Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Monday, January 29, 2024
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 78 (41 Across, 37 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.7 letters
January 29, 2024 Across Hints: NYT Monday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Completely enthralled | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Cry at the end of the workweek | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Police dept. alerts | 4 |
| 4A | 13. Purple smoothie fruit | 4 |
| 5A | 14. Used a loom | 4 |
| 6A | 15. "Don't ___ the small stuff" | 5 |
| 7A | 16. *Amorous cartoon skunk | 9 |
| 8A | 18. Towel material | 5 |
| 9A | 19. Pioneering journalist ___ B. Wells | 3 |
| 10A | 20. Cupid's Greek counterpart | 4 |
| 11A | 21. Central position | 5 |
| 12A | 22. Home project inits. | 3 |
| 13A | 23. Boxing ruling, for short | 3 |
| 14A | 24. [I'm cracking up as I type this!] | 3 |
| 15A | 25. Historic period | 3 |
| 16A | 27. Secret supply | 5 |
| 17A | 29. *Impartial court proceeding guaranteed by the Constitution | 9 |
| 18A | 32. Rocket launch site | 3 |
| 19A | 34. Family guy | 3 |
| 20A | 35. Ice cream brand | 4 |
| 21A | 36. What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed | 11 |
| 22A | 39. Poetic tributes | 4 |
| 23A | 41. Phillipa of "Hamilton" | 3 |
| 24A | 42. "Gnarly!" | 3 |
| 25A | 43. *"Just a sec!" | 9 |
| 26A | 46. Their are too in this clue | 5 |
| 27A | 50. Source of hardwood | 3 |
| 28A | 51. Bud | 3 |
| 29A | 52. Musical set in Oz, with "The" | 3 |
| 30A | 54. Regret | 3 |
| 31A | 55. Relating to the bottom layer | 5 |
| 32A | 57. Numbers game | 4 |
| 33A | 58. And so on: Abbr. | 3 |
| 34A | 59. Zsa Zsa or Eva of old Hollywood | 5 |
| 35A | 60. *Short-lived store event | 9 |
| 36A | 62. Two-way, as doors | 5 |
| 37A | 63. Hockey feint | 4 |
| 38A | 64. Something people trip on | 4 |
| 39A | 65. Hershey toffee bar | 4 |
| 40A | 66. Take five | 4 |
| 41A | 67. "What fun!" | 4 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Completely enthralled"
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 feeling great rapture or delight
- Words that mean the same thing: enraptured, ecstatic, rhapsodic
- 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: RAPT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Cry at the end of the workweek"
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: TGIF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "9. Police dept. alerts"
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: APBS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "13. Purple smoothie fruit"
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: ACAI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "14. Used a loom"
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 interlace by or as if by weaving
- Words that mean the same thing: wind, wander, interweave
- The opposite would be: unweave
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: WOVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "15. "Don't ___ the small stuff""
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 salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
- Words that mean the same thing: effort, sudor, fret
- 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: SWEAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "16. *Amorous cartoon skunk"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: PEPELEPEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "18. Towel material"
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 english actress (1847-1928)
- Words that mean the same thing: terry cloth, Dame Ellen Terry, Dame Alice Ellen Terry
- 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: TERRY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "19. Pioneering journalist ___ B. Wells"
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 agency of the united nations affiliated with the world bank
- Words that mean the same thing: International Development Association
- 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: IDA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "20. Cupid's Greek counterpart"
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 (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
- Words that mean the same thing: physical attraction, concupiscence, sexual desire
- 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: EROS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "21. Central position"
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 location of something surrounded by other things
- Words that mean the same thing: thick
- 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: MIDST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "22. Home project inits."
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: DIY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "23. Boxing ruling, 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 a knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue
- Words that mean the same thing: technical knockout
- 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: TKO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "24. [I'm cracking up as I type this!]"
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: LOL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "25. Historic period"
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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Words that mean the same thing: geological era, epoch, earned run average
- 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: ERA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "27. Secret supply"
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 secret store of valuables or money
- Words that mean the same thing: squirrel away, lay away, cache
- 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: STASH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "29. *Impartial court proceeding guaranteed by the Constitution"
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: FAIRTRIAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "32. Rocket launch site"
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 number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
- Words that mean the same thing: launch area, aggrandize, aggrandise
- 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: PAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "34. Family guy"
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 informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Words that mean the same thing: papa, pappa, pa
- 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: DAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "35. Ice cream brand"
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: EDYS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "36. What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
- Words that mean the same thing: palindrome
- 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: PALINDROMES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "39. Poetic tributes"
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 lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- Words that mean the same thing: ode
- 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: ODES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "41. Phillipa of "Hamilton""
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: SOO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "42. "Gnarly!""
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 absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
- Words that mean the same thing: radian
- 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: RAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "43. *"Just a sec!""
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: ONEMOMENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "46. Their are too in this clue"
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 mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- Words that mean the same thing: literal, misprint, literal error
- 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: TYPOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "50. Source of hardwood"
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 hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
- Words that mean the same thing: oak tree
- 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: OAK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "51. Bud"
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 close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
- Words that mean the same thing: crony, buddy, chum
- 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: PAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "52. Musical set in Oz, with "The""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- Words that mean the same thing: virtuoso, champion, mavin
- 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: WIZ
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "54. Regret"
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 european strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- Words that mean the same thing: herb of grace, repent, ruefulness
- 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: RUE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "55. Relating to the bottom layer"
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 especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- Words that mean the same thing: primary, radical, base
- The opposite would be: cauline
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: BASAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "57. Numbers game"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
- Words that mean the same thing: lotto, bingo, beano
- 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: KENO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "58. And so on: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: ETC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "59. Zsa Zsa or Eva of old Hollywood"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that british physicist (born in hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979)
- Words that mean the same thing: Dennis Gabor
- 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: GABOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "60. *Short-lived store event"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: FLASHSALE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "62. Two-way, as doors"
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: INOUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "63. Hockey feint"
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: DEKE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 38 Across: "64. Something people trip on"
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 any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
- Words that mean the same thing: pane, acidulent, Elvis
- 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: ACID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 39 Across: "65. Hershey toffee bar"
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: SKOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 40 Across: "66. Take five"
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 something left after other parts have been taken away
- Words that mean the same thing: remainder, eternal rest, relief
- The opposite would be: change, be active
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: REST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 41 Across: "67. "What fun!""
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: WHEE
Great job if you got it right!
NYT Monday Crossword Down Clues - January 29, 2024 Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Dangerous (and thrilling!) part of a river, to canoeists | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Nailed the exam | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Orange smoothie fruit | 6 |
| 4D | 4. 50-50, e.g. | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Bounce one's booty on the dance floor | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Disappear like magic | 6 |
| 7D | 7. St. ___ (skin care brand) | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Hardly any | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Wonderstruck | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Summer meteor shower | 8 |
| 11D | 11. *Platter used to carry glassware | 7 |
| 12D | 12. Pig's place | 3 |
| 13D | 15. It helps a clown stand tall | 5 |
| 14D | 17. "___ Weapon" (buddy cop film) | 6 |
| 15D | 21. Sauron's realm in "The Lord of the Rings" | 6 |
| 16D | 24. "A ___ ought to have a good memory": Quintilian | 4 |
| 17D | 26. Gore and Green, for two | 3 |
| 18D | 28. Involuntary muscle contraction | 5 |
| 19D | 30. Bonus | 5 |
| 20D | 31. Thin, as a voice | 5 |
| 21D | 33. Dreary | 6 |
| 22D | 36. Game that involves covering one's eyes | 8 |
| 23D | 37. Christmas | 4 |
| 24D | 38. Bread at a seder | 6 |
| 25D | 39. Winning tic-tac-toe line | 3 |
| 26D | 40. *Repository of genetic material | 7 |
| 27D | 44. Images that give the illusion of movement | 5 |
| 28D | 45. Fine-tunes | 6 |
| 29D | 47. What ministers do | 6 |
| 30D | 48. Extend beyond | 6 |
| 31D | 49. Withdraw formally | 6 |
| 32D | 53. Map enlargement | 5 |
| 33D | 56. ___ Patch Kids (gummy candy) | 4 |
| 34D | 57. Bauhaus artist Paul | 4 |
| 35D | 59. Dog tag wearers, in brief | 3 |
| 36D | 60. First president to appear on television, familiarly | 3 |
| 37D | 61. Lumberjack's tool | 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. Dangerous (and thrilling!) part of a river, to canoeists"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a part of a river where the current is very fast
- Words that mean the same thing: rapid
- 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: RAPIDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Nailed the exam"
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: ACEDIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Orange smoothie fruit"
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 tropical american shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- Words that mean the same thing: Carica papaya, papaya tree, melon tree
- 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: PAPAYA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. 50-50, e.g."
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 neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- Words that mean the same thing: draw, linkup, necktie
- The opposite would be: untie, disconnect
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: TIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Bounce one's booty on the dance floor"
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: TWERK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Disappear like magic"
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: GOPOOF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. St. ___ (skin care brand)"
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 united states composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)
- Words that mean the same thing: James Merritt Ives, Charles Edward Ives, James Ives
- 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: IVES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Hardly any"
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 small elite group
- The opposite would be: many
- 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: FEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Wonderstruck"
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 inspire awe in
- Words that mean the same thing: awful, awestricken, awestruck
- The opposite would be: unawed
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: AWED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Summer meteor shower"
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: PERSEIDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. *Platter used to carry glassware"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
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: BARTRAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Pig's place"
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 infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Words that mean the same thing: pigsty, hordeolum, eye infection
- 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: STY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "15. It helps a clown stand tall"
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 column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- Words that mean the same thing: long-legs, longlegs, spile
- 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: STILT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "17. "___ Weapon" (buddy cop film)"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that of an instrument of certain death
- Words that mean the same thing: deadly
- 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: LETHAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Sauron's realm in "The Lord of the Rings""
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: MORDOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. "A ___ ought to have a good memory": Quintilian"
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 a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
- Words that mean the same thing: prevaricator
- The opposite would be: square shooter
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: LIAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "26. Gore and Green, for two"
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 thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs
- Words that mean the same thing: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Heart of Dixie, Alabama
- 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: ALS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "28. Involuntary muscle contraction"
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 painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- Words that mean the same thing: muscle spasm, cramp
- 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: SPASM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "30. Bonus"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: ADDON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "31. Thin, as a voice"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that having a tone of a reed instrument
- Words that mean the same thing: reedlike, wheezy
- 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: REEDY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "33. Dreary"
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 causing dejection
- Words that mean the same thing: drab, gloomy, drear
- 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: DISMAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "36. Game that involves covering one's eyes"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!
- Words that mean the same thing: bopeep
- 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: PEEKABOO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "37. Christmas"
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 period extending from dec. 24 to jan. 6
- Words that mean the same thing: Christmastime, Christmastide, Christmas
- 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: NOEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "38. Bread at a seder"
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 brittle flat bread eaten at passover
- Words that mean the same thing: unleavened bread, matzo, matzah
- 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: MATZOH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Down: "39. Winning tic-tac-toe line"
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: OOO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Down: "40. *Repository of genetic material"
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: DNABANK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Down: "44. Images that give the illusion of movement"
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: OPART
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Down: "45. Fine-tunes"
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 squeeze with the fingers
- Words that mean the same thing: fine-tune, pull off, tweak
- 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: TWEAKS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Down: "47. What ministers do"
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 deliver a sermon
- Words that mean the same thing: advocate, prophesy
- 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: PREACH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Down: "48. Extend beyond"
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: OUTLIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Down: "49. Withdraw formally"
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 withdraw from an organization or communion
- Words that mean the same thing: break away, splinter
- 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: SECEDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Down: "53. Map enlargement"
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 small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one
- Words that mean the same thing: gusset, insert
- 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: INSET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Down: "56. ___ Patch Kids (gummy candy)"
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 cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- Words that mean the same thing: saturnine, ferment, glum
- The opposite would be: sweet, sweeten
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
-
Ready for the answer? Click here!
The answer is: SOUR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Down: "57. Bauhaus artist Paul"
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 swiss painter influenced by kandinsky (1879-1940)
- Words that mean the same thing: Paul Klee
- 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: KLEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Down: "59. Dog tag wearers, in brief"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
- Words that mean the same thing: G.I., Gi, Gb
- 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: GIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Down: "60. First president to appear on television, familiarly"
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 32nd president of the united states; elected four times; instituted new deal to counter the great depression and led country during world war ii (1882-1945)
- Words that mean the same thing: President Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Franklin Roosevelt
- 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: FDR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Down: "61. Lumberjack's tool"
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 condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- Words that mean the same thing: take in, discover, consider
- 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: SAW
Great job if you got it right!
Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 49 | 62.8% |
| Short Answer | 19 | 24.4% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.6% |
| Sports | 2 | 2.6% |
| Movies/Film | 2 | 2.6% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.3% |
| Music | 1 | 1.3% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.3% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 41 |
| Down Clues | 37 |
| Total Clues | 78 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.7 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 11 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 Monday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 4 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.
Last Updated: August 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
