Basic dog command Crossword Clue

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Basic dog command Crossword Answer

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STAY

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. work or act as a baby-sitter
2. show to a seat; assign a seat for

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COMMAND (noun)
1. (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
2. an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
COMMAND (verb)
1. exercise authoritative control or power over
2. look down on
BASIC (adjective)
1. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
2. serving as a base or starting point
BASIC (noun)
1. (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
2. a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner’s all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

STAY
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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16. Sound of a horse's hoof

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20. Dry and withered

21. "Dinner's ready!"

22. High court judge?

26. Joke around

27. Whale groups

28. Michael of "The Man Who Would Be King"

29. Joint thing in the Venn diagram of "instruments" and "fish"

30. "That's so sweet!" reactions

31. Semaphore device

32. Patty or Selma, to Bart Simpson

33. Basketball or baseball, but not boxing

36. Frozen dessert franchise

38. New Zealander

39. Denali, e.g.: Abbr.

42. Heads of Hogwarts?

43. Spry

45. Free-spirited aesthetic

46. Ick

47. Matching pair on many jets

49. Massachusetts locale of Manchester-by-the-Sea

51. 'Yikes!'

52. Requirement at some comedy clubs … or for 17-, 22-, 33- and 47-Across?

57. Like a gut course

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60. Breads for Reuben sandwiches

61. Beau ___

62. Leak slowly

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Down

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2. Skating exhibition

3. Groups of nine

4. Classic falling-block game

6. It's heard in a herd

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8. Gorp tidbit

9. Number added at the end?

10. Cyrillic version of "U.S.S.R."

11. From Nome or Juneau

12. Lone star?

13. Drops some cash

18. ___ Lingus

19. Bird of the W.N.B.A.

22. Return sender, maybe, in brief

23. Sch. whose campus is just off Interstate 405

24. Sir's counterpart

25. Football, informally

29. Slowly ___ surely

31. Tina who hosted the debut of "Saturday Night Live UK"

32. “Entourage” agent Gold

33. Atlanta-based network

34. Leaves together?

35. Actor Wilson

36. ___ zone (no-parking area)

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43. Cafe canopy

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45. Major unknowns

47. Sailor, informally

48. ___ Z (Zoomers)

50. Grand ice cream brand

53. Units in a tonne: Abbr.

54. Was introduced to

55. Wrath

56. Swiffer WetJet, e.g.

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