Back down? Crossword Clue

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Back down? Crossword Answer

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RELENT

(6 letters)

YIELD

(5 letters)

STOOPED

(7 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. assume a reclining position
2. originate (in)
(noun)
1. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
2. Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DOWN (noun)
1. English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
2. soft fine feathers
DOWN (adjective)
1. understood perfectly
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
DOWN (adverb)
1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
DOWN (verb)
1. eat up completely, as with great appetite
2. cause to come or go down
BACK (noun)
1. a support that you can lean against while sitting
2. the side that goes last or is not normally seen
BACK (verb)
1. give support or one’s approval to
2. establish as valid or genuine
BACK (adverb)
1. in or to or toward a past time
2. at or to or toward the back or rear
BACK (adjective)
1. located at or near the back of an animal
2. of an earlier date

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

RELENT
(6 letters)
YIELD
(5 letters)
STOOPED
(7 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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More Newsday Crossword (7/18/2026) Answers

Across

1. Mainstream quality

11. Small, flat portion

14. Request for more

15. Brief period

16. Straight up

17. Force in

18. Mustang's cruising

19. Mini-opening

20. Mustang's predecessor

21. Residential add-on

22. Word from the Latin for "bond"

23. Showing deep consideration

25. Overview provider?

27. Dressing option

29. Where shooting stars are seen

31. Have an impressive impact

32. After all

33. "Would you like a job in my cabinet?" speaker in Barbie

35. Ran out, as resin

38. They're supposed to pop up

41. So not concise

43. Soul successor

46. Introductory explanation

47. Where Carver taught before Tuskegee

49. Whom MoMA commissioned to create "PEACE is POWER" (2010s)

50. Exultation

51. Reporter to take among the earliest flash photos (1880s)

52. Strong blast

53. Close-call comment

54. Child's catchphrase

56. Border line

57. "Sorry, we're closed"

58. Driving stat

59. Having caught bugs

All Answers

Down

1. Cricket predator

2. Garb from the Greenlandic

3. Specimen, for example

4. Power plant product

5. Woman in Arabian Nights

6. Unlikely to be sunny

7. Shakespeare contemporary

8. Current concerns

9. A little help?

10. Nautical shelter

11. Ancient autocrat

12. It borders Georgia

13. Recipe reduction

17. Hitchhiker's Guide... plot device

20. Tucson or Taos or Santa Fe

22. Hawaii, essentially

23. Satisfies

24. Rose's cousin

26. "Steep, strain, serve" product

28. Island chains

30. Theatre Royal Windsor neighbor

34. Strings on a Spanish guitar

35. Sound from a shaker

36. Broke up

37. Symbolic representations

39. Not behind

40. Hoot

44. Not remotely

45. What African violets often are

48. Spider competitor

51. Learned and automatic

52. Comes together

53. Motivation

54. What might say "Property of Mommy"

55. Antagonist to Longfellow

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