1970 hit for the Kinks Crossword Clue

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1970 hit for the Kinks Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

HIT (verb)
1. drive something violently into a location
2. kill intentionally and with premeditation
HIT (noun)
1. a conspicuous success
2. (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together

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More New Yorker Crossword (12/31/2025) Answers

Across

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17. “The ___” (nineties CBC show about a group of First Nations young people)

18. That's my cue!

19. “Honey, Honey” and “Money, Money, Money” band

20. Nickname given to the leak of an air-strike-related group chat to which The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was mistakenly added (March, 2025)

23. Conclude

25. Word before school or spa

26. Actor McKellen

27. Do something wrong

28. A$AP ___ (hip-hop collective)

30. Like the athletes targeted by a Title IX-based Trump executive order (February, 2025)

33. Slogan for the anti-Trump demonstrations held across the U.S. in June and October, 2025

37. Beginning of the names of some blended juices

38. Hunter's garb for short

41. Download for a Kindle

42. Code used to build a web page

43. Oodles

44. “___ is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice”: William Jennings Bryan

46. Extracted from the earth

48. Double ___ (ultra-hoppy beer)

49. Fractions of lbs.

52. "Foucault's Pendulum" novelist Umberto

53. Philosophical conclusion?

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61. ___ Commission (R.F.K., Jr.-chaired group whose strategy report was called “a grab bag of questionable talking points” by the Union of Concerned Scientists, in September, 2025)

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64. Short-story writer who coined the phrase “banana republic”

66. "___ your loins!"

67. "Fresh Air" airer

68. Twosome in “payday”

69. Brand whose logo uses an ice-cream cone in place of an apostrophe

70. Mentions directly on X or Bluesky

71. Nash who wrote “I don’t mind eels / Except as meals”

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6. Combine, as companies

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54. Provokes

56. Make a change to

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58. Surrounded by

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