July 03, 2021 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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

Date: Saturday, July 03, 2021

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 66 (33 Across, 33 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.7 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Saturday Puzzle July 03, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. What may need to be kneaded	8
2A	9. Warning made with H.R. in mind	4
3A	13. Dish that may be made in its own pan	8
4A	14. ___ Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers	5
5A	15. Test out	8
6A	16. College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.	6
7A	17. Trace evidence?	7
8A	18. Monopoly token	3
9A	19. Shaded from the sun	3
10A	20. Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent	5
11A	21. Hit taken willingly	4
12A	22. Where cc's are seen	3
13A	23. Radio amateur	11
14A	26. It's often seen beside art	4
15A	29. "Beg pardon ..."	4
16A	30. More than just moi	4
17A	31. "The Fly," "The Host" or "The Thing"	15
18A	34. "___ Nobody" (hit for Rufus and Chaka Khan)	4
19A	35. Cereal container	4
20A	36. D.___ (doctor of letters deg.)	4
21A	37. Boston's flagship medical center, familiarly	11
22A	40. Listing near a club?	3
23A	41. ___ Ishii, Lucy Liu's character in "Kill Bill"	4
24A	42. Demand during a gossip sesh	5
25A	46. Blast furnace input	3
26A	47. One is depicted on the Oregon license plate	3
27A	48. McCarthyite called out in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"	7
28A	50. Took shots with?	6
29A	52. Metal oxide in dental crowns	8
30A	53. Latin "between"	5
31A	54. Plato is considered the father of it	8
32A	55. Stadium in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center	4
33A	56. Artistic imitation	8

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. What may need to be kneaded"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: SOREBACK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "9. Warning made with H.R. in mind"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: NSFW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "13. Dish that may be made in its own pan"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly
• Words that mean the same thing: omelet
• 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: OMELETTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. ___ Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers"

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: EPPIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Test out"

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: GIVEATRY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y."

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: MARIST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Trace evidence?"

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 sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below
• 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: STENCIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. Monopoly token"

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 headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
• Words that mean the same thing: lid, chapeau
• 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: HAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. Shaded from the sun"

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 browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
• Words that mean the same thing: bronze, topaz, suntan
• 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: TAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent"

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: STAHL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "21. Hit taken willingly"

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 puff of a marijuana or hashish cigarette
• 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: TOKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "22. Where cc's are seen"

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 hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care
• Words that mean the same thing: intensive care unit
• 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: ICU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "23. Radio amateur"

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: HAMOPERATOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. It's often seen beside art"

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 the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
• Words that mean the same thing: G, M, yard
• 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: THOU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "29. "Beg pardon ...""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: hem
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AHEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. More than just moi"

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 common sense
• Words that mean the same thing: brain, mind, head
• 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: NOUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "31. "The Fly," "The Host" or "The Thing""

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: CREATUREFEATURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. "___ Nobody" (hit for Rufus and Chaka Khan)"

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: AINT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. Cereal container"

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 cylindrical tower used for storing silage
• 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: SILO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "36. D.___ (doctor of letters deg.)"

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: LITT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "37. Boston's flagship medical center, familiarly"

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: MASSGENERAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "40. Listing near a club?"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
• Words that mean the same thing: bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich
• 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: BLT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "41. ___ Ishii, Lucy Liu's character in "Kill Bill""

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: OREN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "42. Demand during a gossip sesh"

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: DEETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "46. Blast furnace input"

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 mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
• 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: ORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "47. One is depicted on the Oregon license plate"

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 nonresinous wood of a fir tree
• Words that mean the same thing: fir tree, true fir
• 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: FIR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "48. McCarthyite called out in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire""

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: ROYCOHN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "50. Took shots with?"

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 fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman
• Words that mean the same thing: duel
• 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: DUELED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "52. Metal oxide in dental crowns"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a white crystalline oxide; used in refractories and in insulation and abrasives and enamels and glazes
• Words that mean the same thing: zirconium dioxide, zirconium oxide
• 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: ZIRCONIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "53. Latin "between""

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 place in a grave or tomb
• Words that mean the same thing: inhume, lay to rest, entomb
• 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: INTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "54. Plato is considered the father of it"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
• Words that mean the same thing: noble-mindedness, high-mindedness
• 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: IDEALISM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "55. Stadium in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center"

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 united states tennis player who was the first black to win united states and english singles championships (1943-1993)
• Words that mean the same thing: Arthur Ashe, Arthur Robert Ashe
• 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: ASHE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "56. Artistic imitation"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
• Words that mean the same thing: potpourri, medley
• 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: PASTICHE

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Saturday Crossword Down Clues - July 03, 2021 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Soaks	4
2D	2. Drops	5
3D	3. Strengthen, as an embankment	5
4D	4. ___ Gilbert, "The Vampire Diaries" protagonist	5
5D	5. Cabana	8
6D	6. Verdi opera set during the fifth century	6
7D	7. With 8-Down, part of some shortcuts	4
8D	8. See 7-Down	3
9D	9. Glass home?	3
10D	10. "Just say what you're going to say!"	9
11D	11. Govt. body that approves warrant requests for spies	9
12D	12. Milk provider	8
13D	14. Word with man or fire	5
14D	16. Defiant response	6
15D	18. Desire	7
16D	21. Edgar Allan Poe poem written for a woman named Jane, despite its title	7
17D	24. Member of the only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series	7
18D	25. Hardly a pro	4
19D	26. Tests	9
20D	27. Proverbial rarities	9
21D	28. Sea ___ (grass seen in sand dunes)	4
22D	31. Country that celebrates the new year ("Choul Chnam Thmey") in April	8
23D	32. Log-in component	6
24D	33. Street prowler	8
25D	38. Many an intern	5
26D	39. Could gobble right up	6
27D	43. Cause to recall?	5
28D	44. Invigorating substance	5
29D	45. Literally, "skewer"	5
30D	48. Rapper Flo ___	4
31D	49. Receptionist's query	4
32D	51. "BlacKkKlansman" director	3
33D	52. Jack squat	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. Soaks"

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: SOGS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Drops"

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 prevent from being included or considered or accepted
• Words that mean the same thing: except, omit, leave off
• The opposite would be: include, attend to
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OMITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Strengthen, as an embankment"

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 construct a revetment
• 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: REVET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. ___ Gilbert, "The Vampire Diaries" protagonist"

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: ELENA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Cabana"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: BEACHHUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Verdi opera set during the fifth century"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that king of the huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the roman empire (406-453)
• Words that mean the same thing: Attila the Hun, Scourge of the Gods, Scourge of 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: ATTILA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. With 8-Down, part of some shortcuts"

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: CTRL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. See 7-Down"

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 metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
• Words that mean the same thing: discover, samara, winder
• The opposite would be: atonality
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Glass home?"

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: NPR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. "Just say what you're going to say!""

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: SPITITOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Govt. body that approves warrant requests for spies"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert 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: FISACOURT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Milk provider"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
• Words that mean the same thing: wet nurse, amah, wet-nurse
• 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: WETNURSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. Word with man or fire"

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 someone who consumes food for nourishment
• Words that mean the same thing: feeder
• 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: EATER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "16. Defiant response"

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: MAKEME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "18. Desire"

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: HOPEFOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "21. Edgar Allan Poe poem written for a woman named Jane, despite its title"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard 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: TOHELEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Member of the only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a man who serves as a sailor
• Words that mean the same thing: Jack, Jack-tar, old salt
• 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: MARINER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "25. Hardly a pro"

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 person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
• The opposite would be: pro
• 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: ANTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "26. Tests"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: TRIALRUNS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "27. Proverbial rarities"

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: HENSTEETH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "28. Sea ___ (grass seen in sand dunes)"

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 annual grass of europe and north africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
• Words that mean the same thing: oat
• 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: OATS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "31. Country that celebrates the new year ("Choul Chnam Thmey") in April"

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 a nation in southeastern asia; was part of indochina under french rule until 1946
• Words that mean the same thing: Kingdom of Cambodia, Kampuchea
• 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: CAMBODIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "32. Log-in component"

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: USERID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "33. Street prowler"

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: ALLEYCAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Many an intern"

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 employee whose duties include running errands
• 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: GOFER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. Could gobble right up"

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 love intensely
• Words that mean the same thing: adore
• 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: ADORES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "43. Cause to recall?"

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: ECOLI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "44. Invigorating substance"

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 lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine
• Words that mean the same thing: bracing, brisk, refreshful
• The opposite would be: atonic
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TONIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "45. Literally, "skewer""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium 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: SHISH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "48. Rapper Flo ___"

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: RIDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "49. Receptionist's query"

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 language unit by which a person or thing is known
• Words that mean the same thing: mention, figure, appoint
• 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: NAME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "51. "BlacKkKlansman" director"

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 united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
• Words that mean the same thing: downwind, Spike Lee, Robert E. Lee
• The opposite would be: windward
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "52. Jack squat"

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 quantity of no importance
• Words that mean the same thing: vigor, cipher, slide fastener
• The opposite would be: unzip
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ZIP

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	47	71.2%
Short Answer	9	13.6%
History	4	6.1%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	3.0%
Food & Drink	1	1.5%
Literature	1	1.5%
Sports	1	1.5%
Geography	1	1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	33
Down Clues	33
Total Clues	66
Average Answer Length	5.7 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Saturday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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August 31, 2023 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (38 clues)
• Down Clues (40 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (38 Across, 40 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.7 letters

August 31, 2023 Across Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Follower of November	5
2A	6. Main character in a Verne novel	4
3A	10. Preserves, maybe	3
4A	13. Instant ___	5
5A	14. Actress Lena of "Chocolat"	4
6A	15. Neural conductor	4
7A	17. 2009 fantasy rom-com starring Zac Efron	5
8A	18. "Need a hand here!"	4
9A	19. What the dish congee is made from	4
10A	20. Food item that may be candied	3
11A	21. Strongly implied	7
12A	24. "Caught ya!"	3
13A	25. Hang loose?	5
14A	26. Former N.B.A. star who has unofficially served as a peace ambassador with North Korea	6
15A	28. "___ all mad here": Cheshire cat	4
16A	31. "Understood"	7
17A	33. Oodles	4
18A	34. Made cuts to, maybe	7
19A	38. Made cuts to	7
20A	42. Base of an encipherment	7
21A	43. Shade that might be made in the shade?	7
22A	44. Fall in the winter	4
23A	45. Holds on to	7
24A	49. Site for artisans	4
25A	50. Chips in England	6
26A	53. Casual negatives	5
27A	55. Seeming eternity	3
28A	56. Desert feline	7
29A	58. Where to find canines	3
30A	61. Undergarment shade	4
31A	63. Ewe got this!	4
32A	64. Kerfuffle	5
33A	66. Worker's cry of relief	4
34A	67. Any of three major-league brothers	4
35A	68. The first "O" of O/O	5
36A	69. Word with rack or trick	3
37A	70. Antiquity	4
38A	71. Scumlike	5

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. Follower of November"

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 annual award by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
• Words that mean the same thing: Academy Award
• 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: OSCAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "6. Main character in a Verne novel"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard 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: NEMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Preserves, maybe"

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 preserve of crushed fruit
• Words that mean the same thing: throng, pickle, mess
• The opposite would be: free
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Instant ___"

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 (hinduism and buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
• 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: KARMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Actress Lena of "Chocolat""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OLIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "15. Neural conductor"

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 long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
• Words that mean the same thing: axone
• 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: AXON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. 2009 fantasy rom-com starring Zac Efron"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• Words that mean the same thing: once more, once again, over again
• 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: AGAIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. "Need a hand here!""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
• Words that mean the same thing: assistance, avail, aid
• 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: HELP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. What the dish congee is made from"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
• Words that mean the same thing: Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
• 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: RICE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Food item that may be candied"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that edible tuber of any of several yams
• Words that mean the same thing: yam plant
• 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: YAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "21. Strongly implied"

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: DROVEAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. "Caught ya!""

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: OHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Hang loose?"

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 hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
• Words that mean the same thing: clothe, robe, pall
• 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: DRAPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. Former N.B.A. star who has unofficially served as a peace ambassador with North Korea"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: RODMAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "28. "___ all mad here": Cheshire cat"

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 have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
• Words that mean the same thing: equal, make up, comprise
• The opposite would be: differ
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WERE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "31. "Understood""

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: TENFOUR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. Oodles"

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 the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the pharaoh akhenaten
• Words that mean the same thing: Aten
• 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: ATON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "34. Made cuts to, maybe"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
• Words that mean the same thing: neutered, change, adapted
• The opposite would be: unaltered
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALTERED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Made cuts to"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that make an incision into by carving or cutting
• Words that mean the same thing: engraved, graven, etched
• 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: INCISED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "42. Base of an encipherment"

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 communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
• Words that mean the same thing: content, subject matter, substance
• 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: MESSAGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "43. Shade that might be made in the shade?"

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: FAKETAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "44. Fall in the winter"

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 precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
• Words that mean the same thing: blow, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes
• 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: SNOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. Holds on to"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that hold back within
• Words that mean the same thing: keep, retain, continue
• 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: RETAINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "49. Site for artisans"

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: ETSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "50. Chips in England"

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 thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
• Words that mean the same thing: potato chip, crinkle, scrunch up
• 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: CRISPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "53. Casual negatives"

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: NOPES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "55. Seeming eternity"

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 longest division of geological time
• Words that mean the same thing: aeon
• 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: EON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "56. Desert feline"

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: SANDCAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "58. Where to find canines"

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 the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
• Words that mean the same thing: natter, chew up, have words
• 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: JAW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "61. Undergarment shade"

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 painting of a naked human figure
• Words that mean the same thing: nude statue, nude sculpture, bare
• 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: NUDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "63. Ewe got this!"

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 fabric made from the hair of sheep
• Words that mean the same thing: fleece, woollen, woolen
• 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: WOOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "64. Kerfuffle"

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: HOOHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "66. Worker's cry of relief"

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: TGIF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "67. Any of three major-league brothers"

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: ALOU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "68. The first "O" of O/O"

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 (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
• Words that mean the same thing: possessor, proprietor
• 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: OWNER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "69. Word with rack or trick"

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 headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
• Words that mean the same thing: chapeau, lid
• 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: HAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "70. Antiquity"

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 time long past
• 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: YORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "71. Scumlike"

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 covered with or resembling slime
• Words that mean the same thing: worthless, wretched, ugly
• 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: SLIMY

  Great job if you got it right!

August 31, 2023 Down Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Guide

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Authorize	4
2D	2. Long, long yarn	4
3D	3. Kind of session for a procrastinator	4
4D	4. "What ___ missing?"	3
5D	5. Vacation time, informally	5
6D	6. Zero chance of a good result	6
7D	7. Popular store chain with a green, red and orange logo	6
8D	8. 2002 film that earned Eminem two MTV Movie Awards	4
9D	9. Out of jail early, perhaps	8
10D	10. Preserves preserver	3
11D	11. Fundamental math assumption	5
12D	12. Dark brown shade	5
13D	16. Like many colors in 1980s fashion	4
14D	22. Templeton of "Charlotte's Web," for one	3
15D	23. Hypes	5
16D	25. Members of the Flat Earth Society, e.g.	7
17D	27. 2008 rom-com starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden	7
18D	28. Ragamuffin	4
19D	29. The monster Typhon was said to be trapped under it, in Greek myth	4
20D	30. NBC comedy series starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin	4
21D	32. Peeps	3
22D	35. Something mad people do	4
23D	36. "I" problems?	4
24D	37. Covered with condensate	4
25D	39. 1935 Hitchcock thriller, with "The"	5
26D	40. Corrodes	8
27D	41. Inherent nature, figuratively	3
28D	46. Like some cats and plumbing	6
29D	47. "Haven't the foggiest!" … or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this puzzle	6
30D	48. Balneotherapy locale	3
31D	50. Rapper Curtis Jackson, more familiarly	4
32D	51. Unrefined	5
33D	52. Land where the concept of zero was developed	5
34D	54. Cultural values	5
35D	57. ___ contendere (court plea)	4
36D	58. Singer Mitchell	4
37D	59. [Cough cough]	4
38D	60. Guarded	4
39D	62. Juvenile stage of a newt	3
40D	65. Noted head turner	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. Authorize"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an endorsement
• Words that mean the same thing: hunky-dory, approve, o.k.
• The opposite would be: disapprove
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OKAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Long, long yarn"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAGA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Kind of session for a procrastinator"

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 crowd or pack to capacity
• Words that mean the same thing: get up, swot, bone
• 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: CRAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. "What ___ missing?""

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: AMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Vacation time, informally"

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: RANDR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Zero chance of a good result"

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: NOHOPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Popular store chain with a green, red and orange logo"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one
• Words that mean the same thing: 11, XI, xi
• 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: ELEVEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. 2002 film that earned Eminem two MTV Movie Awards"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
• Words that mean the same thing: international mile, knot, nautical mile
• 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: MILE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Out of jail early, perhaps"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ONPAROLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Preserves preserver"

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 vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles
• Words that mean the same thing: shake up, jounce, clash
• 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: JAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Fundamental math assumption"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about science/technology.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
• Words that mean the same thing: maxim
• 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: AXIOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Dark brown shade"

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 soft suede glove leather from goatskin
• Words that mean the same thing: mocha coffee
• 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: MOCHA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "16. Like many colors in 1980s fashion"

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 colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
• Words that mean the same thing: Ne, atomic number 10
• 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: NEON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "22. Templeton of "Charlotte's Web," for one"

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 any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
• Words that mean the same thing: puke, crumb, scab
• 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: RAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "23. Hypes"

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 someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
• Words that mean the same thing: blow, gas, gasconade
• 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: TOUTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Members of the Flat Earth Society, 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 a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon
• Words that mean the same thing: denier
• 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: DENIERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. 2008 rom-com starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
• Words that mean the same thing: arrange, trim, wearing apparel
• The opposite would be: undress
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DRESSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Ragamuffin"

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 homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
• Words that mean the same thing: street child
• 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: WAIF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. The monster Typhon was said to be trapped under it, in Greek myth"

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 an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
• Words that mean the same thing: bunsen, bunsen burner, Mt Etna
• 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: ETNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "30. NBC comedy series starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
• Words that mean the same thing: rock and roll, rock 'n' roll, stone
• 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: ROCK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Peeps"

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: FAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "35. Something mad people do"

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 loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
• Words that mean the same thing: rabbit on, spout, claptrap
• 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: RANT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "36. "I" problems?"

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 an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• Words that mean the same thing: ego, self-importance, self
• 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: EGOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. Covered with condensate"

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 wet with dew
• Words that mean the same thing: bedewed
• 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: DEWY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. 1935 Hitchcock thriller, with "The""

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 flight of stairs or a flight of steps
• Words that mean the same thing: stairs, footprint, stride
• 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: STEPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Corrodes"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: EATSAWAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. Inherent nature, figuratively"

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 (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
• Words that mean the same thing: desoxyribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleic acid
• 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: DNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "46. Like some cats and plumbing"

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 located, suited for, or taking place within a building
• The opposite would be: outdoor
• 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: INDOOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "47. "Haven't the foggiest!" … or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this puzzle"

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: NOCLUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "48. Balneotherapy locale"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
• Words that mean the same thing: resort hotel, watering place, health club
• 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: SPA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "50. Rapper Curtis Jackson, more familiarly"

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 fractional monetary unit of several countries
• Words that mean the same thing: penny, centime
• 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: CENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "51. Unrefined"

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 the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
• Words that mean the same thing: harsh, crude, jolty
• The opposite would be: smooth, cut
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROUGH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "52. Land where the concept of zero was developed"

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 republic in the asian subcontinent in southern asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1947
• Words that mean the same thing: Republic of India, Bharat
• 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: INDIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "54. Cultural values"

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 (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
• 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: ETHOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "57. ___ contendere (court plea)"

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: NOLO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "58. Singer Mitchell"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: JONI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "59. [Cough cough]"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: hem
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AHEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "60. Guarded"

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 marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
• Words that mean the same thing: suspicious, leery, untrusting
• The opposite would be: unwary
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WARY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "62. Juvenile stage of a newt"

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 newt in its terrestrial stage of development
• 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: EFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "65. Noted head turner"

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 nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
• Words that mean the same thing: bird of Minerva, hooter, bird of night
• 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: OWL

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	53	67.9%
Short Answer	12	15.4%
Celebrity/Entertainment	7	9.0%
Food & Drink	2	2.6%
History	2	2.6%
Literature	1	1.3%
Science/Technology	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	38
Down Clues	40
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.7 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	8 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 Thursday, 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!

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Last Updated: August 31, 2025 at 04:42 AM