • The opposite would be: conditioned
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: INNATE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Word shortened from a three-word phrase that can be further shortened by dropping its first, fourth and fifth letters"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
  • Words that mean the same thing: master of ceremonies, host, compere
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EMCEE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Ball game"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
  • Words that mean the same thing: bocci, boccie
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BOCCE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. Very much in"

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 used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
  • Words that mean the same thing: blistering, raging, red-hot
  • The opposite would be: cold
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HOT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "23. Narragansett Bay and New York Harbor, for two"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: RIAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "24. Broadcast alternative"

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 telegram sent abroad
  • Words that mean the same thing: line, cable system, wire
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CABLE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Labor demand?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the act of applying force in order to move something away
  • Words that mean the same thing: advertize, agitate, thrust
  • The opposite would be: pull
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PUSH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Numbers after a no."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: EXT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. "The Swedish Sphinx""

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that united states film actress (born in sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Greta Louisa Gustafsson, Greta Garbo
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GARBO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "28. Uncanny"

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 the supernatural; mysterious
  • Words that mean the same thing: eery
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EERIE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "29. Coupons, e.g."

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MONEYSAVERS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "31. Embellish something unnecessarily"

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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GILDTHELILY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "32. Baby"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a pampered darling; an effeminate man
  • Words that mean the same thing: featherbed, pamper, indulge
  • The word looks like this: ___________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MOLLYCODDLE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "33. Asian appetizer"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SATAY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "34. Locale of van Gogh's "The Bedroom" paintings"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract
  • Words that mean the same thing: earnest money
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ARLES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "35. Ones calling the shots, in brief?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (md is the current symbol for mendelevium but mv was formerly the symbol)
  • Words that mean the same thing: MD, medico, Free State
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MDS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "38. Ending with cyclo-"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: TRON

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "39. Harsh lighting?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that 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!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ARSON

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "40. Acquiescent"

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 humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
  • Words that mean the same thing: mild, tame, spiritless
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MEEK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "41. Routine"

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 legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
  • Words that mean the same thing: pretend, act as, behave
  • The opposite would be: refrain
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ACT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "42. Component of a Zoom call"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the visible part of a television transmission
  • Words that mean the same thing: telecasting, video recording, TV
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: VIDEO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "43. Dig, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that something many people believe that is false
  • Words that mean the same thing: fantasy, project, image
  • The opposite would be: plain
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: FANCY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "44. "Tough cookies""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: TOOBAD

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "46. Bronze finish, maybe"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SPRAYTAN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "48. Foolish"

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 showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom
  • Words that mean the same thing: inexpedient
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: UNWISE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "49. Skeptical look"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SIDEEYE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "50. Takes a little hair off, perhaps"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a surface burn
  • Words that mean the same thing: tattle, blab, sear
  • The opposite would be: keep quiet
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SINGES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "51. Minimal"

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 being nothing more than specified
  • Words that mean the same thing: bare, simple, mere
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MEREST

    Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Saturday NYT Crossword August 19, 2023

No. Clue Letters
1D 1. Basketball, e.g. 6
2D 2. Get ready, as concrete 6
3D 3. Meme creature 6
4D 4. Key chain 5
5D 5. She played Bonnie in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" 4
6D 6. Giant syllable 3
7D 7. Common golf mistake 5
8D 8. It might receive scoops 4
9D 9. The anchorman in "Anchorman" 3
10D 10. Rushed 8
11D 11. Cell division 7
12D 12. Boil 6
13D 14. Permit required of old jazz musicians 11
14D 17. Preoccupations 11
15D 21. They come full circle 11
16D 24. Risk for people with braces 5
17D 25. Key's partner 5
18D 27. Word after good or by 5
19D 28. Weariness, vice and want, in Voltaire's "Candide" 5
20D 29. Where most of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci are stored 5
21D 30. ___ Ehrenreich, Han Solo's portrayer in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" 5
22D 31. "Knock yourself out!" 8
23D 32. 1909 Nobelist for contributions to the invention of radio 7
24D 33. Level 6
25D 35. One getting schooled 6
26D 36. Goes radioactive? 6
27D 37. N.S.A. surveillance program that shares its name with an entity in the "Terminator" movies 6
28D 39. Seconds 5
29D 40. Supposed subject of Taylor Swift's "Dear John" 5
30D 42. Potter's product 4
31D 43. Fall behind in the end 4
32D 45. Popular 3
33D 47. Swish miss? 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. Basketball, e.g."

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 particular environment or walk of life
  • Words that mean the same thing: sector, area, orbit
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SPHERE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Get ready, as concrete"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients
  • Words that mean the same thing: mix
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PREMIX

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Meme creature"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: LOLCAT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Key chain"

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 small island
  • Words that mean the same thing: islet, isle
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ISLES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. She played Bonnie in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: FAYE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Giant syllable"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: FIE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Common golf mistake"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a share of something
  • Words that mean the same thing: slash, cut, piece
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SLICE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. It might receive scoops"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that any cone-shaped artifact
  • Words that mean the same thing: strobile, conoid, retinal cone
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CONE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. The anchorman in "Anchorman""

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 chadic language spoken in northern nigeria
  • Words that mean the same thing: Daffo, Bokkos
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RON

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Rushed"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: INAHURRY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Cell division"

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 cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MITOSIS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Boil"

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 be noisy with activity
  • Words that mean the same thing: buzz, boil, roll
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SEETHE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. Permit required of old jazz musicians"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: CABARETCARD

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "17. Preoccupations"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a topic to which one constantly reverts
  • Words that mean the same thing: hobbyhorse, rocking horse, hobby
  • The word looks like this: ___________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HOBBYHORSES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. They come full circle"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: CLOSEDLOOPS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Risk for people with braces"

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 rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
  • Words that mean the same thing: confect, glaze, sugarcoat
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CANDY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "25. Key's partner"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: PEELE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "27. Word after good or by"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: GOLLY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "28. Weariness, vice and want, in Voltaire's "Candide""

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that morally objectionable behavior
  • Words that mean the same thing: evilness, wickedness, immorality
  • The opposite would be: good, goodness
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EVILS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "29. Where most of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci are stored"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the capital of lombardy in northern italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the middle ages
  • Words that mean the same thing: Milano
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MILAN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "30. ___ Ehrenreich, Han Solo's portrayer in "Solo: A Star Wars Story""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: ALDEN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. "Knock yourself out!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: GOTOTOWN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "32. 1909 Nobelist for contributions to the invention of radio"

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 italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the atlantic ocean (1874-1937)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Guglielmo Marconi
  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MARCONI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "33. Level"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
  • Words that mean the same thing: position, condition
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: STATUS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "35. One getting schooled"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: MENTEE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "36. Goes radioactive?"

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 process of gradually becoming inferior
  • Words that mean the same thing: dilapidate, decomposition, decay
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DECAYS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "37. N.S.A. surveillance program that shares its name with an entity in the "Terminator" movies"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: SKYNET

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "39. Seconds"

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 (greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of zeus and husband of persephone
  • Words that mean the same thing: Pluto, auxiliary, aide-de-camp
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AIDES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "40. Supposed subject of Taylor Swift's "Dear John""

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that united states physicist (born in germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Louis Burt Mayer, Marie Goeppert Mayer, Louis B. Mayer
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MAYER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "42. Potter's product"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: VASE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "43. Fall behind in the end"

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 golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
  • Words that mean the same thing: evanesce, melt, disappearance
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: FADE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "45. Popular"

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 above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
  • Words that mean the same thing: boastful, cock-a-hoop, enceinte
  • The opposite would be: little, small
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BIG

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "47. Swish miss?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
  • Words that mean the same thing: flange, brim, lip
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RIM

    Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category Number of Clues Percentage
General Knowledge 53 80.3%
Short Answer 8 12.1%
Sports 1 1.5%
Food & Drink 1 1.5%
Music 1 1.5%
Celebrity/Entertainment 1 1.5%
Movies/Film 1 1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric Value
Across Clues 33
Down Clues 33
Total Clues 66
Average Answer Length 5.7 letters
Shortest Answer 3 letters
Longest Answer 11 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 Saturday, 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.

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