Best-in-class Crossword Clue

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Best-in-class Crossword Answer

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TOPS

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

CLASS (noun)
1. a body of students who graduate together
2. people having the same social, economic, or educational status
CLASS (verb)
1. arrange or order by classes or categories
BEST (noun)
1. Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978)
2. the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others
BEST (adjective)
1. (comparative and superlative of `well’) wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
2. (superlative of `good’) having the most positive qualities
BEST (adverb)
1. from a position of superiority or authority
BEST (verb)
1. get the better of

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

TOPS
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Hint 3: Anagram

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

More Newsday Crossword (5/15/2026) Answers

Across

1. 'Darn it!'

4. Shows like The Legend of Zang Hai, for short

11. Informative URL

14. Tiananmen Square honoree

15. Comic strip "Goodness!"

16. The __ (ribs city, for short)

17. Venerable morale booster

18. Start of a quote

19. Verse starter?

20. Seder fish

22. Charles III's second granddaughter

24. Lawnmower Maintenance Week mo.

25. Gradual, on product labels

26. Middle of quote

33. Rummy cakes

34. Métro area?

35. What some waves are

37. Securer of plywood

38. Logically sound

40. For both, on scores

41. Frequent address bar input

42. Emulated dragonflies

44. Where Chaucer's pilgrims met

45. End of quote

48. Land on the Sea of Cortez

49. Undeluded about

50. 48th st.

52. Designations

56. Times given 52-Across

59. Eminent Italian director, the quote's source

62. Karate derivative

63. Kentucky Dam operator

64. Unvarnished

65. "You take that back!"

66. Confound

67. It's in six presidents' 52-Across

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1. Too confident

2. Peace of mind

3. Pound sound

4. Publishing partnerships

5. Karamazov brother

6. Swarming

7. Mellow, maybe

8. Drudgery

9. Basilica of San Francesco city

10. Onion cousin

11. Make a mess of

13. Knock off

21. [Grrr!]

23. Part of modern-day Turkey

26. Any rebound

27. Ticket of 2008

28. Napoli's new

29. "Over the Rainbow" Oscar winner

30. Former Ford, familiarly

31. Ripley museum moniker

32. Barracudas, bees, buffaloes,...

33. Oldest global radio network

36. Football great Dawson

38. Copycat comment

39. Toss out

42. KLM predecessors

43. Brown of Code fame

46. Park's small pavilion

47. Whom Pollack and Johns inspired

50. Old Spice alternative

51. Paper parcel portion

53. ...Prince of Denmark denouement

54. Affect deeply

55. Document sent digitally

57. Kid-lit Canadian

58. Parks it

60. Utter nonsense

61. UT Austin library focus

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