Brain-scan option: Abbr. Crossword Clue

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Brain-scan option: Abbr. Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

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
OPTION (noun)
1. the act of choosing or selecting
2. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

Hint 3: Anagram

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MIR

More New Yorker Crossword (5/8/2025) Answers

Across

1. Recedes, as the tide

5. Impulse

9. Brazenness

10. “That happened to me, too”

11. Crafting staple used in drag makeup to mask one’s natural eyebrows

13. Intensifies

14. Leaflike symbol in a deck of cards

15. Counterpart of long., on a map

17. Former Secretary of the Interior Haaland

20. Use for ripe avocados

24. Like some lawsuits brought against mergers

25. Wood-eating insect

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Down

1. Key ingredient in a custard

2. Like Michael Jordan or Stanley Tucci

3. Massachusetts or Hawaii, politically

4. Activity that seems to pass in the blink of an eye

5. More formal alternative to tú

6. Scrubbed after a shower?

7. Yukons and Sierras, e.g.

8. Frightened cry

12. Business that might have a sauna and a cold plunge

15. Alternative to J.F.K.

16. Cool ___ (archetypal family member)

18. Partner of “if” in some code

19. Wager

21. Street-address abbr. for a cul-de-sac, perhaps

22. Spot to make a deposit

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