Bat’s navigational tool . . . or a description of 17-, 25-, 53-, or 63-Across? Crossword Clue

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Bat’s navigational tool . . . or a description of 17-, 25-, 53-, or 63-Across? Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it

Hint 2: Clue Definition

DESCRIPTION (noun)
1. a statement that represents something in words
2. sort or variety

More New Yorker Crossword (11/24/2025) Answers

Across

1. Captures on cassette

6. Subtle sound from a note-passer

10. Nightmare roommate for a neatnik

14. God named in the {/takbir/}

15. “Palo ___: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World” (Malcolm Harris book)

16. Pong company

17. Conservation area bordering Serengeti National Park . . . Park . . . Park . . .

19. Backpack stocked with emergency supplies, e.g.

20. Baby in a den

21. Raccoon relative with a flexible snout

22. Choose as one’s successor, say

23. Wallet material that comes from a sea creature

25. Capital of American Samoa . . . moa . . . moa . . .

27. Coffee-brewing option

28. ___ feed (blog convenience)

30. In medias ___

31. “Highest 2 Lowest” director Spike

32. Video-game console of the nineties, for short

34. Emulates Berthe Morisot or Norval Morrisseau

41. Beethoven's Appassionata, e.g.

42. Tight-lipped person, metaphorically

44. Div. for the Colts and the Broncos

47. Video-game console of the two-thousands

48. Words before “a Rock” or “the Walrus,” in song titles

51. Sample holder

53. Tourist destination in French Polynesia . . . nesia . . . nesia . . .

56. Speedy antelope

58. Grow to dislike

59. Contradict

61. What's your __?

62. Seat of New York's Oneida County

63. German spa town . . . town . . . town . . .

65. Common step in tech troubleshooting

66. Fighting fiercely

67. Certain contract-negotiation success

68. Husband of Harriet Robinson Scott

69. Subway Series team

70. Star-shaped flower

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Down

1. Lost on purpose

2. National capital on the Mediterranean

3. Screenwriting course?

4. Auditory organ

5. More than just surprise

6. Polytheists, to early Christians

7. Opening on a schedule

8. Piece of bacon

9. The Temptations’ “Ain’t ___ Proud to Beg”

10. Urban hangout site

11. Like consonants pronounced using the lips

12. Color that can come from carotenes

13. Digit formally called the hallux

16. Not committed one way or the other

18. Crime fiction subgenre

22. Model's representative

24. Glasses, informally

26. Oratorio solo

29. Help out in the weight room

33. Act ostentatiously

35. Berry in Brazilian cuisine

36. Unravel

38. Bhaji veggie

39. Secluded retreat

40. Jokey comment after a failure

43. Dog with a silky, floor-length coat

44. Ridiculous

45. Header’s counterpart

46. Vacation at sea

49. Doohickeys at the ends of shoelaces

50. Ubiquitous street name

52. Horseshoe resting on the stake, in horseshoes

54. Travelled like a javelin

55. Become less intense

57. Staple of alphabet books

60. Change in a document

63. "Kapow!"

64. Common household batteries

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