Backup Crossword Clue

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Backup Crossword Answer

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COPY

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(adjective)
1. not taken up by scheduled activities
2. thin and fit
(verb)
1. refrain from harming
2. give up what is not strictly needed
(noun)
1. an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
2. an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

Hint 2: Clue Definition

BACKUP (noun)
1. a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
2. (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

COPY
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More Apple+ Crossword (10/18/2025) Answers

Across

1. Beetles depicted in hieroglyphics

8. Remove, like a wool coat?

13. Tiny piece of tech

14. Suddenly stopped DMing

16. Well done!

17. Sound also known as an alveolar trill

18. Authority figure?

19. ___ up with a good book

20. R&B singer Lennox

21. "___ I get in on that?"

22. Orange soda brand

23. Poisonous secretion from 27-Across

24. Tip

26. Notification sounds

27. Sources of wood for longbows

28. Ultimate purpose

31. Grounds for making coffee?

33. "Be well!"

35. Range for Krampus

38. Adult fan of My Little Pony

39. Fashion designer Cassini

41. Pigeon's sound

42. ___ days (period of youthful innocence)

43. ___ de los Muertos

44. One might be a "threenager"

45. Oaf, in British slang

46. Old scrolls

49. Just for kicks

51. Tart refresher

52. Many a senior citizen

53. Mathematical object that doesn't contain any of its boundary points

54. Sing some high notes?

55. The S in ASMR

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Down

1. Nab

2. Fluff from Socks or Mittens

3. Ants' feelers

4. Wander aimlessly

5. "Chiquitita" group

6. Windfall

7. Messy room, metaphorically

8. Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," for one

9. Casual greeting

10. Class with tense exams, for short

11. Relaxed

12. Sketch again

14. Nirvana, for example

15. Faucet problems

19. Cover with something sweet

22. One of 11 bodies of water in upstate New York

25. Hues + white

26. Special-interest government spending, metaphorically

27. Type of binary question

29. Dumbo octopus's home

30. Toast Skagen topping

32. "See, I wasn't lying!"

34. More unusual

35. Certain drama-club member

36. __ Tunes

37. Battery in a classic science project

40. Cheerfulness

46. Old bubble-blowing toy

47. Right on!

48. Writing tools

50. Pot head?

51. __ Alamos, NM

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