27408 Sat Nov 23, 2024 NYT by Ryan McCarty

Across Clues :

1. In need of a trim, say, 8. Superficially attractive, 14. Romance language?, 16. Something that may be passed down in a family, 17. Reclusive emperor who succeeded his stepfather Augustus, 18. Restaurateur and humanitarian José, 19. Immature pigeon, 20. Bonkers, 22. "Tropic Thunder" setting, for short, 23. Hearty kiss, 24. Substances in culture dishes, 25. Alert to prejudice, 26. Notwithstanding, 27. Like many a dad joke, 28. One of football's Kelce brothers, 29. "I wouldn't count on it", 31. Bad person to take a cue from?, 32. Full-body armor in science fiction stories, 33. Stories that can be read both forward and backward?, 34. Opposite of avant, 35. Make some calls, 38. North ___ Sea, body of water since the late 1980s, 39. Actress Garson with seven Oscar nominations, 40. Seat filler, 41. Stop for the night, 42. Double ___, 43. Excel shortcut, 44. Spot-checked?, 46. Easily stacked pet food, 48. Reacts like a superfan, 49. Dangerous place for Indiana Jones, 50. Common crab covering, 51. Desperate for affection, in modern slang

Down Clues :

1. Remains unmoved, 2. Theater kids, e.g., 3. Full-bodied, as a wine, 4. Places for irises, 5. Disney Channel pal of Phineas, 6. "Just a heads-up …", 7. Not acting one's age, in a way, 8. Ganja, 9. Winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2014, 10. Condition that may be treated with cognitive behavioral therapy, for short, 11. Private rejection?, 12. Talk about, 13. Bootlicking sorts, 15. 1995 crime thriller named for a line in "Casablanca," with "The", 21. Activity requiring a map, 24. One bit, 25. Subject of union negotiations, 27. Round that's finished quickly?, 28. Leaves in the lurch, 29. Utter, 30. Middling in rank, informally, 31. Zeus, Odin or the Dagda, 32. Nocturnal flier with a distinctive screech, 33. Affirmed as much, 35. Gives the quick and dirty, 36. Get something through hard work, 37. Holiday character with a "button nose", 39. Full of pluck, 40. Anchor, e.g., 42. CNN anchor Bash, 43. Sushi roll wrapped in seaweed, 45. More than tear up, 47. "I'm good, thanks"

Break down the NYT Crosswords: November 23, 2024

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

New York Times, Saturday, November 23, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. In need of a trim, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: SCRUFFY

  Possible Answer : seedy, scruffy




• The clue is 8. Superficially attractive. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: GLOSSY

  Possible Answer : glossy, showy, sheeny, calendered, shiny, slick_magazine, lustrous, shining, glistening, slick




• The clue is 14. Romance language?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: ILOVEYOU




• The clue is 16. Something that may be passed down in a family. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: RECIPE

  Possible Answer : formula, recipe




• The clue is 17. Reclusive emperor who succeeded his stepfather Augustus. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: TIBERIUS

  Possible Answer : Tiberius_Claudius_Nero_Caesar_Augustus, Tiberius




• The clue is 18. Restaurateur and humanitarian José. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ANDRES




• The clue is 19. Immature pigeon. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SQUAB

  Possible Answer : squabby, squab, dove




• The clue is 20. Bonkers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: NUTSO




• The clue is 22. "Tropic Thunder" setting, for short. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NAM




• The clue is 23. Hearty kiss. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: BUSS

  Possible Answer : osculate, coach, omnibus, busbar, bus, osculation, motorbus, buss, double-decker, passenger_vehicle, heap, motorcoach, kiss, bus_topology, snog, jitney, jalopy, charabanc, autobus




• The clue is 24. Substances in culture dishes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: AGARS

  Possible Answer : agar-agar, agar, nutrient_agar




• The clue is 25. Alert to prejudice. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: WOKE

  Possible Answer : heat, fire_up, come_alive, wake_up, stir_up, arouse, inflame, rouse, waken, awaken, wake, awake, ignite

  Possible Opposite Answer : cause_to_sleep, fall_asleep, sleep




• The clue is 26. Notwithstanding. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: YET

  Possible Answer : even, as_yet, nonetheless, nevertheless, up_to_now, still, hitherto, heretofore, until_now, thus_far, all_the_same, yet, notwithstanding, so_far, in_time, withal, however, even_so, til_now




• The clue is 27. Like many a dad joke. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: STALE

  Possible Answer : dusty, stale, cold, moth-eaten

  Possible Opposite Answer : fresh




• The clue is 28. One of football's Kelce brothers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: JASON

  Possible Answer : Jason




• The clue is 29. "I wouldn't count on it". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: THATSABIGIF




• The clue is 31. Bad person to take a cue from?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: POOLHUSTLER




• The clue is 32. Full-body armor in science fiction stories. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: BATTLESUITS




• The clue is 33. Stories that can be read both forward and backward?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SAGAS

  Possible Answer : saga




• The clue is 34. Opposite of avant. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: APRES




• The clue is 35. Make some calls. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: REF

  Possible Answer : ref, referee




• The clue is 38. North ___ Sea, body of water since the late 1980s. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ARAL




• The clue is 39. Actress Garson with seven Oscar nominations. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: GREER




• The clue is 40. Seat filler. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: REAR

  Possible Answer : bottom, put_up, nurture, set_up, rear_end, lift, behind, fundament, bring_up, hind_end, back, posterior, rearward, derriere, butt, keister, buttocks, bum, tush, rise_up, rear, buns, arse, seat, hindquarters, can, back_end, tooshie, ass, rise, tail_end, parent, nates, rump, prat, fanny, erect, backside, stern, raise, tail

  Possible Opposite Answer : front, head, level




• The clue is 41. Stop for the night. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: INN

  Possible Answer : hostel, auberge, inn, hostelry, lodge




• The clue is 42. Double ___. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DUTCH

  Possible Answer : Dutch_people, Dutch




• The clue is 43. Excel shortcut. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MACRO

  Possible Answer : macro_instruction, macro




• The clue is 44. Spot-checked?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: DOGSAT




• The clue is 46. Easily stacked pet food. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: TUNACANS




• The clue is 48. Reacts like a superfan. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SWOONS

  Possible Answer : conk, syncope, pass_out, faint, swoon, deliquium




• The clue is 49. Dangerous place for Indiana Jones. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: SNAKEPIT




• The clue is 50. Common crab covering. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: OLDBAY




• The clue is 51. Desperate for affection, in modern slang. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: THIRSTY

  Possible Answer : hungry, athirst, thirsty

  Possible Opposite Answer : hungry

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Remains unmoved. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SITSBY

• The clue is 2. Theater kids, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: CLIQUE

  Possible Answer: coterie, ingroup, clique, inner_circle, camp, pack

• The clue is 3. Full-bodied, as a wine. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ROBUST

  Possible Answer: rich, full-bodied, racy, robust

  Possible Opposite Answer : frail

• The clue is 4. Places for irises. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: UVEAS

  Possible Answer: uvea

• The clue is 5. Disney Channel pal of Phineas. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: FERB

• The clue is 6. "Just a heads-up …". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: FYI

• The clue is 7. Not acting one's age, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

  The answer: YOUNGATHEART

• The clue is 8. Ganja. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: GRASS

  Possible Answer: tell_on, shit, betray, pasture, sess, sens, denounce, forage, rat, grass, stag, smoke, shop, Gunter_Wilhelm_Grass, green_goddess, Grass, skunk, Mary_Jane, weed, locoweed, pot, grass_over, eatage, pasturage, supergrass, dope, snitch, Gunter_Grass, give_away, gage

• The clue is 9. Winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2014. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LENO

• The clue is 10. Condition that may be treated with cognitive behavioral therapy, for short. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: OCD

• The clue is 11. Private rejection?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: SIRNOSIR

• The clue is 12. Talk about. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: SPEAKOF

• The clue is 13. Bootlicking sorts. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: YESMEN

• The clue is 15. 1995 crime thriller named for a line in "Casablanca," with "The". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (13 letters)

  The answer: USUALSUSPECTS

• The clue is 21. Activity requiring a map. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

  The answer: TREASUREHUNT

• The clue is 24. One bit. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ATALL

• The clue is 25. Subject of union negotiations. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: WAGES

  Possible Answer: engage, pay, wag, reward, wage, earnings, payoff, wages, waggle, salary, remuneration

• The clue is 27. Round that's finished quickly?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SHOTS

  Possible Answer: stroke, nip, guesswork, injection, dead_reckoning, shooting, barb, pellet, shooter, guessing, guess, slam, snap, dig, crack, stab, shot, shaft, gibe, scene, blastoff, snapshot, jibe

• The clue is 28. Leaves in the lurch. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: JILTS

  Possible Answer: jilt

• The clue is 29. Utter. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TOTAL

  Possible Answer: summate, amount, total, full, add, sum, tot, add_up, tot_up, tote_up, tally, totality, sum_up, add_together, aggregate, come, number, entire

• The clue is 30. Middling in rank, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BTIER

• The clue is 31. Zeus, Odin or the Dagda. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: PAGANGOD

• The clue is 32. Nocturnal flier with a distinctive screech. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: BARNOWL

• The clue is 33. Affirmed as much. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SAIDSO

• The clue is 35. Gives the quick and dirty. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: RECAPS

  Possible Answer: review, retread, recapitulate, recapitulation, recap

• The clue is 36. Get something through hard work. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: EARNIT

• The clue is 37. Holiday character with a "button nose". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: FROSTY

  Possible Answer: glacial, rimed, rimy, snappy, frigid, nippy, crisp, wintry, nipping, icy, frozen, frosty

• The clue is 39. Full of pluck. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: GUTSY

  Possible Answer: plucky, gutsy

  Possible Opposite Answer : gutless

• The clue is 40. Anchor, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: RACER

  Possible Answer: racer, race_driver, race_car, racing_car, automobile_driver

• The clue is 42. CNN anchor Bash. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DANA

  Possible Answer: Danu, Dana

• The clue is 43. Sushi roll wrapped in seaweed. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: MAKI

• The clue is 45. More than tear up. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: SOB

  Possible Answer: sobbing, prick, whoreson, son_of_a_bitch, bastard, mother_fucker, shortness_of_breath, asshole, breathlessness, SOB, shit, sob, dickhead, motherfucker, cocksucker

• The clue is 47. "I'm good, thanks". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NAH

No 27380, Friday Oct 25, 2024 NYT Crossword by Alex Murphy

Across Clues :

1. Hearty, 7. Suck up, 13. "This cannot be stressed enough …", 15. Fairly, 16. Cello parts are written in it, 18. Occasionally censored part of the 12-Down, 19. Quarterback's stat: Abbr., 20. Canned liquid rich in essential fatty acids, 22. Broadway's Salonga, 23. Lowry who wrote "The Giver", 25. Work out, 26. Where the lions sleep tonight, presumably, 27. Concoct, with "up", 29. Go through, 30. One of the "Hollywood Chrises", 31. Flawless display of technique, 34. Dog's post-surgery wear, familiarly, 35. Head cold?, 36. Play place, 37. "It was news to me," in online shorthand, 38. Take in, 42. Concessions, 43. Some compost bin detritus, 45. Iconic role for Frank Oz, 46. Main ingredient of the Puerto Rican dessert piragua, 47. Compounds in tea and wine, 49. It's a no., 50. Fonda's co-star on "Grace and Frankie", 52. Another name for C##, 54. Yo-yos, 55. Mount Rushmore's makeup, 56. What might be included in an act of congress, 57. Scandinavian capital

Friday Oct 25, 2024 NYT Crossword

Down Clues :

1. Bawdy, 2. Podium figure, 3. Closest confidant, informally, 4. High times, 5. Sunni or Shia, e.g., 6. Bone connected to the fibula, 7. Nickname for an early 2000s governor of California, 8. Flake, 9. Indy label, 10. "Come on, that's just ridiculous", 11. Lets up, 12. See 18-Across, 14. Perfect score, 17. Misleading cognate, like the German "Gift" which actually means "poison", 21. What hucksters may be guilty of, 24. Ethnic minority in New Zealand, 26. It'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, 28. Fever pitch, 30. Square, 32. Kamala Harris, once: Abbr., 33. "Guerrillero Heroico" subject, familiarly, 34. Timesaver for a breakfast chef, 35. Male protocol popularized by "How I Met Your Mother", 36. "Currently …", 39. Tylenol alternative, 40. Conceptualize, 41. Like firstborn children vis-à-vis second-born children, statistically, 43. Violet variety, 44. Tone of many tweets, 47. "La Clemenza di ___" (Mozart opera), 48. Have the lead, 51. Fate, 53. ___ Show 'Em No Mercy (card game variant)

Break down the NYT Crosswords: October 25, 2024

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Hearty. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ROBUST

  Possible Answer : robust, full-bodied, racy, rich

  Possible Opposite Answer : frail




• The clue is 7. Suck up. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ABSORB

  Possible Answer : sop_up, suck_up, imbibe, plunge, take_up, take_over, steep, assimilate, immerse, suck, soak_up, occupy, engulf, engage, engross, draw, ingest, absorb, take_in

  Possible Opposite Answer : emit




• The clue is 13. "This cannot be stressed enough …". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: IREPEAT




• The clue is 15. Fairly. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: RATHER

  Possible Answer : rather, sooner, quite, preferably, sort_of, kinda, kind_of, instead




• The clue is 16. Cello parts are written in it. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: BASSCLEF




• The clue is 18. Occasionally censored part of the 12-Down. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: NIPPLE

  Possible Answer : pap, mamilla, nipple, mammilla, tit, teat




• The clue is 19. Quarterback's stat: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ATT




• The clue is 20. Canned liquid rich in essential fatty acids. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: TUNAOIL




• The clue is 22. Broadway's Salonga. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: LEA

  Possible Answer : ley, grazing_land, pasture, lea, pastureland




• The clue is 23. Lowry who wrote "The Giver". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LOIS




• The clue is 25. Work out. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SOLVE

  Possible Answer : resolve, work_out, puzzle_out, clear, figure_out, lick, work, solve




• The clue is 26. Where the lions sleep tonight, presumably. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DENS

  Possible Answer : hideaway, den, lair, hideout




• The clue is 27. Concoct, with "up". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DREAM

  Possible Answer : woolgather, dreaming, ambition, dream, daydream, pipe_dream, stargaze, aspiration




• The clue is 29. Go through. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: USE

  Possible Answer : habit, exercise, economic_consumption, function, consumption, usage, utilise, utilization, utilize, manipulation, usance, habituate, practice, enjoyment, purpose, employ, use, expend, use_of_goods_and_services, employment, role, utilisation, apply




• The clue is 30. One of the "Hollywood Chrises". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PRATT




• The clue is 31. Flawless display of technique. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: MASTERCLASS




• The clue is 34. Dog's post-surgery wear, familiarly. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: CONEOFSHAME




• The clue is 35. Head cold?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: BRAINFREEZE




• The clue is 36. Play place. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ARENA

  Possible Answer : scene_of_action, arena, field, area, domain, sports_stadium, bowl, sphere, orbit, stadium




• The clue is 37. "It was news to me," in online shorthand. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TIL




• The clue is 38. Take in. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ADMIT

  Possible Answer : take, accommodate, take_on, hold, admit, intromit, accept, acknowledge, allow_in, include, allow, let_in

  Possible Opposite Answer : exclude, reject, deny




• The clue is 42. Concessions. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SOPS

  Possible Answer : douse, drench, standard_operating_procedure, dowse, sop, soak_through, souse, standard_procedure, soak, sops, standing_operating_procedure, SOP




• The clue is 43. Some compost bin detritus. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PEELS

  Possible Answer : strip_down, pare, peel_off, uncase, unclothe, Robert_Peel, Peel, strip, disrobe, flake_off, flake, peel, Sir_Robert_Peel, discase, skin, undress

  Possible Opposite Answer : dress




• The clue is 45. Iconic role for Frank Oz. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: YODA




• The clue is 46. Main ingredient of the Puerto Rican dessert piragua. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ICE

  Possible Answer : frosting, trash, glass, frost, water_ice, crank, Methedrine, ice, methamphetamine, frappe, chalk, deoxyephedrine, ice-skating_rink, meth, ICE, ice_rink, shabu, sparkler, methamphetamine_hydrochloride, chicken_feed, icing, internal-combustion_engine




• The clue is 47. Compounds in tea and wine. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: TANNINS

  Possible Answer : tannic_acid, tannin




• The clue is 49. It's a no.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TEL




• The clue is 50. Fonda's co-star on "Grace and Frankie". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: TOMLIN




• The clue is 52. Another name for C##. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: DNATURAL




• The clue is 54. Yo-yos. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: IDIOTS

  Possible Answer : cretin, idiot, half-wit, imbecile, retard, changeling, moron




• The clue is 55. Mount Rushmore's makeup. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: GRANITE

  Possible Answer : granite




• The clue is 56. What might be included in an act of congress. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SEXTOY




• The clue is 57. Scandinavian capital. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: KRONER

  Possible Answer : Norwegian_krone, Danish_krone, krone

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Bawdy. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: RIBALD

  Possible Answer: off-color, bawdy, ribald

• The clue is 2. Podium figure. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ORATOR

  Possible Answer: rhetorician, speechifier, orator, public_speaker, speechmaker

• The clue is 3. Closest confidant, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: BESTIE

• The clue is 4. High times. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: UPS

  Possible Answer: up

• The clue is 5. Sunni or Shia, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SECT

  Possible Answer: sect, religious_order, religious_sect, faction

• The clue is 6. Bone connected to the fibula. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TALUS

  Possible Answer: astragal, scree, astragalus, talus, anklebone

• The clue is 7. Nickname for an early 2000s governor of California. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ARNIE

• The clue is 8. Flake. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: BAIL

  Possible Answer: bail, bail_bond, bond

• The clue is 9. Indy label. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: STP

  Possible Answer: s.t.p., STP

• The clue is 10. "Come on, that's just ridiculous". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: OHPLEASE

• The clue is 11. Lets up. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: RELENTS

  Possible Answer: yield, relent, soften

  Possible Opposite Answer : stand

• The clue is 12. See 18-Across. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: BREAST

  Possible Answer: knocker, titty, front, white_meat, breast, summit, bosom, boob, tit, chest

• The clue is 14. Perfect score. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: TENOUTOFTEN

• The clue is 17. Misleading cognate, like the German "Gift" which actually means "poison". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: FALSEFRIEND

• The clue is 21. What hucksters may be guilty of. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: OVERSELLING

• The clue is 24. Ethnic minority in New Zealand. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: SAMOANS

  Possible Answer: Samoan

• The clue is 26. It'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: DRAMEDY

• The clue is 28. Fever pitch. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MANIA

  Possible Answer: cacoethes, manic_disorder, passion, mania

• The clue is 30. Square. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PLAZA

  Possible Answer: shopping_mall, shopping_center, mall, piazza, place, shopping_centre, center, plaza

• The clue is 32. Kamala Harris, once: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: SEN

  Possible Answer: sen

• The clue is 33. "Guerrillero Heroico" subject, familiarly. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: CHE

• The clue is 34. Timesaver for a breakfast chef. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: CREPEMIX

• The clue is 35. Male protocol popularized by "How I Met Your Mother". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: BROCODE

• The clue is 36. "Currently …". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ASITIS

• The clue is 39. Tylenol alternative. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: MOTRIN

  Possible Answer: ibuprofen, Motrin, Nuprin, Advil, isobutylphenyl_propionic_acid

• The clue is 40. Conceptualize. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: IDEATE

  Possible Answer: imagine, envisage, ideate, conceive_of

• The clue is 41. Like firstborn children vis-à-vis second-born children, statistically. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: TALLER

  Possible Answer: marvellous, improbable, grandiloquent, tall, marvelous, magniloquent

  Possible Opposite Answer : short

• The clue is 43. Violet variety. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PANSY

  Possible Answer: fag, queen, pouf, Milquetoast, fagot, nance, poove, pantywaist, sissy, faggot, fairy, milksop, queer, pansy, poof, Viola_tricolor_hortensis

• The clue is 44. Tone of many tweets. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SNARK

• The clue is 47. "La Clemenza di ___" (Mozart opera). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: TITO

  Possible Answer: Josip_Broz, Tito, Marshal_Tito

• The clue is 48. Have the lead. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: STAR

  Possible Answer: adept, prima, wiz, maven, asterisk, hotshot, mavin, principal, leading, starring, headliner, virtuoso, champion, stellar, ace, genius, wizard, superstar, sensation, whizz, star, star_topology, lead, whiz

• The clue is 51. Fate. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: LOT

  Possible Answer: mint, lot, bunch, circumstances, passel, fate, pile, mountain, fortune, mete_out, mess, tidy_sum, batch, shell_out, mass, mickle, muckle, spate, dole_out, circle, administer, dish_out, deal_out, heap, deal, pot, quite_a_little, wad, caboodle, stack, great_deal, portion, allot, raft, slew, draw, destiny, Lot, plenty, peck, good_deal, flock, hatful, set, distribute, band, sight, luck, parcel_out, dispense

• The clue is 53. ___ Show 'Em No Mercy (card game variant). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: UNO

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints - July 14, 2025 | XWordHint Today Vibez

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints – July 14, 2025 | XWordHint Today Trends & Vibez

Published on Monday, July 14, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master today's NYT crossword with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun. Perfect for crossword lover who want that satisfying "aha!" moment.

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. "Twilight" heroine"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BELLA

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🧩 2A: "6. ___ pants (garment with lots of pockets)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that goods carried by a large vehicle
• Similar words include: freight, load, payload
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CARGO

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🧩 3A: "11. School grp. in charge of fund-raisers"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PTA

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🧩 4A: "14. Intentionally miss calls from, say"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
• Similar words include: quash, debar, avert
• Opposite of: validate, confront

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVOID

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🧩 5A: "15. Layered bulb"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the bulb of an onion plant
• Similar words include: onion plant, Allium cepa
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONION

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🧩 6A: "16. Partner of a cone, or of a reel"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a long thin implement made of metal or wood
• Similar words include: pole, retinal rod, perch
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROD

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🧩 7A: "17. Textile pattern that resembles braided wicker"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BASKETWEAVE

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🧩 8A: "19. Moody rock subgenre"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EMO

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🧩 9A: "20. Tall, in Spanish"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALTA

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🧩 10A: "21. Chopped down"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that make or shape as with an axe
• Similar words include: hew, hew out, hand-hewn
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEWN

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🧩 11A: "22. Frighten off, as from doing something"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that try to prevent; show opposition to
• Similar words include: dissuade, discourage
• Opposite of: persuade

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DETER

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🧩 12A: "24. ___ Rabbit"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRER

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🧩 13A: "26. Film award that has had the categories "Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie" and "Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAZZIE

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🧩 14A: "27. Sir and Madam, for two"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
• Similar words include: entitle, title, deed of conveyance
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TITLES

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🧩 15A: "30. "___ Playing Our Song" (Marvin Hamlisch musical)"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THEYRE

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🧩 16A: "32. Ready for a mate"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INHEAT

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🧩 17A: "33. Call from a drill sergeant"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HUP

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🧩 18A: "34. ___ Romeo (Italian car)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALFA

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🧩 19A: "37. Poetic "before""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERE

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🧩 20A: "38. Sledding event that debuted in the 2022 Winter Olympics"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MONOBOB

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🧩 21A: "41. Common setting for a joke"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
• Similar words include: legal profession, streak, debar
• Opposite of: unbar

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BAR

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🧩 22A: "42. Laura of "Big Little Lies""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DERN

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🧩 23A: "44. Lil ___ X, "Old Town Road" rapper"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
• Similar words include: atomic number 11, Na, sodium
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAS

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🧩 24A: "45. Vigorously strong"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction
• Similar words include: full-bodied, rich, racy
• Opposite of: frail

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROBUST

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🧩 25A: "47. Playwright O'Neill"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that austrian general in the service of the holy roman empire during the war of the spanish succession (1663-1736)
• Similar words include: Prince Eugene of Savoy
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EUGENE

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🧩 26A: "49. What the Roman numeral XX represents"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
• Similar words include: 20, xx, XX
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TWENTY

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🧩 27A: "50. Little 'uns"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KIDDOS

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🧩 28A: "52. Philadelphia's Liberty ___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
• Similar words include: doorbell, chime, bell shape
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BELL

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🧩 29A: "53. Wishes"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a specific instance of feeling hopeful
• Similar words include: Leslie Townes Hope, hope, desire
• Opposite of: despair

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HOPES

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🧩 30A: "54. First, second or reverse, e.g."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
• Similar words include: gear wheel, gearing, appurtenance
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GEAR

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🧩 31A: "56. "___ and the 58-Down Girl" (Ryan Gosling film)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LARS

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🧩 32A: "60. Year, in Portuguese"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
• Similar words include: Abu Nidal Organization, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, Fatah Revolutionary Council
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANO

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🧩 33A: "61. English pop singer whose name sounds like a goofy hint to the ends of 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HARRYSTYLES

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🧩 34A: "64. We are family!"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person having kinship with another or others
• Similar words include: blood-related, cognate, akin
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KIN

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🧩 35A: "65. Clamor"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
• Similar words include: randomness, disturbance, dissonance
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOISE

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🧩 36A: "66. Person"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any living or extinct member of the family hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
• Similar words include: man, homo, human being
• Opposite of: nonhuman

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HUMAN

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🧩 37A: "67. Like winter roads, at times"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
• Similar words include: frosty, wintry, frigid
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ICY

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🧩 38A: "68. Like a kid in a "Sister" T-shirt vis-à-vis one in a "Sister" onesie"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
• Similar words include: elderly, quondam, aged
• Opposite of: young, new

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OLDER

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🧩 39A: "69. Multicolored gemstones"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
• Similar words include: opal
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OPALS

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. "Ali ___ and the 40 Thieves""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small cake leavened with yeast
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BABA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2D: "2. Assessment, for short"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EVAL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3D: "3. Completely disoriented"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that people who are destined to die soon
• Similar words include: fall behind, mazed, bemused
• Opposite of: profit, gain

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4D: "4. Pleasant to be around"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
• Similar words include: likeable, appealing, sympathetic
• Opposite of: unsympathetic

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LIKABLE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5D: "5. Suffix with lemon or lime"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
• Similar words include: fruit drink
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6D: "6. Crouch down in fear"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that crouch or curl up
• Similar words include: grovel, huddle, fawn
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COWER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7D: "7. All over again"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that again but in a new or different way
• Similar words include: afresh
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANEW

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🧩 8D: "8. Director Johnson"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIAN

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🧩 9D: "9. Website ending for the White House"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOV

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🧩 10D: "10. "Eventually ...""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONEDAY

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🧩 11D: "11. Gourmet bread for a hamburger"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PRETZELBUN

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🧩 12D: "12. Marisa of "My Cousin Vinny""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOMEI

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🧩 13D: "13. Really love"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that love intensely
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADORE

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🧩 14D: "18. Band whose albums include "Sticky Fingers" and "Let It Bleed," familiarly"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THESTONES

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🧩 15D: "23. Book after II Chronicles"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a jewish priest and scribe sent by the persian king to restore jewish law and worship in jerusalem
• Similar words include: Book of Ezra
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EZRA

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🧩 16D: "25. 500 sheets of paper"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large quantity of written matter
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REAM

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🧩 17D: "26. Lois Lane and co-workers at the Daily Planet"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
• Similar words include: reporter, newsman, newsperson
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REPORTERS

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🧩 18D: "27. Like a score of 2-2"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
• Similar words include: bond, attach, draw
• Opposite of: unlaced, disconnect

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TIED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19D: "28. Start of a memo"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INRE

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🧩 20D: "29. Steinbeck novella set on a horse ranch"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: __________

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Answer: THEREDPONY

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🧩 21D: "30. The ones over there"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: THOSE

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🧩 22D: "31. Major airport, e.g."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HUB

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🧩 23D: "35. Speedy"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that abstaining from food
• Similar words include: fasting, flying, quick
• Opposite of: slow

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Answer: FAST

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🧩 24D: "36. Inclined to attend gallery openings, perhaps"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that showily imitative of art or artists
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ARTY

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🧩 25D: "39. Alternative to Gramma or Granny"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that your grandmother
• Similar words include: grandmother, gran, granny
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NAN

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🧩 26D: "40. Postseason football game"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids
• Similar words include: pipe bowl, bowling ball, sports stadium
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BOWL

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🧩 27D: "43. Painting that might make you blush"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a painting of a naked human figure
• Similar words include: naked, au naturel, nude statue
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: NUDE

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🧩 28D: "46. Unfortunate way for a business to go"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: BELLYUP

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🧩 29D: "48. "Goodness, I can't do that""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: GOSHNO

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🧩 30D: "50. Color for some business casual pants"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: KHAKI

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🧩 31D: "51. Like some chemical bonds"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the dialect of ancient greek spoken and written in attica and athens and ionia
• Similar words include: Classical Greek, Attic, Ionic dialect
• Opposite of: nonionic

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Answer: IONIC

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🧩 32D: "52. Big name in aspirin"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names bayer, empirin, and st. joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets
• Similar words include: St. Joseph, acetylsalicylic acid, Empirin
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BAYER

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🧩 33D: "54. What streets and avenues often make, collectively"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines
• Similar words include: gridiron, storage-battery grid, power grid
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: GRID

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🧩 34D: "55. Gaelic language"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of several related languages of the celts in ireland and scotland
• Similar words include: Gaelic, Goidelic
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ERSE

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🧩 35D: "57. ___ mater"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ALMA

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🧩 36D: "58. See 56-Across"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any rational or irrational number
• Similar words include: rattling, tangible, material
• Opposite of: unreal, insubstantial

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Answer: REAL

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🧩 37D: "59. Strings of digits to keep secret, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SSNS

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🧩 38D: "62. Pioneer in instant messaging"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: AOL

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🧩 39D: "63. Yet, informally"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a branch of the tai languages
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: THO

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