Assay or essay, perhaps Crossword Clue

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Assay or essay, perhaps Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. trying something to find out about it
2. any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc
(verb)
1. test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
2. examine someone’s knowledge of something

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PERHAPS (adverb)
1. by chance
ESSAY (verb)
1. make an effort or attempt
2. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
ESSAY (noun)
1. an analytic or interpretive literary composition
2. a tentative attempt

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More Universal Crossword (11/2/2025) Answers

Across

1. Kind of rug

5. Scattered, as seeds

9. Whopper's smaller relative

12. Wood splitter, perhaps

15. Tomato plant, e.g.

16. "Check your phone later"

17. Certain toothed whale

18. Lackey

19. The Fever, for one

21. Satellite ___

23. It may have runners

24. The Devil

27. Stick out

29. Snares

32. Ever so slightly

33. "Mm-mmm!"

35. Actress Vardalos

36. "Stay safe, please!"

39. Cheer at a flamenco performance

40. Bad blood

41. Tennis court dividers

42. Straighten

44. Mathematician Lovelace whose first name is a palindrome

45. Animal that may become a rescue pet

46. Stretched tight

48. City featured in local ads?

50. Mensch

53. Barrels toward

57. Bad times

58. "Everything's fine!"

60. Fine

61. Dramatic sagas

62. Like some home repairs, briefly

63. Classic slow cooker meal

64. Start to drip, as ice cream

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Down

1. Pair worn on a lift

2. "Go no farther!"

3. The dinosaur in Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur"

4. Athlete's drink

5. Course covering contraception, for short

6. Birth mo. for many Libras

7. Response to a ludicrous suggestion

8. Midday

9. Performer who lights up the stage?

10. Ancient Quechua speaker

11. Smile radiantly

13. Pop duo ___ and Sara

14. Places to grab a pint

15. Ballot marker

20. "OTOH …"

22. ___ Oluo, author of "Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World"

24. Polynesian nation whose largest island is Savai'i

25. In the slightest

26. "Over to you!"

28. Mint in the movie "Juno"

30. Michelangelo sculpture in St. Peter’s Basilica

31. Full of attitude

33. Slip into

34. "Don't be ___!" ("Step right up!")

37. Part of the family?

38. As a twosome

43. Like Jupiter

45. Unproductive period

47. Sunbathes

49. "Time flies like an ___; fruit flies like a banana"

50. Lump of dirt

51. Trickster in Norse mythology

52. Speaks lovingly

54. Achy

55. Persnickety

59. "Great" primate

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