July 16, 2020 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (33 clues)
• Down Clues (43 clues)
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, July 16, 2020

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (33 Across, 43 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.3 letters

July 16, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Classic MTV show that launched a film franchise	7
2A	8. Common recyclable	7
3A	15. Firm, in a way	7
4A	16. "Fifty Shades of Grey," e.g.	7
5A	17. Certain fair fare	7
6A	18. Involving crystals and incense, say	7
7A	19. "I just knew it!"	3
8A	20. Cause of death in the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of the Four"	10
9A	22. "___ Meets Godzilla" (classic film short)	5
10A	25. Ending with slug or gab	4
11A	26. Break	3
12A	29. Part of the Constitution establishing the executive branch	9
13A	32. Where I-80 crosses the Missouri River	5
14A	34. Narrative through multiple TV episodes	8
15A	37. Caught	6
16A	38. Sighting from a crow's-nest	4
17A	39. Con	5
18A	41. Lift at a resort	4
19A	42. Do a favor for	6
20A	44. Numerical trio	8
21A	46. Rude one in an audience	5
22A	47. Diagram at a business meeting	9
23A	48. Disseminate	3
24A	49. "Then again ...," in texts	4
25A	51. Ankle bones	5
26A	55. Protagonist in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"	10
27A	58. Mary ___ Evans, real name of George Eliot	3
28A	59. Big name in online dating	7
29A	62. "Sure, makes sense"	7
30A	65. Video game controller that uses gesture recognition	7
31A	66. Johannes Gutenberg, for one	7
32A	67. Voice actor for Carl in "Up"	7
33A	68. Witchcraft ... or what each block of three black squares in this puzzle represents?	7

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. Classic MTV show that launched a film franchise"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
• Words that mean the same thing: cuckoo, bozo, goose
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JACKASS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "8. Common recyclable"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SODACAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. Firm, in a way"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALDENTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. "Fifty Shades of Grey," e.g."

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 creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
• Words that mean the same thing: pornography, porn, porno
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EROTICA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Certain fair fare"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CORNDOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Involving crystals and incense, say"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEWAGEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. "I just knew it!""

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Cause of death in the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of the Four""

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about literature.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POISONDART

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. "___ Meets Godzilla" (classic film short)"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BAMBI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "25. Ending with slug or gab"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FEST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "26. Break"

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 conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
• Words that mean the same thing: opening, interruption, spread
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "29. Part of the Constitution establishing the executive branch"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARTICLEII

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "32. Where I-80 crosses the Missouri River"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a member of the siouan people formerly living in the missouri river valley in northeastern nebraska
• Words that mean the same thing: Maha
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OMAHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "34. Narrative through multiple TV episodes"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STORYARC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "37. Caught"

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 catch in or as if in a trap
• Words that mean the same thing: entrap, snare, ensnare
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SNARED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "38. Sighting from a crow's-nest"

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 land on which real estate is located
• Words that mean the same thing: terra firma, acres, farming
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "39. Con"

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 a cunning or deceitful action or device
• Words that mean the same thing: conjuring trick, john, magic trick
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRICK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "41. Lift at a resort"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TBAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "42. Do a favor for"

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 force somebody to do something
• Words that mean the same thing: hold, obligate, accommodate
• The opposite would be: disoblige
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OBLIGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "44. Numerical trio"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AREACODE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "46. Rude one in an audience"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BOOER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "47. Diagram at a business meeting"

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 a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system
• Words that mean the same thing: flow sheet, flow chart, flow diagram
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLOWCHART

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "48. Disseminate"

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 adult female hog
• Words that mean the same thing: sow in, seed, inseminate
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "49. "Then again ...," in texts"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OTOH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "51. Ankle bones"

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 part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively
• Words that mean the same thing: tarsus
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TARSI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "55. Protagonist in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy""

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARTHURDENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "58. Mary ___ Evans, real name of George Eliot"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "59. Big name in online dating"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OKCUPID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "62. "Sure, makes sense""

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YESISEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "65. Video game controller that uses gesture recognition"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WIIMOTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "66. Johannes Gutenberg, for one"

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 someone whose occupation is printing
• Words that mean the same thing: pressman, printing machine
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PRINTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "67. Voice actor for Carl in "Up""

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDASNER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "68. Witchcraft ... or what each block of three black squares in this puzzle represents?"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DARKART

  Great job if you got it right!

July 16, 2020 Down Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. ___ deGrom, two-time Cy Young Award winner (2018 and 2019)	5
2D	2. Hello or goodbye	5
3D	3. Obsolescent storage device	5
4D	4. "Jeopardy!" genius Jennings	3
5D	5. "Then what happened ...?"	3
6D	6. What red might mean	4
7D	7. ___ lily	4
8D	8. Dojo master	6
9D	9. Black-and-white stack	5
10D	10. "___ Abbey"	7
11D	11. Slightly	4
12D	12. Smoke	3
13D	13. Number one starter	3
14D	14. House call?	3
15D	21. Lifesaving prosthetic	15
16D	23. Subpar performance?	6
17D	24. Like the planet Hoth in "The Empire Strikes Back"	3
18D	26. Classic leading lady honored on both U.S. and Swedish postage	5
19D	27. Leading	5
20D	28. Father	5
21D	30. Delinquent	4
22D	31. Be off base	3
23D	33. Powdered green tea leaves	6
24D	34. Sorts who might wipe their mouths with their sleeves	5
25D	35. Off-limits	5
26D	36. Turned up just a little	5
27D	37. Distort	4
28D	40. ___-Magnon (early human)	3
29D	43. Company with a great deal of advertising?	7
30D	45. Not just think	3
31D	47. Hay, say	6
32D	50. Opposite of original	5
33D	52. One with dreads, maybe	5
34D	53. Nasty look	5
35D	54. Like neon	5
36D	55. Doesn't remember the words, say	4
37D	56. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" org.	4
38D	57. Prefix with watt	4
39D	59. Be short	3
40D	60. Josh	3
41D	61. Its HQ contains a sculpture with a still-unsolved coded message	3
42D	63. Title reportedly turned down by Stephen Hawking	3
43D	64. Sign	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. ___ deGrom, two-time Cy Young Award winner (2018 and 2019)"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that french biochemist who (with jacques monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
• Words that mean the same thing: Francois Jacob
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JACOB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Hello or goodbye"

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 an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is hawaiian and ciao is italian)
• Words that mean the same thing: ciao
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALOHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Obsolescent storage device"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CDROM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. "Jeopardy!" genius Jennings"

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 range of what one can know or understand
• Words that mean the same thing: sight, cognizance
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. "Then what happened ...?""

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. What red might mean"

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 event of something ending
• Words that mean the same thing: check, block off, stop consonant
• The opposite would be: continuant consonant, start
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. ___ 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEGO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Dojo master"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SENSEI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Black-and-white stack"

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 chocolate cookie with white cream filling
• Words that mean the same thing: oreo cookie, oreo
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OREOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. "___ Abbey""

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DOWNTON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Slightly"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Smoke"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CIG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Number one starter"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about celebrity/entertainment.

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: nail, hotshot, genius
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. House call?"

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 not this merely but also; not only so but
• The opposite would be: yea
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Lifesaving prosthetic"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARTIFICIALHEART

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Subpar performance?"

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 (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole
• Words that mean the same thing: shuttle, bird, shuttlecock
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BIRDIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Like the planet Hoth in "The Empire Strikes Back""

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 devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
• Words that mean the same thing: glacial, frozen, polar
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ICY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "26. Classic leading lady honored on both U.S. and Swedish postage"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that united states film actress (born in sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990)
• Words that mean the same thing: Greta Garbo, Greta Louisa Gustafsson
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GARBO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "27. Leading"

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 having the leading position or higher score in a contest
• Words that mean the same thing: forward, onwards, forrader
• The opposite would be: back, backward
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AHEAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "28. Father"

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 a chaplain in one of the military services
• Words that mean the same thing: military chaplain, Father, sky pilot
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PADRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "30. Delinquent"

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 being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
• Words that mean the same thing: former, tardy, previous
• The opposite would be: early
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. Be off base"

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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
• Words that mean the same thing: drift, stray, slip
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. Powdered green tea leaves"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MATCHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "34. Sorts who might wipe their mouths with their sleeves"

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 coarse obnoxious person
• Words that mean the same thing: pig, sloven, slob
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLOBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "35. Off-limits"

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 a prejudice (especially in polynesia and other south pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
• Words that mean the same thing: forbidden, proscribed, verboten
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TABOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "36. Turned up just a little"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ONLOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "37. Distort"

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 turn or place at an angle
• Words that mean the same thing: skewed
• The opposite would be: align
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SKEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "40. ___-Magnon (early human)"

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 electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
• Words that mean the same thing: oscilloscope, scope, cathode-ray oscilloscope
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "43. Company with a great deal of advertising?"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GROUPON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Not just think"

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 legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
• Words that mean the same thing: do, play, routine
• The opposite would be: refrain
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "47. Hay, say"

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 soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
• Words that mean the same thing: cannon fodder, fresh fish
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FODDER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "50. Opposite of original"

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 repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
• Words that mean the same thing: hackneyed, old-hat, threadbare
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TRITE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "52. One with dreads, maybe"

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 follower of rastafarianism
• Words that mean the same thing: Rastafarian
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RASTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "53. Nasty look"

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 facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
• Words that mean the same thing: leer
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SNEER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "54. Like neon"

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 unable to move or resist motion
• Words that mean the same thing: indifferent, soggy, sluggish
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INERT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "55. Doesn't remember the words, say"

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 state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity
• Words that mean the same thing: buzz, thrum, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HUMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "56. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" org."

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NYPD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "57. Prefix with watt"

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 three-tone chadic language
• Words that mean the same thing: Yamaltu, Pidlimdi
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "59. Be short"

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 be obliged to pay or repay
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OWE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "60. Josh"

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 young person of either sex
• Words that mean the same thing: child, youngster, shaver
• The opposite would be: parent
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "61. Its HQ contains a sculpture with a still-unsolved coded message"

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 agency of the united states government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the director of central intelligence under the supervision of the president and national security council
• Words that mean the same thing: Central Intelligence Agency
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Down: "63. Title reportedly turned down by Stephen Hawking"

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 term of address for a man
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 43 Down: "64. Sign"

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 liquid used for printing or writing or drawing
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INK

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	50	65.8%
Short Answer	17	22.4%
Movies/Film	2	2.6%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.6%
Literature	1	1.3%
Geography	1	1.3%
Sports	1	1.3%
History	1	1.3%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	33
Down Clues	43
Total Clues	76
Average Answer Length	5.3 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
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• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Thursday, 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!

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October 29, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (28 clues)
• Down Clues (36 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, October 29, 2022

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 64 (28 Across, 36 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.8 letters

October 29, 2022 Saturday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Bourgeoisie or proletariat	11
2A	12. Silence notifications?	13
3A	14. Environmental activist group with a Climate Mandate campaign	15
4A	16. Be part of, as a show	5
5A	17. Lifting units: Abbr.	3
6A	18. First name on the Supreme Court	5
7A	19. Royal title of old	4
8A	20. Holders of some radio aerials and signal lamps	5
9A	22. Error message?	4
10A	23. Word after White or Red	3
11A	24. Like the national anthem "La Dessalinienne"	7
12A	26. "I never knew!"	3
13A	27. Compacts	9
14A	29. Grant in folklore studies?	11
15A	31. Move aside	5
16A	32. "Holy moly!"	5
17A	34. Objects	5
18A	35. Vin classification	3
19A	38. When some morning shows start	5
20A	40. Cries from Homer	4
21A	41. Boxer's ploy	5
22A	43. Bubbly bianco	4
23A	44. Suffix with gran-	3
24A	45. Attire one might grapple with	7
25A	47. Certain gender identity, informally	3
26A	48. Ignore both what's happened and what's to come	15
27A	51. Brûlée crust-breakers	13
28A	52. Vague feeling that something's wrong	11

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. Bourgeoisie or proletariat"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOCIALCLASS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "12. Silence notifications?"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIRANDARIGHTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "14. Environmental activist group with a Climate Mandate campaign"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SUNRISEMOVEMENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Be part of, as a show"

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 one of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split; can exist in either a globular or a fibrous form
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACTIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Lifting units: Abbr."

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that 16 ounces avoirdupois
• Words that mean the same thing: pound, lb
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. First name on the Supreme Court"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SONIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Royal title of old"

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 title given to rulers or other important people in asian countries
• Words that mean the same thing: caravansary, caravanserai, caravan inn
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KHAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Holders of some radio aerials and signal lamps"

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 vertical spar for supporting sails
• Words that mean the same thing: mast
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MASTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "22. Error message?"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OOPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "23. Word after White or Red"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "24. Like the national anthem "La Dessalinienne""

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 native or inhabitant of haiti
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HAITIAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "26. "I never knew!""

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 unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
• Words that mean the same thing: g, g-force
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. Compacts"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
• Words that mean the same thing: distill, distil, condense
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CONDENSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. Grant in folklore studies?"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THREEWISHES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "31. Move aside"

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 passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
• Words that mean the same thing: electrical shunt, bypass
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHUNT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "32. "Holy moly!""

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 bark in a high-pitched tone
• Words that mean the same thing: yap, yip, yelp
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YIPES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "34. Objects"

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 a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
• Words that mean the same thing: particular, point, item
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ITEMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "35. Vin classification"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CRU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. When some morning shows start"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SIXAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "40. Cries from Homer"

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 syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
• Words that mean the same thing: ut, doh, do
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DOHS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "41. Boxer's ploy"

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 any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FEINT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. Bubbly bianco"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "44. Suffix with gran-"

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 leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in india for writing paper
• Words that mean the same thing: olla
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. Attire one might grapple with"

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 collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body
• Words that mean the same thing: vest, undershirt
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SINGLET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "47. Certain gender identity, informally"

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 alliance made up of states that had been soviet socialist republics in the soviet union prior to its dissolution in dec 1991
• Words that mean the same thing: Commonwealth of Independent States, curie, Ci
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "48. Ignore both what's happened and what's to come"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LIVEINTHEMOMENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. Brûlée crust-breakers"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that as much as a dessert spoon will hold
• Words that mean the same thing: dessertspoon, dessertspoonful
• The word looks like this: _____________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DESSERTSPOONS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. Vague feeling that something's wrong"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPIDEYSENSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Saturday NYT Crossword October 29, 2022

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Price for vice	6
2D	2. ___ C. Evans, journalist who co-founded All-Negro Comics (1947)	5
3D	3. What's raised in a ruckus	4
4D	4. Networking assets	3
5D	5. English queen who lent her name to a city of 1.3+ million in the British Commonwealth	8
6D	6. Hearty dish popular in Ireland	8
7D	7. "Little toasts," in Italian	8
8D	8. Actress Tyler	3
9D	9. "___ 6 and up"	4
10D	10. "Li'l Abner" creature	5
11D	11. Court figure, informally	6
12D	12. It means a lot	5
13D	13. Make a snarky remark	5
14D	14. Retailer whose logo is written in script	4
15D	15. Stun, in a way	4
16D	20. Cézanne contemporary	5
17D	21. Cheeky	5
18D	24. What the instruments erkencho and shofar are made of	5
19D	25. Sodas in orange, grape and peach flavors	5
20D	27. Buds	5
21D	28. Nostalgic tint	5
22D	29. Those with means	8
23D	30. When you might see a star's moon?	8
24D	31. Impassive	6
25D	33. Slick fabrics	6
26D	34. Word with false or fallen	4
27D	35. Middle of France?	6
28D	36. One of about 90% of the population, it's said	6
29D	37. Word in an ultimatum	6
30D	39. Spritz	4
31D	41. Mulcted	5
32D	42. Home of one of the country's largest state universities	5
33D	45. Enthusiastic assent abroad	4
34D	46. TV's Rick or Morty	4
35D	49. Predict-able gift?	3
36D	50. Ways of doing things, for short	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. Price for vice"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SINTAX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. ___ C. Evans, journalist who co-founded All-Negro Comics (1947)"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ORRIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. What's raised in a ruckus"

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 (old testament) cain and abel were the first children of adam and eve born after the fall of man; cain killed abel out of jealousy and was exiled by god
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: CAIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Networking assets"

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 agency in the department of justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the united states
• Words that mean the same thing: Indiana, atomic number 49, IN
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. English queen who lent her name to a city of 1.3+ million in the British Commonwealth"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the state capital of south australia
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: ADELAIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Hearty dish popular in Ireland"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAMBSTEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. "Little toasts," in Italian"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CROSTINI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Actress Tyler"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that being four more than fifty
• Words that mean the same thing: 54, fifty-four
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: LIV

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. "___ 6 and up""

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 how long something has existed
• Words that mean the same thing: geezerhood, long time, maturate
• The opposite would be: rejuvenate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AGES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. "Li'l Abner" creature"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHMOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Court figure, informally"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STENOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. It means a lot"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MUCHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Make a snarky remark"

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 old or new world straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
• Words that mean the same thing: lash out, sharpshoot, assail
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SNIPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Retailer whose logo is written in script"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "15. Stun, in a way"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TASE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "20. Cézanne contemporary"

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 french painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883)
• Words that mean the same thing: Edouard Manet
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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  The answer is: MANET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "21. Cheeky"

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 improperly forward or bold
• Words that mean the same thing: wise, saucy, impudent
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SASSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "24. What the instruments erkencho and shofar are made of"

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 noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
• Words that mean the same thing: hooter, automobile horn, French horn
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HORNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "25. Sodas in orange, grape and peach flavors"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NEHIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "27. Buds"

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 a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
• Words that mean the same thing: Oncorhynchus keta, chum, brother
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHUMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "28. Nostalgic tint"

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 shade of brown with a tinge of red
• Words that mean the same thing: burnt sienna, reddish brown, Venetian red
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEPIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "29. Those with means"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THEHAVES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "30. When you might see a star's moon?"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEXSCENE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "31. Impassive"

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 having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; ; - nordhoff & hall; -virginia woolf
• Words that mean the same thing: impassive
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STOLID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "33. Slick fabrics"

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 smooth fabric of silk or rayon; has a glossy face and a dull back
• Words that mean the same thing: satin
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SATINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "34. Word with false or fallen"

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 material effigy that is worshipped
• Words that mean the same thing: graven image, perfection, god
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "35. Middle of France?"

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 low-lying region in central france
• Words that mean the same thing: inwardness, focus, kernel
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CENTRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "36. One of about 90% of the population, it's said"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RIGHTY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "37. Word in an ultimatum"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: UNLESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "39. Spritz"

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 thin fog with condensation near the ground
• Words that mean the same thing: befog, mist over, haze over
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "41. Mulcted"

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 issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
• Words that mean the same thing: ticket, break water, fin
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FINED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "42. Home of one of the country's largest state universities"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEMPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "45. Enthusiastic assent abroad"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SISI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "46. TV's Rick or Morty"

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 film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
• Words that mean the same thing: cartoon, animated cartoon
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "49. Predict-able gift?"

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 apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
• Words that mean the same thing: clairvoyance, second sight, extrasensory perception
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ESP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "50. Ways of doing things, for short"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an indefinitely short time
• Words that mean the same thing: mo, bit, moment
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	49	76.6%
Short Answer	7	10.9%
Celebrity/Entertainment	3	4.7%
Abbreviation	2	3.1%
Geography	2	3.1%
Food & Drink	1	1.6%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	28
Down Clues	36
Total Clues	64
Average Answer Length	5.8 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 06, 2025 at 12:37 PM