16 in a Sweet Sixteen Crossword Clue

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16 in a Sweet Sixteen Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SIXTEEN (noun)
1. the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
SIXTEEN (adjective)
1. being one more than fifteen
SWEET (adjective)
1. not containing or composed of salt water
2. pleasing to the mind or feeling
SWEET (noun)
1. English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
2. a food rich in sugar
SWEET (adverb)
1. in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly’)

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More NYT Crossword (12/12/2025) Answers

Across

1. Some free spots, for short

5. Grounds

10. Doesn't just talk

14. “You’re telling me!”

16. Word with wet or sweat

17. Conspiracy theorist's accessory

18. "Don't leave me!," e.g.

20. Main component of a "gutbucket," a jug band instrument

22. Personal records

25. Padlocked fasteners

26. Variety of orange named for a European city

29. What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes

30. Jobs announcement of 2010

31. News feed, perhaps

35. [Waaaaah!]

36. Thick confection used for cake icing

37. Part of a golf club

38. See 5-Down

40. Binary

41. Succors

42. Photo session workers

44. Ace, e.g

46. Skater's braking method with the back foot positioned horizontally

47. Relative of a craft fair

50. "Duino Elegies" poet

53. Saves, as a digital location

54. Clichéd line from the side of a product package

58. It's cool to drink

59. "I haven't told you the best part ..."

60. Impressively accurate pass, in football slang

61. Floats

62. Give a bad hand?

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Down

1. Stone

2. Vaudeville highlight

3. Pulitzer-winning journalist Applebaum

4. You might pull one out for a guest

5. With 38-Across, one way to sit

6. Feel gross

7. 'Gross!'

8. Playwright who wrote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"

9. "Tell Mama" singer James

10. Rocky road ingredient?

11. Distinction for a classic underground work

12. — bind

13. Sticks a fork in

15. Part of NOW

21. Fiddlesticks!

23. Disney princess in New Orleans

24. Workshop debris

26. Possible need for entry

27. Each

28. Colleague who might be solutions-oriented?

29. Tropical plants said to bring good fortune

32. 'That's the truth!'

33. Kids parent

34. Hagfish lookalikes

36. Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters

39. Performance that isn't prerecorded

40. Word from the Greek for "folded paper"

43. Butcher shop buys

44. Pleasing to the palate

45. "Buss It" rapper ___ Banks

48. Way

49. Arm of the Dept. of Labor

51. Part of a cabinet

52. French 101 verb

55. Whitehouse in D.C., e.g.: Abbr.

56. Physics unit equivalent to roughly 624 gigaelectronvolts

57. Thoroughly evaluate

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