Backdrop for a play Crossword Clue

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Backdrop for a play Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an unofficial association of people or groups
2. several exercises intended to be done in series
(verb)
1. get ready for a particular purpose or event
2. disappear beyond the horizon
(adjective)
1. set down according to a plan
2. (usually followed by `to’ or `for’) on the point of or strongly disposed

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BACKDROP (noun)
1. scenery hung at back of stage
PLAY (verb)
1. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
2. pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
PLAY (noun)
1. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
2. the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully

More Apple+ Crossword (9/26/2025) Answers

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18. Currently winning

19. Handrail held by a ballet dancer

20. Baby beagle

22. React to stubbing a toe

23. Lager relatives

24. Something that can be cleared in a browser

25. Hawaiian fish dish

26. Meat that's haram

27. Arranged in groups of two

29. Kitchen tools for creating cubes

33. Trigonometry calculations

34. Blown away

35. 17-Across follow-up whose title is an anagram of 17-Across

39. Person selling commercials

40. ___ tilt (angle that's about 23° for the Earth)

41. Truck brand with a sheep in its logo

42. Middles of table-tennis tables

43. Little cuts

44. Light-rail vehicle

45. ___-friendly

46. ___-Saxon

47. China's "king of the flowers"

48. 17-Across outcome that can be achieved by killing some but not all monsters (and that also contains an anagram of 17-Across)

51. Firmly secured

52. "Let's raise our glasses!"

55. Dastardly plans

56. Moved like a hummingbird

57. Scavengers such as Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed in The Lion King

58. Useful attributes

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Down

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2. Waterway for a gondola

3. Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Braugher

4. Brooklynites or Manhattanites, for short

5. Separated a stub from a ticket

6. Mind-numbing routine

7. Comparable

8. 'It didn't work'

9. Seth Curry's older brother

10. Be overly sweet

11. Appeared in the newspaper

12. Character who's basically an avatar of the writer

13. TV host Burke

14. Drained of energy

21. Pumpkin seeds

24. Prefix for "play" at a comic-book convention

25. Place to dock

26. ___ cook (worker who chops and peels)

28. Very particular about details

29. Activist who participated in the Nashville sit-ins while at Fisk University

30. Impropriety

31. Frame for a royal name, in hieroglyphics

32. Female sheep

33. Shoe that doesn't require tying

35. Hangs loosely

36. Like Napoleon after the Battle of Waterloo

37. Palindromic bread

38. Award usually given in September

43. Drums for drum rolls

44. Many opera heroes

46. Wafting scent

47. Souvlaki flatbreads

49. "That was ___, this is now!"

50. Baby's pop

54. CFL scores, for short

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