___ wolf (extinct canine once prevalent across North America) Crossword Clue

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(adjective)
1. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
2. causing fear or dread or terror

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PREVALENT (adjective)
1. most frequent or common
EXTINCT (adjective)
1. no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
2. being out or having grown cold

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More NYT Crossword (3/31/2026) Answers

Across

1. "The Planets" composer

6. About 746 of these equal one horsepower

11. Colorado Plateau people

14. Sign in a TV studio

15. Kirin competitor

16. Something entered into an A.T.M.

17. 2003 crime drama adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel

19. ___ Bo (exercise regimen popularized via VHS tapes)

20. List in Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next"

21. Direct (to)

22. Middle-of-the-bell-curve result

23. Swimmer in a Japanese garden

25. Fled the scene

27. Six Flags location that was the first amusement park to offer 20 roller coasters

32. Chicken __ king

33. Admissions overseer, maybe

34. Stake

37. The "1" in a 9-1 record

39. Typeface that sounds like the name of a Disney princess

43. Attire in the old Roman Senate

45. Sign of things to come

47. Craters edge

48. Concept explaining why certain humanoid robots look so unsettling

52. Cloudy craft beer

54. Mediator between the id and the ideal, in Freudian psychology

55. Pasta that resembles rice

56. Knuckle-cracking or clipping nails in public, to some

59. "Hahaha!"

63. Kenan's bestie on a 1990s sitcom

64. Utopian expanse ... a map of which might include 17-, 27- and 48-Across?

66. French 101 article

67. Something to raise in a crisis

68. Like flapjacks and Frisbees

69. Damage

70. Censor, informally

71. Undercover operatives

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Down

1. "E.T. phone ___"

2. Banded mineral seen at many a street fair

3. Produce coherent light

4. Piece of equipment for a Winter Paralympian

5. Muscle strengthened by dips, familiarly

6. Ending with kitchen or earthen

7. 'Dream on!'

8. Establishment where a D&D party might refuel and pick up new leads

9. What 2020 was a year of, in the Chinese zodiac

10. "Aaron Burr, ___" ("Hamilton" number)

11. Billy Joel title character who's "been living in her white bread world"

12. Headwear for Wonder Woman

13. Antagonist

18. Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russia in 2014

22. Water nymph of Greek myth

24. Anxious condition, in brief

26. Rural turndown

27. Soda fountain order

28. Potatoes in Indian cuisine

29. Vehicle with low fuel efficiency, in slang

30. Longboat propeller

31. International Longshoremen's Association, e.g.

35. Lake separating Ohio from Ontario

36. Rapper ___ Ma

38. Panasonic acquisition of 2009

40. "Inside ___ Schumer" (sketch comedy series)

41. Embankments protecting New Orleans

44. Biol. or chem.

46. One who's constantly telling you to do this and do that

49. Horrify

50. 2010s dance fad with a reduplicative name

51. Bound along clumsily

52. Malarkey

53. Venue for a boss fight

57. French 101 verb

58. Extemporize to fill time, say

60. Hawaii's second-largest island

61. Frank of diary fame

62. Bookie's determination

64. ___ Five (advisers on "Queer Eye")

65. Decade makeup: Abbr.

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