A step above amateur Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

AMATEUR (adjective)
1. lacking professional skill or expertise
2. engaged in as a pastime
AMATEUR (noun)
1. an athlete who does not play for pay
2. someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
ABOVE (adverb)
1. (in writing) at an earlier place
2. in or to a place that is higher
ABOVE (noun)
1. an earlier section of a written text
ABOVE (adjective)
1. appearing earlier in the same text

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (10/6/2026) Answers

Across

1. What a leaky faucet has

5. Hands, informally … or coverings for hands

10. "Not another peep out of you!"

14. Classical Persian poet

15. Nebraska home of Creighton University

16. Between cruise ports, say

17. Intl. oil group

18. Like streakers

19. Deep blue

20. Pale and sickly

22. Have an "aha" moment about

23. Urged (on)

24. One of six, supposedly, for a seer

25. "___ Were a Rich Man"

26. Rear of a boat

27. Lifeless

30. Who said "Revolutions are the locomotives of history"

33. Video game section

34. Pen points

38. Number on a dating profile

39. Gallops into the sunset, say

41. "I've seen better"

42. Attend without a date

44. Sound in polka music

46. Strategic disk game played on a vertical board

50. Music genre for James Brown

51. Device once used with a Blockbuster rental

52. Mission-driven grps., often

54. "___ you listening?"

55. Who said "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"

57. May honoree

59. Animal with a "mask"

65. Peeved

66. Like italic type

67. With 68-Across, posable plaything ... or a verbal hint to each half of 4-, 7- and 10-Down and 46-Across

68. See 67-Across

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Down

1. Is released, as an album

2. Currency in Mumbai

3. Clarifying phrase

4. Interception returned for a touchdown

5. Start of the workweek: Abbr.

6. Saw in one's mind's eye

7. Break for a few minutes

8. Newspaper in New York, L.A. or Seattle, colloquially

9. Bummed out

10. Surf with one's toes off the front of the board

11. What an electric meter measures

12. Cut completely

13. Joseph called "Father of the Symphony"

21. Coin dated with the year of its country's imperial era

23. Latin "is"

28. Put in a row

29. Unapproachable

30. Newsstand purchase, informally

31. In the past

32. Feline adoption option

35. Spur-of-the-moment

36. Arthur of "The Golden Girls"

37. "Zip it!"

39. Place in a hierarchy

40. Midnight's opposite

43. Suffix in the names of many U.S. cities

45. Starbucks keepsake, perhaps

47. Hurdles or high jump, e.g.

48. Loops in, digitally

49. Secure tightly

50. Swiss currency

53. How you may feel after a workout vis-à-vis before

54. Operatic solo

55. Become a member of

56. Subject of introspection

58. Preset camera option

60. ___ effect (purported influence of police shows on juries' expectations for forensics)

61. Yoko who participated in a bed-in

63. ___ tai

64. Bank with a lion in its logo

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