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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, June 03, 2023
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 68 (31 Across, 37 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.7 letters
June 03, 2023 Saturday NYT - Complete Across Solutions
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Shape or edge, say | 9 |
| 2A | 10. Winner of three Emmys for Outstanding Game Show Host | 5 |
| 3A | 15. Sword in the stone | 9 |
| 4A | 16. Jeers to a team at an away game, say | 5 |
| 5A | 17. Purify, in metallurgy | 9 |
| 6A | 18. Inclined to be verbose, informally | 5 |
| 7A | 19. City in northeast France, home of the country's oldest church | 4 |
| 8A | 20. What has spikes of interest? | 6 |
| 9A | 21. Four-time presidential candidate beginning in 1996 | 5 |
| 10A | 24. Hawaiian for "long" | 3 |
| 11A | 26. Most common Korean surname | 3 |
| 12A | 27. 38-Across, as a prefix | 4 |
| 13A | 28. Walks with difficulty | 5 |
| 14A | 30. Bookstore section | 3 |
| 15A | 32. What a strangely quiet person might have | 15 |
| 16A | 36. "Don't hold back, it's my treat!" | 15 |
| 17A | 37. Words that may fail to soften an insult | 15 |
| 18A | 38. See 27-Across | 3 |
| 19A | 39. Ancient navigation aids | 5 |
| 20A | 40. Frost-covered, poetically | 4 |
| 21A | 41. Wick for a Molotov cocktail | 3 |
| 22A | 43. Music genre | 3 |
| 23A | 44. Actress Sink of "Stranger Things" | 5 |
| 24A | 46. Made a return online | 6 |
| 25A | 48. Ran | 4 |
| 26A | 50. Top of a tax form | 5 |
| 27A | 51. Completely lose it | 9 |
| 28A | 56. Ewe said it! | 5 |
| 29A | 57. Shows up out of nowhere? | 9 |
| 30A | 58. Church chorus | 5 |
| 31A | 59. Get wise | 9 |
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. Shape or edge, say"
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 an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
- Words that mean the same thing: landscape painting
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LANDSCAPE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "10. Winner of three Emmys for Outstanding Game Show Host"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SAJAK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. Sword in the stone"
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 the legendary sword of king arthur
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EXCALIBUR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "16. Jeers to a team at an away game, say"
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 cruel or inhumane treatment
- Words that mean the same thing: shout, ill-treat, ill-usage
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABUSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "17. Purify, in metallurgy"
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 to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- Words that mean the same thing: deoxidise, reduce
- The opposite would be: oxidize, oxidise
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEOXIDIZE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Inclined to be verbose, informally"
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 resembling gas
- Words that mean the same thing: colicky, flatulent
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GASSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. City in northeast France, home of the country's oldest church"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: METZ
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. What has spikes of interest?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any succulent plant of the family cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the new world and usually having spines
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CACTUS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. Four-time presidential candidate beginning in 1996"
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: NADER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "24. Hawaiian for "long""
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: LOA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "26. Most common Korean surname"
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: KIM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "27. 38-Across, as a prefix"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AERO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Walks with difficulty"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- Words that mean the same thing: gimp, hitch, limp
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIMPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "30. Bookstore section"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Words that mean the same thing: newly, novel, Modern
- The opposite would be: worn, old
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "32. What a strangely quiet person might have"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOMETHINGTOHIDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "36. "Don't hold back, it's my treat!""
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANYTHINGYOUWANT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "37. Words that may fail to soften an insult"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOTHINGPERSONAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "38. See 27-Across"
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 mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- Words that mean the same thing: send, vent, transmit
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "39. Ancient navigation aids"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Words that mean the same thing: star, star topology, champion
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STARS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "40. Frost-covered, poetically"
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 covered with frost; ; -wm.faulkner
- Words that mean the same thing: rimed, frosty
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIMY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "41. Wick for a Molotov cocktail"
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 small piece of cloth or paper
- Words that mean the same thing: rebuke, lambast, rally
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Music genre"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: EMO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "44. Actress Sink of "Stranger Things""
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: SADIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Made a return online"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: EFILED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Ran"
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 lose blood from one's body
- Words that mean the same thing: shed blood, hemorrhage, phlebotomize
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BLED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. Top of a tax form"
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: LINEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "51. Completely lose it"
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: BLOWAFUSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "56. Ewe said it!"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
- Words that mean the same thing: blate, blat, baa
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BLEAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "57. Shows up out of nowhere?"
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 transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another
- Words that mean the same thing: teleport
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TELEPORTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "58. Church chorus"
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 primeval egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at thebes
- Words that mean the same thing: Amun, Amen, Amon
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMENS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "59. Get wise"
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: SMARTENUP
Great job if you got it right!
June 03, 2023 Down Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Set the pace | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Chopper | 3 |
| 3D | 3. One below a lieut. | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Actor/podcaster Shepard | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Goo | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Apple press release? | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Kinda | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Stumper | 15 |
| 9D | 9. Preceder to long or now | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Story for the ages | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Taken ___ | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Byzantine emperor known as "Rhinotmetos" ("the slit-nosed") | 11 |
| 13D | 13. Criminal's cover, maybe | 11 |
| 14D | 14. They're copied for partners | 4 |
| 15D | 20. Certain cell provider | 6 |
| 16D | 21. "No Country for Old Men" or "The Usual Suspects" | 11 |
| 17D | 22. One on base? | 11 |
| 18D | 23. "The merciful man ___ good to his own soul" (Proverbs 11:17) | 5 |
| 19D | 25. Enthusiastic approval in a text | 6 |
| 20D | 27. One of the so-called "eight limbs" of yoga | 5 |
| 21D | 28. Phallic object worshiped as a symbol of Shiva | 6 |
| 22D | 29. ___ chef | 4 |
| 23D | 31. How dogs kiss | 5 |
| 24D | 33. Middle of to-day? | 4 |
| 25D | 34. Didn't say directly | 6 |
| 26D | 35. "Hell," euphemistically | 5 |
| 27D | 42. Extract | 5 |
| 28D | 44. Part of an underground system | 5 |
| 29D | 45. Become acclimatized, e.g. | 5 |
| 30D | 46. Part of the Tuscan Archipelago | 4 |
| 31D | 47. Grub | 4 |
| 32D | 49. 1970 hit for the Kinks | 4 |
| 33D | 51. Big act in K-pop | 3 |
| 34D | 52. Other side | 3 |
| 35D | 53. Place for a bouquet, maybe | 3 |
| 36D | 54. Apt name for a worrier | 3 |
| 37D | 55. Medium capacity? | 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. Set the pace"
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 diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
- Words that mean the same thing: moderate, go, conduct
- The opposite would be: follow
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Chopper"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
- Words that mean the same thing: ax
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AXE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. One below a lieut."
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: NCO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Actor/podcaster Shepard"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: DAX
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Goo"
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 any thick, viscous matter
- Words that mean the same thing: gunk, guck, goop
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLIME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Apple press release?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
- Words that mean the same thing: cyder
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CIDER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Kinda"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Stumper"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: PUZZLINGPROBLEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Preceder to long or now"
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: ERE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Story for the ages"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SAGA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Taken ___"
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 having the wind against the forward side of the sails
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABACK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Byzantine emperor known as "Rhinotmetos" ("the slit-nosed")"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JUSTINIANII
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Criminal's cover, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASSUMEDNAME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. They're copied for partners"
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 metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- Words that mean the same thing: Florida key, discover, Key
- The opposite would be: atonality
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KEYS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. Certain cell provider"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person who captures and holds people or animals
- Words that mean the same thing: capturer
- The opposite would be: liberator
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CAPTOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "21. "No Country for Old Men" or "The Usual Suspects""
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEONOIRFILM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "22. One on base?"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARMYTRAINEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "23. "The merciful man ___ good to his own soul" (Proverbs 11:17)"
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: DOETH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "25. Enthusiastic approval in a text"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: OMGYES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "27. One of the so-called "eight limbs" of yoga"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASANA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "28. Phallic object worshiped as a symbol of Shiva"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the hindu phallic symbol of siva
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LINGAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "29. ___ chef"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a former french coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money
- Words that mean the same thing: sou
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOUS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "31. How dogs kiss"
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: WETLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "33. Middle of to-day?"
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: THIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Down: "34. Didn't say directly"
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 drop a hint; intimate by a hint
- Words that mean the same thing: suggest, hint
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HINTED
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Clue 26 Down: "35. "Hell," euphemistically"
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: HWORD
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Clue 27 Down: "42. Extract"
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 gather, as of natural products
- Words that mean the same thing: reap, harvest
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GLEAN
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Clue 28 Down: "44. Part of an underground system"
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 waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
- Words that mean the same thing: gutter, cloaca, sewerage
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SEWER
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Clue 29 Down: "45. Become acclimatized, e.g."
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 make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- Words that mean the same thing: conform, adjust, accommodate
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ADAPT
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Clue 30 Down: "46. Part of the Tuscan Archipelago"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ELBA
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Clue 31 Down: "47. Grub"
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 informal terms for a meal
- Words that mean the same thing: deplete, feed, exhaust
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EATS
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Clue 32 Down: "49. 1970 hit for the Kinks"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LOLA
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Clue 33 Down: "51. Big act in K-pop"
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: BTS
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Clue 34 Down: "52. Other side"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
- Words that mean the same thing: opposition, enemy, foeman
- The opposite would be: friend
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The answer is: FOE
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Clue 35 Down: "53. Place for a bouquet, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: URN
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Clue 36 Down: "54. Apt name for a worrier"
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: STU
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Clue 37 Down: "55. Medium capacity?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
- Words that mean the same thing: E.S.P., clairvoyance, second sight
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ESP
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 46 | 67.6% |
| Short Answer | 12 | 17.6% |
| Geography | 3 | 4.4% |
| Sports | 2 | 2.9% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.9% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.5% |
| History | 1 | 1.5% |
| Music | 1 | 1.5% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 31 |
| Down Clues | 37 |
| Total Clues | 68 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.7 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 15 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is 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 01, 2025 at 11:38 PM
