Bottom's opposite Crossword Clue

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Bottom's opposite Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. be the culminating event
2. pass by, over, or under without making contact
(noun)
1. the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
2. a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
(adjective)
1. situated at the top or highest position

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

OPPOSITE (adverb)
1. directly facing each other
OPPOSITE (adjective)
1. characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
2. of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
OPPOSITE (noun)
1. a contestant that you are matched against
2. a relation of direct opposition
BOTTOM (noun)
1. low-lying alluvial land near a river
2. a cargo ship
BOTTOM (verb)
1. come to understand
2. provide with a bottom or a seat
BOTTOM (adjective)
1. situated at the bottom or lowest position
2. the lowest rank

Hint 3: Anagram

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More Boston Globe Mini Crossword (7/16/2026) Answers

Across

1. World's top-selling cookie

5. Used a broom

10. Go by

14. Coal chunk

15. Indiana NBA player

16. Woody's folk-singing son

17. Parting words in "The Sound of Music"

19. Authentic

20. Plants with fronds

21. Gorilla, e.g

23. (Did you forget I'm here?)

26. Cunning

27. Academic field for which you may learn Old English

35. Ginger ___

36. "Jerry Maguire" star Zellweger

37. Chop finely

38. Prep, as a plane in winter

40. Ruby or emerald

42. Lowly worker

43. With 50-Across, classic hit

46. "You ain't seen nothin' ___!"

48. Trains to Wrigley Field

49. Flowing locks

50. See 43 Across

53. Guy seen on the Food Network

55. Palindromic Korean word for "dad"

56. Brew with major hops

59. "Move on!"

61. What Taylor Swift has more of than geological time

64. Kathmandu Native

66. Ideal vacation spot ... or a phonetic hint to a word hidden twice in 17-, 27- or 43-/50-Across

68. Snapple competitor

69. Divas have big ones

70. ___ de los Muertos

71. Risk getting pulled over

72. Puts on

73. Unit of corn

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2. Impolite

3. Middle Eastern bigwig

4. Company behind ChatGPT

5. Place to unwind

6. Bundle of bills

7. Vaping device

8. Social equal

9. Most loyal

10. It can have seven layers

11. ___ 51 (alien site?)

12. Really rock, in slang

13. Shoe part

18. Showed guests their seats

22. HS reunion attendee

24. Time for final holiday prep, say

25. Geez!

27. Sir's counterpart

28. Justice Kagan

29. Sanders who played for the Falcons

30. Relay race unit

31. "I gotta jet"

32. Words before requesting an Uber

33. Reason for a food recall

34. Taste or touch

39. Musical opener?

41. Transformers' archenemy

44. Spain's peninsula

45. Coin with 44-Down pictured on it

51. Supported a busker

52. Columnist’s piece

54. Did nothing

56. Rustic hotels

57. Chewy Easter treat

58. Church recess

60. Emilia's husband in "Othello"

62. Home to seven "-stans"

63. Burn on the grill

65. Had a nibble

67. A beast of burden

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