April 25, 2024 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (34 clues)
• Down Clues (42 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (34 Across, 42 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.1 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Thursday Puzzle April 25, 2024

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Snap	3
2A	4. Misfortune	3
3A	7. Warm-up leader at a race	7
4A	14. Dirty look	5
5A	16. Passionate, as a performance	7
6A	17. Seats of power	7
7A	18. Good and hot	7
8A	19. Signal to snap	3
9A	20. Kind of workout class	4
10A	21. Longtime judge on "Britain's Got Talent" and "America's Got Talent"	11
11A	27. Alternative	5
12A	29. Small power sources	3
13A	30. Plant with lance-shaped leaves	4
14A	31. Surrounded	8
15A	33. Fords discontinued in 1959	6
16A	35. Lit part of an 11-Down	3
17A	36. One wearing stripes	3
18A	37. "Thanks for sharing ... not!"	3
19A	38. Gender prefix	3
20A	39. "Doesn't matter to me"	6
21A	41. Mixtape medium	8
22A	43. Ready to move on from	4
23A	44. Wicked stuff?	3
24A	45. Jazz singer Carmen	5
25A	46. City in the Pacific Northwest with a Russian-sounding name	11
26A	50. Puzzle (out)	4
27A	51. Musician Brian	3
28A	52. The tiniest bit	7
29A	56. Quarterback's pass	7
30A	60. Big name in sports betting	7
31A	61. "Wow!" ... or a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme	7
32A	62. Globe, for one	7
33A	63. Uncover dirt, in a way	3
34A	64. "Me!"	3

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. Snap"

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 form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
• Words that mean the same thing: moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "4. Misfortune"

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 misery resulting from affliction
• Words that mean the same thing: suffering, woefulness
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "7. Warm-up leader at a race"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PACECAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Dirty look"

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: SC O WL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "16. Passionate, as a performance"

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 characterized by emotion
• Words that mean the same thing: affective, affectional
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EMOTIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "17. Seats of power"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: toilet, commode, potty
• The opposite would be: dethrone
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THRONES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "18. Good and hot"

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 put into a rage; make violently angry
• Words that mean the same thing: infuriated, angered, maddened
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENRAGED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Signal to snap"

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 temporary military shelter
• Words that mean the same thing: shanty, army hut, field hut
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Kind of workout class"

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 swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
• Words that mean the same thing: birl, gyrate, spin out
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SPIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "21. Longtime judge on "Britain's Got Talent" and "America's Got Talent""

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: SIMONC O WELL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "27. Alternative"

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: PLANB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "29. Small power sources"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an associate degree in applied science
• Words that mean the same thing: AA, aa, Alcoholics Anonymous
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "30. Plant with lance-shaped leaves"

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 succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "31. Surrounded"

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: HEDGEDIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "33. Fords discontinued in 1959"

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: EDSELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. Lit part of an 11-Down"

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 either extremity of something that has length
• Words that mean the same thing: stop, closing, death
• The opposite would be: beginning, begin
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: END

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. One wearing stripes"

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 (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or american football) who is expected to ensure fair play
• Words that mean the same thing: referee
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: REF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "37. "Thanks for sharing ... not!""

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: TMI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Gender prefix"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "39. "Doesn't matter to me""

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: NOLOSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "41. Mixtape medium"

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 container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CASSETTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. Ready to move on from"

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 (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
• Words that mean the same thing: all over, terminated, complete
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OVER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "44. Wicked stuff?"

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 substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
• Words that mean the same thing: climb, mount, rise
• The opposite would be: wane
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WAX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. Jazz singer Carmen"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MCRAE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "46. City in the Pacific Northwest with a Russian-sounding name"

Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MOSC O WIDAHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "50. Puzzle (out)"

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 type genus of the suidae
• Words that mean the same thing: genus Sus, Sus
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SUSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. Musician Brian"

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

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: ENO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. The tiniest bit"

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: ONEIOTA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "56. Quarterback's pass"

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 earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
• Words that mean the same thing: effort, try, endeavor
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATTEMPT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "60. Big name in sports betting"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: FANDUEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "61. "Wow!" ... or a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: HOLYCOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "62. Globe, for one"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
• Words that mean the same thing: house, field of operations, field
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THEATRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "63. Uncover dirt, in a way"

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 tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "64. "Me!""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDO

  Great job if you got it right!

April 25, 2024 Thursday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Vegas winter hrs.	3
2D	2. German pronoun	3
3D	3. Ire	6
4D	4. 1, 2, 3, etc.	12
5D	5. Have because of	5
6D	6. Leads of "La La Land"?	3
7D	7. Low-tech security measures on some doors	9
8D	8. Procedure performed by an OB	5
9D	9. Popular backyard game	8
10D	10. Important info for a connection, in brief	3
11D	11. Smoke	3
12D	12. Address abbr.	3
13D	13. Detroit ___, nickname for Malcolm X	3
14D	15. Expressing wonder	6
15D	20. Instruction to open some restaurant menus	4
16D	21. Burdens (with)	7
17D	22. Ingenuous person	4
18D	23. Historian's verb	3
19D	24. Spider-Man adversary played by Jamie Foxx	7
20D	25. Novel parodied by Umberto Eco's "Granita"	6
21D	26. Tenant	6
22D	27. Prodigy	6
23D	28. Laptop brand	6
24D	32. From, in France	3
25D	33. Letters on an ambulance	3
26D	34. Break down	9
27D	37. Something checkered in New York's past?	4
28D	40. Creature of fantasy	3
29D	41. Harsh cries	4
30D	42. Like like like this clue clue clue ...	6
31D	44. Not retail	9
32D	47. Sinks the putt	8
33D	48. What "ecto-" means as a prefix	5
34D	49. Artoo-___	5
35D	52. E'er so frequently	3
36D	53. "Pass"	3
37D	54. Suffix with methyl	3
38D	55. Journalist Tarbell	3
39D	56. "That's the spot!"	3
40D	57. Former AT&T competitor	3
41D	58. Where peas are queued?	3
42D	59. Powerful card in the game President	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. Vegas winter hrs."

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 standard time in the 8th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the united states
• Words that mean the same thing: Pacific Standard Time, Pacific Time
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. German pronoun"

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: ICH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Ire"

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 an irritable petulant feeling
• Words that mean the same thing: ire, irritability, peevishness
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHOLER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. 1, 2, 3, etc."

Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: WHOLENUMBERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Have because of"

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: OWETO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Leads of "La La Land"?"

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 angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• Words that mean the same thing: altitude, overhead railway, elevated
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Low-tech security measures on some doors"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep
• Words that mean the same thing: eyehole, spyhole, peephole
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PEEPHOLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Procedure performed by an OB"

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 (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities
• Words that mean the same thing: amniocentesis
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AMNIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Popular backyard game"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CORNHOLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Important info for a connection, in brief"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
• Words that mean the same thing: Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Basque Homeland and Freedom
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ETA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Smoke"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CIG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Address abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: AVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Detroit ___, nickname for Malcolm X"

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 red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
• Words that mean the same thing: violent, Red River, carmine
• The opposite would be: gain
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "15. Expressing wonder"

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 express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
• Words that mean the same thing: aah, ooh
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OOHING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "20. Instruction to open some restaurant menus"

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 act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
• Words that mean the same thing: run down, CAT scan, rake
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "21. Burdens (with)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a seat for the rider of a horse or camel
• Words that mean the same thing: burden, saddleback, bicycle seat
• The opposite would be: unsaddle
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SADDLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "22. Ingenuous person"

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 naive or inexperienced person
• Words that mean the same thing: naive
• The opposite would be: sophisticated
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NAIF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "23. Historian's verb"

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 state in northwestern united states on the pacific
• Words that mean the same thing: Evergreen State, personify, WA
• 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: WAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "24. Spider-Man adversary played by Jamie Foxx"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ELECTRO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "25. Novel parodied by Umberto Eco's "Granita""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a sexually precocious young girl
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOLITA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "26. Tenant"

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 tenant who holds a lease
• Words that mean the same thing: leaseholder
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LESSEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "27. Prodigy"

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: PHENOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "28. Laptop brand"

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: LENOVO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "32. From, in France"

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 potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
• Words that mean the same thing: diethylstilbestrol, DE, stilboestrol
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "33. Letters on an ambulance"

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 quad with a square body
• Words that mean the same thing: mutton quad, pica, em
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "34. Break down"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that tear down so as to make flat with the ground
• Words that mean the same thing: strip, pull down, disassemble
• The opposite would be: assemble, raise
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DISMANTLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "37. Something checkered in New York's past?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• Words that mean the same thing: cab, hack, taxicab
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAXI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "40. Creature of fantasy"

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: ORC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "41. Harsh cries"

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 sound made by corvine birds
• Words that mean the same thing: caw
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CAWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "42. Like like like this clue clue clue ..."

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: ECHOEY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "44. Not retail"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
• Words that mean the same thing: in large quantities, sweeping
• The opposite would be: retail
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WHOLESALE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "47. Sinks the putt"

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: HOLESOUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "48. What "ecto-" means as a prefix"

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 being on the outside or further from a center
• Words that mean the same thing: proscribed, verboten, forbidden
• The opposite would be: inner, safe
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OUTER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "49. Artoo-___"

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: DETOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "52. E'er so frequently"

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 many times at short intervals
• Words that mean the same thing: oftentimes, frequently, ofttimes
• The opposite would be: rarely, infrequently
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OFT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "53. "Pass""

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: NAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "54. Suffix with methyl"

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 compass point midway between northeast and east
• Words that mean the same thing: east northeast
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ENE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "55. Journalist Tarbell"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an agency of the united nations affiliated with the world bank
• Words that mean the same thing: International Development Association
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "56. "That's the spot!""

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: AHH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 40 Down: "57. Former AT&T competitor"

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: MCI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 41 Down: "58. Where peas are queued?"

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 the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
• Words that mean the same thing: fuel pod, seedcase, seedpod
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: POD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 42 Down: "59. Powerful card in the game President"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
• Words that mean the same thing: deuce, ii, II
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TWO

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	39	51.3%
Short Answer	28	36.8%
Sports	3	3.9%
History	1	1.3%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.3%
Geography	1	1.3%
Music	1	1.3%
Abbreviation	1	1.3%
Literature	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	34
Down Clues	42
Total Clues	76
Average Answer Length	5.1 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 Thursday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.

Last Updated: August 26, 2025 at 05:21 AM

May 13, 2024 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (39 clues)
• Down Clues (39 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Monday, May 13, 2024

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (39 Across, 39 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.6 letters

May 13, 2024 Monday NYT - Complete Across Solutions

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Long, drawn-out story	4
2A	5. "OMG, hilarious!"	3
3A	8. What the circled square in this grid represents, in 18-Across	3
4A	11. Zig or zag	4
5A	12. Slangy greeting	5
6A	14. "___ these seats taken?"	3
7A	15. Polish before publishing	4
8A	16. A heckuva good time	10
9A	18. Popular pastime played with putters	8
10A	20. However, informally	3
11A	21. Uncool person	4
12A	22. Miami's home	7
13A	26. Selected	5
14A	28. Dance for high school seniors	4
15A	29. Belle of a ball, in brief	3
16A	30. Washable diaper material	5
17A	31. Small group of trees	5
18A	32. Doctors' org.	3
19A	33. With 34- and 35-Across, something made by following the path of O's in this puzzle's grid	4
20A	34. See 33-Across	5
21A	35. See 33-Across	4
22A	36. Ending with skeptic or Surreal	3
23A	37. Halloween cookie shape	5
24A	38. Addictive thing in one's pocket	5
25A	39. Director Spike	3
26A	40. Home of the Colosseum	4
27A	41. Dentist's string	5
28A	42. "Highly recommend!," in slang	7
29A	44. ___ vera gel	4
30A	45. Have debts	3
31A	46. Country with the first 18-Across venue (for ladies only, 1867)	8
32A	50. Cut of meat that lent its name to a facial hairstyle	10
33A	54. Here, in Honduras	4
34A	55. Cigar residue	3
35A	56. "Zero chance, pal!"	5
36A	57. Adorable	4
37A	58. What the shaded square in this grid represents, in 18-Across	3
38A	59. Rescue, as a broken-down car	3
39A	60. Direction of the sunrise	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. Long, drawn-out story"

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 2 Across: "5. "OMG, hilarious!""

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: LOL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "8. What the circled square in this grid represents, in 18-Across"

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 small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
• Words that mean the same thing: cupful, transfuse, loving cup
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CUP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "11. Zig or zag"

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 circular segment of a curve
• Words that mean the same thing: turn of events, change state, plow
• The opposite would be: unbend
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TURN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "12. Slangy greeting"

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: YODOG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "14. "___ these seats taken?""

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 a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
• Words that mean the same thing: cost, exist, ar
• 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: ARE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "15. Polish before publishing"

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 prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
• Words that mean the same thing: blue-pencil, cut, edit out
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EDIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "16. A heckuva good time"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOADSOFFUN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "18. Popular pastime played with putters"

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: MINIGOLF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. However, informally"

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

  The answer is: THO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "21. Uncool person"

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 dull stupid fatuous person
• Words that mean the same thing: jerk
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DORK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "22. Miami's home"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a state in southeastern united states between the atlantic and the gulf of mexico; one of the confederate states during the american civil war
• Words that mean the same thing: Sunshine State, FL, Everglade State
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLORIDA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Selected"

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 pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
• Words that mean the same thing: choose, opt, take
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHOSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. Dance for high school seniors"

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 formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
• Words that mean the same thing: promenade
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PROM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "29. Belle of a ball, in brief"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a young woman making her debut into society
• Words that mean the same thing: debutante
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DEB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. Washable diaper material"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
• Words that mean the same thing: textile, material, fabric
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLOTH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "31. Small group of trees"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a small growth of trees without underbrush
• Words that mean the same thing: woodlet, orchard, plantation
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GROVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "32. Doctors' org."

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: AMA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "33. With 34- and 35-Across, something made by following the path of O's in this puzzle's grid"

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 opening into or through something
• Words that mean the same thing: muddle, kettle of fish, cakehole
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "34. See 33-Across"

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: INONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "35. See 33-Across"

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 act of firing a projectile
• Words that mean the same thing: barb, fool, take
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "36. Ending with skeptic or Surreal"

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 belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
• Words that mean the same thing: philosophical system, school of thought, doctrine
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ISM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "37. Halloween cookie shape"

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 mental representation of some haunting experience
• Words that mean the same thing: spook, ghostwrite, wraith
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GHOST

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "38. Addictive thing in one's pocket"

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 electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
• Words that mean the same thing: earphone, telephone, earpiece
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PHONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "39. Director Spike"

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, Gypsy Rose 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 26 Across: "40. Home of the Colosseum"

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 capital and largest city of italy; on the tiber; seat of the roman catholic church; formerly the capital of the roman republic and the roman empire
• Words that mean the same thing: Roma, capital of Italy, Eternal City
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "41. Dentist's string"

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 soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
• Words that mean the same thing: dental floss
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLOSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "42. "Highly recommend!," in slang"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ITSDOPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "44. ___ vera gel"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALOE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "45. Have debts"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OWE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "46. Country with the first 18-Across venue (for ladies only, 1867)"

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 one of the four countries that make up the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland; located on the northern part of the island of great britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SCOTLAND

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "50. Cut of meat that lent its name to a facial hairstyle"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: MUTTONCHOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "54. Here, 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AQUI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "55. Cigar residue"

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 residue that remains when something is burned
• Words that mean the same thing: ash tree
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "56. "Zero chance, pal!""

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 in no manner; in no way
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NOHOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "57. Adorable"

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 attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
• Words that mean the same thing: precious, cunning
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CUTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "58. What the shaded square in this grid represents, in 18-Across"

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 starting place for each hole on a golf course
• Words that mean the same thing: football tee, tee up, golf tee
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "59. Rescue, as a broken-down car"

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 act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope
• Words that mean the same thing: towage
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "60. Direction of the sunrise"

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 cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
• Words that mean the same thing: Orient, eastward, eastern United States
• The opposite would be: west
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EAST

  Great job if you got it right!

NYT Monday Crossword Down Clues - May 13, 2024 Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Throwaway part of a cherry	4
2D	2. German automaker	4
3D	3. Smile from ear to ear	4
4D	4. Remedy to counteract a poison	8
5D	5. Sit around doing nothing	4
6D	6. Bizarre	3
7D	7. Topic of a wistful breakup song	8
8D	8. Half-___ (rhyming coffee order)	3
9D	9. Neighbor of Arg. and Braz.	3
10D	10. Writing implement with ink	3
11D	12. Yellow part of an egg	4
12D	13. Return to one's residence	6
13D	16. Passed-down stories	4
14D	17. Not opposing	3
15D	19. "Well, gee whiz!"	4
16D	22. Where first class can be found on a plane	5
17D	23. Some potatoes	6
18D	24. Wicked spirits	6
19D	25. Lessen	5
20D	26. Site for skeletons	6
21D	27. Fictional sleuth on Baker Street	6
22D	28. Plain writing	5
23D	30. Dish with a fire-alarm rating system	5
24D	31. Bearded garden figurine	5
25D	34. "That would really stink"	8
26D	35. Part of a sneaker, but not a sandal	8
27D	37. Become more tolerable to over time	6
28D	38. Secretly plan	4
29D	41. Box office bomb	4
30D	43. Decimal point, e.g.	3
31D	44. Have ___ (freak out)	4
32D	46. Something a binge watcher binges	4
33D	47. Light blue shade	4
34D	48. Pecans, pistachios, etc.	4
35D	49. Try to lighten up?	4
36D	50. Yoga class accessory	3
37D	51. Deplete, with "up"	3
38D	52. Starting word that's often skipped when alphabetizing	3
39D	53. Stand-up comic Margaret	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. Throwaway part of a cherry"

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 (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• Words that mean the same thing: halt, prow, stem turn
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STEM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. German automaker"

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: AUDI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Smile from ear to ear"

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 facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
• Words that mean the same thing: smile, grinning, smiling
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GRIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Remedy to counteract a poison"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
• Words that mean the same thing: counterpoison
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANTIDOTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Sit around doing nothing"

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 shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
• Words that mean the same thing: loaf of bread, frig around, bum about
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LOAF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Bizarre"

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 not divisible by two
• Words that mean the same thing: funny, unmatched, rummy
• The opposite would be: even
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ODD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Topic of a wistful breakup song"

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

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: LOSTLOVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Half-___ (rhyming coffee order)"

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: CAF

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Neighbor of Arg. and Braz."

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: URU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Writing implement with ink"

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 writing implement with a point from which ink flows
• Words that mean the same thing: compose, penitentiary, write
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "12. Yellow part of an egg"

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 yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen
• Words that mean the same thing: egg yolk, vitellus
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YOLK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "13. Return to one's residence"

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: GOHOME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "16. Passed-down stories"

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 knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
• Words that mean the same thing: traditional knowledge
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "17. Not opposing"

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: FOR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "19. "Well, gee whiz!""

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: GOSH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "22. Where first class can be found on a plane"

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 the side that is forward or prominent
• Words that mean the same thing: movement, breast, forepart
• The opposite would be: rear, back
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FRONT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "23. Some potatoes"

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 state in the rocky mountains
• Words that mean the same thing: Gem State, Idaho, ID
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IDAHOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "24. Wicked spirits"

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 an evil supernatural being
• Words that mean the same thing: daemon, fiend, ogre
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DEMONS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "25. Lessen"

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 make less active or intense
• Words that mean the same thing: slake, let up, slack off
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "26. Site for skeletons"

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 small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
• Words that mean the same thing: press, water closet, W.C.
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CLOSET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "27. Fictional sleuth on Baker Street"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a fictitious detective in stories by a. conan doyle
• Words that mean the same thing: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Holmes
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HOLMES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "28. Plain writing"

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

  The answer is: PROSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "30. Dish with a fire-alarm rating system"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans
• Words that mean the same thing: chilly, chilli, chili con carne
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHILI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "31. Bearded garden figurine"

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 legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
• Words that mean the same thing: dwarf
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GNOME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "34. "That would really stink""

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: IHOPENOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "35. Part of a sneaker, but not a sandal"

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 a lace used for fastening shoes
• Words that mean the same thing: shoe string, shoestring, shoe lace
• The word looks like this: ________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHOELACE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "37. Become more tolerable to over time"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: GROWON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "38. Secretly plan"

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 secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
• Words that mean the same thing: plot of land, patch, diagram
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PLOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "41. Box office bomb"

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 an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
• Words that mean the same thing: right, dud, fall flat
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLOP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "43. Decimal point, e.g."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a very small circular shape
• Words that mean the same thing: sprinkle, Zen, back breaker
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "44. Have ___ (freak out)"

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: ACOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "46. Something a binge watcher binges"

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 act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining
• Words that mean the same thing: picture, render, depict
• The opposite would be: disprove, hide
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SHOW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "47. Light blue 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 shade of blue tinged with green
• Words that mean the same thing: turquoise, greenish blue, peacock blue
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AQUA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "48. Pecans, pistachios, etc."

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 usually large hard-shelled seed
• Words that mean the same thing: screwball, loony, testicle
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: NUTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "49. Try to lighten up?"

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 prescribed selection of foods
• Words that mean the same thing: dieting
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "50. Yoga class accessory"

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 thick flat pad used as a floor covering
• Words that mean the same thing: matted, flatness, matting
• The opposite would be: unsnarl, disentangle
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "51. Deplete, with "up""

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 act of using
• Words that mean the same thing: economic consumption, habituate, role
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: USE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "52. Starting word that's often skipped when alphabetizing"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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: THE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "53. Stand-up comic Margaret"

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: CHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	50	64.1%
Short Answer	20	25.6%
History	3	3.8%
Celebrity/Entertainment	2	2.6%
Geography	1	1.3%
Music	1	1.3%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	39
Down Clues	39
Total Clues	78
Average Answer Length	4.6 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	10 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Monday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 4 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.

Last Updated: August 25, 2025 at 07:17 PM