"___ habits die hard" Crossword Clue

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"___ habits die hard" Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. skilled through long experience
2. belonging to some prior time
(noun)
1. past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old’)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HARD (adjective)
1. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
2. unfortunate or hard to bear
HARD (adverb)
1. with firmness
2. slowly and with difficulty
DIE (verb)
1. cut or shape with a die
2. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
DIE (noun)
1. a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
2. a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods

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More Daily Themed Crossword (10/5/2025) Answers

Across

1. Place to get a drink and play some darts (rhymes with "tub")

4. Number associated with birthdays

7. Joan of ___ (historical figure)

10. "What ___ told you that ship hasn't sailed?": 2 wds.

11. Singer Grande of "The Boy Is Mine," to fans

12. ___ as a fiddle (hale and hearty)

13. *Device or gadget, and something Q may make to aid James Bond in combat

15. Large male pig

16. ___ Weasley, Harry Potter's best pal

17. Flight's landing hour: Abbr.

20. *Film ___, what Daniel Craig or Pierce Brosnan participated in to make James Bond movies

22. *Spy on someone, like James Bond

24. Train stop, for short

25. Wall Street launch (anagram of "opi"): Abbr.

26. ___-smacking good (like a tasty meal)

28. Place to grab a cappuccino

32. *James Bond's code number ... and the underlying connection between the themed entries at 13a, 20a, 22a, 44a, 51a, 44d, and 47d

36. "Pay ___ mind" ("Just ignore the matter"): 2 wds.

37. "___ is me!" ("Oh no!")

38. "How to ___ Away with Murder" (TV show starring Viola Davis)

39. If I Ruled the World rapper

42. Explosive letters

44. *Word for a criminal, that you could use to describe the villains that James Bond cracks down on

46. Sticky road goo

48. Letters on a "will pay you back" note

49. ___ de Janeiro (city in Brazil)

51. *Loud sound that may be heard as James Bond walks away from an explosion

54. Popular '60s dress style

55. Attempt

56. Baby doctors, for short

58. Second largest ocean, for short

59. Pudding fruit, perhaps

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Down

1. Plum’s center

2. Alien's ride Abbr.

3. Science class with dissection, for short

4. Ooh and ___ (sounds of amazement)

5. "Ewww!"

6. Octopus limb count

7. Jimi Hendrix's hairdo

8. Laugh ___ (very amusing)

9. FedEx unit, for short

14. "The Wolf of Wall Street" actor DiCaprio, fondly

18. ___ plaza (highway fare locale)

19. "I baked ___ just for you" (apple dessert): 2 wds.

21. "___ upon a time ..." (fairy tale starter)

22. Apt name for a Dalmatian

23. "Proper" or "common" grammar part

25. ___ Amin, role for Forest Whitaker (anagram of "dii")

27. Comic punch sound

29. "A" of GPA, for short

30. Plumber's charge

31. Doctor you may visit when you have a cold: Abbr.

33. Pro ___ (free of charge)

34. Like freshly-made tea

35. Dispatched, as an email

40. Heart's main supply line

41. Maxi ___ (bottomwear)

43. "I'll put that on your ___" ("I'll add it to the bill")

44. *Stylish and popular, and a word you could use to describe James Bond

45. Actor Paul ___ of "Friends"

47. *Top of the building, and somewhere you would expect to see James Bond's action sequences involving leaping from building to building

48. "Here's my two cents ..." in textspeak: Abbr.

50. Popeye's Olive ___

52. ___-Wan Kenobi, "Star Wars" character

53. Chinese food additive that adds a certain "je ne sais quoi," say: Abbr.

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