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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
February 24, 2024 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. ___ Jean Covey, protagonist of Jenny Han's "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Has a grate voice? | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Perfume named after a pop star | 4 |
| 4A | 14. In time | 10 |
| 5A | 16. [I'm right here, you know] | 4 |
| 6A | 17. Period before sunset with ideal lighting for photography | 10 |
| 7A | 18. Lets go of | 4 |
| 8A | 19. Faint reactions? | 6 |
| 9A | 20. Pink-headed mushroom in Mario games | 8 |
| 10A | 22. The cab's here! | 4 |
| 11A | 24. Unbeatable | 7 |
| 12A | 25. "Be reasonable" | 7 |
| 13A | 28. Fly catcher | 4 |
| 14A | 29. Org. that regulates fertilizers | 3 |
| 15A | 30. Feline hybrids | 6 |
| 16A | 34. Winner of Wimbledon five consecutive times between Ashe and McEnroe | 4 |
| 17A | 36. Historic husband of Claudia Octavia | 4 |
| 18A | 38. Still learning, maybe | 5 |
| 19A | 39. Coast | 4 |
| 20A | 40. Symbol of life | 4 |
| 21A | 41. Love scene? | 6 |
| 22A | 43. Its influences include the Cuban mambo and Jamaican mento | 3 |
| 23A | 44. Cousin of a mariposa lily | 4 |
| 24A | 46. Made a sound with a flute | 7 |
| 25A | 48. Ripostes | 7 |
| 26A | 51. Big brand of coolers | 4 |
| 27A | 52. Cook for Easter, maybe | 8 |
| 28A | 54. Yanks | 6 |
| 29A | 58. "Goodness!" | 4 |
| 30A | 59. What requires a charge to use, in two senses | 10 |
| 31A | 61. Take ___ | 4 |
| 32A | 62. What may go to waste? Nope! What waste may go to | 10 |
| 33A | 63. Small tips | 4 |
| 34A | 64. Tony and Grammy winner Mitchell | 5 |
| 35A | 65. Oversupply | 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. ___ Jean Covey, protagonist of Jenny Han's "To All the Boys I've Loved Before""
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: LARA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Has a grate voice?"
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 uttering in an irritated tone
- Words that mean the same thing: rasp, rasping, wood file
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RASPS
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Clue 3 Across: "10. Perfume named after a pop star"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIRI
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Clue 4 Across: "14. In time"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay
- Words that mean the same thing: finally
- The word looks like this: __________
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The answer is: EVENTUALLY
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Clue 5 Across: "16. [I'm right here, you know]"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: hem
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AHEM
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Clue 6 Across: "17. Period before sunset with ideal lighting for photography"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOLDENHOUR
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Clue 7 Across: "18. Lets go of"
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 airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: give the sack, stern, hind end
- The opposite would be: hire
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CANS
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Faint reactions?"
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 spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- Words that mean the same thing: deliquium, pass out, syncope
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWOONS
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Clue 9 Across: "20. Pink-headed mushroom in Mario games"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: TOADETTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. The cab's here!"
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 plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east asia
- Words that mean the same thing: celery cabbage, Brassica rapa pekinensis, Chinese cabbage
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NAPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. Unbeatable"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THEBEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. "Be reasonable""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COMENOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Fly catcher"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- Words that mean the same thing: glove, baseball glove, hand
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MITT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. Org. that regulates fertilizers"
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 independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment
- Words that mean the same thing: Environmental Protection Agency
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. Feline hybrids"
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 offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
- Words that mean the same thing: tigon, tiglon
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIGONS
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Clue 16 Across: "34. Winner of Wimbledon five consecutive times between Ashe and McEnroe"
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: BORG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "36. Historic husband of Claudia Octavia"
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 roman emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of rome in 64) but the roman empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68)
- Words that mean the same thing: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NERO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "38. Still learning, maybe"
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: NEWAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "39. Coast"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- Words that mean the same thing: navigate, voyage, canvas
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SAIL
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Clue 20 Across: "40. Symbol of life"
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: ANKH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "41. Love scene?"
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 game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
- Words that mean the same thing: lawn tennis
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TENNIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Its influences include the Cuban mambo and Jamaican mento"
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: SKA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "44. Cousin of a mariposa lily"
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: SEGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Made a sound with a flute"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that make a high sound typical of glass
- Words that mean the same thing: clink, chink, tink
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CLINKED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Ripostes"
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 quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- Words that mean the same thing: rejoin, rejoinder, return
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RETORTS
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Clue 26 Across: "51. Big brand of coolers"
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 large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the himalayas
- Words that mean the same thing: abominable snowman
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YETI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "52. Cook for Easter, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: HARDBOIL
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Clue 28 Across: "54. Yanks"
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: TUGSON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "58. "Goodness!""
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: ISAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "59. What requires a charge to use, in two senses"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SMARTPHONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "61. Take ___"
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 brief written record
- Words that mean the same thing: annotation, tone, remark
- The opposite would be: ignore
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "62. What may go to waste? Nope! What waste may go to"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COMPOSTBIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "63. Small tips"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: unity, 1, one
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "64. Tony and Grammy winner Mitchell"
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: ANAIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "65. Oversupply"
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 fill to satisfaction
- Words that mean the same thing: replete, satiate, fill
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SATE
Great job if you got it right!
Solve the Down: NYT Saturday Puzzle February 24, 2024
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Staying power | 4 |
| 2D | 2. State | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Big move, for short | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Basketball player's cry while being fouled on the shot | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Takes the lead in a team project | 9 |
| 6D | 6. "So exciting!!!" | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Opening | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Hybrid fruit akin to an aprium | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Dark grape variety | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Marathon markers of sorts | 8 |
| 11D | 11. Disclaimer before an uncomfortable question | 10 |
| 12D | 12. Landlord's concern | 10 |
| 13D | 13. "Couldn't eat another bite" | 5 |
| 14D | 15. 12-Down participant | 6 |
| 15D | 21. Person who's left, for short? | 3 |
| 16D | 23. "That's so kind" | 5 |
| 17D | 25. "Fast X" actor John | 4 |
| 18D | 26. Time of year for hunting | 10 |
| 19D | 27. Price to pay, say | 10 |
| 20D | 31. Cop to | 3 |
| 21D | 32. ___ Lieberman, former W.N.B.A. player and coach known as "Lady Magic" | 5 |
| 22D | 33. Fashion items that may be a bit steep | 9 |
| 23D | 35. Adjective that, when its lone vowel is doubled, becomes an advocacy organization | 4 |
| 24D | 37. Emphatic assent | 8 |
| 25D | 42. Things that might hurt you to the core? | 6 |
| 26D | 45. Marble, e.g. | 3 |
| 27D | 47. Tough work schedule | 6 |
| 28D | 48. Lion : pride :: ___ : crash | 5 |
| 29D | 49. Opera about an opera singer | 5 |
| 30D | 50. Who says? | 5 |
| 31D | 53. Asian honorific | 4 |
| 32D | 55. Noodle sometimes eaten with mentsuyu sauce | 4 |
| 33D | 56. "Two steps ahead of you" | 4 |
| 34D | 57. Sight on a Hawaiian lava flow | 4 |
| 35D | 60. Univ. overlooking the Hudson River | 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. Staying power"
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 staying power
- Words that mean the same thing: peg, pegleg, wooden leg
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. State"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Words that mean the same thing: avouch, verify, affirm
- The opposite would be: disavow
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Big move, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: RELO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Basketball player's cry while being fouled on the shot"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: ANDONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Takes the lead in a team project"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RUNSPOINT
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Clue 6 Down: "6. "So exciting!!!""
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 express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Words that mean the same thing: ooh
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AAH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Opening"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
- Words that mean the same thing: expansion slot, time slot, one-armed bandit
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLOT
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Clue 8 Down: "8. Hybrid fruit akin to an aprium"
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: PLUOT
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Dark grape variety"
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: SYRAH
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Marathon markers of sorts"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RACEBIBS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Disclaimer before an uncomfortable question"
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: IHATETOASK
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Clue 12 Down: "12. Landlord's concern"
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: RENTSTRIKE
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Clue 13 Down: "13. "Couldn't eat another bite""
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: IMSET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "15. 12-Down participant"
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 someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- Words that mean the same thing: renter
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TENANT
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Clue 15 Down: "21. Person who's left, for short?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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: DEM
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Clue 16 Down: "23. "That's so kind""
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: AWGEE
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Clue 17 Down: "25. "Fast X" actor John"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: CENA
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Clue 18 Down: "26. Time of year for hunting"
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: OPENSEASON
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Clue 19 Down: "27. Price to pay, say"
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: MARKETRATE
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Clue 20 Down: "31. Cop to"
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 have ownership or possession of
- Words that mean the same thing: ain, possess, have
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OWN
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Clue 21 Down: "32. ___ Lieberman, former W.N.B.A. player and coach known as "Lady Magic""
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 a city in northeastern france in lorraine
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NANCY
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Clue 22 Down: "33. Fashion items that may be a bit steep"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a small dagger with a tapered blade
- Words that mean the same thing: stiletto
- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: STILETTOS
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Clue 23 Down: "35. Adjective that, when its lone vowel is doubled, becomes an advocacy organization"
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 any of numerous plants of the genus gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and south africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated
- Words that mean the same thing: gladiolus, gladiola, sword lily
- The opposite would be: sad
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The answer is: GLAD
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Clue 24 Down: "37. Emphatic assent"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: OHGODYES
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Clue 25 Down: "42. Things that might hurt you to the core?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: SITUPS
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Clue 26 Down: "45. Marble, e.g."
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 ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- Words that mean the same thing: ball, eyeball, orbit
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ORB
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Clue 27 Down: "47. Tough work schedule"
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 the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- Words that mean the same thing: nighttime, Nox, Night
- The opposite would be: day
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The answer is: NIGHTS
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Clue 28 Down: "48. Lion : pride :: ___ : crash"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast asia and africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
- Words that mean the same thing: rhinoceros
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: RHINO
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Clue 29 Down: "49. Opera about an opera singer"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: TOSCA
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Clue 30 Down: "50. Who says?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that one of the twelve apostles (first century)
- Words that mean the same thing: Herb Simon, Marvin Neil Simon, Paul Simon
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SIMON
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Clue 31 Down: "53. Asian honorific"
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 tibetan or mongolian priest of lamaism
- Words that mean the same thing: genus Lama
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LAMA
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Clue 32 Down: "55. Noodle sometimes eaten with mentsuyu sauce"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SOBA
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Clue 33 Down: "56. "Two steps ahead of you""
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: ONIT
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Clue 34 Down: "57. Sight on a Hawaiian lava flow"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: NENE
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Clue 35 Down: "60. Univ. overlooking the Hudson River"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RPI
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 54 | 77.1% |
| Short Answer | 5 | 7.1% |
| Sports | 4 | 5.7% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 3 | 4.3% |
| Geography | 2 | 2.9% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.9% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 35 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.5 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 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: August 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
