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January 15, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Published on Monday, January 15, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 15, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

1A: "1. Comedian Bob ___"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a specific instance of feeling hopeful
  • Similar words include: Bob Hope, trust, desire
  • Opposite of: despair
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HOPE

2A: "5. Comedian Byron ___"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, george burns (1906-1964)
  • Similar words include: Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Gracie Allen, Woody Allen
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALLEN

3A: "10. "But thou art ___ ready to pardon ... ": Neh. 9:17"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGOD

4A: "14. Actor Richard ___"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EGAN

5A: "15. Coronet"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TIARA

6A: "16. Custody"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
  • Similar words include: give care, attention, wish
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CARE

7A: "17. Master of slapstick and pathos"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REDSKELTON

8A: "19. He, to Hadrian"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ILLE

9A: "20. Type of TV show"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a program that is broadcast again
  • Similar words include: rebroadcast
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RERUN

10A: "21. Confirmation reply"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an affirmative
  • Opposite of: no
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: YES

11A: "22. Harmonica player Larry ___"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ADLER

12A: "23. Ancient Chinese"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SERES

13A: "25. Eye part"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RETINA

14A: "27. Fitzgerald of songdom"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELLA

15A: "29. Beaver State"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a state in northwestern united states on the pacific
  • Similar words include: Beaver State, OR
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OREGON

16A: "32. Track circuit"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
  • Similar words include: circuit, lap covering, lick
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LAP

17A: "35. Savors"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
  • Similar words include: try out, sense of taste, sample
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TASTES

18A: "38. Mets' territory"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SHEA

19A: "39. Ardor"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
  • Similar words include: ardor, panache, style
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELAN

20A: "41. Halts"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
  • Similar words include: arrest, discontinue, check
  • Opposite of: continue, start
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STOPS

21A: "42. Tennis units"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
  • Similar words include: exercise set, specify, localize
  • Opposite of: rise
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SETS

22A: "43. Thurmond of N.B.A. fame"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NATE

23A: "44. Impede"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
  • Similar words include: trammel, bond, cramp
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HAMPER

24A: "46. Cheer"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RAH

25A: "47. Beginning, to Burns"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ONCOME

26A: "49. Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g."

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root
  • Similar words include: aroid
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARUM

27A: "51. "Ernani" and "Orfeo""

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
  • Similar words include: opera, Opera, opera house
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OPERAS

28A: "54. Trap"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
  • Similar words include: trammel, hook, trap
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SNARE

29A: "57. Ring-shaped coral island"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATOLL

30A: "59. Caviar"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
  • Similar words include: hard roe
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROE

31A: "61. Elba or Sicilia"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ISOLA

32A: "63. "Oh, My ___," Fisher hit"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
  • Similar words include: dada, dad, pappa
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PAPA

33A: "64. Master of insult humor"

10 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DONRICKLES

34A: "66. Hot times in Paris"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ETES

35A: "67. Last Greek letter"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the ending of a series or sequence; --revelation
  • Similar words include: Z
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OMEGA

36A: "68. Shady trees"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of various trees of the genus ulmus: important timber or shade trees
  • Similar words include: elm tree, elmwood, elm
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELMS

37A: "69. Skin: Comb. form"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DERM

38A: "70. Comedian Jackie ___"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that american revolutionary leader from virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the bill of rights (1725-1792)
  • Similar words include: Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, A. E. W. Mason, Freemason
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MASON

39A: "71. "Let George ___""

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DOIT

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

1D: "1. Mister, in Germany"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a german man; used before the name as a title equivalent to mr in english
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HERR

2D: "2. S-shaped moldings"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a molding that (in section) has the shape of an s with the convex part above and the concave part below
  • Similar words include: ogee, cyma reversa
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OGEES

3D: "3. Chaplain, to a G.I."

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a chaplain in one of the military services
  • Similar words include: sky pilot, Father, Holy Joe
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PADRE

4D: "4. Guarantee"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make certain of
  • Similar words include: guarantee, ascertain, secure
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENSURE

5D: "5. Mischievous Olympian"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
  • Similar words include: eat up, wipe out, feed
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATE

6D: "6. Calla ___"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any liliaceous plant of the genus lilium having showy pendulous flowers
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LILY

7D: "7. Subsequently"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that coming at a subsequent time or stage
  • Similar words include: ulterior, later on, posterior
  • Opposite of: early
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LATER

8D: "8. Irregular"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
  • Similar words include: toothed, jaggy, notched
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EROSE

9D: "9. Fabray, to friends"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that your grandmother
  • Similar words include: gran, nanna, Nan River
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NAN

10D: "10. Quality of being sour"

8 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACIDNESS

11D: "11. Comedian featuring inventive props"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GALLAGHER

12D: "12. Heraldry border"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ORLE

13D: "13. Venison source"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that distinguished from bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
  • Similar words include: cervid
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DEER

14D: "18. Genuflected"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that rest one's weight on one's knees
  • Similar words include: kneel
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: KNELT

15D: "22. Atmosphere"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
  • Similar words include: airwave, send, melody
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AIR

16D: "24. Swordsman"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who slashes another person
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SLASHER

17D: "26. Quoits players"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that terms of abuse for a masturbator
  • Similar words include: tosser, jerk-off, wanker
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOSSERS

18D: "28. Movie barker"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASTA

19D: "30. Mountain chain in Greece"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OETA

20D: "31. Old car or poet"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971)
  • Similar words include: Ogden Nash
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NASH

21D: "32. Comedian Jay ___"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LENO

22D: "33. Comedian King"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALAN

23D: "34. Master of Italian mimicry"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PATCOOPER

24D: "36. Comedian Dreesen"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to whites
  • Similar words include: turkey cock, gobbler, tomcat
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOM

25D: "37. Rixey of pitching fame"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EPPA

26D: "40. Abnormal tissue growth"

8 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose
  • Similar words include: tumor, tumour
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NEOPLASM

27D: "45. Mystical"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that relating to or consisting of runes
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RUNIC

28D: "48. Comedian Brooks"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MEL

29D: "50. Disguised"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that hide under a false appearance
  • Similar words include: cloaked, disguised, dissemble
  • Opposite of: unmask
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MASKED

30D: "52. Fragrance"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any property detected by the olfactory system
  • Similar words include: odor, perfume, olfactory property
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AROMA

31D: "53. Loudness units"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 db above threshold
  • Similar words include: sone
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SONES

32D: "55. Viking chieftain"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that norse chieftain who became the first duke of normandy (860-931)
  • Similar words include: Rolf, Hrolf
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROLLO

33D: "56. Oleoresin used in incense"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family burseraceae and used as incense
  • Similar words include: gum elemi
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELEMI

34D: "57. Imitated"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that imitate uncritically and in every aspect
  • Similar words include: ape, caricature
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: APED

35D: "58. London art gallery"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states poet and critic (1899-1979)
  • Similar words include: John Orley Allen Tate, Allen Tate
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TATE

36D: "60. Therefore"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERGO

37D: "62. Vice prin., e.g."

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASST

38D: "64. Comedian DeLuise"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DOM

39D: "65. Author Fleming"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: IAN

Puzzle Stats

39 Across
39 Down
78 Total

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October 31, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Monday, October 31, 2022

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 78 (39 Across, 39 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.8 letters

October 31, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions

October 31, 2022 Across Hints: NYT Monday Crossword Answers

No. Clue Letters
1A 1. Viral internet joke, like "Grumpy Cat" 4
2A 5. Trap 5
3A 10. Protected, as a horse's hooves 4
4A 14. Bar ___ (lawyer's hurdle) 4
5A 15. "Game of Thrones" servant 5
6A 16. Cover in blacktop, say 4
7A 17. Pixar's "Finding ___" 4
8A 18. Friend of Porthos and Aramis in "The Three Musketeers" 5
9A 19. Diva's delivery 4
10A 20. Punctuation marks indicating irony 11
11A 23. Common email attachment type 3
12A 24. Evaluate, as ore 5
13A 25. Alternatives to Macs 3
14A 26. Golf peg 3
15A 28. Shampoo brand with a "sassy" name 4
16A 30. "Amen!" 6
17A 33. "Moonlight" actor Mahershala 3
18A 36. Binges on bad news, in modern slang 11
19A 39. Wine and ___ 4
20A 41. Michelangelo sculpture whose name means "compassion" 5
21A 42. Chair or bench 4
22A 43. Mail that cannot be delivered or returned 11
23A 46. Come to a close 3
24A 47. Helios, in Greek myth 6
25A 48. Chest muscles, for short 4
26A 50. Japanese currency 3
27A 51. One shells out for it at Shell 3
28A 53. Peabody or Pulitzer 5
29A 57. Instagram upload, informally 3
30A 59. Hired pen … or, punnily, the author of 20-, 36- and 43-Across? 11
31A 62. Muslim prayer leader 4
32A 64. Like a pirouetting ballet dancer 5
33A 65. Walk back and forth 4
34A 66. Zap, as a cornea 4
35A 67. Stuck-up sort 5
36A 68. Cupid's Greek counterpart 4
37A 69. Former flames 4
38A 70. Nobles outranking viscounts 5
39A 71. Seven "deadly" things 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. Viral internet joke, like "Grumpy Cat""

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MEME

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Trap"

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 something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
  • Words that mean the same thing: entrap, trammel, hook
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SNARE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Protected, as a horse's hooves"

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 furnish with shoes
  • Words that mean the same thing: calced, shodden, shoe
  • The opposite would be: discalced, unshod
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SHOD

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Bar ___ (lawyer's hurdle)"

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 set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
  • Words that mean the same thing: examination, test
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EXAM

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. "Game of Thrones" servant"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: HODOR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. Cover in blacktop, 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 a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PAVE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Pixar's "Finding ___""

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: NEMO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. Friend of Porthos and Aramis in "The Three Musketeers""

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 an autonomous area in northeastern greece that is the site of several greek orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century
  • Words that mean the same thing: Mount Athos
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ATHOS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. Diva's delivery"

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

    The answer is: ARIA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Punctuation marks indicating irony"

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: SCAREQUOTES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Common email attachment type"

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: PDF

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Evaluate, as ore"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an appraisal of the state of affairs
  • Words that mean the same thing: check, try, seek
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ASSAY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Alternatives to Macs"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
  • Words that mean the same thing: PC, personal computer, microcomputer
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PCS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. Golf peg"

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 starting place for each hole on a golf course
  • Words that mean the same thing: tee up, teeing ground, 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 15 Across: "28. Shampoo brand with a "sassy" name"

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 characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality
  • Words that mean the same thing: saucy, irreverent, impertinent
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PERT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "30. "Amen!""

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: IAGREE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "33. "Moonlight" actor Mahershala"

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 prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Cassius Clay
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ALI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "36. Binges on bad news, in modern slang"

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: DOOMSCROLLS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "39. Wine and ___"

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

    The answer is: DINE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "41. Michelangelo sculpture whose name means "compassion""

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a representation of the virgin mary mourning over the dead body of jesus
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PIETA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "42. Chair or bench"

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 space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
  • Words that mean the same thing: arse, buttocks, can
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SEAT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. Mail that cannot be delivered or returned"

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: DEADLETTERS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "46. Come to a close"

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: death, remainder, final stage
  • 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 24 Across: "47. Helios, in Greek myth"

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: SUNGOD

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "48. Chest muscles, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that either of two large muscles of the chest
  • Words that mean the same thing: musculus pectoralis, pectoral, pectoralis
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PECS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "50. Japanese currency"

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 yearning for something or to do something
  • Words that mean the same thing: hankering, yearn, ache
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: YEN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "51. One shells out for it at Shell"

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 state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
  • Words that mean the same thing: boast, swash, accelerator
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "53. Peabody or Pulitzer"

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 grant made by a law court
  • Words that mean the same thing: honor, present, honour
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AWARD

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "57. Instagram upload, 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 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: exposure, flick, movie
  • The 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 30 Across: "59. Hired pen … or, punnily, the author of 20-, 36- and 43-Across?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
  • Words that mean the same thing: ghost
  • The word looks like this: ___________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: GHOSTWRITER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "62. Muslim prayer leader"

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 (islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for shiites an imam is a recognized authority on islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide
  • Words that mean the same thing: imaum
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: IMAM

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "64. Like a pirouetting ballet dancer"

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: ONTOE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "65. Walk back and forth"

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 rate of moving (especially walking or running)
  • Words that mean the same thing: step, stride, yard
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PACE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "66. Zap, as a cornea"

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: LASE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "67. Stuck-up sort"

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 person regarded as arrogant and annoying
  • Words that mean the same thing: snob, schnoz, honker
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SNOOT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "68. Cupid's Greek counterpart"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
  • Words that mean the same thing: physical attraction, concupiscence, sexual desire
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EROS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "69. Former flames"

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 man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
  • Words that mean the same thing: X, ex-husband, ex
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EXES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "70. Nobles outranking viscounts"

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 british peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
  • Words that mean the same thing: earl
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EARLS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "71. Seven "deadly" things"

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 estrangement from god
  • Words that mean the same thing: sine, sin, drop the ball
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SINS

    Great job if you got it right!

October 31, 2022 Monday NYT - All Down Answers

No. Clue Letters
1D 1. The brainy bunch? 5
2D 2. V.I.P.s at the top of an org chart 5
3D 3. The ___ & the Papas 5
4D 4. Hybrid hip-hop genre 6
5D 5. N.B.A. great O'Neal, to fans 4
6D 6. Unable to handle the task 9
7D 7. For a specific purpose, as a committee 5
8D 8. Cheers (for) 5
9D 9. Gaelic dialect 4
10D 10. Place for a facial 3
11D 11. "To Kill a Mockingbird" novelist 9
12D 12. Roman poet who wrote "Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name" 4
13D 13. Like most Gallaudet University students 4
14D 21. Sized up visually 4
15D 22. Sight on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 4
16D 27. Bigheaded people have big ones 4
17D 29. Lassoed 5
18D 30. Words of empathy 5
19D 31. Pizazz 4
20D 32. Founded: Abbr. 4
21D 33. Sums 4
22D 34. "In ___ of gifts …" (line on an invitation) 4
23D 35. "Be that as it may …" 9
24D 37. Connected with 3
25D 38. Small child's convenience for reaching a sink 9
26D 40. Slight advantage 4
27D 44. Yearn (for) 4
28D 45. Surgical souvenir 4
29D 49. ___ right (shows interest on Tinder) 6
30D 51. "Never ___ Give You Up" (Rick Astley tune) 5
31D 52. Actress Mary of "The Maltese Falcon" 5
32D 54. Video game company behind Centipede 5
33D 55. Scout's mission, in brief 5
34D 56. Cover in bandages or vinaigrette, say 5
35D 57. Heap 4
36D 58. Supersized movie format 4
37D 60. Nylons 4
38D 61. Moistens 4
39D 63. Octubre o noviembre 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. The brainy bunch?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the large magellanic cloud
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MENSA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. V.I.P.s at the top of an org chart"

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 chief executive department of the united states government
  • Words that mean the same thing: EXEC, White House
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EXECS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. The ___ & the Papas"

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 informal terms for a mother
  • Words that mean the same thing: momma, mama, mommy
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MAMAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Hybrid hip-hop genre"

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: EMORAP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. N.B.A. great O'Neal, to fans"

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: SHAQ

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Unable to handle the task"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: NOTUPTOIT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. For a specific purpose, as a committee"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: ADHOC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Cheers (for)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage
  • Words that mean the same thing: ancestor, ascendent, settle
  • The opposite would be: descendant
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ROOTS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Gaelic dialect"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that any of several related languages of the celts in ireland and scotland
  • Words that mean the same thing: Goidelic, Gaelic
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ERSE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Place for a facial"

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 health resort near a spring or at the seaside
  • Words that mean the same thing: watering place, health club, watering hole
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SPA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. "To Kill a Mockingbird" novelist"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: HARPERLEE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Roman poet who wrote "Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name""

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 roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 bc - ad 17)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Publius Ovidius Naso
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: OVID

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Like most Gallaudet University students"

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 people who have severe hearing impairments
  • Words that mean the same thing: deafen, indifferent
  • The opposite would be: hearing
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DEAF

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "21. Sized up visually"

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 having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination
  • Words that mean the same thing: eyeball, eye
  • The opposite would be: eyeless
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EYED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "22. Sight on the Hollywood Walk of Fame"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
  • Words that mean the same thing: star topology, adept, starring
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: STAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "27. Bigheaded people have big ones"

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 inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
  • Words that mean the same thing: self-importance, egotism, self
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EGOS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "29. Lassoed"

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 catch with a lasso
  • Words that mean the same thing: lasso, rope, leash
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ROPED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "30. Words of empathy"

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: ICARE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "31. Pizazz"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
  • Words that mean the same thing: ardor, flair, zeal
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ELAN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "32. Founded: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: ESTD

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "33. Sums"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
  • Words that mean the same thing: impart, tot, bring
  • The opposite would be: subtract, take away
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ADDS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "34. "In ___ of gifts …" (line on an invitation)"

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 post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
  • Words that mean the same thing: stead, place, position
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: LIEU

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "35. "Be that as it may …""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: INANYCASE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. Connected with"

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 come together
  • Words that mean the same thing: play, encounter, fulfil
  • The opposite would be: diverge
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MET

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Small child's convenience for reaching a sink"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: STEPSTOOL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Slight advantage"

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 boundary of a surface
  • Words that mean the same thing: inch, adjoin, march
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EDGE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "44. Yearn (for)"

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 desire strongly or persistently
  • Words that mean the same thing: retentive, recollective, farseeing
  • The opposite would be: short, unretentive
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: LONG

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "45. Surgical souvenir"

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 mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
  • Words that mean the same thing: cicatrix, scrape, pock
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SCAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "49. ___ right (shows interest on Tinder)"

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 sweeping stroke or blow
  • Words that mean the same thing: pinch, filch, hook
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SWIPES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "51. "Never ___ Give You Up" (Rick Astley tune)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: GONNA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "52. Actress Mary of "The Maltese Falcon""

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that british politician (born in the united states) who was the first woman to sit in the british house of commons (1879-1964)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Viscountess Astor, John Jacob Astor, Nancy Witcher Astor
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ASTOR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "54. Video game company behind Centipede"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: ATARI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "55. Scout's mission, in brief"

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: RECON

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "56. Cover in bandages or vinaigrette, say"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

    The answer is: DRESS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "57. Heap"

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

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a collection of objects laid on top of each other
  • Words that mean the same thing: down, flock, cumulation
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: PILE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "58. Supersized movie format"

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

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: IMAX

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "60. Nylons"

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 socks and stockings and tights collectively (the british include underwear)
  • Words that mean the same thing: hose down, hosiery, hosepipe
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HOSE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "61. Moistens"

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 wetness caused by water
  • Words that mean the same thing: wet, moisture
  • The opposite would be: dry
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WETS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "63. Octubre o noviembre"

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 new england
  • Words that mean the same thing: ME, Pine Tree State, Maine
  • The word looks like this: ___
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MES

    Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category Number of Clues Percentage
General Knowledge 58 74.4%
Short Answer 10 12.8%
Celebrity/Entertainment 3 3.8%
Sports 2 2.6%
Abbreviation 2 2.6%
Movies/Film 2 2.6%
Literature 1 1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric Value
Across Clues 39
Down Clues 39
Total Clues 78
Average Answer Length 4.8 letters
Shortest Answer 3 letters
Longest Answer 11 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

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

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

Last Updated: September 06, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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