American Dialect Society's 2025 Word of the Year Crossword Clue

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American Dialect Society's 2025 Word of the Year Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
2. wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
(verb)
1. walk through mud or mire
2. feed pigs

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SOCIETY (noun)
1. the state of being with someone
2. a formal association of people with similar interests
AMERICAN (noun)
1. the English language as used in the United States
2. a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
LOPS

More Apple+ Crossword (5/20/2026) Answers

Across

1. Tiny tastes

5. Figures fed into algorithms

9. High points

14. Work with needles

15. Hoppy pours at happy hour

16. "Silly" bird

17. Phrase on a congratulatory Tinder screen

19. Charred street snack on a stick

20. Underground transit systems

21. Longest Vietnamese holiday

23. Larger digits in binary

24. "If you want my expert advice ..."

25. Pendulum motion

27. Direction opposite SSW

28. Contraction in many hymns

31. Folded breakfast dish

34. Moved quickly

37. Do rings on the road?

38. English channel?

41. Hopi carving

43. Lava-lamp-blob material

44. Language also known as Persian

46. Safe spaces

48. Changes with the times

50. Flower-hopping garden visitor

51. All ___ Fault (Sarah Snook miniseries)

54. Hot dog alternatives

56. Talked monotonously

59. Noodle traditionally eaten on Ōmisoka

61. Thus far

63. Garment that might have a kangaroo pocket

64. Winter vehicles

66. "Keep those hands over your eyes!"

68. Quick and graceful in movement

69. "Don't touch that ___!"

70. Optic layer that contains the iris

71. Mild or hot dip

73. "YIELD TO ___" (traffic sign)

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Down

1. Cheap out

2. Low-ranking employee

3. Moving part of an engine

4. Got underway

5. People spread far from a homeland

6. Like the name Archer for an archer

7. Skill in handling touchy topics

8. Spirit-money residue

9. "When I was your ___ ..."

10. Title of honor in Kentucky

11. Night light?

12. 'East,' in Spanish

13. Goes out with

18. First-person French pronoun

22. Half of this clue's number

26. 'To clarify . . .'

29. Write using acid or a laser

30. Post-op regimen

32. U.S. organization established by Nixon

33. ___-Mex

35. Japanese dog breed associated with loyalty

36. Go in headfirst

38. Degree for a sculptor

39. Long past the sell-by date

40. Seafood feast cooked outdoors

42. “Can I lend a hand?”

45. Stretches out ungracefully

47. Rattled

49. Home for piglets

52. Bitter leafy green

53. ___ in (restrained)

55. Ships off

57. Tobiko or masago

58. Edgar who painted ballerinas

59. Places with therapeutic soaks

60. Literature Nobelist Tokarczuk

62. Work tirelessly

65. Word before "bass" or "level"

67. Kung __ chicken

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