Animal that may sleep upside down Crossword Clue

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Animal that may sleep upside down Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
2. any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

UPSIDE (noun)
1. the highest or uppermost side of anything
SLEEP (noun)
1. a period of time spent sleeping
2. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
SLEEP (verb)
1. be asleep
2. be able to accommodate for sleeping

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More LA Times Crossword (12/30/2025) Answers

Across

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15. Secret stash

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18. Catchall option on a survey

19. Smartphone message

20. Departure instructions for an ornithologist?

23. Keyboard key with an arrow

24. Behr product

28. Zodiac sign boundaries

31. Green vegetable in a pod

33. Soccer star Hamm

34. Not in support of

35. Departure instructions for a railway worker?

39. Box-office bomb

40. Stadium

41. Eccentric fellow

42. Departure instructions for a student pilot?

44. Play part

45. Blackjack card

46. Spearheaded

47. Back tooth

48. Gumption

50. Tiny bits

53. Plan for ending involvement, or an apt title for this puzzle

59. Bowl over

62. Unpleasant, as weather

63. Speck in the ocean

64. Machu Picchu country

65. Crossword hints

66. Old Testament brother

67. Wheel shaft

68. Bright-eyed

69. Underwater vessels

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Down

1. Unbridled enthusiasm

2. Loafing around

3. Bread with a pocket

4. Hat worn by Abraham Lincoln

5. “Severance” star Adam

6. Spinning shaper in a woodshop

7. Earthy pigment

8. Every now and __: sporadically

9. Roll call response

10. Volkswagen sedan

11. Fill with wonder

12. Irk

13. Museum collection

21. Coast Guard rank: Abbr.

22. Practice boxing

25. "That works for me"

26. Inventor Tesla

27. Many a winery visitor

28. Flowy robe with long sleeves

29. Loosen, as a shoe

30. Novelist Bram who created Dracula

31. Phnom __, Cambodia

32. Coup d__: sudden regime change

35. Like green-headed mallards

36. Extremely dry

37. Beer barrel

38. Word puzzles with hidden messages

43. Move a muscle

47. Goat's bleat

49. Event site

50. Magazine edition

51. Furry swimmer

52. Lover's meeting

54. Machu Picchu native

55. Like skyscrapers

56. Old Testament brother

57. Smooth-talking

58. Cravings

59. Pampering place

60. ___-Mex cuisine

61. Web address

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