Accept a lesser option Crossword Clue

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Accept a lesser option Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. come to terms
2. settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
(noun)
1. a long wooden bench with a back

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

LESSER (adjective)
1. smaller in size or amount or value
ACCEPT (verb)
1. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
2. be designed to hold or take

More New Yorker Crossword (10/20/2026) Answers

Across

1. Get back on track after time off work

12. “Time ___ . . .” (“In my day . . .”)

15. Time out?

16. Preternatural awareness, for short

17. Tossed with olive oil and cooked at four hundred degrees, say

18. Simile segment

19. Superlatively sour

20. Drank slowly

22. Abbr. in the names of many airports

23. “Busted!”

26. Details about one’s past

27. Scored amt.

28. Takes a break from making content?

32. People doing trial runs of racecars or robotaxis

33. Like qualifying rounds

34. Books with crooks

35. Site of Custer’s Last Stand

36. Mode in which a phone can only make emergency calls

39. “___ Lang Syne”

40. Solidified

41. Metacarpal or mandible, e.g.

42. “Instant” or “active dry” options for bakers

45. Digital-payment utility

48. Sandwich to which an “A,” for avocado, might be added

49. Metaphor for a situation in which the slightest loss of control is very costly

52. Beverage bolder than a lager

53. Extremely self-conscious?

54. Newark mayor ___ Baraka

55. Phrase often followed by an X and several lines

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Down

1. “Here’s a life hack . . .”

2. Region along the eastern Mediterranean

3. Gives a heads-up

4. 1983 title role for Barbra Streisand

5. Mind one way or the other

6. British fast-fashion brand

7. Assessments done on loose-leaf

8. Parts of some music collections or investment portfolios

9. Word after party or hard

10. Members of Colorado’s federally recognized tribes

11. Treatment often involving a pumice stone, informally

12. Arms

13. Claims

14. Card game where a nil bid risks a hundred points

21. Pair used for repairs

24. Went back for seconds

25. 2018 film starring Rosamund Pike as the frontline reporter Marie Colvin

28. Judges (to be)

29. The ___ Brothers (“For the Love of You” singers)

30. Trees with needles

31. Cricket fields, shapewise

32. Groups of three

33. High-ranking clergy members

34. Disney character not known for puppy love?

35. Place that might have bears and Grasshoppers

36. Comfort

37. Capacity of some garages

41. Onomatopoeic rebuke from Snoopy

43. Old “you”

44. Omen or indicator

46. Standings column

47. “Steady Love” singer India

50. Word sometimes uttered in vain

51. Medical-insurance grp.

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