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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Friday, July 19, 2024
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (33 Across, 37 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
July 19, 2024 Across Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. St. Teresa's birthplace | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Appealing subject? | 3 |
| 3A | 9. Upon which a dragonfly frequently lays its eggs | 4 |
| 4A | 13. Ready for action, informally | 9 |
| 5A | 15. Strait of ___, narrowest part of the English Channel | 5 |
| 6A | 16. "There are no words ..." | 9 |
| 7A | 17. Setting of a date for Edward and Vivian in "Pretty Woman" | 5 |
| 8A | 18. Quench | 4 |
| 9A | 19. Boyfriend of Nancy Drew | 3 |
| 10A | 20. "Wait!" | 6 |
| 11A | 21. Remedy for some redness | 7 |
| 12A | 23. Playing a sudden-death round, perhaps | 4 |
| 13A | 24. Things that are head and shoulders above the rest? | 11 |
| 14A | 29. It might turn red or blue | 10 |
| 15A | 33. Reaction to a funny text | 4 |
| 16A | 34. Long rides | 5 |
| 17A | 35. Farmers business: Abbr. | 3 |
| 18A | 36. New York college known for opinion polling | 5 |
| 19A | 37. What "waftaroms" represent in the comics | 4 |
| 20A | 38. Was unfairly criticized, informally | 10 |
| 21A | 40. Flipped | 11 |
| 22A | 42. "Listen up!" | 4 |
| 23A | 43. Gave a hard time | 7 |
| 24A | 48. Physiologist whose namesake exercise is part of an Army fitness test | 6 |
| 25A | 50. "You couldn't mean ME?" | 3 |
| 26A | 51. Prepare to take off | 4 |
| 27A | 52. Happening | 5 |
| 28A | 53. Small-time, as stakes | 9 |
| 29A | 55. Hangs | 5 |
| 30A | 56. Warning related to pollution | 9 |
| 31A | 57. Dinghy destination, perhaps | 4 |
| 32A | 58. "___ out!" | 3 |
| 33A | 59. Outside tables? | 5 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. St. Teresa's birthplace"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVILA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "6. Appealing subject?"
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 collection of rules imposed by authority
- Words that mean the same thing: legal philosophy, jurisprudence, police force
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "9. Upon which a dragonfly frequently lays its eggs"
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 small lake
- Words that mean the same thing: pool
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: POND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "13. Ready for action, informally"
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: RARINTOGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Strait of ___, narrowest part of the English Channel"
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 capital of the state of delaware
- Words that mean the same thing: capital of Delaware
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOVER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. "There are no words ...""
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: ICANTEVEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "17. Setting of a date for Edward and Vivian in "Pretty Woman""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- Words that mean the same thing: opera house
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OPERA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "18. Quench"
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 fill to satisfaction
- Words that mean the same thing: fill, replete, satiate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "19. Boyfriend of Nancy Drew"
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: NED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "20. "Wait!""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOTNOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "21. Remedy for some redness"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a drop from an eye dropper
- Words that mean the same thing: eye-drop
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EYEDROP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Playing a sudden-death round, 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: INOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "24. Things that are head and shoulders above the rest?"
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!
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The answer is: PROFILEPICS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. It might turn red or blue"
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: SWINGSTATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "33. Reaction to a funny text"
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: LMAO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "34. Long rides"
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 large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur
- Words that mean the same thing: limousine, limo
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIMOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "35. Farmers business: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an agency in the department of justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the united states
- Words that mean the same thing: IN, Indiana, in
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "36. New York college known for opinion polling"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIENA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "37. What "waftaroms" represent in the comics"
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 any property detected by the olfactory system
- Words that mean the same thing: odour, olfactory property, olfactory sensation
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ODOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "38. Was unfairly criticized, informally"
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: GOTABADRAP
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Clue 21 Across: "40. Flipped"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WENTBANANAS
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Clue 22 Across: "42. "Listen up!""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: hem
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AHEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. Gave a hard time"
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 annoy continually or chronically
- Words that mean the same thing: harass, hassle, chevvy
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HASSLED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "48. Physiologist whose namesake exercise is part of an Army fitness test"
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: BURPEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "50. "You couldn't mean ME?""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard 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: MOI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Prepare to take off"
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 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!
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The answer is: TAXI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "52. Happening"
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 traveling by foot
- Words that mean the same thing: underway
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AFOOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Small-time, as stakes"
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: PENNYANTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. Hangs"
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 hang loosely or laxly
- Words that mean the same thing: loll around, loaf, arse about
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOLLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "56. Warning related to pollution"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: SMOGALERT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "57. Dinghy destination, perhaps"
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 small island
- Words that mean the same thing: islet
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ISLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "58. "___ out!""
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: YER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "59. Outside tables?"
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 flat tableland with steep edges
- Words that mean the same thing: Mesa, table, mesa
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MESAS
Great job if you got it right!
July 19, 2024 Down Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Surface | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Holiday time, informally | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Incandescent, so to speak | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Like many winter coats | 5 |
| 5D | 5. "The ___ and the Dove" (Aesop fable) | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Fairy tale elixir | 10 |
| 7D | 7. Like Parmigiano Reggiano | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Currency equivalent to 100 jeon | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Screw cap alternative | 9 |
| 10D | 10. What might prompt you to flip the bird? | 9 |
| 11D | 11. Name hidden in "hard-line Roman Emperor" | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Prepare to duel | 4 |
| 13D | 14. Choir section | 6 |
| 14D | 15. Lorna of romance | 5 |
| 15D | 20. River traveled by passenger boats known as dahabeahs | 4 |
| 16D | 22. Final Fantasy and others, for short | 4 |
| 17D | 25. Coca-Cola brand | 5 |
| 18D | 26. Acceptance speech cliché | 10 |
| 19D | 27. Site of a New Testament miracle | 4 |
| 20D | 28. It may get into a lather | 4 |
| 21D | 29. Like old computers, irritatingly | 4 |
| 22D | 30. Extensive | 4 |
| 23D | 31. "Nothing can stop me!" | 9 |
| 24D | 32. Locale with the ZIP code 88888 | 9 |
| 25D | 36. Lip | 4 |
| 26D | 38. Flirting ability, in slang | 4 |
| 27D | 39. Non-silence of the lambs? | 6 |
| 28D | 41. Some salad slices | 5 |
| 29D | 44. Tired | 5 |
| 30D | 45. Alley ways | 5 |
| 31D | 46. Over the top | 5 |
| 32D | 47. Turns down a sweet offer, perhaps? | 5 |
| 33D | 48. Neighbor of Java | 4 |
| 34D | 49. They're out of this world | 4 |
| 35D | 50. Internet phenomenon | 4 |
| 36D | 53. K-pop sensation of 2012 | 3 |
| 37D | 54. Sub-Saharan crop | 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. Surface"
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 come into existence; take on form or shape
- Words that mean the same thing: bob up, grow, originate
- The opposite would be: fall, turn in
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARISE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Holiday time, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: VACAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Incandescent, so to speak"
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 feeling or showing extreme anger
- Words that mean the same thing: ireful
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Like many winter coats"
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 be in line with; form a line along
- Words that mean the same thing: delineate, line, run along
- The opposite would be: unlined
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LINED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. "The ___ and the Dove" (Aesop fable)"
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 social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Words that mean the same thing: emmet, pismire
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Fairy tale elixir"
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: LOVEPOTION
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Like Parmigiano Reggiano"
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 are old collectively
- Words that mean the same thing: of age, cured, elderly
- The opposite would be: rejuvenate, young
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AGED
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Clue 8 Down: "8. Currency equivalent to 100 jeon"
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 basic unit of money in south korea
- Words that mean the same thing: make headway, come through, gain
- The opposite would be: lose, fail
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Screw cap alternative"
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: POPTOPLID
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Clue 10 Down: "10. What might prompt you to flip the bird?"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OVENTIMER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Name hidden in "hard-line Roman Emperor""
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 emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of rome in 64) but the roman empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68)
- Words that mean the same thing: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NERO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Prepare to duel"
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 gully that is shallower than a ravine
- Words that mean the same thing: draw in, sop up, take in
- The opposite would be: repel, push
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DRAW
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Clue 13 Down: "14. Choir section"
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 the adult male singing voice above baritone
- Words that mean the same thing: strain, tenor voice, tenor
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TENORS
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Clue 14 Down: "15. Lorna of romance"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOONE
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Clue 15 Down: "20. River traveled by passenger boats known as dahabeahs"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
- Words that mean the same thing: Nile River
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NILE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "22. Final Fantasy and others, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard 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!
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The answer is: RPGS
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Clue 17 Down: "25. Coca-Cola brand"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FANTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "26. Acceptance speech cliché"
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: ITSANHONOR
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Clue 19 Down: "27. Site of a New Testament miracle"
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: CANA
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Clue 20 Down: "28. It may get into a lather"
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 cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
- Words that mean the same thing: scoop, liquid ecstasy, goop
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOAP
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Clue 21 Down: "29. Like old computers, irritatingly"
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 velocity; move more slowly
- Words that mean the same thing: dim, decelerate, retard
- The opposite would be: quickly, accelerate
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLOW
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Clue 22 Down: "30. Extensive"
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 having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- Words that mean the same thing: all-inclusive, spacious, encompassing
- The opposite would be: narrow
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WIDE
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Clue 23 Down: "31. "Nothing can stop me!""
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: IMONAROLL
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Clue 24 Down: "32. Locale with the ZIP code 88888"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: NORTHPOLE
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Clue 25 Down: "36. Lip"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- Words that mean the same thing: lip, Special Air Service, SAS
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SASS
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Clue 26 Down: "38. Flirting ability, in slang"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a contest with rules to determine a winner
- Words that mean the same thing: gage, bet on, gamy
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: GAME
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Clue 27 Down: "39. Non-silence of the lambs?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that cry plaintively
- Words that mean the same thing: baa, blate, blat
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: BAAING
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Clue 28 Down: "41. Some salad slices"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that biennial eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
- Words that mean the same thing: beetroot, common beet, Beta vulgaris
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BEETS
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Clue 29 Down: "44. Tired"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that urinate, of cattle and horses
- Words that mean the same thing: dusty, cold, moth-eaten
- The opposite would be: fresh
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The answer is: STALE
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Clue 30 Down: "45. Alley ways"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a narrow way or road
- Words that mean the same thing: lane
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: LANES
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Clue 31 Down: "46. Over the top"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a minor actor in crowd scenes
- Words that mean the same thing: redundant, surplus, spear carrier
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: EXTRA
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Clue 32 Down: "47. Turns down a sweet offer, perhaps?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a prescribed selection of foods
- Words that mean the same thing: diet, dieting
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DIETS
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Clue 33 Down: "48. Neighbor of Java"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an island in indonesia to the east of java; striking volcanic scenery; culture is known for elaborate dances and rituals and for handicrafts
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: BALI
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Clue 34 Down: "49. They're out of this world"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- Words that mean the same thing: UFO, flying saucer, unidentified flying object
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: UFOS
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Clue 35 Down: "50. Internet phenomenon"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- 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: ____
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The answer is: MEME
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Clue 36 Down: "53. K-pop sensation of 2012"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: PSY
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Clue 37 Down: "54. Sub-Saharan crop"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that edible tuber of any of several yams
- Words that mean the same thing: yam plant
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: YAM
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 57 | 81.4% |
| Short Answer | 8 | 11.4% |
| History | 2 | 2.9% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.9% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 33 |
| Down Clues | 37 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.5 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 Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.
Last Updated: August 24, 2025 at 08:25 AM
