Close ones Crossword Clue

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Close ones Crossword Answer

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KIN

(3 letters)

PALS

(4 letters)

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

CLOSE (verb)
1. cease to operate or cause to cease operating
2. come to a close
CLOSE (adjective)
1. not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
2. of textiles
CLOSE (adverb)
1. near in time or place or relationship
2. in an attentive manner
CLOSE (noun)
1. the last section of a communication
2. the temporal end; the concluding time

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

KIN
(3 letters)
PALS
(4 letters)

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More Newsday Crossword (12/13/2025) Answers

Across

1. Led to lineally

6. Insubstantial

10. Side of ribs

14. Tools for hand-made products

15. Eminently pickable

16. Eminently pickable

17. Capital within 500 mi. of 40% of all in the US

19. Inimitable

20. Performing in concert

21. Dadgum

23. Authoritative quote source

24. Staple of West African cuisine

26. Bugs Bunny wore its uniform in '43

27. Look-both-ways guy

29. Purity standard

32. Head of a table

36. Net speed

38. "I'm stumped"

40. Tomfoolery

41. Effortful freighting

43. Move low and slow

45. Hand salute

47. Small change

48. Sophia, shortly

52. Chilling thing

55. Look-both-ways traveler

57. Many minutos

58. "Let's get started!"

60. Inauspiciousness interjection

61. Misarticulate

62. Medieval marauders

63. Take for a ride

64. Bit of bioplastic

65. Caught up

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Down

1. Cabbage or clams

2. Part of the earliest pianos

3. Major functions

4. Making a point

5. Poor Richard's cure-all herb

6. Missourian in the Capitol's Statuary Hall

7. "Not a thread in all __ raiment": Poe

8. Where Taylor Swift kept "many indie bands"

9. Prime minister at Elizabeth II's coronation

10. Coastal ecosystem

11. Gamer's acquisition activity

12. Islander redhead in Canadian kid lit

13. Winnow (out)

18. Nine counties around Western estuaries

22. Incredulously

25. Fowl much-mistaken for ducks

27. Enthusiastically accepts

28. Viscosity std. setter

30. Swatch of suiting?

31. Midshipman opponent in the annual Crab Bowl

32. Dry-__ (tenderized, as T-bones)

33. Come into one's own

34. What the Emmys are named for

35. You be the judge

37. Windows 95 introduction

39. Vikes' strikes

44. Much-watched after-dark streaming

46. Head honchos

48. Skunky essence

49. Concise comforter

50. Apocryphal

51. Feeling sore

52. Taj Mahal builder, e.g.

53. Book of Marvels of the World author (c. 1300)

54. Get going

56. Not much change

59. Pepsi's root beer

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