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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Difficulty Level: Challenging Thursday Puzzle
Total Clues: 66 (33 Across, 33 Down)
Average Word Length: 6.1 letters
NYT Saturday Crossword Across Clues - March 30, 2024 Solutions
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Tackle item hung from floaters | 7 |
| 2A | 8. Can | 7 |
| 3A | 15. Instruction to trick-or-treaters | 7 |
| 4A | 16. Stanley Cup edge | 7 |
| 5A | 17. Los Alamos or Oak Ridge | 7 |
| 6A | 18. Rises in anger, maybe | 7 |
| 7A | 19. Loan insurance org. | 3 |
| 8A | 20. With 22-Across, pricey import | 7 |
| 9A | 22. See 20-Across | 3 |
| 10A | 23. Unit in a financial economics course, perhaps | 5 |
| 11A | 25. Kennedy center? | 3 |
| 12A | 26. Verb that becomes a five-letter alphabet run if you change its middle letter | 5 |
| 13A | 28. Bit of greenery in a rock garden | 4 |
| 14A | 29. Literally, "milk" | 5 |
| 15A | 31. They begin in janeiro | 4 |
| 16A | 32. Patient check-ins | 15 |
| 17A | 35. Means of excellence? | 9 |
| 18A | 36. "No need to blame yourself" | 15 |
| 19A | 42. Tough | 4 |
| 20A | 43. Event with ribs, in two senses | 5 |
| 21A | 44. +/- | 4 |
| 22A | 45. Young partner | 5 |
| 23A | 47. Golfer who qualified for a U.S.G.A. amateur championship at age 10 | 3 |
| 24A | 48. Locals go to all of them | 5 |
| 25A | 49. French : -ant :: English : ___ | 3 |
| 26A | 50. When we forged ahead? | 7 |
| 27A | 53. ___ Records, onetime label for the Kinks and Petula Clark | 3 |
| 28A | 54. Kitchen mess | 7 |
| 29A | 56. Beach breeze | 7 |
| 30A | 58. Actor who played DJ Venus Flytrap on "WKRP in Cincinnati" | 7 |
| 31A | 59. Two-character Mamet play | 7 |
| 32A | 60. Name in 2008 Wall Street news | 7 |
| 33A | 61. Reserves | 7 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
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Clue 1 Across: "1. Tackle item hung from floaters"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: GILLNET
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Clue 2 Across: "8. Can"
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 plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- Words that mean the same thing: toilet, commode, can
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: CRAPPER
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Clue 3 Across: "15. Instruction to trick-or-treaters"
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: _______
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The answer is: ONEEACH
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Clue 4 Across: "16. Stanley Cup edge"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: HOMEICE
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Clue 5 Across: "17. Los Alamos or Oak Ridge"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: LABSITE
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Clue 6 Across: "18. Rises in anger, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: REARSUP
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Clue 7 Across: "19. Loan insurance org."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the federal agency in the department of housing and urban development that insures residential mortgages
- Words that mean the same thing: Federal Housing Administration
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: FHA
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Clue 8 Across: "20. With 22-Across, pricey import"
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 of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
- Words that mean the same thing: strange, alien, extraneous
- The opposite would be: native, domestic
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The answer is: FOREIGN
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Clue 9 Across: "22. See 20-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 motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- Words that mean the same thing: elevator car, auto, railcar
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: CAR
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Clue 10 Across: "23. Unit in a financial economics course, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an electrical force linking atoms
- Words that mean the same thing: Julian Bond, bail bond, chemical bond
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BONDS
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Clue 11 Across: "25. Kennedy center?"
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 half the width of an em
- Words that mean the same thing: en, nut
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ENS
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Clue 12 Across: "26. Verb that becomes a five-letter alphabet run if you change its middle letter"
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 put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- Words that mean the same thing: endure, digest, bear
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ABIDE
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Clue 13 Across: "28. Bit of greenery in a rock garden"
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 succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ALOE
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Clue 14 Across: "29. Literally, "milk""
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 strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
- Words that mean the same thing: caffe latte
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LATTE
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Clue 15 Across: "31. They begin in janeiro"
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 palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- Words that mean the same thing: Abu Nidal Organization, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, Fatah Revolutionary Council
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANOS
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Clue 16 Across: "32. Patient check-ins"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: GENTLEREMINDERS
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Clue 17 Across: "35. Means of excellence?"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: AAVERAGES
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Clue 18 Across: "36. "No need to blame yourself""
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: ACCIDENTSHAPPEN
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Clue 19 Across: "42. Tough"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an awkward stupid person
- Words that mean the same thing: lummox, hood, thug
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOON
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Clue 20 Across: "43. Event with ribs, in two senses"
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 piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- Words that mean the same thing: knock, blackguard, rib
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROAST
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Clue 21 Across: "44. +/-"
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: ORSO
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Clue 22 Across: "45. Young partner"
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 painter (born in germany, resident of france and the united states) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976)
- Words that mean the same thing: Max Ernst
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ERNST
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Clue 23 Across: "47. Golfer who qualified for a U.S.G.A. amateur championship at age 10"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: WIE
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Clue 24 Across: "48. Locals go to all of them"
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 gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- Words that mean the same thing: terminate, occlusive, plosive consonant
- The opposite would be: begin, start
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STOPS
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Clue 25 Across: "49. French : -ant :: English : ___"
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: ING
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Clue 26 Across: "50. When we forged ahead?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRONAGE
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Clue 27 Across: "53. ___ Records, onetime label for the Kinks and Petula Clark"
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: PYE
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Clue 28 Across: "54. Kitchen mess"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- Words that mean the same thing: spattering, splatter, splosh
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPATTER
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Clue 29 Across: "56. Beach breeze"
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: SALTAIR
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Clue 30 Across: "58. Actor who played DJ Venus Flytrap on "WKRP in Cincinnati""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: TIMREID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "59. Two-character Mamet play"
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: OLEANNA
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Clue 32 Across: "60. Name in 2008 Wall Street news"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STEARNS
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Clue 33 Across: "61. Reserves"
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: NESTEGG
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Down Clues Decoded - Saturday NYT Crossword March 30, 2024
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Wood source | 7 |
| 2D | 2. Much obliged? | 7 |
| 3D | 3. Where the Cedar Revolution took place | 7 |
| 4D | 4. ___ Bleus, nickname for France's World Cup team | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Simple souls | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Prefix with parasite | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Paradoxical line of amazement | 15 |
| 8D | 8. When the lights go out? | 15 |
| 9D | 9. Director Nicolas | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Whirlpool subsidiary | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Coming from | 3 |
| 12D | 12. Like some schools | 7 |
| 13D | 13. Home to Mount Chimborazo, whose summit is the farthest point from Earth's center | 7 |
| 14D | 14. Keep in the back of one's mind, perhaps | 7 |
| 15D | 21. At least consider | 9 |
| 16D | 24. Holds up | 7 |
| 17D | 27. Pickle | 7 |
| 18D | 29. Seesaw, for instance | 5 |
| 19D | 30. Black ball | 5 |
| 20D | 33. Stripling | 3 |
| 21D | 34. Grp. concerned with digital learning | 3 |
| 22D | 36. Culprits behind some forced retirements | 7 |
| 23D | 37. Play area at a harvest festival | 7 |
| 24D | 38. Flimflam | 7 |
| 25D | 39. Camper's fuel | 7 |
| 26D | 40. Making out | 7 |
| 27D | 41. Hanky, slangily | 7 |
| 28D | 46. Concentration in chemistry | 5 |
| 29D | 48. Tennis star with a famed 1995 comeback | 5 |
| 30D | 51. Free ___ | 4 |
| 31D | 52. Big blow | 4 |
| 32D | 55. Refrain syllable | 3 |
| 33D | 57. Sylvester, to Tweety | 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. Wood source"
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: _______
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The answer is: GOLFBAG
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Clue 2 Down: "2. Much obliged?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: INAHOLE
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Clue 3 Down: "3. Where the Cedar Revolution took place"
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 an asian republic at east end of mediterranean
- Words that mean the same thing: Lebanese Republic
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEBANON
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Clue 4 Down: "4. ___ Bleus, nickname for France's World Cup team"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
- Words that mean the same thing: LE, lupus erythematosus
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LES
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Clue 5 Down: "5. Simple souls"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a naive or inexperienced person
- Words that mean the same thing: naif
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: NAIFS
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Clue 6 Down: "6. Prefix with parasite"
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: ECTO
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Paradoxical line of amazement"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: THEREARENOWORDS
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Clue 8 Down: "8. When the lights go out?"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: CHRISTMASSEASON
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Director Nicolas"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROEG
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Whirlpool subsidiary"
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: AMANA
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Clue 11 Down: "11. Coming from"
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: ___
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The answer is: PER
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Clue 12 Down: "12. Like some schools"
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 of or relating to fish
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: PISCINE
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Clue 13 Down: "13. Home to Mount Chimborazo, whose summit is the farthest point from Earth's center"
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 a republic in northwestern south america; became independent from spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the andes
- Words that mean the same thing: Republic of Ecuador
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ECUADOR
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Clue 14 Down: "14. Keep in the back of one's mind, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that put down by force or intimidation
- Words that mean the same thing: keep down, reduce, strangle
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REPRESS
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Clue 15 Down: "21. At least consider"
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 provide entertainment for
- Words that mean the same thing: hold, harbour, think of
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENTERTAIN
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Clue 16 Down: "24. Holds up"
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 deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- Words that mean the same thing: hold up, stay, confine
- The opposite would be: free, rush
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DETAINS
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Clue 17 Down: "27. Pickle"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BADSPOT
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Clue 18 Down: "29. Seesaw, for instance"
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 rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- Words that mean the same thing: pry, prize, lever tumbler
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEVER
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Clue 19 Down: "30. Black ball"
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 cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- Words that mean the same thing: octonary, eighter, octad
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: EIGHT
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Clue 20 Down: "33. Stripling"
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 boy or man
- Words that mean the same thing: laddie, chap, bloke
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAD
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Clue 21 Down: "34. Grp. concerned with digital learning"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEA
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Clue 22 Down: "36. Culprits behind some forced retirements"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: AGEISTS
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Clue 23 Down: "37. Play area at a harvest festival"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: CORNPIT
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Clue 24 Down: "38. Flimflam"
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: _______
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The answer is: CONGAME
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Clue 25 Down: "39. Camper's fuel"
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 colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a fuel
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: PROPANE
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Clue 26 Down: "40. Making out"
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 catch sight of
- Words that mean the same thing: descry, spot, spy
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: ESPYING
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Clue 27 Down: "41. Hanky, slangily"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: NOSERAG
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Clue 28 Down: "46. Concentration in chemistry"
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 concentration of a solution as determined by titration
- Words that mean the same thing: titre
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: TITER
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Clue 29 Down: "48. Tennis star with a famed 1995 comeback"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states tennis player (born in yugoslavia in 1973)
- Words that mean the same thing: Monica Seles
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SELES
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Clue 30 Down: "51. Free ___"
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 one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
- Words that mean the same thing: rule, draw rein, rein in
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: REIN
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Clue 31 Down: "52. Big blow"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on beaufort scale
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: GALE
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Clue 32 Down: "55. Refrain syllable"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TRA
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Clue 33 Down: "57. Sylvester, to Tweety"
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 tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- Words that mean the same thing: tackiness, cheapness, sleaze
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TAT
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 50 | 75.8% |
| Short Answer | 10 | 15.2% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 3 | 4.5% |
| Sports | 2 | 3.0% |
| History | 1 | 1.5% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 33 |
| Down Clues | 33 |
| Total Clues | 66 |
| Average Answer Length | 6.1 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 challenging level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 6 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 26, 2025 at 06:30 PM
