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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, July 01, 2022
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle July 01, 2022
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. It's kneaded to make naan and roti | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Had a meal during pregnancy | 9 |
| 3A | 14. Airlifted (in) | 5 |
| 4A | 15. Animal on the reverse side of a Canadian two-dollar coin | 9 |
| 5A | 16. Brought through the door | 5 |
| 6A | 17. Instruction in a game with dice | 9 |
| 7A | 18. Enterprise that's folding | 7 |
| 8A | 20. "___ live" | 3 |
| 9A | 21. Book fair org. | 3 |
| 10A | 22. Tribe known for ranching and oil and gas operations | 3 |
| 11A | 23. Snack that can be messy to eat | 6 |
| 12A | 25. Meter reader? | 4 |
| 13A | 26. Take advantage of low A.P.R., perhaps | 4 |
| 14A | 28. Many a nanny | 4 |
| 15A | 29. Our, in Tours | 5 |
| 16A | 30. Museum guides | 7 |
| 17A | 32. Material for a prairie home | 3 |
| 18A | 33. Sit beside a driver | 11 |
| 19A | 36. Furball, maybe | 3 |
| 20A | 37. Courtside seats? | 7 |
| 21A | 39. Song featuring up to 176 verses | 5 |
| 22A | 42. One of the six reaction buttons for a text on an iPhone | 4 |
| 23A | 43. Maintained | 4 |
| 24A | 45. ___ My Professors | 4 |
| 25A | 46. Fathers, in the Bible | 6 |
| 26A | 48. Founding member of N.W.A., familiarly | 3 |
| 27A | 49. Genre prefix | 3 |
| 28A | 50. Give a little | 3 |
| 29A | 51. Classic sketch comedy show from the '60s and '70s | 7 |
| 30A | 53. Modern-day "Brava!" | 9 |
| 31A | 56. "Heated" events | 5 |
| 32A | 57. Tag line? | 9 |
| 33A | 58. Rumpus | 5 |
| 34A | 59. Start of a choosing game | 9 |
| 35A | 60. Relatives of garters | 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. It's kneaded to make naan and roti"
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: ATTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Had a meal during pregnancy"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.
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: ATEFORTWO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "14. Airlifted (in)"
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 travel through the air; be airborne
- Words that mean the same thing: vaporize, wing, pilot
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLOWN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "15. Animal on the reverse side of a Canadian two-dollar coin"
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: POLARBEAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Brought through the door"
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: LEDIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. Instruction in a game with dice"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert 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: ROLLAGAIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "18. Enterprise that's folding"
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 the japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORIGAMI
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Clue 8 Across: "20. "___ live""
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 often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Words that mean the same thing: complaint, ominous, ailment
- The opposite would be: well
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ILL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. Book fair org."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: PTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Tribe known for ranching and oil and gas operations"
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 a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "23. Snack that can be messy to eat"
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 tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled
- Words that mean the same thing: nacho
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NACHOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. Meter reader?"
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 writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: POET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. Take advantage of low A.P.R., perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: REFI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. Many a nanny"
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 numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
- Words that mean the same thing: caprine animal, Capricorn, butt
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "29. Our, in Tours"
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: NOTRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "30. Museum guides"
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 a teacher at some universities
- Words that mean the same thing: docent
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOCENTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "32. Material for a prairie home"
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 surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- Words that mean the same thing: greensward, bugger, turf
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "33. Sit beside a driver"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIDESHOTGUN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "36. Furball, maybe"
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 feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
- Words that mean the same thing: kat, computed axial tomography, guy
- The opposite would be: keep down
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "37. Courtside seats?"
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 the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: enthrone, stool, toilet
- The opposite would be: dethrone
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THRONES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "39. Song featuring up to 176 verses"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the book of psalms in the old testament; said to have been written by david
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PSALM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "42. One of the six reaction buttons for a text on an iPhone"
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: HAHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. Maintained"
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 keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,
- Words that mean the same thing: proceed, observe, unbroken
- The opposite would be: discontinue, broken
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KEPT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "45. ___ My Professors"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
- Words that mean the same thing: value, pace, rank
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "46. Fathers, in the Bible"
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 make children
- Words that mean the same thing: mother, get, beget
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEGETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "48. Founding member of N.W.A., familiarly"
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: DRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "49. Genre prefix"
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 angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Words that mean the same thing: altitude, EL, elevation
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "50. Give a little"
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: sag down, swag, 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 29 Across: "51. Classic sketch comedy show from the '60s and '70s"
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: LAUGHIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "53. Modern-day "Brava!""
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: YOUGOGIRL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "56. "Heated" events"
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 meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
- Words that mean the same thing: run across, contact, conform to
- The opposite would be: diverge
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MEETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "57. Tag line?"
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: DONOTIRON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "58. Rumpus"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a noisy riotous fight
- Words that mean the same thing: scrimmage, battle royal
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MELEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "59. Start of a choosing game"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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!
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The answer is: ONEPOTATO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "60. Relatives of garters"
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 of southern europe; similar to but smaller than the adder
- Words that mean the same thing: asp viper, Naja haje, Egyptian cobra
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASPS
Great job if you got it right!
July 01, 2022 Friday NYT - All Down Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Made aware | 7 |
| 2D | 2. Absolutely divine | 8 |
| 3D | 3. Result of branching out? | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ghana | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Sun-Maid snack | 8 |
| 6D | 6. Besides | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Oscar- and Emmy-nominated Page | 6 |
| 8D | 8. Classic destination for honeymooners | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Kind of phase | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Bygone Supreme Court inits. | 3 |
| 11D | 11. One letting off steam? | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Cry in a restaurant | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Like Byzantine architecture | 6 |
| 14D | 14. Grocery bagful | 5 |
| 15D | 19. You might draw things with this | 6 |
| 16D | 24. Something to follow on social media | 7 |
| 17D | 25. Nowheresville | 6 |
| 18D | 27. Bit of Christmas tree trimming | 6 |
| 19D | 29. Canceled | 4 |
| 20D | 31. Dutch export | 4 |
| 21D | 32. Sheets of rock | 6 |
| 22D | 34. "Not on your life!" | 8 |
| 23D | 35. "Want a hand?" | 8 |
| 24D | 38. Mythical beings | 7 |
| 25D | 39. "By all means," in old parlance | 6 |
| 26D | 40. Sedan : U.S. :: ___ : U.K. | 6 |
| 27D | 41. Harmonize | 6 |
| 28D | 42. Religious exodus | 6 |
| 29D | 44. Wound up | 5 |
| 30D | 46. Quit, slangily | 5 |
| 31D | 47. Word on some diplomas | 5 |
| 32D | 50. Words before speak | 4 |
| 33D | 52. Large sums of money, informally | 4 |
| 34D | 54. Org. whose history is profiled in the 2015 best seller "To Make Men Free" | 3 |
| 35D | 55. Nonsense | 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. Made aware"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- Words that mean the same thing: alarm, alert
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALERTED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Absolutely divine"
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: TODIEFOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Result of branching out?"
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 small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- Words that mean the same thing: get wise, tumble, latch on
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TWIG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ghana"
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: ANNAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Sun-Maid snack"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- Words that mean the same thing: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APRICOTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Besides"
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 to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
- Words that mean the same thing: excessively, likewise, to a fault
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Oscar- and Emmy-nominated Page"
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!
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The answer is: ELLIOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Classic destination for honeymooners"
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 petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris)
- Words that mean the same thing: decline, nightfall, tumble
- The opposite would be: rise, ascent
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FALLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Kind of phase"
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 examination conducted by spoken communication
- Words that mean the same thing: oral examination, oral exam, unwritten
- The opposite would be: aboral, anal
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Bygone Supreme Court inits."
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: RBG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. One letting off steam?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEAPOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Cry in a restaurant"
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 person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
- Words that mean the same thing: server
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WAITER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Like Byzantine architecture"
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 marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; ; -john milton
- Words that mean the same thing: flowery
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORNATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Grocery bagful"
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 fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLOUR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "19. You might draw things with this"
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 (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field
- Words that mean the same thing: attractor, attractive feature, attracter
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAGNET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. Something to follow on social media"
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: HASHTAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. Nowheresville"
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: PODUNK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "27. Bit of Christmas tree trimming"
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 ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ICICLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "29. Canceled"
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: NOGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "31. Dutch export"
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 mild yellow dutch cheese made in balls encased in a red covering
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDAM
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Clue 21 Down: "32. Sheets of rock"
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 one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
- Words that mean the same thing: social class, level, socio-economic class
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: STRATA
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Clue 22 Down: "34. "Not on your life!""
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: OHHELLNO
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Clue 23 Down: "35. "Want a hand?""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: NEEDHELP
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Clue 24 Down: "38. Mythical beings"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)
- Words that mean the same thing: fay, faery, sprite
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: SPRITES
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Clue 25 Down: "39. "By all means," in old parlance"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: PRAYDO
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Clue 26 Down: "40. Sedan : U.S. :: ___ : U.K."
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 room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- Words that mean the same thing: pothouse, taphouse, public house
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: SALOON
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Clue 27 Down: "41. Harmonize"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ATTUNE
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Clue 28 Down: "42. Religious exodus"
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 flight of muhammad from mecca to medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the muslim era; the muslim calendar begins in that year
- Words that mean the same thing: exodus, Hejira, hejira
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: HEGIRA
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Clue 29 Down: "44. Wound up"
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 grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- Words that mean the same thing: tense up, strain
- The opposite would be: relax, unstrain
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The answer is: TENSE
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Clue 30 Down: "46. Quit, slangily"
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: BAGIT
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Clue 31 Down: "47. Word on some diplomas"
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: SUMMA
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Clue 32 Down: "50. Words before speak"
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: SOTO
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Clue 33 Down: "52. Large sums of money, informally"
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 unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
- Words that mean the same thing: g-force, gee, g
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: GEES
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Clue 34 Down: "54. Org. whose history is profiled in the 2015 best seller "To Make Men Free""
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 the younger of two major political parties in the united states; gop is an acronym for grand old party
- Words that mean the same thing: Republican Party
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: GOP
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Clue 35 Down: "55. Nonsense"
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 state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- Words that mean the same thing: moulder, decompose, molder
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ROT
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 50 | 71.4% |
| Short Answer | 9 | 12.9% |
| History | 3 | 4.3% |
| Sports | 2 | 2.9% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.4% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.4% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.4% |
| Music | 1 | 1.4% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.4% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 35 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.5 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 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: September 09, 2025 at 01:40 AM
