The July 31 2024 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes
You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
Search clue name or clue number.
- Across
- 1a Sluglike “Star Wars” bad guy
- 6a Man, on the Isle of Man
- 11a Number cruncher, for short
- 14a Garlicky sauce
- 15a Certain bib wearer
- 16a Played the first card
- 17a Television pro
- 19a “… ___ lack thereof”
- 20a Passionately discuss minutiae, with “out”
- 21a Bares one’s soul
- 23a Expose the vulnerabilities of, in a way
- 26a Each
- 28a Benjamin Franklin, by religious philosophy
- 29a Grandchild of Adam and Eve
- 30a Copy
- 32a The first two digits of every Brooklyn ZIP code
- 33a Cable channel with its own awards show
- 34a Goes (for)
- 35a Like T.S.A. lines on holiday weekends
- 37a Overlook, as a flaw
- 39a Eat plenty of
- 42a Video streaming giant
- 43a Fly high
- 44a N.Y.S.E. debut
- 45a Shaving cut
- 47a Downright
- 49a Full of oneself
- 50a Aftereffects from working out
- 52a C.F.O. or C.I.O
- 53a Currency of Colombia
- 54a Strong squeeze
- 56a Rave (about)
- 58a Where shots are taken
- 59a Song from “The Little Mermaid” that’s a phonetic hint to interpreting the answers to the starred clues
- 64a Part of a which-came-first debate
- 65a Pageant accessory
- 66a Straightens things out, say
- 67a Discussion starter?
- 68a Afflictions that rhyme with the body parts they’re found in
- 69a Isn’t settled
- Down
- 1d Vaccine, informally
- 2d Word with France or Force
- 3d What it would be a mistake to write twice?
- 4d Valuable Scrabble tiles
- 5d Right hand, so to speak
- 6d Actor in “12 Years a Slave” and “12 Monkeys”
- 7d ___ Cruces, N.M.
- 8d Ocean creatures with three hearts
- 9d Label for a box during a household purge
- 10d Messed up
- 11d *Not moving fast enough
- 12d Read over
- 13d Gets used to new surroundings
- 18d *Increases sharply
- 22d Highlighter colors, usually
- 23d Traps, with “in”
- 24d Before: Prefix
- 25d *Rip off
- 27d Meditation mantras
- 31d *Like 10%-fat beef
- 34d Wood used to age brandy
- 36d Boat propeller
- 38d ___ face
- 39d Duck delicacy
- 40d Great work
- 41d Something that’s not going to happen
- 43d Bill Clinton’s is displayed at the Smithsonian, for short
- 45d Caught
- 46d Time when glaciers form
- 48d Gym session devoted to squats, dead lifts, etc.
- 49d It’s a ball
- 51d Powers (down)
- 55d Textbook section
- 57d Tanker, e.g.
- 60d Before, poetically
- 61d “Mushnik & ___” (“Little Shop of Horrors” song)
- 62d Extra-crusty piece of bread
- 63d Bad thing to make of oneself