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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Saturday, August 26, 2023
Difficulty Level: Challenging Thursday Puzzle
Total Clues: 64 (31 Across, 33 Down)
Average Word Length: 6.0 letters
August 26, 2023 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Behave in a way suitable to one's situation | 10 |
| 2A | 11. This might change your mind | 3 |
| 3A | 14. Five-minute rock classic with an iconic organ intro | 10 |
| 4A | 15. "___ the mornin'!" | 4 |
| 5A | 16. In pain at the end of a race, say | 10 |
| 6A | 17. Like the football field in Australian football | 4 |
| 7A | 18. Takeoff in pole position, perhaps? | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Woman with enfants | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Not online, to a texter | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Fit to serve? | 6 |
| 11A | 23. Deceive so as to deflect | 7 |
| 12A | 27. Seeds may go down in them | 6 |
| 13A | 29. Flips (over) | 8 |
| 14A | 30. Model Boyd of London's "Swinging Sixties" era | 6 |
| 15A | 31. Be the coolest | 4 |
| 16A | 32. Product from Jamaica | 3 |
| 17A | 34. Una y ___ vez (again and again: Sp.) | 4 |
| 18A | 35. Out | 6 |
| 19A | 38. Rig up | 8 |
| 20A | 41. First N.F.L. quarterback to pass for 50,000 yards | 6 |
| 21A | 42. Course list | 7 |
| 22A | 43. Ceremonial plates for the Eucharist | 6 |
| 23A | 45. Three in Q3, e.g.: Abbr. | 3 |
| 24A | 46. Like an unconvincing argument, say | 4 |
| 25A | 47. "… for instance" | 10 |
| 26A | 53. Worth one and a half or two stars | 4 |
| 27A | 54. Beaver's display? | 10 |
| 28A | 55. Fully grasped | 4 |
| 29A | 56. They're often worn at long public events | 10 |
| 30A | 57. Spanish verb that conjugates to "somos" for first-person plural | 3 |
| 31A | 58. Take two | 10 |
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. Behave in a way suitable to one's situation"
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: ACTTHEPART
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "11. This might change your mind"
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 powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- Words that mean the same thing: lysergic acid diethylamide
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LSD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "14. Five-minute rock classic with an iconic organ intro"
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: BABAORILEY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "15. "___ the mornin'!""
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: TOPO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. In pain at the end of a race, say"
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: CRAMPINGUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. Like the football field in Australian football"
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 closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- Words that mean the same thing: egg-shaped, ovoid, elliptic
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OVAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "18. Takeoff in pole position, perhaps?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
- Words that mean the same thing: striptease artist, strip, strip show
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STRIPTEASE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "19. Woman with enfants"
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 pond of standing water
- Words that mean the same thing: simple, bare
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MERE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. Not online, to a texter"
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!
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The answer is: IRL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Fit to serve?"
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 any substance that can be used as food
- Words that mean the same thing: eatable, victuals, pabulum
- The opposite would be: inedible
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDIBLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "23. Deceive so as to deflect"
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!
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The answer is: SHINEON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "27. Seeds may go down in them"
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 an unhappy and worried mental state
- Words that mean the same thing: overturn, disturb, disturbance
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UPSETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "29. Flips (over)"
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!
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The answer is: GOESGAGA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "30. Model Boyd of London's "Swinging Sixties" era"
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!
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The answer is: PATTIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "31. Be the coolest"
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 principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- Words that mean the same thing: formula, reign, principle
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RULE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "32. Product from Jamaica"
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: SKA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "34. Una y ___ vez (again and again: Sp.)"
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: OTRA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "35. Out"
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 in a state of sleep
- Words that mean the same thing: at peace, gone, departed
- The opposite would be: awake
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASLEEP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. Rig up"
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 person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- Words that mean the same thing: mastermind, organise, applied scientist
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENGINEER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "41. First N.F.L. quarterback to pass for 50,000 yards"
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 italian poet (1569-1625)
- Words that mean the same thing: Marini, Giambattista Marino, Giambattista Marini
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MARINO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. Course list"
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 main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday
- Words that mean the same thing: dinner party, dinner
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DINNERS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Ceremonial plates for the Eucharist"
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: PATENS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Three in Q3, e.g.: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an indefinitely short time
- Words that mean the same thing: MO, Show Me State, mo
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Like an unconvincing argument, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- Words that mean the same thing: tenuous, cut, slight
- The opposite would be: thick, gain
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "47. "… for instance""
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: TONAMEAFEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "53. Worth one and a half or two stars"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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!
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The answer is: SOSO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "54. Beaver's display?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that readiness to embark on bold new ventures
- Words that mean the same thing: enterprisingness, initiatory, maiden
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INITIATIVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "55. Fully grasped"
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 be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- Words that mean the same thing: have a go at it, have it off, cognise
- The opposite would be: ignore
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KNEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "56. They're often worn at long public events"
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: FAKESMILES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "57. Spanish verb that conjugates to "somos" for first-person plural"
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!
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The answer is: SER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "58. Take two"
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: FRESHSTART
Great job if you got it right!
August 26, 2023 Down Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Early song subject | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Street food source | 4 |
| 3D | 3. One way up, perhaps | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Best-selling novelist Hoag | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Very busy, informally | 7 |
| 6D | 6. Country where the oldest human skull (circa 1,000,000 B.C.) was found in 1997 | 7 |
| 7D | 7. Aromatic fire feeders | 8 |
| 8D | 8. Plant that contains chlorophyll but lacks a stem and leaves | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Put back into service | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Prepared, as lab findings for a report | 7 |
| 11D | 11. Hot lines? | 10 |
| 12D | 12. Remedies for blowouts | 10 |
| 13D | 13. On the ___ | 4 |
| 14D | 15. Grave matter | 9 |
| 15D | 22. Pub order, in brief | 3 |
| 16D | 23. It dots the "i" in the Ohio State marching band's spelling of "Ohio" | 10 |
| 17D | 24. Troublemaker | 10 |
| 18D | 25. "Oh-h-h …!" | 9 |
| 19D | 26. On a streak? | 5 |
| 20D | 28. Cast-iron cooking directive | 4 |
| 21D | 29. Elderly relative, informally | 4 |
| 22D | 33. Jazzes up | 8 |
| 23D | 36. Mexico City-to-Cancún dir. | 3 |
| 24D | 37. See star? | 7 |
| 25D | 39. Language spoken in Middle-earth | 7 |
| 26D | 40. They usually end at the ankle | 7 |
| 27D | 44. Dolphin's facility | 5 |
| 28D | 46. Clicks that aren't nice to hear | 4 |
| 29D | 48. Reebok rival | 4 |
| 30D | 49. Going hard | 4 |
| 31D | 50. Reebok rival | 4 |
| 32D | 51. "Have you ___ …?" | 4 |
| 33D | 52. Inapt locale for this answer | 4 |
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. Early song subject"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Words that mean the same thing: first rudiment, ABC's, ABC
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABCS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Street food source"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
- Words that mean the same thing: drag, handcart, haul
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CART
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. One way up, perhaps"
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: TBAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Best-selling novelist Hoag"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAMI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Very busy, informally"
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 jump lightly
- Words that mean the same thing: hop, hop-skip, skip
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOPPING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Country where the oldest human skull (circa 1,000,000 B.C.) was found in 1997"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an african country to the north of ethiopia on the red sea; achieved independence from ethiopia in 1993
- Words that mean the same thing: State of Eritrea
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERITREA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Aromatic fire feeders"
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!
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The answer is: PINELOGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Plant that contains chlorophyll but lacks a stem and leaves"
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 primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
- Words that mean the same thing: algae
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALGA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Put back into service"
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 use again after processing
- Words that mean the same thing: recycle, reprocess
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REUSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Prepared, as lab findings for a report"
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!
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The answer is: TYPEDUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Hot lines?"
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: LOVELETTER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Remedies for blowouts"
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: SPARETIRES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. On the ___"
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 share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
- Words that mean the same thing: pogey, pogy
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "15. Grave matter"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a stone that is used to mark a grave
- Words that mean the same thing: headstone, gravestone
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOMBSTONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "22. Pub order, in brief"
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!
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The answer is: IPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. It dots the "i" in the Ohio State marching band's spelling of "Ohio""
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the lowest brass wind instrument
- Words that mean the same thing: bass horn, tuba
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOUSAPHONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "24. Troublemaker"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: HELLRAISER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "25. "Oh-h-h …!""
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: ISEEITNOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "26. On a streak?"
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 completely unclothed
- Words that mean the same thing: raw, defenseless, nude
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NAKED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "28. Cast-iron cooking directive"
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 make very hot and dry
- Words that mean the same thing: shrivelled, sere, withered
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "29. Elderly relative, informally"
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 metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
- Words that mean the same thing: gramme, Hans C. J. Gram, gm
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GRAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "33. Jazzes up"
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 heighten or intensify
- Words that mean the same thing: renovate, liven up, exalt
- The opposite would be: deaden
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANIMATES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "36. Mexico City-to-Cancún dir."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about geography.
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!
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The answer is: ENE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "37. See star?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the head of the roman catholic church
- Words that mean the same thing: Roman Catholic Pope, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PONTIFF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Down: "39. Language spoken in Middle-earth"
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 used of small deformed creatures
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GNOMISH
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Clue 26 Down: "40. They usually end at the ankle"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: INSEAMS
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Clue 27 Down: "44. Dolphin's facility"
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 measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return
- Words that mean the same thing: echo sounder, asdic
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SONAR
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Clue 28 Down: "46. Clicks that aren't nice to hear"
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 utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Words that mean the same thing: tut-tut, tut, tsk
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: TSKS
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Clue 29 Down: "48. Reebok rival"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (greek mythology) winged goddess of victory; identified with roman victoria
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NIKE
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Clue 30 Down: "49. Going hard"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: ATIT
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Clue 31 Down: "50. Reebok rival"
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 threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- Words that mean the same thing: filament, filum
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: FILA
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Clue 32 Down: "51. "Have you ___ …?""
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 at any time
- Words that mean the same thing: of all time, e'er, ever so
- The opposite would be: never
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The answer is: EVER
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Clue 33 Down: "52. Inapt locale for this answer"
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 countries of (originally) europe and (now including) north america and south america
- Words that mean the same thing: western United States, Occident, Benjamin West
- The opposite would be: east
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The answer is: WEST
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 49 | 76.6% |
| Short Answer | 5 | 7.8% |
| Geography | 3 | 4.7% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 3.1% |
| History | 1 | 1.6% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.6% |
| Music | 1 | 1.6% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.6% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.6% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 31 |
| Down Clues | 33 |
| Total Clues | 64 |
| Average Answer Length | 6.0 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 Saturday, and these puzzles are usually challenging level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 6 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 31, 2025 at 06:48 AM
