Cable channel since 1981 Crossword Clue

We have the 3-letter answer for Cable channel since 1981 crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword November 26, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Cable channel since 1981 Crossword Answer

→53.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definitions

CHANNEL (verb)
1. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
2. send from one person or place to another
CHANNEL (noun)
1. a television station and its programs
2. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
CABLE (noun)
1. television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
2. a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
CABLE (verb)
1. send cables, wires, or telegrams
2. fasten with a cable

More NYT Crossword (11/26/2025) Answers

Across

1. Posterior

5. Unadventurous

10. Growth on one side of trees

14. Psalm starter

15. Home to the renowned Khan el-Khalili bazaar

16. Woes

17. Posterior

18. "An assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained" (1998)

20. No vote

21. Jewish ceremony performed eight days after birth

22. “Over here!”

23. "To love ___ is the beginning of a lifelong romance": Oscar Wilde

25. Simple songs

28. With 34-Across, "Like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time" (2000)

30. Fannie ___

31. Work of Congress

32. Price you pay

33. Loch viewed from the village of Drumnadrochit

34. See 28-Across

37. Pa Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies"

38. "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it." (1994)

39. [sigh]

40. Amazon wrapper

41. Film locale

42. QB Brady

43. "A two-hour movie squeezed into three hours" (2001)

48. One who may end on a high note

50. Filmmakers with distinctive styles

51. Like a die-hard fan

52. Book after Judges

54. Pulitzer-winning critic known for his perceptive, sometimes sharply worded reviews, as seen in 18-, 28-/34-, 38- and 43-Across

57. __ school

58. With 34-Down, food delivery app

59. Drive back

60. Wise guy

61. ___ Universe

62. Slate, e.g.

63. Apple product introduced in 2010

All Answers

Down

1. Mingle

2. Lizard with an oceangoing subspecies nicknamed Godzilla

3. Wait!

4. Once-common pesticide banned in 1972

5. Color of a literary "A"

6. Tax on imports

7. Gets ready to fire

8. Nest egg inits.

9. Disorderly heap of people

10. 'There's a traitor in our ___!'

11. Veteran

12. Advisory in a school zone

13. ID with two hyphens

19. Abbr. before a year

21. One might precede "Excuse you!"

24. Ballpark figures?

25. Homeowner's proof of purchase

26. Right direction?

27. Meeting, slangily

29. Worrier's opening words

33. ___ Dame

34. See 58-Across

35. Potatoes in Indian cuisine

36. Runs amok

37. Juan : Spanish :: ___ : Portuguese

38. Below, poetically

40. Drinking sprees

41. One way to get to an airport

43. Modest poker holding

44. Big name in upscale fashion

45. Unfair accusation

46. Jenna of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”

47. Answered an invitation

49. People looking for hookups, informally

52. Car at an auction, maybe

54. Part of a Bahama Mama

55. Belt in judo

56. "You ___!" (words of agreement)

57. Letter after chi

All Answers