C-D-E, for the C-major scale Crossword Clue

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C-D-E, for the C-major scale Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SCALE (noun)
1. a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
2. (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
SCALE (verb)
1. remove the scales from
2. reach the highest point of
MAJOR (noun)
1. British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
2. a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
MAJOR (adjective)
1. greater in number or size or amount
2. (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
MAJOR (verb)
1. have as one’s principal field of study

Hint 2: Anagram

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

More New Yorker Crossword (3/11/2025) Answers

Across

1. Lead-in to present or potent

5. Perform better than

10. Generous serving of cake

14. Houseplant holders

15. Be moody

16. Seep

17. Easy mode?

19. San ___, Puerto Rico

20. Bounds along

21. Only playing card represented by a vowel

22. Play with Lego bricks, say

23. “Crescat scientia; vita excolatur,” for the University of Chicago

25. Freundin : German :: ___ : French

27. Envision

28. Like crudo or carpaccio

29. Night mode?

32. Chatted online: Abbr.

34. Commercials, billboards, etc.

35. Setting for parts of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” music video

36. Pieces of décor that can make rooms seem more spacious

38. Manage artfully

42. Poke-bowl protein option

43. Not joking, for short

44. Crime-movie genre

45. Eco mode?

50. Thurman who starred in the Broadway play “The Parisian Woman”

51. Word before peeve or project

52. Golden Rule preposition

53. Queendom, e.g.

55. ___ America

57. Dinner booking, briefly

59. Read between the lines

61. Like much top-shelf tequila

62. Beast mode?

64. Confident

65. Steer clear of

66. Engaged in some plot development?

67. “Ganja & ___” (cult-classic 1973 horror film)

68. Sends disappearing photos to, perhaps

69. Chances

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Down

1. Iridescent gemstone

2. 2022 Rosalía album whose cover features the singer wearing only a helmet

3. Degree in theoretical mathematics?

4. Bit of land in the sea

5. Belt in Japanese martial-arts uniforms

6. ___ Major (constellation that contains the Big Dipper)

7. Rain-forest birds with big, brightly colored beaks

9. Laudatory poem

10. Korean spirit

11. “The Round House” novelist Erdrich

12. Colorful garden shrub

13. Bout of excessive partying

18. Ninety-degree turn from norte

22. Commenced

24. ___ reserve (something one might test when trying for pregnancy)

26. Canine neighbor

28. Salted part of a margarita glass

30. Mag staffers

31. Small songbird

33. Attract

37. “Neat, sounds like a good time!”

38. Alphabetically first weekday: Abbr.

39. Hearty cuisine that originated in the American South

40. Bubbled on a burner

41. Chapter in an artist’s career

43. Container that’s just for kicks?

45. Small amount of liquid, in a recipe

46. Part of sports’ M.L.B. or e-sports’ LoL

47. Hairy, slender gay men

48. Endeavored

49. Opposite of ja, in German

54. Dried poblano

56. Middle March?

58. Narrow cut

60. Bordeaux and Barolos

62. State of matter that’s more disordered than liquid

63. Cards shown to bouncers

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