January 21, 2021 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (39 clues)
• Down Clues (37 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips
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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (39 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 4.9 letters

Across Clues Explained - Thursday NYT Crossword January 21, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Beloved, in Arabic	5
2A	6. [Make it quick!]	4
3A	10. Masthead listings, for short	3
4A	13. Italian herbal liqueur	5
5A	14. "Please, please, please?"	4
6A	15. People calling the shots at the zoo?	4
7A	17. Not radical	8
8A	19. Drink with a dome-shaped lid	4
9A	20. Where to find the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, with "the"	3
10A	21. Crush, as a test	3
11A	22. Cry from a survivor	7
12A	24. Clara in the National Women's Hall of Fame	6
13A	26. Stuffed oneself with, facetiously	6
14A	27. Newswoman Roberts	5
15A	28. Recipe amt.	3
16A	31. Doesn't stay natural?	4
17A	32. Fell off, as laughter	4
18A	33. Place	7
19A	35. Investments of a sort, for short	3
20A	36. "Well, which is it?!"	7
21A	37. Co. with a plant	3
22A	40. Choose randomly, in a way	8
23A	41. Specialty	4
24A	42. Like legs in the days after a marathon	4
25A	44. "Get 'em!"	3
26A	45. Human, ape or kangaroo	5
27A	46. Many celebrity golf events	6
28A	48. Like taxis and Julius Caesar, once	6
29A	50. Break down chemically	7
30A	52. Mo. without a federal holiday	3
31A	53. Father on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"	3
32A	55. Palindromic woman's name	4
33A	56. Automotive safety feature represented (and to be followed) eight times in this puzzle	10
34A	59. Town, in Scandinavia	4
35A	60. Big Apple?	4
36A	61. Immunologist Anthony	5
37A	62. Suffix with coward	3
38A	63. "Huh-uh"	4
39A	64. First capital of Alaska	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. Beloved, in Arabic"

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: HABIB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "6. [Make it quick!]"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the act of catching an object with the hands
• Words that mean the same thing: photograph, snap bean, picnic
• The opposite would be: inelasticity
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SNAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Masthead listings, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using x-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
• Words that mean the same thing: ED, explosive detection system, erectile dysfunction
• 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: EDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Italian herbal liqueur"

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: AMARO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. "Please, please, please?""

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CANI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "15. People calling the shots at the zoo?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
• Words that mean the same thing: veterinary surgeon, vet, veterinary
• 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: VETS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. Not radical"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person who takes a position in the political center
• Words that mean the same thing: chair, contain, tone down
• The opposite would be: immoderate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MODERATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Drink with a dome-shaped lid"

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

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: ICEE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "20. Where to find the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, with "the""

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 come together
• Words that mean the same thing: fulfill, encounter, run into
• 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 10 Across: "21. Crush, as a test"

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 smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Words that mean the same thing: single, star, hotshot
• 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: ACE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Cry from a survivor"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: IMALIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Clara in the National Women's Hall of Fame"

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: BARTON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Stuffed oneself with, facetiously"

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: ODEDON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "27. Newswoman Roberts"

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: COKIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "28. Recipe amt."

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

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: TSP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "31. Doesn't stay natural?"

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 usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
• Words that mean the same thing: dyestuff, dye
• 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: DYES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "32. Fell off, as laughter"

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 pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• Words that mean the same thing: go bad, conk, croak
• The opposite would be: be born
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DIED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "33. Place"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey
• Words that mean the same thing: posit, deposit, fix
• 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: SITUATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "35. Investments of a sort, for short"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
• Words that mean the same thing: cadmium, atomic number 48, cd
• 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: CDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "36. "Well, which is it?!""

Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: YESORNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "37. Co. with a plant"

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: MFR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "40. Choose randomly, in a way"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: CASTLOTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "41. Specialty"

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 particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
• Words that mean the same thing: surface area, sphere, arena
• 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: AREA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "42. Like legs in the days after a marathon"

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 causing a dull and steady pain
• Words that mean the same thing: aching
• 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: ACHY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "44. "Get 'em!""

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 urge to attack someone
• Words that mean the same thing: set
• 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: SIC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "45. Human, ape or kangaroo"

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 animal with two feet
• Words that mean the same thing: bipedal, two-footed
• The opposite would be: quadruped, quadrupedal
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BIPED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "46. Many celebrity golf events"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PROAMS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "48. Like taxis and Julius Caesar, once"

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 praise vociferously
• Words that mean the same thing: come, acclaim, hail
• 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: HAILED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "50. Break down chemically"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about science/technology.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that reduce the level of land, as by erosion
• Words that mean the same thing: demean, cheapen, take down
• The opposite would be: aggrade
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DEGRADE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "52. Mo. without a federal holiday"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the month following july and preceding september
• Words that mean the same thing: August
• 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: AUG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "53. Father on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel""

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: ABE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "55. Palindromic woman's name"

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 former copper coin of pakistan and india
• 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: ANNA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "56. Automotive safety feature represented (and to be followed) eight times in this puzzle"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: TURNSIGNAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "59. Town, in Scandinavia"

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: STAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "60. Big Apple?"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IMAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "61. Immunologist Anthony"

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: FAUCI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "62. Suffix with coward"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that water frozen in the solid state
• Words that mean the same thing: internal-combustion engine, shabu, water ice
• 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: ICE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Across: "63. "Huh-uh""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: NOPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Across: "64. First capital of Alaska"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a town in southeastern alaska that was the capital of russian america and served as the capital of alaska from 1867 until 1906
• 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: SITKA

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Thursday NYT Crossword January 21, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Soccer star on a 1999 Wheaties box	4
2D	2. Bloblike	8
3D	3. Ill-advised opinions	8
4D	4. Fury	3
5D	5. Feeling on a lo-o-ong car trip	7
6D	6. Lab workers	10
7D	7. Performer with the hit 2006 album "Hip Hop Is Dead"	3
8D	8. Voting no	4
9D	9. ___ Beach, Calif.	5
10D	10. Satan, with "the"	7
11D	11. Crack, as a secret message	6
12D	12. Shorthand writers, for short	6
13D	16. Dated	4
14D	18. Cpl. or sgt.	3
15D	23. Expand	5
16D	25. Purge (of)	3
17D	27. Atlanta-based health org.	3
18D	29. Long fur scarfs	6
19D	30. Outcome of a coin flip, e.g.	10
20D	33. Parisian possessive	3
21D	34. T or F, e.g.: Abbr.	3
22D	36. "I rule!"	5
23D	37. Classic figure killed off in a 2019 Super Bowl ad campaign	8
24D	38. Responses	8
25D	39. "Sick, dude!"	3
26D	40. Like toreadors, again and again	7
27D	41. Feel off	3
28D	42. "That's true about me, right?"	6
29D	43. Drink served in a snifter	6
30D	45. Worrisome uncertainties	6
31D	46. Devices rendered obsolescent by smartphones, in brief	4
32D	47. Become fixed	5
33D	49. Where some things are really hopping?: Abbr.	3
34D	51. Sport in a ring	4
35D	54. Director Kazan	4
36D	57. Music whose golden age is said to be from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s	3
37D	58. Moo goo ___ pan	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. Soccer star on a 1999 Wheaties box"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: HAMM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Bloblike"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape)
• Words that mean the same thing: ameboid
• 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: AMOEBOID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Ill-advised opinions"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BADTAKES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Fury"

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 strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
• Words that mean the same thing: choler, anger, wrath
• 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: IRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Feeling on a lo-o-ong car trip"

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 the feeling of being bored by something tedious
• Words that mean the same thing: tedium, ennui
• 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: BOREDOM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Lab workers"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
• Words that mean the same thing: scientist
• 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: SCIENTISTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Performer with the hit 2006 album "Hip Hop Is Dead""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
• Words that mean the same thing: Na, atomic number 11, sodium
• 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: NAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Voting no"

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 person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
• The opposite would be: pro
• 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: ANTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. ___ Beach, Calif."

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: PISMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Satan, with "the""

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: EVILONE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Crack, as a secret message"

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 convert code into ordinary language
• Words that mean the same thing: decipher, decrypt
• The opposite would be: encode
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DECODE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Shorthand writers, for short"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: STENOS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "16. Dated"

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 perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
• Words that mean the same thing: look, date, find out
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Cpl. or sgt."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: NCO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "23. Expand"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ADDTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. Purge (of)"

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 relieve from
• Words that mean the same thing: free, disembarrass
• 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: RID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Atlanta-based health org."

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 federal agency in the department of health and human services; located in atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)
• Words that mean the same thing: Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• 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: CDC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "29. Long fur scarfs"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women
• Words that mean the same thing: stole
• 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: STOLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "30. Outcome of a coin flip, e.g."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PURECHANCE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "33. Parisian possessive"

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 toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite)
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 34, SE, sec
• 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: SES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "34. T or F, e.g.: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands
• Words that mean the same thing: AN, autonomic nervous system, Associate in Nursing
• 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: ANS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "36. "I rule!""

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: YAYME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "37. Classic figure killed off in a 2019 Super Bowl ad campaign"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: MRPEANUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "38. Responses"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output
• 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: FEEDBACK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. "Sick, dude!""

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 unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
• Words that mean the same thing: radian
• 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: RAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Like toreadors, again and again"

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 to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
• Words that mean the same thing: institutionalize, burden, turn on
• The opposite would be: uncharged, pay cash
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CHARGED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. Feel off"

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 aromatic bulb used as seasoning
• Words that mean the same thing: trouble, pain, garlic
• 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: AIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. "That's true about me, right?""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: ARENTI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "43. Drink served in a snifter"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that high quality grape brandy distilled in the cognac district of france
• 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: COGNAC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Worrisome uncertainties"

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: BIGIFS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Devices rendered obsolescent by smartphones, in brief"

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 lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.
• Words that mean the same thing: organizer, personal organizer, personal organiser
• 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: PDAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "47. Become fixed"

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: SETIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "49. Where some things are really hopping?: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 79, AU, Astronomical Unit
• 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: AUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "51. Sport in a ring"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
• 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: SUMO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "54. Director Kazan"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that english essayist (1775-1834)
• Words that mean the same thing: Charles Lamb, Lamb
• 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: ELIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "57. Music whose golden age is said to be from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
• Words that mean the same thing: pat, belt, whack
• 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: RAP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "58. Moo goo ___ pan"

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: GAI

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	45	59.2%
Short Answer	13	17.1%
Abbreviation	4	5.3%
Food & Drink	3	3.9%
Celebrity/Entertainment	3	3.9%
History	2	2.6%
Music	2	2.6%
Science/Technology	1	1.3%
Geography	1	1.3%
Literature	1	1.3%
Sports	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	39
Down Clues	37
Total Clues	76
Average Answer Length	4.9 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	10 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Thursday, 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!

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July 07, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (35 clues)
• Down Clues (39 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Thursday, July 07, 2022

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 74 (35 Across, 39 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.2 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Thursday Puzzle July 07, 2022

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Opening in a magic act	4
2A	5. Some nasty repartee	5
3A	10. Does a hit on	4
4A	14. Bread: Ger.	4
5A	15. Accustom	5
6A	16. ___ of mandamus	4
7A	17. 1967 James Bond film	15
8A	20. Yawn, for wanting guests to leave	6
9A	21. Locale for a talking snake	4
10A	22. Pro who calls the shots?	3
11A	23. Ready to retire, say	6
12A	24. Sister of Thalia and Urania	5
13A	26. Bankruptcy cause	5
14A	29. Takes to task	6
15A	32. Apt word hidden in "Cleopatra's prop"	3
16A	35. Kentucky ___ (sister race of the Kentucky Derby)	4
17A	37. Fly-fisher's catch	5
18A	38. Randomized clinical trial	15
19A	42. Surgical tool with an acronymic name	5
20A	43. Langston Hughes poem	4
21A	44. Census datum	3
22A	45. Hosts	6
23A	47. Ferret look-alike	5
24A	50. Something politicians and professors do	5
25A	52. Weak, as an excuse	6
26A	56. Chicago trains	3
27A	58. "Do the ___"	4
28A	60. Comprehension	6
29A	61. One who's maybe too virtuous	15
30A	64. Stick	4
31A	65. Occupied	5
32A	66. Northern terminus of I-79	4
33A	67. Crocheter's purchase	4
34A	68. Does a prewash task	5
35A	69. Rackets	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. Opening in a magic act"

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: ABRA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Some nasty repartee"

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 aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
• Words that mean the same thing: jibe, shot, dig
• 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: BARBS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "10. Does a hit on"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that kill intentionally and with premeditation
• Words that mean the same thing: bump off, slay, dispatch
• 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: OFFS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Bread: Ger."

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: BROT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "15. Accustom"

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 cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
• Words that mean the same thing: indurate, harden
• 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: INURE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "16. ___ of mandamus"

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 (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
• Words that mean the same thing: judicial writ
• 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: WRIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "17. 1967 James Bond film"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert 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: YOUONLYLIVELIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Yawn, for wanting guests to leave"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
• Words that mean the same thing: signalise, signaling, bespeak
• 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: SIGNAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Locale for a talking snake"

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 place of complete bliss and delight and peace
• Words that mean the same thing: heaven, nirvana, promised land
• 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: EDEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Pro who calls the shots?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
• Words that mean the same thing: ex-serviceman, veteran, veterinary surgeon
• 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: VET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Ready to retire, say"

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 ready to fall asleep
• Words that mean the same thing: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded
• 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: SLEEPY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "24. Sister of Thalia and Urania"

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 (greek mythology) the muse of lyric and love poetry
• 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: ERATO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "26. Bankruptcy cause"

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 state of owing something (especially money)
• Words that mean the same thing: debt
• 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: DEBTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "29. Takes to task"

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 someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
• Words that mean the same thing: call on the carpet, reprimand, remonstrate
• 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: SCOLDS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "32. Apt word hidden in "Cleopatra's prop""

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 of southern europe; similar to but smaller than the adder
• Words that mean the same thing: asp viper, Naja haje, Egyptian cobra
• 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: ASP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "35. Kentucky ___ (sister race of the Kentucky Derby)"

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 hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
• Words that mean the same thing: oak tree, oak
• 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: OAKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "37. Fly-fisher's catch"

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 flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
• 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: TROUT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "38. Randomized clinical trial"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: BLINDBLINDSTUDY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "42. Surgical tool with an acronymic name"

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 acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
• Words that mean the same thing: optical maser
• 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: LASER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "43. Langston Hughes poem"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: ITOO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "44. Census datum"

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 activities associated with sexual intercourse
• Words that mean the same thing: turn on, gender, sexual practice
• 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: SEX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "45. Hosts"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
• Words that mean the same thing: master of ceremonies, compere, emcee
• 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: EMCEES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "47. Ferret look-alike"

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 ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
• 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: STOAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "50. Something politicians and professors do"

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 talk pompously
• 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: ORATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "52. Weak, as an excuse"

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 thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
• Words that mean the same thing: tenuous, fragile, onionskin
• The opposite would be: convincing
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FLIMSY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "56. Chicago trains"

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

  The answer is: ELS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "58. "Do the ___""

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
• Words that mean the same thing: mathematics, maths
• 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: MATH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "60. Comprehension"

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 process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
• Words that mean the same thing: ingestion, consumption, intake
• 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: UPTAKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "61. One who's maybe too virtuous"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: GOODYSHOESSHOES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "64. Stick"

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 cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
• Words that mean the same thing: paste, gum, mucilage
• 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: GLUE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "65. Occupied"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: INUSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "66. Northern terminus of I-79"

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 member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
• Words that mean the same thing: Lake Erie
• 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: ERIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "67. Crocheter's purchase"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
• Words that mean the same thing: narration, recital, thread
• 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: YARN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "68. Does a prewash task"

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 category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
• Words that mean the same thing: sort, form, class
• 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: SORTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "69. Rackets"

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 loud harsh or strident noise
• Words that mean the same thing: cacophony, din, ruction
• 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: DINS

  Great job if you got it right!

Down Clues Decoded - Thursday NYT Crossword July 07, 2022

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Hell, to Dante	5
2D	2. Oven option	5
3D	3. It might make you blush	5
4D	4. Made amends (for)	6
5D	5. Actor Thornton	8
6D	6. Lead-in to how or hoo	3
7D	7. Straight line	4
8D	8. Ring bearer	5
9D	9. Cuts off	6
10D	10. Fly-by-night?	3
11D	11. Not serious	9
12D	12. Quitting time, for many	4
13D	13. Put back in	4
14D	18. Part of the body covered by a mullet	4
15D	19. Passes	6
16D	25. ___ reform (political issue)	4
17D	27. Anklebones	4
18D	28. Some amateur theater productions	5
19D	30. "Yo, ___!"	4
20D	31. River on which Greek deities swore their oaths	4
21D	32. Meeting all the job requirements	4
22D	33. Event for poets	4
23D	34. Peruvian cocktail	9
24D	36. Impertinent one	4
25D	39. Not once, in poems	4
26D	40. Very handsome, as a beau	6
27D	41. Stupid, incompetent ones	8
28D	46. Balance	6
29D	48. "The Sound of Music" backdrop	4
30D	49. Gave 10%	6
31D	51. Prefix with centric	5
32D	53. Many a Cook Islander	5
33D	54. Tangle	5
34D	55. Hoped-for responses to proposals	5
35D	56. Like most French toast and challah	4
36D	57. "Damn Yankees" vixen	4
37D	59. 11 or 12, say, but not 13	4
38D	62. Retreat	3
39D	63. Around figure?: Abbr.	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. Hell, to Dante"

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 bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
• Words that mean the same thing: abysm
• 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: ABYSS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Oven option"

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 cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
• Words that mean the same thing: broiling, grilling, oven broil
• 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: BROIL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. It might make you blush"

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 makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
• Words that mean the same thing: paint, blusher
• 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: ROUGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Made amends (for)"

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 make amends for
• Words that mean the same thing: abye, aby, repent
• 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: ATONED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Actor Thornton"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: BILLYBOB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Lead-in to how or hoo"

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 one or some or every or all without specification
• Words that mean the same thing: whatever, whatsoever
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ANY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Straight line"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
• Words that mean the same thing: harness, formula, linguistic rule
• 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: RULE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Ring bearer"

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 woman who has recently been married
• Words that mean the same thing: Brigid, Saint Brigid, Saint Bridget
• 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: BRIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Cuts off"

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 set or keep apart
• Words that mean the same thing: lop, sever, break up
• 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: SEVERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Fly-by-night?"

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 nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
• Words that mean the same thing: hooter, bird of Minerva, bird of night
• 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: OWL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Not serious"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that not serious in content or attitude or behavior
• The opposite would be: serious
• 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: FRIVOLOUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Quitting time, for many"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
• Words that mean the same thing: quint, pentad, quintet
• 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: FIVE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Put back in"

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 printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
• 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: STET

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "18. Part of the body covered by a mullet"

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 back side of the neck
• Words that mean the same thing: scruff, nucha
• 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: NAPE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "19. Passes"

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 order by virtue of superior authority; decree
• Words that mean the same thing: ordain, enact, reenact
• 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: ENACTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "25. ___ reform (political issue)"

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 (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
• Words that mean the same thing: civil wrong
• 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: TORT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Anklebones"

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 sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
• Words that mean the same thing: scree, anklebone, astragalus
• 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: TALI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. Some amateur theater productions"

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 short theatrical episode
• Words that mean the same thing: skit
• 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: SKITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "30. "Yo, ___!""

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 informal form of address for a man
• Words that mean the same thing: gallant, fellow, fop
• 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: DUDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "31. River on which Greek deities swore their oaths"

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 (greek mythology) a river in hades across which charon carried dead souls
• Words that mean the same thing: River Styx
• 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: STYX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "32. Meeting all the job requirements"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
• Words that mean the same thing: capable, able-bodied
• The opposite would be: unable
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABLE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "33. Event for poets"

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 winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
• Words that mean the same thing: sweep, bang, jibe
• 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: SLAM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "34. Peruvian cocktail"

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: PISCOSOUR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "36. Impertinent one"

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 person regarded as arrogant and annoying
• Words that mean the same thing: snoot, snob, prig
• 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: SNOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "39. Not once, in poems"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman
• Words that mean the same thing: nee
• 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: NEER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "40. Very handsome, as a beau"

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 dreamy in mood or nature
• Words that mean the same thing: languorous, lackadaisical, woolgathering
• 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: DREAMY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. Stupid, incompetent ones"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a stupid incompetent person
• Words that mean the same thing: half-wit, dimwit, nitwit
• 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: DOOFUSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "46. Balance"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
• 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: STASIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "48. "The Sound of Music" backdrop"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a large mountain system in south-central europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction
• Words that mean the same thing: the Alps, alp
• 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: ALPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "49. Gave 10%"

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 exact a tithe from
• Words that mean the same thing: tithe
• 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: TITHED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "51. Prefix with centric"

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: ETHNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "53. Many a Cook Islander"

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 ethnic minority of polynesian and melanesian descent who speak maori and live in new zealand
• 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: MAORI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "54. Tangle"

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 coils of worsted yarn
• 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: SKEIN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "55. Hoped-for responses to proposals"

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 affirmative
• Words that mean the same thing: yes
• The opposite would be: no
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YESES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "56. Like most French toast and challah"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EGGY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "57. "Damn Yankees" vixen"

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: LOLA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "59. 11 or 12, say, but not 13"

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 period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
• Words that mean the same thing: time of day, minute, 60 minutes
• 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: HOUR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "62. Retreat"

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 habitation of wild animals
• Words that mean the same thing: hideaway, hideout, lair
• 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: DEN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "63. Around figure?: Abbr."

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
• Words that mean the same thing: Eastern Time, Eastern Standard Time
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EST

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	60	81.1%
Short Answer	7	9.5%
Literature	2	2.7%
Movies/Film	1	1.4%
Celebrity/Entertainment	1	1.4%
Geography	1	1.4%
Music	1	1.4%
Abbreviation	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	35
Down Clues	39
Total Clues	74
Average Answer Length	5.2 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

• Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
• Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
• When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
• Today is Thursday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 5 letters
• Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
• Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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Last Updated: September 08, 2025 at 09:38 PM