By surprise Crossword Clue

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ABACK

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Helpful Hints

(adverb)
1. at a disadvantage

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SURPRISE (noun)
1. the act of surprising someone
2. a sudden unexpected event
SURPRISE (verb)
1. attack by storm; attack suddenly
2. cause to be surprised

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ABACK
(5 letters)

More New Yorker Crossword (11/25/2025) Answers

Across

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7. Songs made from multiple songs

14. Margarita purveyor

15. Encroach

16. Trips up?

17. River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario

18. Birds in the crow family

19. Major brokerage firm, familiarly

20. Marine mammal whose markings resemble its namesake instrument

22. Legislative body whose name comes from the Latin for “old man”

23. Place for an iris

24. Signals

26. Prepped, as a pineapple

27. The ___ (Boston skyscraper named after an insurance company, informally)

29. Made bubbly

31. Only band apart from the Beatles to achieve ten or more Billboard No. 1 hits

33. Event whose world record is 23.56 metres

34. One talking during a road trip, briefly

35. Baseball player Victorino nicknamed the Flyin’ Hawaiian

36. ___-sci major

38. Sandwich sometimes made with heirlooms

41. Powerful

43. Natural dust trapper

46. Us star Nyong'o

47. On the loose

48. Not straight

50. Toy with a lip

51. Made every effort

52. Little ___ (term some people use for the Sundays during Lent)

53. What the Scoville scale measures

54. Really isn’t looking forward to

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Down

1. Strut down a runway

2. Concert bonus

3. Bought hook, line, and sinker

4. Belts out

5. Like a March 20th Pisces or a March 21st Aries

6. Capital of the Bahamas

7. Least possible, for short

8. Not quite right

9. Destination for an aspiring astronaut

10. Tops of some ranges

12. Like “Paddington,” but not “Eddington” or “Paddleton”

13. Wet floor?

14. Browser’s storage area

21. Quickly noticed and used to one’s advantage

25. Spanish for "to be"

27. Follow advice to “act your wage,” perhaps

28. Like a good memory

30. Person in charge of student transcripts

31. Period

32. Texter’s “Still awake?”

33. Contact by yelling

35. Result of a cannonball

37. Lazed around

38. Like stingrays’ tails and many woodpeckers’ tongues

39. Feline hybrids

40. Arboretum plantings

42. Bits of folklore

44. Stage-and-screen star Renée ___ Goldsberry

45. Word before luego or mañana

49. 49ers’ six-pointers, for short

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