Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword Crossword Clue

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Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
2. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BIBLICAL (adjective)
1. of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible
FLAMING (adjective)
1. informal intensifiers
2. very intense
FLAMING (noun)
1. the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (5/14/2026) Answers

Across

1. Cliff formed by a fault

6. Avoided a tag, say

10. Penultimate Greek letter

13. "My fault entirely"

14. Taste perception first identified in 1908

15. Physics unit named for a physicist

16. Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 1997

18. Confucian way

19. Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes

20. Impression on some fancy sheets

22. Puente of "The Mambo Kings"

23. Traveled path

24. At sea, say

27. Powerful fireboat gear

30. Rationalist's theology

31. Decree

32. Part of an analogy

33. "___'s da breaks!"

34. Lovestruck

37. Flesh and blood

40. Direction to bow, in music

41. Squeezing (out)

43. Gets bloated, say

45. Pair for a pool

46. Ruthless Athenian lawgiver

47. Tidy up, in a way

48. What collects in a puddle

49. Things often getting free refills

54. Simile segment

55. Broadcasting giant with hundreds of stations

57. ___ Friday

58. Origin of the words "sky" and "scrape"

59. Heather genus that's also a woman's name

60. Good periods

61. Former small-sized G.M. cars

62. Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters

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1. Anatomical containers

2. Thicken

3. Palindrome on an Italian restaurant menu

4. September to April, in the oyster industry

5. Alternatives to hourly wages

6. Ecological concern

7. Trellis piece

8. If u ask me

9. Gossip about, informally

10. A peeling that's appealing?

11. Prolifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism

12. Reassuring reply

14. "That … ain't it"

17. Essence

21. Certain tax-free bond, informally

23. Velocity, e.g.

24. Relatively unusual

25. Had to have right away

26. Races against the clock

27. Travel by pick-up?

28. "The Elder" or "The Younger" Roman

29. Strains to hear?

31. Hemlock relatives

35. Hand, at a hacienda

36. Group with a satellite truck

39. Palindrome on an Indian restaurant menu

42. Seven-stringed instrument that gave the guitar its name

44. Ancient book of divination

45. Member of a sluglike "Star Wars" species

47. Presaging disaster

48. Meaty pasta sauce

49. Long lunch?

50. Get ahead of

51. Cut and paste, e.g.

52. Force through a food mill

53. Go way up

56. Uprooting tool

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