December 31, 2021 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (33 clues)
• Down Clues (39 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Friday, December 31, 2021

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 72 (33 Across, 39 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.4 letters

Across Clues Explained - Friday NYT Crossword December 31, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Colorful custardy confection	9
2A	10. Sudden inspirations	5
3A	15. Waltz onomatopoeia	9
4A	16. Love	5
5A	17. Classic diner orders	9
6A	18. Apply, as ointment	5
7A	19. Kitchen brand whose name is an ambigram	3
8A	20. Pit-___	4
9A	21. More might come before it	6
10A	22. Its employees might get under your skin	7
11A	24. Thing with rings	4
12A	25. Legal action	6
13A	28. Some Disney-inspired Halloween costumes	5
14A	30. "___ me!" (request to a fridge-goer)	4
15A	31. Like blue and green ski trails, vis-à-vis black diamonds	6
16A	33. Pep	3
17A	36. Looks the other way	15
18A	39. Modern ___	3
19A	40. "A ___ place is in the House, and in the Senate" (bumper sticker)	6
20A	41. Actress Kendrick	4
21A	42. Sharon's predecessor as Israeli P.M.	5
22A	43. One of the Blues Brothers	6
23A	45. One of the Coen brothers	4
24A	48. Relative by marriage	7
25A	50. Where to do as others do, it's said	6
26A	52. Stain	4
27A	53. Sprinkling	3
28A	56. Canon competitor	5
29A	57. Street featured in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (that's also 50-Across)	9
30A	59. Still sticky	5
31A	60. Make thin	9
32A	61. Crushes it	5
33A	62. Couple in the back of a car	9

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. Colorful custardy confection"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: FRUITTART

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "10. Sudden inspirations"

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 labored intake of breath with the mouth open
• Words that mean the same thing: pant, gasp, puff
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GASPS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "15. Waltz onomatopoeia"

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: OOMPAHPAH

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "16. Love"

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

  The answer is: ADORE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "17. Classic diner orders"

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: TUNAMELTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "18. Apply, as ointment"

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: RUBON

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "19. Kitchen brand whose name is an ambigram"

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: OXO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "20. Pit-___"

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: APAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. More might come before it"

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: ORLESS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Its employees might get under your skin"

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: XRAYLAB

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "24. Thing with rings"

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 tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
• Words that mean the same thing: shoetree, tree diagram, corner
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TREE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "25. Legal action"

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 earnest or urgent request
• Words that mean the same thing: charm, solicitation, prayer
• The opposite would be: repel
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: APPEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "28. Some Disney-inspired Halloween costumes"

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: ELSAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "30. "___ me!" (request to a fridge-goer)"

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 general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BEER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "31. Like blue and green ski trails, vis-à-vis black diamonds"

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 posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
• Words that mean the same thing: light, sluttish, wanton
• The opposite would be: uneasy, difficult
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EASIER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "33. Pep"

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 healthy capacity for vigorous activity
• Words that mean the same thing: vigour, vitality, muscularity
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VIM

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "36. Looks the other way"

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: LETSTHINGSSLIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "39. Modern ___"

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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• Words that mean the same thing: earned run average, epoch, geological era
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "40. "A ___ place is in the House, and in the Senate" (bumper sticker)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
• Words that mean the same thing: charwoman, char, fair sex
• The opposite would be: man
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WOMANS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "41. Actress Kendrick"

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 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 21 Across: "42. Sharon's predecessor as Israeli P.M."

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: BARAK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "43. One of the Blues Brothers"

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: ELWOOD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "45. One of the Coen brothers"

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 hebrew minor prophet
• Words that mean the same thing: Book of Joel
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JOEL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "48. Relative by marriage"

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: STEPDAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "50. Where to do as others do, it's said"

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: INROME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "52. Stain"

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 blemish made by dirt
• Words that mean the same thing: smirch, fleck, stain
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLOT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "53. Sprinkling"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a small elite group
• The opposite would be: many
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "56. Canon competitor"

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: LEICA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "57. Street featured in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (that's also 50-Across)"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: VIAVENETO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "59. Still sticky"

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 (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch
• Words that mean the same thing: gaudy, gimcrack, brassy
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TACKY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "60. Make thin"

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 weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
• Words that mean the same thing: faded, weakened, rarefy
• The word looks like this: _________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ATTENUATE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "61. Crushes it"

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 kill intentionally and with premeditation
• Words that mean the same thing: remove, polish off, murder
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLAYS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "62. Couple in the back of a car"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: REARTIRES

  Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Friday Puzzle December 31, 2021

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Snap	4
2D	2. Component of three of the five French "mother sauces"	4
3D	3. "That's ... never gonna happen"	4
4D	4. "Double" or "triple" drink	3
5D	5. Actress Taylor of TV's "Bones"	6
6D	6. Agatha Christie novel named after Death's mount in Revelation	12
7D	7. Make ___ for	5
8D	8. Danger for desert hikers	15
9D	9. Ending with four or six, but not five	3
10D	10. Teri of "Mr. Mom"	4
11D	11. Does laundry or pays bills, in modern lingo	6
12D	12. Clearheaded	5
13D	13. Novel content	5
14D	14. Tell	5
15D	21. Couldn't let go of	12
16D	22. Group portrayed in "Slacker" and "Reality Bites," familiarly	4
17D	23. Straighten	5
18D	25. Proficient	4
19D	26. ___ review	4
20D	27. One quadrillion: Prefix	4
21D	29. Trio of horrors?	3
22D	32. Target	5
23D	33. Rosso o bianco	4
24D	34. Driver's license fig.	4
25D	35. Ren Faire concession	4
26D	37. United competitor, once	3
27D	38. "Heavens!"	4
28D	42. Squarish	6
29D	44. Not yet manifest	6
30D	45. Spurns	5
31D	46. Longtime "Inside the N.B.A." commentator	5
32D	47. Writer Jong	5
33D	49. South America's Río de la ___	5
34D	51. Eponym of the World Series M.V.P. award	4
35D	53. "Have no ___ of perfection - you'll never reach it": Dalí	4
36D	54. Suffix with towel	4
37D	55. Melancholiac's list	4
38D	57. Dictionary abbr.	3
39D	58. Rapa ___ (Easter Island)	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. Snap"

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: FOTO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Component of three of the five French "mother sauces""

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 mixture of fat and flour heated and used as a basis for sauces
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROUX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. "That's ... never gonna happen""

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: UMNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. "Double" or "triple" drink"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 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: IPA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Actress Taylor of TV's "Bones""

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: TAMARA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Agatha Christie novel named after Death's mount in Revelation"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert 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: THEPALEHORSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Make ___ for"

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: APLAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Danger for desert hikers"

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: RATTLESNAKEBITE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Ending with four or six, but not five"

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 fifth day of the week; the fourth working day
• Words that mean the same thing: Th, thorium, atomic number 90
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: THS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Teri of "Mr. Mom""

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: GARR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Does laundry or pays bills, in modern lingo"

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 fully developed person from maturity onward
• Words that mean the same thing: grownup, adult
• The opposite would be: juvenile
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADULTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Clearheaded"

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 become sober
• Words that mean the same thing: grave, somber, serious
• The opposite would be: playful, intoxicated
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SOBER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Novel content"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PROSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "14. Tell"

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 a general conscious awareness
• Words that mean the same thing: sensation, sentience, sensory faculty
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SENSE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Couldn't let go of"

Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: OBSESSEDOVER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "22. Group portrayed in "Slacker" and "Reality Bites," familiarly"

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: XERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "23. Straighten"

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 place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
• Words that mean the same thing: ordinate, aline, adjust
• The opposite would be: skew
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALIGN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "25. Proficient"

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 (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
• Words that mean the same thing: able-bodied, capable
• 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 19 Down: "26. ___ review"

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 of equal standing with another in a group
• Words that mean the same thing: match, compeer, equal
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PEER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "27. One quadrillion: Prefix"

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: PETA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "29. Trio of horrors?"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
• Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 18, Arkansas, ar
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "32. Target"

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: AIMAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. Rosso o bianco"

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 fermented juice (of grapes especially)
• Words that mean the same thing: wine
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VINO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "34. Driver's license fig."

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: IDNO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "35. Ren Faire concession"

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 united states anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in polynesian cultures (1901-1978)
• Words that mean the same thing: George Herbert Mead, Margaret Mead
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MEAD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "37. United competitor, once"

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: TWA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "38. "Heavens!""

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: LAWD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. Squarish"

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 resembling a block in shape
• Words that mean the same thing: blockish
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BLOCKY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "44. Not yet manifest"

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 potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LATENT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Spurns"

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 a woman who jilts a lover
• Words that mean the same thing: jilt
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JILTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Longtime "Inside the N.B.A." commentator"

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: ONEAL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "47. Writer Jong"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any plant of the genus erica
• Words that mean the same thing: true heath
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERICA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "49. South America's Río de la ___"

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

Here's how to solve it:

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

  The answer is: PLATA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "51. Eponym of the World Series M.V.P. award"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that united states baseball player (born in 1931)
• Words that mean the same thing: English hawthorn, Crataegus oxycantha, May
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAYS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "53. "Have no ___ of perfection - you'll never reach it": Dalí"

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

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
• Words that mean the same thing: venerate, dread, reverence
• The opposite would be: fearlessness
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: FEAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "54. Suffix with towel"

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: ETTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "55. Melancholiac's list"

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

  The answer is: WOES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "57. Dictionary 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 a unit of electrical power in an ac circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere
• Words that mean the same thing: volt-ampere
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: VAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "58. Rapa ___ (Easter Island)"

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: NUI

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	54	75.0%
Short Answer	8	11.1%
Celebrity/Entertainment	3	4.2%
Literature	3	4.2%
Food & Drink	1	1.4%
Geography	1	1.4%
History	1	1.4%
Abbreviation	1	1.4%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	33
Down Clues	39
Total Clues	72
Average Answer Length	5.4 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 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!

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Last Updated: September 12, 2025 at 07:38 PM

Xwordhint Crossword Answers - August 04, 2025 | Today NYT Vibez

Published on Monday, August 04, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master today's NYT crossword with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun. Perfect for crossword lover who want that satisfying "aha!" moment.

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Medium

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Letters on a radio switch"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMFM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "5. "Cómo está ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: USTED

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🧩 3A: "10. Indian tourist city on the Taj Express route"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGRA

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🧩 4A: "14. Garment seen in Hindi cinema"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a dress worn primarily by hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body
• Similar words include: saree
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SARI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5A: "15. Glistened"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that be bright by reflecting or casting light
• Similar words include: glitter, smooth, polish
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHONE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6A: "16. Like a grade of B+, say"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that moral excellence or admirableness
• Similar words include: goodness, unspoiled, undecomposed
• Opposite of: badness, evilness

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOOD

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "17. Seed covering"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARIL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "18. Yankees slugger who hit a record-setting 62 home runs in 2022"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AARONJUDGE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9A: "20. Rotary phone feature"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
• Similar words include: telephone dial
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DIAL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10A: "21. Garment from Playtex or Maidenform"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
• Similar words include: brassiere, bandeau
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11A: "22. "Meet the Press" group"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
• Similar words include: venire, control panel, jury
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PANEL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12A: "23. Image from a drone"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AERIALPHOTO

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🧩 13A: "27. Metal from a mine"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORE

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🧩 14A: "28. Bills with George Washington's face"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Similar words include: one, 1, I
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONES

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15A: "29. Small dish served in Spain"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and pipturus albidus
• Similar words include: tappa, tapa bark, tappa bark
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAPA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16A: "31. Accra's country"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a republic in west africa on the gulf of guinea
• Similar words include: Gold Coast, Republic of Ghana
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GHANA

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🧩 17A: "34. Path of a baseball pop-up"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
• Similar words include: discharge, arch, curve
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18A: "35. Doozy"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very attractive or seductive looking woman
• Similar words include: sweetheart, stunner, dish
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LULU

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19A: "39. "Keep dreaming!""

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AINTGONNAHAPPEN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20A: "43. Opposite of "nope""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that not only so, but
• Similar words include: yea
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YEAH

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🧩 21A: "44. "Star Wars" saga heroine"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22A: "45. Desert plants"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any succulent plant of the family cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the new world and usually having spines
• Similar words include: cactus
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CACTI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23A: "46. Home of the New York Mets until 2008"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHEA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24A: "48. College mil. program"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers
• Similar words include: Reserve Officers Training Corps
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROTC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 25A: "50. "___, amas, amat …" (Latin 101 conjugation)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 26A: "53. Outlet from the heart's left ventricle"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AORTICVALVE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 27A: "58. Dance to "The Blue Danube," e.g."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an assured victory (especially in an election)
• Similar words include: waltz around, walk-in, valse
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WALTZ

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 28A: "60. E.P.A.-banned pesticide"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the united states since 1972
• Similar words include: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DDT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 29A: "61. Get an F"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fail to do something; leave something undone
• Similar words include: miscarry, go bad, break
• Opposite of: manage, succeed

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FAIL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30A: "62. Poet with the essay collection "Sister Outsider""

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AUDRELORDE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 31A: "65. Home services app that lists local vendors"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANGI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 32A: "66. Jumping-off point for an inventor"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
• Similar words include: approximation, mind, thought
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IDEA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33A: "67. Grown-up"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a fully developed person from maturity onward
• Similar words include: big, full-grown, fully grown
• Opposite of: juvenile

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADULT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 34A: "68. Pest control brand"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sudden short attack
• Similar words include: foray, bust, maraud
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAID

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 35A: "69. Four years, for a U.S. president"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
• Similar words include: terminal figure, terminus, condition
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TERM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 36A: "70. Trait transmitters"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (genetics) a segment of dna that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding dna as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
• Similar words include: gene, factor, cistron
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GENES

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 37A: "71. One of 26, approximately, in a marathon"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
• Similar words include: nautical mile, mi, Admiralty mile
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MILE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Carne ___ (grilled meat dish)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASADA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2D: "2. Decluttering maven Kondo"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MARIE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3D: "3. Monastery resident"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
• Similar words include: mendicant
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FRIAR

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4D: "4. Very, very small fractions"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things
• Similar words include: one-millionth, millionth
• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MILLIONTHS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5D: "5. In working order"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that capable of being put to use
• Similar words include: available, useable, operable
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: USABLE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 6D: "6. Musical counterparts of flats"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
• Similar words include: sharp
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHARPS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7D: "7. Bat mitzvah reading"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the whole body of the jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition
• Similar words include: Laws, Pentateuch
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TORAH

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8D: "8. Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 9D: "9. TV room"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the habitation of wild animals
• Similar words include: lair, hideaway, hideout
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10D: "10. H2O, in Mexico"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that largest known toad species; native to central america; valuable destroyer of insect pests
• Similar words include: Bufo marinus, agua toad
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGUA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11D: "11. Emphatic rejection"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GODNO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12D: "12. Slugger Maris"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROGER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13D: "13. "Skyfall" singer"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADELE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14D: "19. Music genre from Tokyo"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: JPOP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15D: "24. Scrambled word: Abbr."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANAG

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16D: "25. Other: Sp."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OTRA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 17D: "26. R.p.m. indicator"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation
• Similar words include: tachometer
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TACH

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18D: "30. Wool-producing ranch"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALPACAFARM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19D: "31. Merry"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
• Similar words include: jocund, merry, festal
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAY

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🧩 20D: "32. Go quickly, quaintly"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Similar words include: bucket along, pelt along, belt along
• Opposite of: linger
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HIE

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🧩 21D: "33. Actress de Armas"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that mother of the ancient irish gods; sometimes identified with danu
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ANA

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🧩 22D: "34. ___ port in a storm"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one or some or every or all without specification
• Similar words include: whatsoever, whatever
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ANY

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🧩 23D: "36. Short lines at the register?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: UPC

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🧩 24D: "37. Permit"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
• Similar words include: lease, permit, Lashkar-e-Taiba
• Opposite of: prevent, forbid

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Answer: LET

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🧩 25D: "38. Prefix with cycle or code"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: UNI

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🧩 26D: "40. Black-and-white cookie"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
• Similar words include: oreo cookie
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OREO

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🧩 27D: "41. In the neighborhood"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that move towards
• Similar words include: close, approach, draw near
• Opposite of: far

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Answer: NEAR

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🧩 28D: "42. When Hamlet duels with Laertes in "Hamlet""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ACTV

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🧩 29D: "47. Smog, e.g."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
• Similar words include: daze, fog
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: HAZE

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🧩 30D: "48. Enigma"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a difficult problem
• Similar words include: enigma, conundrum, screen
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: RIDDLE

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🧩 31D: "49. Groups of eight musicians"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
• Similar words include: ogdoad, octette, 8
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: OCTETS

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🧩 32D: "50. Hang around for"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that look forward to the probable occurrence of
• Similar words include: look, expect, wait
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: AWAIT

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🧩 33D: "51. "Harold and ___" (1971 black comedy)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: MAUDE

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🧩 34D: "52. From further in the past"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
• Similar words include: honest-to-goodness, senior, one-time
• Opposite of: young, new

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Answer: OLDER

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🧩 35D: "54. Successful dash to the end zone, in brief"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TDRUN

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🧩 36D: "55. Hawaiian porch"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an island of central hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
• Similar words include: Lanai Island
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LANAI

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🧩 37D: "56. Prayer ___"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a period of sleeplessness
• Similar words include: watch
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: VIGIL

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🧩 38D: "57. Skip over, as the "i" in "family""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that leave or strike out
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ELIDE

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🧩 39D: "59. Transit option to N.Y.C.'s Roosevelt Island"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
• Similar words include: tramcar, streetcar, trolley car
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TRAM

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🧩 40D: "63. Fall behind"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of slowing down or falling behind
• Similar words include: retardation, jail, immure
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: LAG

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🧩 41D: "64. Beethoven's "___ to Joy""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ODE

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

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41 Down Clues

78 Total Clues

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