Ancient Andean Crossword Clue

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INCAN

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Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
2. a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru

Hint 2: Clue Definition

ANCIENT (noun)
1. a very old person
2. a person who lived in ancient times
ANCIENT (adjective)
1. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
2. very old

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

INCAN
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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CAIN

More Boston Globe Mini Crossword (10/26/2026) Answers

Across

1. Take a breather

5. Lounge around

9. Drink noisily, as soup

15. Creative thought

16. Hawaiian porch

17. *Thor, Zeus and Indra

19. Parenthetical comment

20. Synagogue skullcap

21. Charged atoms

23. Rocks, in a bar

24. *Lifted items

30. Nickname for Teresa

32. Hard to come by

33. Feel under the weather

34. Liability's opposite

37. Flustered state

40. *Descartes' first principle, in Latin

43. "You think I won't?!"

44. Get ready to drive on a course

45. The NBA's Thunder, on scoreboards

46. Indian flatbread

48. Bawls

52. *Kind and generous disposition

57. Cheer syllable

58. Cold War inits.

59. Duke in "Twelfth Night"

61. Birthing coach

64. "That can't stay!" ... or an observation about what each starred clue's answer contains

67. Key over Shift

68. Person whose white hat is called a toque

69. She, in Paris

70. Swerves suddenly

71. Tools used on tree trunks

72. Rose in a cornfield, perhaps

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Down

1. Take the chance

2. Bait or lure

3. Checks (out)

4. Waterproof covering

5. "Let there be ___"

6. Big fuss

7. Z, in New Zealand

8. Not as difficult

9. Informal language

10. Cowboy's rope

11. Mono- relative

12. "Far out!"

13. Pizzeria order

18. More, in Mexico

22. All wound up

25. Cookie shaped like its first or last letter

26. Cause for a replay review of a steal, often

27. Waikiki's locale

28. Carpe ___

29. Type of camera, for short

31. Herb with parsley, rosemary and thyme, in song

35. Cellphone's ___ card

36. Shorthand pros

38. "Will pay later" letters

39. There are six in one fl. oz.

40. One may be in tiers at a wedding!

41. Killer whale

42. Casino city near Lake Tahoe

43. "Silly me!"

47. Youngest continent by median age

49. Baltimore baseball player

50. Slip-on bracelet

51. Waved away, as a fly

53. It's often a foot long

54. Bygone Russian monarchs

55. Slacks off

56. Physicians, for short

60. Hearty dish

61. Actor Patel

62. The difference between nine and 10

63. Salt Lake City athlete

65. Brief expression of gratitude

66. Giggle syllable

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