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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, December 04, 2021
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.6 letters
December 04, 2021 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. [Perfection!] | 9 |
| 2A | 10. Face to scale | 5 |
| 3A | 15. Some exercise wear | 9 |
| 4A | 16. Artist ___ de Toulouse-Lautrec | 5 |
| 5A | 17. What the name "Renée" means | 9 |
| 6A | 18. List of pointers | 5 |
| 7A | 19. Pull (out) | 3 |
| 8A | 20. Overdrawn account? | 4 |
| 9A | 21. Actress MacDowell | 5 |
| 10A | 22. Classical music tradition from Hindustan | 4 |
| 11A | 24. "Dear future me ..." | 10 |
| 12A | 27. Nest egg yield | 5 |
| 13A | 29. He's been called the "Father of Science Fiction" | 5 |
| 14A | 30. Pastoral sound | 3 |
| 15A | 31. Quarters | 6 |
| 16A | 33. Bit of mayo? | 3 |
| 17A | 34. Scuttled | 4 |
| 18A | 35. Taps | 7 |
| 19A | 37. With some side-eye | 7 |
| 20A | 39. Some transcript omissions | 3 |
| 21A | 40. Strips | 5 |
| 22A | 42. Home to the three highest capital cities in the world | 5 |
| 23A | 43. March alternative | 5 |
| 24A | 44. Big inits. in admissions | 3 |
| 25A | 45. Alternatives to toilet paper | 6 |
| 26A | 48. "Can we chat real quick?" | 7 |
| 27A | 52. Nose-crinkling | 5 |
| 28A | 53. They rate very high on the Scoville scale | 9 |
| 29A | 55. "I got you" | 9 |
| 30A | 57. Food truck output | 5 |
| 31A | 58. Fictional Harvard Law student played by Reese Witherspoon | 9 |
| 32A | 59. Favored, with "with" | 5 |
| 33A | 60. Artful | 3 |
| 34A | 61. Like many apartment rentals | 5 |
| 35A | 62. Bash | 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. [Perfection!]"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: CHEFSKISS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "10. Face to scale"
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 steep high face of rock
- Words that mean the same thing: drop-off, drop
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CLIFF
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Clue 3 Across: "15. Some exercise wear"
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: YOGAPANTS
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Clue 4 Across: "16. Artist ___ de Toulouse-Lautrec"
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: HENRI
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Clue 5 Across: "17. What the name "Renée" means"
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: BORNAGAIN
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Clue 6 Across: "18. List of pointers"
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 numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number
- Words that mean the same thing: index finger, indicant, power
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INDEX
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Clue 7 Across: "19. Pull (out)"
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: EKE
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Clue 8 Across: "20. Overdrawn account?"
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 giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
- Words that mean the same thing: recital, thread, narration
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YARN
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Clue 9 Across: "21. Actress MacDowell"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium 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: ANDIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Classical music tradition from Hindustan"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium 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!
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The answer is: RAGA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. "Dear future me ...""
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: NOTETOSELF
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Clue 12 Across: "27. Nest egg yield"
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 young bird especially of domestic fowl
- Words that mean the same thing: biddy, doll, bird
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHICK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "29. He's been called the "Father of Science Fiction""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about science/technology.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that prolific english writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)
- Words that mean the same thing: well, wellspring, fountainhead
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WELLS
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Clue 14 Across: "30. Pastoral sound"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the cry made by sheep
- Words that mean the same thing: bleat, blat, blate
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BAA
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Clue 15 Across: "31. Quarters"
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 any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
- Words that mean the same thing: abode, dwelling house, residence
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABODES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "33. Bit of mayo?"
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 an intelligence agency of the united states in the department of defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition
- Words that mean the same thing: Defense Intelligence Agency
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DIA
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Clue 17 Across: "34. Scuttled"
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 fall or descend to a lower place or level
- Words that mean the same thing: bury, settle, dip
- The opposite would be: float
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SANK
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Clue 18 Across: "35. Taps"
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 regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
- Words that mean the same thing: spigot, faucet
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FAUCETS
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Clue 19 Across: "37. With some side-eye"
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 (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; - elizabeth bowen
- Words that mean the same thing: squint-eyed, sidelong, askant
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASKANCE
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Clue 20 Across: "39. Some transcript omissions"
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 trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
- Words that mean the same thing: erbium, Er, ER
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERS
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Clue 21 Across: "40. Strips"
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 decrease gradually or bit by bit
- Words that mean the same thing: skin, par, peel
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PARES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "42. Home to the three highest capital cities in the world"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a mountain range in south america running 5000 miles along the pacific coast
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANDES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. March alternative"
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: SITIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "44. Big inits. in admissions"
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: ETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "45. Alternatives to toilet paper"
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 basin for washing genitals and anal area
- Words that mean the same thing: bidet
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BIDETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "48. "Can we chat real quick?""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: GOTASEC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "52. Nose-crinkling"
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 strong and sharp
- Words that mean the same thing: pungent, acerbic, bitter
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACRID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. They rate very high on the Scoville scale"
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: HABANEROS
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Clue 29 Across: "55. "I got you""
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: SAYNOMORE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "57. Food truck output"
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 any property detected by the olfactory system
- Words that mean the same thing: perfume, scent, fragrance
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AROMA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "58. Fictional Harvard Law student played by Reese Witherspoon"
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: ELLEWOODS
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Clue 32 Across: "59. Favored, with "with""
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 take sides for or against; ; m siding against the current candidate"
- Words that mean the same thing: side
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIDED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "60. Artful"
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 marked by skill in deception
- Words that mean the same thing: tricksy, wily, guileful
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "61. Like many apartment rentals"
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: NOFEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "62. Bash"
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 an elaborate party (often outdoors)
- Words that mean the same thing: feast, celebrate, festival
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FETE
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December 04, 2021 Saturday NYT - All Down Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Connection point not seen much anymore | 9 |
| 2D | 2. Establishment where indoor smoking is permitted | 9 |
| 3D | 3. Beyond the pale | 9 |
| 4D | 4. Deadly household appliance, according to Korean urban legend | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Sterilize, in a way | 4 |
| 6D | 6. First female dean of Harvard Law | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Straight | 6 |
| 8D | 8. Wasn't generous | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Digits on a paper card, for short | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Trousers named for an Asian country | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Gives, as credence | 5 |
| 12D | 12. They don't have a major-label contract | 9 |
| 13D | 13. Like many jobs in the gig economy | 9 |
| 14D | 14. Make whole | 3 |
| 15D | 21. Book with scales | 5 |
| 16D | 23. Rock group whose name came from letters found on a sewing machine | 4 |
| 17D | 25. ___ Sports Bureau (official 32-Down keepers) | 5 |
| 18D | 26. Mountebanks | 5 |
| 19D | 28. Stay quiet | 10 |
| 20D | 32. See 25-Down | 5 |
| 21D | 34. Minimalist style | 9 |
| 22D | 36. Polite form of address, abroad | 3 |
| 23D | 38. Blades used in "Kill Bill" | 7 |
| 24D | 41. Masked warning? | 7 |
| 25D | 43. Notre Dame setting | 5 |
| 26D | 44. Follower of an "I'm late" text, in brief | 3 |
| 27D | 45. They might be loaded with singles | 5 |
| 28D | 46. Poker declaration | 5 |
| 29D | 47. Deadpan | 5 |
| 30D | 49. Like Falstaff | 5 |
| 31D | 50. Take the edge off? | 5 |
| 32D | 51. One might fly close to the sun | 5 |
| 33D | 53. Printmaker? | 4 |
| 34D | 54. "No Ordinary Love" singer | 4 |
| 35D | 56. Pastoral sound | 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. Connection point not seen much anymore"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a cafe whose customers sit at computer terminals and log on to the internet while they eat and drink
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CYBERCAFE
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Clue 2 Down: "2. Establishment where indoor smoking is permitted"
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: HOOKAHBAR
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Clue 3 Down: "3. Beyond the pale"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- Words that mean the same thing: rank, gross, flagrant
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EGREGIOUS
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Clue 4 Down: "4. Deadly household appliance, according to Korean urban legend"
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 device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- Words that mean the same thing: sports fan, rooter, buff
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FAN
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Clue 5 Down: "5. Sterilize, in a way"
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 remove the ovaries of
- Words that mean the same thing: neuter, alter, castrate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPAY
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Clue 6 Down: "6. First female dean of Harvard Law"
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: KAGAN
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Straight"
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: INAROW
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Clue 8 Down: "8. Wasn't generous"
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 subsist on a meager allowance
- Words that mean the same thing: stint, skimp, scrimp
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STINTED
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Digits on a paper card, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SSN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Trousers named for an Asian country"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that trousers made with chino cloth
- Words that mean the same thing: chino
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHINOS
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Clue 11 Down: "11. Gives, as credence"
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 bestow a quality on
- Words that mean the same thing: lend, contribute, bring
- The opposite would be: borrow
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LENDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. They don't have a major-label contract"
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: INDIEBAND
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Clue 13 Down: "13. Like many jobs in the gig economy"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
- Words that mean the same thing: self-employed person, independent, free lance
- The opposite would be: salaried
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FREELANCE
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Clue 14 Down: "14. Make whole"
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 informal terms for a difficult situation
- Words that mean the same thing: locating, repair, ready
- The opposite would be: break, unfasten
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FIX
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Clue 15 Down: "21. Book with scales"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (greek mythology) a titan who was forced by zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
- Words that mean the same thing: telamon, map collection, atlas vertebra
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATLAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. Rock group whose name came from letters found on a sewing machine"
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: ACDC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. ___ Sports Bureau (official 32-Down keepers)"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that english essayist (1775-1834)
- Words that mean the same thing: Lamb, Elia, Charles Lamb
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELIAS
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Clue 18 Down: "26. Mountebanks"
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 something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- Words that mean the same thing: fudge, pretender, faker
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FAKES
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Clue 19 Down: "28. Stay quiet"
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: KEEPITDOWN
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Clue 20 Down: "32. See 25-Down"
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: STATS
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Clue 21 Down: "34. Minimalist style"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: SANSSERIF
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Clue 22 Down: "36. Polite form of address, abroad"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: SRI
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Clue 23 Down: "38. Blades used in "Kill Bill""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: KATANAS
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Clue 24 Down: "41. Masked warning?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: ENGARDE
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Clue 25 Down: "43. Notre Dame setting"
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 french river that flows through the heart of paris and then northward into the english channel
- Words that mean the same thing: Seine River
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SEINE
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Clue 26 Down: "44. Follower of an "I'm late" text, in brief"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Words that mean the same thing: Basque Homeland and Freedom, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ETA
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Clue 27 Down: "45. They might be loaded with singles"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that installation from which a military force initiates operations
- Words that mean the same thing: root word, foot, foundation
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BASES
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Clue 28 Down: "46. Poker declaration"
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: ICALL
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Clue 29 Down: "47. Deadpan"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that in a dry laconic manner; he said dryly
- Words that mean the same thing: drily, laconically
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DRYLY
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Clue 30 Down: "49. Like Falstaff"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that excessively fat
- Words that mean the same thing: weighty, rotund, corpulent
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: OBESE
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Clue 31 Down: "50. Take the edge off?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that become ground down or deteriorate
- Words that mean the same thing: gnaw, wear away, gnaw at
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ERODE
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Clue 32 Down: "51. One might fly close to the sun"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: COMET
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Clue 33 Down: "53. Printmaker?"
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 foot of an ungulate mammal
- Words that mean the same thing: hoof it, foot, leg it
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: HOOF
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Clue 34 Down: "54. "No Ordinary Love" singer"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- This could be something that french soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
- Words that mean the same thing: Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, de Sade, Marquis de Sade
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SADE
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Clue 35 Down: "56. Pastoral sound"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the sound made by a cow or bull
- Words that mean the same thing: low
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MOO
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 48 | 68.6% |
| Short Answer | 11 | 15.7% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.9% |
| Geography | 2 | 2.9% |
| Music | 1 | 1.4% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.4% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.4% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.4% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
| History | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 35 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.6 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 10 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.
Last Updated: September 13, 2025 at 09:18 AM
