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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 72 (37 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.4 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle November 17, 2023
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Presider over weddings, in Greek myth | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Lunchbox fave | 3 |
| 3A | 8. Jackie's predecessor in the White House | 5 |
| 4A | 13. It's a sign | 4 |
| 5A | 14. The "glitter of the snack world," per Ellen DeGeneres | 10 |
| 6A | 16. ___-in-waiting | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Focus of a get-rich-quick scheme? | 10 |
| 8A | 18. Saddlebag carrier | 3 |
| 9A | 19. Underworld V.I.P.s | 4 |
| 10A | 20. Onetime collector of bizarre facts | 6 |
| 11A | 21. It's settled! | 6 |
| 12A | 23. Cologne first launched by Fabergé | 4 |
| 13A | 24. Home of the Green Wave | 6 |
| 14A | 25. Setting for a speech | 4 |
| 15A | 26. "My man!" | 3 |
| 16A | 29. Sad postgame report | 5 |
| 17A | 30. Scrambled syntax | 9 |
| 18A | 32. Fitness test with beeps | 5 |
| 19A | 33. Sit in a cellar, perhaps | 3 |
| 20A | 34. ___ Abbott, longtime role on "The Young and the Restless" | 5 |
| 21A | 35. Requirement for getting into school? | 9 |
| 22A | 37. Icy coatings | 5 |
| 23A | 38. Informal affirmative | 3 |
| 24A | 39. Dom Perignon's winery, informally | 4 |
| 25A | 40. Split | 6 |
| 26A | 41. French fashion house | 4 |
| 27A | 42. "That'd be nice!" | 6 |
| 28A | 43. Make the grade? | 6 |
| 29A | 46. They're drunk at socials | 4 |
| 30A | 47. What may be behind the curtain | 3 |
| 31A | 49. Things gotten just for kicks? | 10 |
| 32A | 51. Request from Oliver Twist | 4 |
| 33A | 52. "… seriously!" | 10 |
| 34A | 53. Major opening? | 4 |
| 35A | 54. Candy mogul Harry | 5 |
| 36A | 55. Canvas finish? | 3 |
| 37A | 56. Sent a private note, in brief | 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. Presider over weddings, 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 queen of the olympian gods in ancient greek mythology; sister and wife of zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women zeus fell in love with; identified with roman juno
- Words that mean the same thing: Here
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HERA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Lunchbox fave"
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!
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The answer is: PBJ
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "8. Jackie's predecessor in the White House"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAMIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "13. It's a sign"
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 sign of something about to happen
- Words that mean the same thing: prognostication, prognostic, Muscat and Oman
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OMEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "14. The "glitter of the snack world," per Ellen DeGeneres"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHEETODUST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. ___-in-waiting"
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 polite name for any woman
- Words that mean the same thing: gentlewoman, madam, peeress
- The opposite would be: Lord, nobleman
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LADY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "17. Focus of a get-rich-quick scheme?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOTTOBALLS
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Clue 8 Across: "18. Saddlebag carrier"
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 fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Words that mean the same thing: backside, fundament, AS
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "19. Underworld V.I.P.s"
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 spanish gentleman or nobleman
- Words that mean the same thing: get into, wear, assume
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DONS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "20. Onetime collector of bizarre facts"
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!
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The answer is: RIPLEY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "21. It's settled!"
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 body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- Words that mean the same thing: settlement, dependency
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COLONY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Cologne first launched by Fabergé"
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 (of champagne) extremely dry
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BRUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "24. Home of the Green Wave"
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!
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The answer is: TULANE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "25. Setting for a speech"
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 platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- Words that mean the same thing: pulpit, rostrum, soapbox
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DAIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "26. "My man!""
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!
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The answer is: BRO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "29. Sad postgame report"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ILOST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "30. Scrambled syntax"
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!
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The answer is: WORDSALAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "32. Fitness test with beeps"
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 horse used to set the pace in racing
- Words that mean the same thing: pacemaker, pacesetter
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PACER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "33. Sit in a cellar, perhaps"
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 how long something has existed
- Words that mean the same thing: old age, get on, maturate
- The opposite would be: rejuvenate
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AGE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "34. ___ Abbott, longtime role on "The Young and the Restless""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRACI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "35. Requirement for getting into school?"
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!
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The answer is: STUDENTID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "37. Icy coatings"
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 ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- Words that mean the same thing: rime, frost, rim
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIMES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "38. Informal affirmative"
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!
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The answer is: YEP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "39. Dom Perignon's winery, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "40. Split"
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 cut in half or cut in two
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BISECT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "41. French fashion house"
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 french couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style that became known as the new look (1905-1957)
- Words that mean the same thing: Christian Dior
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DIOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "42. "That'd be nice!""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOPESO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "43. Make the grade?"
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 go back in order of genealogical succession
- Words that mean the same thing: go up, uprise, come up
- The opposite would be: set, descend
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASCEND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "46. They're drunk at socials"
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 beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Words that mean the same thing: tea leaf, teatime, Camellia sinensis
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "47. What may be behind the curtain"
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 relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- Words that mean the same thing: bathing tub, tubful, bath
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TUB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "49. Things gotten just for kicks?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FIELDGOALS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "51. Request from Oliver Twist"
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 english statesman who opposed henry viii's divorce from catherine of aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of utopia, the ideal state
- Words that mean the same thing: Thomas More, more than, Sir Thomas More
- The opposite would be: fewer, less
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MORE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "52. "… seriously!""
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANDIMEANIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "53. Major opening?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: URSA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "54. Candy mogul Harry"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REESE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "55. Canvas finish?"
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 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!
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The answer is: TKO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "56. Sent a private note, in brief"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DMED
Great job if you got it right!
November 17, 2023 Down Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Hello, in Honduras | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Neuter | 10 |
| 3D | 3. Common receptacle in beer pong | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Selected at random | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Knockoff | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Pot growers? | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Part of a jacuzzi | 3 |
| 8D | 8. One-sided curiosities | 12 |
| 9D | 9. Show flexibility | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Ruminate on | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Jersey or Guernsey | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Site with the categories "Bags & Purses" and "Bath & Beauty" | 4 |
| 13D | 14. Knockoff | 5 |
| 14D | 15. Like some love affairs | 6 |
| 15D | 19. "Ugh, yeah, I'm well aware" | 12 |
| 16D | 22. Performed light surgery on? | 5 |
| 17D | 23. Made visible | 5 |
| 18D | 24. Partially plastered | 5 |
| 19D | 25. Slack off | 5 |
| 20D | 26. Heated discussion of who's responsible for a failure | 10 |
| 21D | 27. Ascot, e.g. | 10 |
| 22D | 28. Keats or Shelley | 5 |
| 23D | 30. Zero-calorie beverage | 5 |
| 24D | 31. Respond to an alarm, say | 5 |
| 25D | 36. Chronic pest | 6 |
| 26D | 40. "Veni, vidi, vici," e.g. | 5 |
| 27D | 41. Panini purveyors | 5 |
| 28D | 42. Head for the sun? | 5 |
| 29D | 43. Where many travelers come from | 4 |
| 30D | 44. 0, for 180 | 4 |
| 31D | 45. Turn over | 4 |
| 32D | 46. Fail precipitately, in slang | 4 |
| 33D | 48. Strung-out sort? | 4 |
| 34D | 50. Part of a stable diet | 3 |
| 35D | 51. Word with puppy or pie | 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. Hello, in Honduras"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOLA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Neuter"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that deprive of strength or vigor
- Words that mean the same thing: sissified, demasculinise, sissy
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EMASCULATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Common receptacle in beer pong"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REDSOLOCUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Selected at random"
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 one or some or every or all without specification
- Words that mean the same thing: whatever, whatsoever
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Knockoff"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- Words that mean the same thing: fake, phoney, dissembler
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PHONY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Pot growers?"
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 money risked on a gamble
- Words that mean the same thing: reckon, play, stakes
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Part of a jacuzzi"
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 airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- Words that mean the same thing: blue jet, green, fountain
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. One-sided curiosities"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOBIUSSTRIPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Show flexibility"
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 make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- Words that mean the same thing: adjust, accommodate, conform
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADAPT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Ruminate 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 a term used in scottish names of promontories
- Words that mean the same thing: reflect, chew over, excogitate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MULL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Jersey or Guernsey"
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 small island
- Words that mean the same thing: islet
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ISLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Site with the categories "Bags & Purses" and "Bath & Beauty""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "14. Knockoff"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person who is almost identical to another
- Words that mean the same thing: dead ringer, knockoff, clon
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CLONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "15. Like some love affairs"
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 characterized by intense emotion
- Words that mean the same thing: fervent, impassioned, fervid
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TORRID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "19. "Ugh, yeah, I'm well aware""
Quick Info: This answer has 12 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!
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The answer is: DONTREMINDME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "22. Performed light surgery on?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LASED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "23. Made visible"
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 make public
- Words that mean the same thing: blockade, barricade, air
- The opposite would be: unbar
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BARED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "24. Partially plastered"
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 slightly intoxicated
- Words that mean the same thing: potty, tiddly
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIPSY
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Clue 19 Down: "25. Slack off"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DOGIT
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Clue 20 Down: "26. Heated discussion of who's responsible for a failure"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: __________
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The answer is: BLAMESTORM
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Clue 21 Down: "27. Ascot, e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a course over which races are run
- Words that mean the same thing: raceway, racetrack, track
- The word looks like this: __________
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The answer is: RACECOURSE
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Clue 22 Down: "28. Keats or Shelley"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a poet who writes odes
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ODIST
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Clue 23 Down: "30. Zero-calorie beverage"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
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- This could be something that binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- Words that mean the same thing: weewee, body of water, pee
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: WATER
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Clue 24 Down: "31. Respond to an alarm, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that come into existence; take on form or shape
- Words that mean the same thing: get up, spring up, go up
- The opposite would be: turn in, sit down
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The answer is: ARISE
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Clue 25 Down: "36. Chronic pest"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: NOODGE
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Clue 26 Down: "40. "Veni, vidi, vici," e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that speaking of yourself in superlatives
- Words that mean the same thing: swash, boasting, gasconade
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BOAST
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Clue 27 Down: "41. Panini purveyors"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
- Words that mean the same thing: deli, delicatessen, food shop
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DELIS
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Clue 28 Down: "42. Head for the sun?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: HELIO
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Clue 29 Down: "43. Where many travelers come from"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: AFAR
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Clue 30 Down: "44. 0, for 180"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- Words that mean the same thing: sin
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SINE
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Clue 31 Down: "45. Turn over"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- Words that mean the same thing: surrender, yield, give up
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: CEDE
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Clue 32 Down: "46. Fail precipitately, in slang"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- Words that mean the same thing: army tank, storage tank, cooler
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: TANK
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Clue 33 Down: "48. Strung-out sort?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a small ball with a hole through the middle
- Words that mean the same thing: beadwork, drop, astragal
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: BEAD
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Clue 34 Down: "50. Part of a stable diet"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- 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')
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: OAT
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Clue 35 Down: "51. Word with puppy or pie"
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 water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- Words that mean the same thing: muck up, clay, mire
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MUD
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 58 | 80.6% |
| Short Answer | 11 | 15.3% |
| History | 2 | 2.8% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 37 |
| Down Clues | 35 |
| Total Clues | 72 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.4 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 12 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 Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.
Last Updated: August 29, 2025 at 01:45 PM
