Break down Crossword Clue

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CRY

(3 letters)

ANALYZE

(7 letters)

WEEP

(4 letters)

PARSE

(5 letters)

DIE

(3 letters)

SOB

(3 letters)

DISMANTLE

(9 letters)

ERODE

(5 letters)

DECAY

(5 letters)

GOTOPIECES

(10 letters)

Helpful Hints

(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

BREAK (noun)
1. (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
2. breaking of hard tissue such as bone
BREAK (verb)
1. enter someone’s (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
2. be released or become known; of news
DOWN (noun)
1. English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
2. soft fine feathers
DOWN (adjective)
1. understood perfectly
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
DOWN (adverb)
1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
DOWN (verb)
1. eat up completely, as with great appetite
2. cause to come or go down

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

CRY
(3 letters)
ANALYZE
(7 letters)
WEEP
(4 letters)
PARSE
(5 letters)
Die
(3 letters)
SOB
(3 letters)
DISMANTLE
(9 letters)
ERODE
(5 letters)
DECAY
(5 letters)
GOTOPIECES
(10 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More WSJ Crossword (12/20/2025) Answers

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11. “I’m being framed!”

18. Short-term solution during a repair

19. Skilled in

21. Barrel builders

22. Strapping men welcoming orphans?

24. Fighting fleets

25. German-based grocery store chain

26. Cozy spot

27. Savage beast who’s boringly conventional?

29. Silent sort

31. Small swig of Scotch

33. Dry and withered

34. Stock holder

35. Spheres of worms with mystical powers?

40. British singer Rita

42. Motionless part of a turbine

43. Makeup of some coastal California colonies

45. Woolly mammal

49. Nucleotide sequence

50. Kinda sorta

52. Home of the Tokugawa shogunate

53. Gas whose name comes from the Greek for “hidden”

55. Statistical fodder

57. Third qtr.’s end

59. Salon supply

60. Rubik of Cube fame

61. London's ___ Gardens

64. Add a coat to the village’s prized loaf?

69. Articles

71. “Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend” speaker

72. Narrowest of margins

73. Words from a knocker

74. “Oh no! The brewery just caught fire!”?

78. '__ the season to be jolly'

79. Saudi Arabia neighbor

80. All the rage

81. QB successes

82. Buccaneers coach Bowles

84. Costing over

86. British verb ending

88. Famed pajama-wearing mag mogul

89. Mount south of Olympus

93. Like a ballerina, at times

94. First commercial film shown in stereo

98. Provides with a quality

100. Nikon product, for short

102. Filthy film coating a bed on a boat?

104. Tribute in verse

107. Creator of a tribute in verse

109. Orthodontist's concern

110. They can’t be returned

111. Deep pink underwear?

116. Spore-producing plant

118. Bravo preceder

120. Rice collection

121. Extensive alterations to a jacket?

124. Mountaineering feats

125. Rings in the morning?

126. Little foot warmer

127. Most austere

128. Dry dock sight

129. Has a feeling

All Answers

Down

1. Idris of “Pacific Rim”

2. Life companion

3. 2020 Taylor Swift hit

4. Boundless

5. Susan of "The Partridge Family"

6. Paperless test

7. Tax max

9. Fateful date in old Rome

10. Soft drink bottler Edward

11. Empathetic words

12. Ring figure

13. In an unsmiling way

14. On ___ with (equivalent to)

15. Was a prelude (to)

16. Steaming

17. German steel center

19. Notre Dame cheer

20. Nashville sch.

23. Movement for Man Ray

28. Org.

30. "The Name of the Rose" author Umberto

32. Degree for many CEOs

35. Site of N.Y. Knicks games

36. Major name in water filters

37. Beth preceder

38. Cornea cover

39. John, to Elton

41. Trumpeter Herb of the Tijuana Brass

44. Use words that go over people’s heads?

46. Stationary

47. Way to address a Parisian pal

48. Battery terminals

51. Leaves port

54. Cartoon canine

56. Site for relics and shrines

57. Marquee name

58. Being, in Brest

59. Knock off

61. Ginza garment

62. Word source

63. Site graphics

65. Orderly

66. Former Israeli prime minister Barak

67. They deal with decks

68. Mavs’ home, familiarly

70. Candies in some volcanic science demos

75. P look-alike

76. Second-stringers

77. Feature of a credit card offer, at times

83. Shape of a British pound

85. Source of some tech answers

86. Corp. letters

87. Disco guy on "The Simpsons"

88. Pork pie producers

90. “Okay, I’m game!”

91. Liberates

92. Sample for an arson investigation

95. Italian sparkling wine

96. Weep

97. 1964 Beatles song

99. Kings’ org.

101. Some NASA workers

103. Letters on some towels

104. Base in which 64 is 100

105. Extinguish

106. "Fear of Flying" author Jong

108. Physicist Mach

112. Egyptian sun disc

113. Decline

114. Strong criticism

115. Leaves for stuffing

117. Worn-down pencils

119. Supporters’ answers

122. Last letter

123. Ikura, on a sushi menu

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