Brain __: 2024 Oxford Word of the Year Crossword Clue

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Brain __: 2024 Oxford Word of the Year Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
2. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
(verb)
1. become physically weaker
2. break down

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

OXFORD (noun)
1. a university in England
2. a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
BRAIN (noun)
1. that which is responsible for one’s thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
2. mental ability
BRAIN (verb)
1. hit on the head
2. kill by smashing someone’s skull

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More LA Times Crossword (4/27/2025) Answers

Across

1. Mideast title

5. Upset with

10. Heeded a wake-up call

15. Stratford-__-Avon

19. Top left Battleship coordinate

20. Saunter

21. Required amount

22. Actor Liu

23. Brand of smart TVs

24. Neon and xenon

25. Wedding attendant

26. Protective wound cover

27. Refutes

29. Turn to face the pitcher

31. Captivate

33. Brake parts

34. Like a chimney

35. Rice-___

36. Melodic composition

38. As if!

40. Stable sounds

43. Musician Sean Ono __

44. Key for special characters

45. Spy org

46. Good-natured

47. See 17-Down

48. NorCal law force, for short

50. Air carrier

52. Writer Wiesel

53. Boomer follower

54. College treasurer

56. "You __!": "Indeed!"

58. M.A. seeker's hurdle

59. Song often played at Dodger Stadium

61. Quivered

63. A quarter after five of

65. Thief count in the Ali Baba folktale

66. Country singer Clark

67. Sound for imitating a car

68. "I'm baffled!"

70. Cockney or Geordie

72. Most unusual

75. European peninsula

76. Brief chats?

77. Hit the slopes

78. Iran, formerly

79. Carpeting calculation

80. Bonsai, e.g.

82. Wise

84. Melville captain

85. "Mi ___ es su ___"

87. American acquisition

90. "Just wait __!"

92. Trades jabs

95. 1980s perm style

100. Greek moralist

104. Bluefin and albacore

105. With 108-Across, instruction given to a barber, or how the answers to the starred clues were literally formed

106. __-Roman architecture

107. By oneself

108. See 105-Across

110. J.D. seekers' hurdles

111. Tire abbreviation

112. Bit of henna art

114. Two-rod antenna

117. Spy-fi novelist Deighton

118. Sprinkled

119. Brunch option

120. PC's brain

121. Garage fig.

122. Soup server

123. IPods that replaced Minis

124. In vogue

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Down

1. The 'E' of ENT

2. Determining factor in playlist selection, perhaps

3. *Body art of a beloved's silhouette?

4. Homecoming events

5. *Advisors on robe or wand selection?

6. Gather

7. Safeties in the NFL, briefly

8. *Beer that belongs in a museum?

9. Do a trial run on

10. Like some Summer Olympics events

11. *Faithful helpers who are less helpful after some time off?

12. 'Amazing!'

13. Like some black diamond runs

14. *Practicing to be worthy of elite double Dutch equipment?

15. Ship in 1898 news

16. *Sumerian king's image?

17. With 47-Across, "House" actor

18. Well-used pencil

28. "That __ true!"

30. Stern's counterpart

32. Downwind

36. 1990s soccer star Lalas

37. Ward (off)

38. Prattles on

39. __ monde: fashionable society

41. Some forensic evidence

42. Icy rain

49. Skirmish

51. Security letters

54. Kentucky college

55. Emu kin

56. Fails to hold, in a way

57. Battery bit

60. Drink also known as a Cape Cod

62. 68-Down team in Fla.

64. "Star Wars" sporting vehicles

68. Org. for Suns and Rockets

69. Rowing blade

70. Half of a craps pair

71. Madre's hermana

73. Elastic Heart singer

74. Bygone soda in pink cans

81. TV friend of Sheldon

83. "Red Notice" actress Gadot

86. Favorable qualities

87. Musical interval also called "the devil's interval"

88. Accompanied by

89. Pursued, as a tip

91. Bald baby?

92. Basic need

93. Throbs

94. Consecrate

96. Furnished with a handle

97. Small nocturnal bird of prey

98. Final syllable

99. Investigate anew, as a cold case

101. Look online

102. Ink squirters

103. Prepare for a pass, in basketball

108. Other, in Spanish

109. Sport with horses

113. Delta HQ

115. __ Miserables

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