Classic breakup excuse … or a phonetic hint to 23-, 36-, 47-, 67-, 86- and 93-Across Crossword Clue

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Classic breakup excuse … or a phonetic hint to 23-, 36-, 47-, 67-, 86- and 93-Across Crossword Answer

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PHONETIC (adjective)
1. of or relating to speech sounds
CLASSIC (adjective)
1. of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
2. well-known and long-established in form or style
CLASSIC (noun)
1. a creation of the highest excellence
2. an artist who has created classic works

More NYT Crossword (3/23/2025) Answers

Across

1. Capital of Western Australia

6. Doomed Ethiopian princess

10. Do some basic math

13. Heats to just below a boil, as milk

19. Setting for 6-Across

20. Higher in rank

22. Here!

23. Stay in one's lane?

25. One place to redeem tickets

26. One might be custom-printed

27. Target

28. Brings in

30. Vehicle in 2020's "Nomadland"

31. Like bread more suitable for panzanella

33. Canada's ___ Nova National Park

35. It follows Oktober

36. CliffsNotes version of Holmes and Watson stories?

42. Morales of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise

45. Wedding cake features

46. Knack

47. "When do you need this patched up?," "Do you have the missing button?," etc.?

51. Hockey player who wears #1, traditionally

53. __ milk

54. Slightest amount

55. Pentagon div.

56. Figure on a Wyoming license plate

60. Straightens up

62. Neptune, e.g.

65. Weapon/fashion accessory for animation's Sailor Moon

66. Apt name for a car salesman?

67. Best impression of a Springfield patriarch?

71. Start to wear

72. Where you might walk down the aisle

74. The "K" of 15-Down

75. Support on a lease

77. Temporarily banish, as a college roommate

79. Planks can build them

80. Wire holder

82. Get along in years

84. Vivid shade of yellow

86. Headline about a falsely incriminated person casting a ballot?

89. Beautifully emotive

91. Exudes

92. ___ we forget …

93. Delivered a nasty insult with perfect timing?

99. Word after cash or read

100. Toiled on a longship, maybe

101. "Lawrence of Arabia" star

104. Cut short

105. Grain used in Italian cuisine

107. Turns inside out

111. Bit of concert stage equipment

113. Liqueur in a spritz

118. Claim in a courtroom

119. Dartmouth's colorful nickname

120. 2010 comedy inspired by "The Scarlet Letter"

121. "Too bad for me!"

122. Mo. known for political surprises

123. Common conjunctions

124. Rule the ___

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Down

1. Wine whose name is the first half of its country of origin

2. Dueling weapons

3. Electric appliance button

4. Arm muscle informally

5. Big pain

6. Noted family of New York City's Gilded Age

7. "If you ask me," to texters

8. Alternative to a citronella candle

9. ___ mater

10. Sign at a gas station

11. Use a Clorox wipe on, say

12. Gloomy

13. Laurel of Laurel and Hardy

14. They fill up a lot

15. Org. that awards the "Paw of Courage" for canine heroism

16. Retain

17. Told some jokes, say

18. Surgical aids

21. Literature

24. Before now

29. One celebrating Ethiopian Christmas (Jan. 7)

32. In the thick of

34. Mag staffers

35. It might have "-GUEST" in its name

37. Big name in elevators

38. Dryer detritus

39. Victory symbol

40. Soft mineral

41. "Middlemarch" author

42. ___ pop (hybrid music genre)

43. Birthplace of Starbucks

44. Skeptical of big government, say

48. Yalie

49. Ecosystem for an estimated 25% of all marine species

50. Corrective eye surgery

51. Kind of boot

52. "Hamilton" co-star Leslie ___ Jr.

55. "Matilda" author

57. Darts or billiards

58. Ambrosia salad ingredients

59. Woo-hoo!

61. Suffice

62. IDs that will never start 000 or 666: Abbr.

63. Summertime in Versailles

64. Designer's specialty

66. Photo __

68. Warm, in a sense

69. Disc jockey : deejay :: nonbinary : ___

70. Feature of a yurt, but not a teepee

73. Thrill

76. Camera choice, in brief

78. Oklahoma’s “Wheat Capital”

80. Red part of rhubarb

81. Philippine currency

83. Summer setting in Somerset, for short

85. Jackson or Jackman

86. Nullifying

87. Parts of baby wts.

88. Member of a choir

89. Impressive array

90. Crude cavity

91. Pablo Neruda's "___ to My Socks"

93. Polite "I'll pass"

94. Gummy candy company

95. Like the Kama Sutra

96. Dunderheads

97. Caesar's addressing?

98. More intrusive

102. Dogie catcher

103. Angela Lansbury was nominated for 18 of them (winning none)

105. Obscures

106. Some six-packs

108. Director Ephron

109. Powerful engine

110. Kept watch on

112. Bog deposit

114. ___ Speedwagon

116. Army rank above cpl.

117. Principle behind yin and yang

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