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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, December 15, 2023
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 72 (35 Across, 37 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.2 letters
December 15, 2023 Across Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Yard, nautically | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Desire for a ski jumper | 8 |
| 3A | 13. ___ blue dot (Earth, in a famous photograph) | 4 |
| 4A | 14. "Knock it off!," in question form | 9 |
| 5A | 15. Since | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Classic airplane snack | 10 |
| 7A | 17. General term in a series | 3 |
| 8A | 18. Number in a count | 5 |
| 9A | 19. Change, as a lock | 5 |
| 10A | 20. One in a million, so to speak | 7 |
| 11A | 22. Journalism inits. since 1851 | 3 |
| 12A | 23. One way to travel the world | 5 |
| 13A | 24. Lines from a rapper, in slang | 4 |
| 14A | 26. Milk option | 3 |
| 15A | 29. Earth-based pigment | 5 |
| 16A | 30. Likely hyperbole from a texter | 4 |
| 17A | 32. Equipment in hockey, lacrosse and pickleball | 3 |
| 18A | 34. What one might look at the night sky with | 15 |
| 19A | 38. ___ Lingus | 3 |
| 20A | 39. Badge holder | 4 |
| 21A | 40. Spanish geographical word that is an anagram of its English translation | 5 |
| 22A | 41. "Woo-hoo!," in online shorthand | 3 |
| 23A | 43. Pronoun functioning as an object (not a subject!) | 4 |
| 24A | 45. "Give me five!" | 5 |
| 25A | 46. Half full? | 3 |
| 26A | 48. "Dig in, everyone" | 7 |
| 27A | 50. Tropical vine | 5 |
| 28A | 53. Work from, as a desk | 5 |
| 29A | 54. Purple ___, Hawaiian crop | 3 |
| 30A | 56. Bookie? | 10 |
| 31A | 58. ___ bottles (popular gummy candy) | 4 |
| 32A | 59. Bad press, say | 9 |
| 33A | 60. Event at high noon | 4 |
| 34A | 61. Occasion to recite the Pledge of Allegiance | 8 |
| 35A | 62. Button usually held down by a pinkie | 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. Yard, nautically"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
- Words that mean the same thing: sparring
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Desire for a ski jumper"
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: HANGTIME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "13. ___ blue dot (Earth, in a famous photograph)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- Words that mean the same thing: pallid, wan, blench
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PALE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. "Knock it off!," in question form"
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: CANYOUNOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Since"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASOF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. Classic airplane snack"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: SALTEDNUTS
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Clue 7 Across: "17. General term in a series"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
- Words that mean the same thing: n-th
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NTH
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Clue 8 Across: "18. Number in a count"
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 round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- Words that mean the same thing: orchis, orb, glob
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BALLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "19. Change, as a lock"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REKEY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "20. One in a million, so to speak"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RAREGEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. Journalism inits. since 1851"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NYT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. One way to travel the world"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BYSEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "24. Lines from a rapper, in slang"
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 gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
- Words that mean the same thing: stop, relegate, legal community
- The opposite would be: unbar
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BARS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "26. Milk option"
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 annual grass of europe and north africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "29. Earth-based pigment"
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 moderate yellow-orange to orange color
- Words that mean the same thing: ochre
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OCHER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "30. Likely hyperbole from a texter"
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: ROFL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "32. Equipment in hockey, lacrosse and pickleball"
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 computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the tcp/ip network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- Words that mean the same thing: nett, meshwork, web
- The opposite would be: gross
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "34. What one might look at the night sky with"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHILDLIKEWONDER
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Clue 19 Across: "38. ___ Lingus"
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: AER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Badge holder"
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 framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame
- Words that mean the same thing: waistband, cincture, girdle
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SASH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "40. Spanish geographical word that is an anagram of its English translation"
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 riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
- Words that mean the same thing: rib
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COSTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "41. "Woo-hoo!," in online shorthand"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FTW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. Pronoun functioning as an object (not a subject!)"
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!
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The answer is: WHOM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "45. "Give me five!""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UPTOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "46. Half full?"
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 angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Words that mean the same thing: el, ALT, elevated railway
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "48. "Dig in, everyone""
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!
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The answer is: LETSEAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "50. Tropical vine"
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 woody climbing usually tropical plant
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIANA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Work from, as a desk"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SITAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "54. Purple ___, Hawaiian crop"
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 edible tuber of any of several yams
- Words that mean the same thing: yam plant
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "56. Bookie?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard 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: AVIDREADER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "58. ___ bottles (popular gummy candy)"
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 large genus of african trees bearing kola nuts
- Words that mean the same thing: genus Cola, El Salvadoran colon, colon
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COLA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "59. Bad press, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: MEDIABIAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "60. Event at high noon"
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 prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
- Words that mean the same thing: affaire d'honneur
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DUEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "61. Occasion to recite the Pledge of Allegiance"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit
- Words that mean the same thing: meeting place, assemblage, gathering
- The opposite would be: disassembly
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASSEMBLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "62. Button usually held down by a pinkie"
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!
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The answer is: CTRL
Great job if you got it right!
December 15, 2023 Down Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Word after life or C | 4 |
| 2D | 2. One whose work might be a piece of cake? | 10 |
| 3D | 3. Bit of attire seldom worn with a jacket | 10 |
| 4D | 4. One you might beseech to get glasses | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Term for an overly commercialized celebration | 15 |
| 6D | 6. At any one time, roughly 10,000 trillion of them roam the earth | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Bill concerned with science communication | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Become barren | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Synchronize with | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Arctic native | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Speck | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Handmade goods site | 4 |
| 13D | 14. One on the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land | 5 |
| 14D | 16. Lose tautness | 3 |
| 15D | 18. What stubbles may become | 6 |
| 16D | 21. Lurch | 4 |
| 17D | 22. Warning letters with a Reddit link | 4 |
| 18D | 23. ___ Juniors, soccer team for which Diego Maradona once played | 4 |
| 19D | 25. Canapé topper | 3 |
| 20D | 27. "Don't even think of coming back!" | 10 |
| 21D | 28. Nephalist | 10 |
| 22D | 31. Part of a biblical plague | 6 |
| 23D | 33. Trick question, e.g. | 4 |
| 24D | 35. Housework? | 4 |
| 25D | 36. There or thereabouts | 3 |
| 26D | 37. 2022 Jordan Peele film | 4 |
| 27D | 42. Actress Malick | 6 |
| 28D | 44. Hands (out) | 5 |
| 29D | 47. West Coast N.F.L.'er | 5 |
| 30D | 49. Damage the reputation of | 3 |
| 31D | 50. Tibetan title | 4 |
| 32D | 51. Experimental composer Charles | 4 |
| 33D | 52. Supports | 4 |
| 34D | 53. Set ___ | 4 |
| 35D | 55. Common place to see Santa | 4 |
| 36D | 57. Fade away | 3 |
| 37D | 58. Public health org. | 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. Word after life or C"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the complete duration of something
- Words that mean the same thing: couple, yoke, distich
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. One whose work might be a piece of cake?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: PASTRYCHEF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Bit of attire seldom worn with a jacket"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: ALOHASHIRT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. One you might beseech to get glasses"
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 (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or american football) who is expected to ensure fair play
- Words that mean the same thing: referee
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Term for an overly commercialized celebration"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HALLMARKHOLIDAY
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Clue 6 Down: "6. At any one time, roughly 10,000 trillion of them roam the earth"
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 social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Words that mean the same thing: emmet, ant, pismire
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Bill concerned with science communication"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about science/technology.
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: NYE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Become barren"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GODRY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Synchronize with"
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: TUNETO
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Arctic native"
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: INUK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Speck"
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 (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- Words that mean the same thing: particle, speck, molecule
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Handmade goods site"
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: ETSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "14. One on the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CALEB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "16. Lose tautness"
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 shape that sags
- Words that mean the same thing: swag, sag down, flag
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "18. What stubbles may become"
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 hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- Words that mean the same thing: whiskers, byssus, beard
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEARDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "21. Lurch"
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 roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- Words that mean the same thing: swag, spin around, gyrate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "22. Warning letters with a Reddit link"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NSFW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "23. ___ Juniors, soccer team for which Diego Maradona once played"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
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: BOCA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "25. Canapé 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 fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
- Words that mean the same thing: hard roe
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "27. "Don't even think of coming back!""
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: ANDSTAYOUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "28. Nephalist"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a total abstainer
- Words that mean the same thing: teetotalist, teetotaller
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEETOTALER
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Clue 22 Down: "31. Part of a biblical plague"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae
- Words that mean the same thing: locust tree
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: LOCUST
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Clue 23 Down: "33. Trick question, e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- Words that mean the same thing: sand trap, pin down, bunker
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: TRAP
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Clue 24 Down: "35. Housework?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the first of three divisions of the hebrew scriptures comprising the first five books of the hebrew bible considered as a unit
- Words that mean the same thing: law of nature, natural law, police force
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LAWS
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Clue 25 Down: "36. There or thereabouts"
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: ISH
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Clue 26 Down: "37. 2022 Jordan Peele film"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about movies/film.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NOPE
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Clue 27 Down: "42. Actress Malick"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: WENDIE
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Clue 28 Down: "44. Hands (out)"
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 line that indicates a boundary
- Words that mean the same thing: border, delimitation, mete
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: METES
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Clue 29 Down: "47. West Coast N.F.L.'er"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: LARAM
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Clue 30 Down: "49. Damage the reputation of"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Words that mean the same thing: sea dog, mariner, gob
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TAR
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Clue 31 Down: "50. Tibetan title"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a tibetan or mongolian priest of lamaism
- Words that mean the same thing: genus Lama
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LAMA
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Clue 32 Down: "51. Experimental composer Charles"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
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- This could be something that united states composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)
- Words that mean the same thing: James Merritt Ives, James Ives, Charles Edward Ives
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: IVES
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Clue 33 Down: "52. Supports"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
- Words that mean the same thing: financial aid, aid, assist
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: AIDS
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Clue 34 Down: "53. Set ___"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- Words that mean the same thing: voyage, canvas, sheet
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SAIL
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Clue 35 Down: "55. Common place to see Santa"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- Words that mean the same thing: center, shopping centre, shopping mall
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MALL
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Clue 36 Down: "57. Fade away"
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 gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- Words that mean the same thing: ebbing, ebb off, ebb down
- The opposite would be: tide
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The answer is: EBB
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Clue 37 Down: "58. Public health org."
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 federal agency in the department of health and human services; located in atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)
- Words that mean the same thing: Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: CDC
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 50 | 69.4% |
| Short Answer | 14 | 19.4% |
| History | 2 | 2.8% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.4% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.4% |
| Music | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 37 |
| Total Clues | 72 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.2 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 15 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- 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: August 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
