Ceiling Crossword Clue

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Ceiling Crossword Answer

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CAP

(3 letters)

LIMIT

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. be the culminating event
2. pass by, over, or under without making contact
(noun)
1. the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
2. a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
(adjective)
1. situated at the top or highest position

Hint 2: Clue Definition

CEILING (noun)
1. an upper limit on what is allowed
2. maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions)

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

CAP
(3 letters)
LIMIT
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

Across

1. Seem to last forever

5. Catty

11. Pretends to be someone else

15. Fountain drink

16. “A person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write,” per E. B. White

17. Jump

18. Basis for many newspaper horoscopes

21. League whose 2024 champions were the New York Liberty

22. Alcohol at an omakase restaurant

23. The teens, e.g.

26. Swiftie’s idol, cutesily

30. Sonneteer’s “before”

31. Attraction represented in yellow in this puzzle

36. Rage

37. Teen-age sleuth Drew

39. State whose largest cities are linked by the so-called 3-C Highway

40. Island nation northeast of Fiji

42. "That ___ say . . ."

43. Signs of chemistry, idiomatically

45. Word with man or friend

46. Some Bordeaux wines

48. Sites of cold-season congestion

50. Dynamic start in Formula 1?

51. Spoils

52. Home of the Gateway Arch, for short

54. Hemostasis helper

59. Euclidean mike drop

63. Attraction represented in blue in this puzzle

64. Persian Gulf federation: Abbr.

65. Normandy beach between Utah and Gold

67. ___ pan (bread-baking vessel)

68. Stage

70. Second showing, perhaps

71. Direction opposite oeste

72. Made known

73. "Oof, that's not good"

74. Golf-course bookings

75. Cocktail ___

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Down

1. Famous Footwear competitor

2. Fish eggs

3. Posters in subway cars, e.g.

4. “Doctor Who” star Ncuti

5. See 6-Down

6. With 5-Down, Algonquin Round Table member who wrote “Giant” and “Cimarron”

7. N.C.A.A. swimming champion ___ Thomas

8. FWIW part

9. The haves and the have-___

10. Heading for a list of misprints

11. Path for a garbage truck, perhaps

12. One who might lead an all-hands meeting, briefly

13. Annoyance in the back of a T-shirt or bra

14. Snoop

19. Conclude no later than

20. Blesses

23. Material that makes up a Canadian tuxedo

24. Remove from existence

25. Attraction represented in pink in this puzzle

27. Attraction represented in green in this puzzle

28. Came into being

29. Poet who wrote, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”

32. Accidental utterance?

33. “Solved at last!”

34. Abbr. for Kurosawa or Kubrick

35. Some round-bottomed cookware

38. “Oh, Mary!” writer and star Escola

41. Bump up against

43. Vodka brand that shed its longer, Russian name in opposition to the invasion of Ukraine

44. Enchanting singer in the Odyssey

47. Annie and Anne of Green Gables, for two

49. Writer's block?

52. “I’ve always known when I start a ___ what the last line is”: Amy Hempel

53. "In the Bedroom" actress Marisa

55. Doohickey at the end of a shoelace

56. The ones over there

57. Send to cloud nine

58. Durations that span from birth to death

60. Lightens, as a load

61. Ownership documents

66. Color

69. Pronoun for “Stone Butch Blues” author Leslie Feinberg

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