Clever shortcut Crossword Clue

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Clever shortcut Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. cough spasmodically
2. cut with a hacking tool
(noun)
1. an old or over-worked horse
2. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SHORTCUT (noun)
1. a route shorter than the usual one
CLEVER (adjective)
1. showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
2. showing inventiveness and skill

More New Yorker Crossword (10/26/2026) Answers

Across

1. “Sabrina” actor Kinnear

9. “La ___” (folk song with the lyric “Yo no soy marinero”)

14. Figure in a congressional office

15. ___ mater

16. Leftward, at sea

17. Cut

18. Space

19. Future fern

20. Bank deposit?

23. Word before age or number

24. Élite groups

27. “___, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” (Pulitzer-winning book)

28. Great American Ball Park players

31. Classic soda brand

32. Artwork that’s created at arm’s length?

35. Ending for the record books?

38. Manhattan restaurant mentioned in Billy Joel’s “Big Shot”

39. Skylight?

40. Face-painting experts

43. Letter-shaped construction piece

44. Bath buggy

45. Poet whose “Age of Anxiety” inspired Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2

49. They may have locks

51. More than just crushing

52. Roots of Thanksgiving celebrations

56. Rummage

58. Pseudonym used by Charles Lamb

59. Botanical bristles

60. Less cautious

61. Ring

62. Terse denial

63. Killarney’s county

64. Place to buy a customized gift

65. Church section

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Down

1. Non-stop talker

2. Central area in Venice

3. 1994 title role for Johnny Depp

4. Sequencing subjects

5. Copper head?

6. ___ chaat (snacky potato dish)

7. “Let’s go!”

8. Sanskrit word for pleasure

9. Ingredient in some marinara sauces

10. Name

11. Evening occurrences during a waxing-crescent phase

12. Comment from someone who’s underdressed

13. Took a few courses?

21. “Who Knew” memoirist Barry

22. Has some of

25. Ten Commandments word

26. Priory of ___ (secret society in “The Da Vinci Code”)

28. Show again

29. 1996 title role for Madonna

30. Overall makeup?

33. Pass

34. Capital of Kazakhstan

35. Grand

36. Japanese noodles

37. Shift

41. Shrimp boat, e.g.

42. Raisin variety

46. Music style that became popular in the fifties

47. Arena listings

48. Subject of the infamous “surgeon’s photograph,” familiarly

50. Suspicious

51. Nation where three Winter Olympics have been held

53. Place for un béret

54. Conspiracy

55. Makes less noisy, maybe

56. Sen. for whom the Triborough Bridge was renamed, in 2008

57. Rage

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