___ system (approach that relies on trust) Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. the state of being honored
2. the quality of being honorable and having a good name
(verb)
1. bestow honor or rewards upon
2. show respect towards

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

APPROACH (noun)
1. the act of drawing spatially closer to something
2. ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
APPROACH (verb)
1. move towards
2. come near in time
SYSTEM (noun)
1. an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
2. a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

More New Yorker Crossword (10/13/2026) Answers

Across

1. Type of bean also called a butter bean

5. Channel that airs House proceedings

10. Russian ruler until 1917

14. Fan club’s dedicatee

15. Pigment made from clay earth

16. Flour in some South Asian cooking

17. Great ___ (Scooby-Doo’s breed)

18. Welcoming fragrance

19. “___ guacamole!”

20. It might start, “Here’s what happened . . .”

23. Miyazaki who co-founded Studio Ghibli

25. Lecture-series organization with a red logo

26. Smells awful

29. Sphere, poetically

30. Shot in the arm, say

33. Exasperated wail

34. “Marriage Story” director Baumbach

36. Most common form of sedimentary rock

37. Jamdani ___ (Bangladeshi garment)

38. Norway’s most populous city

39. “Howdy!”

40. Word after flight or floor

41. Moves, in real-estate jargon

43. ___-mo

44. Indianapolis N.F.L. players

45. Gear tooth

47. Skin-care company known for its lip balm

48. *Wine region whose namesake river stretches from the Alps to the French Mediterranean

53. Abbr. in an online-marketplace posting

55. African nation whose first five letters spell its capital city

56. “That feels amazing”

59. Hilarious person

61. “u did not need to tell me that!”

62. “🤣🤣🤣”

63. With 66-Across, “The more, the merrier” . . . or an instruction heeded by the answers to this puzzle’s starred clues?

66. See 63-Across

69. Emphatic affirmative

70. Deeply discounted, as prices

71. Teeter-totter

72. Contents of James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son”

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Down

1. Cap

2. Civil-rights leader ___ B. Wells

3. *Oscar-nominated 2011 film about the Oakland Athletics

4. Virtual assistant on an Echo

5. “Gift” for kids on Santa’s naughty list

6. Slips up at the pool table

7. *Reason for a ring in your pocket?

8. Official state small mammal of Texas

9. Without ice, at the bar

10. Lake southwest of Reno

11. *Landmark bar in American gay-rights history

12. The Peach State’s capital, for short

13. Beam of sunlight

21. Perspective, briefly

22. Outrage

24. Came to light

27. The “k” of 24k.

28. Pair that gets guarded in soccer?

31. Fireplace residue

32. Keanu’s role in “The Matrix”

35. Illegal brew

37. Casual “Hypothetically . . .”

42. Fireplace residue

44. Mexican ___ (Jarritos flavor)

46. Animal in a savanna herd

47. Super Bowl-winning QB Manning

48. Dorm partner, familiarly

49. Cross the threshold

50. Counterpart of vigor

51. Hoka competitor

52. Japanese music-equipment manufacturer

53. Killer whales, by another name

54. Tundra or taiga, for example

57. ___ Lu Richardson (portrayer of Portia on “The White Lotus”)

58. Waits for the next available representative

60. Driving-range props

62. Not so much

64. Fallopian-tube travellers

65. Brand spankin’ ___

67. Cheer at a flamenco performance

68. Opposite of menos

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