Cold-smoked lox Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more luminous in the process

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SMOKED (adjective)
1. (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
COLD (noun)
1. the absence of heat
2. the sensation produced by low temperatures
COLD (adjective)
1. sexually unresponsive
2. without compunction or human feeling

More NYT Crossword (5/16/2026) Answers

Across

1. Modern "go-to's"

5. Curtain for silhouetting on stage

10. Bird on the South Carolina state quarter

14. Capote or chesterfield

15. Emulates E.T., in a way

17. Roman goddess who drives a two-horse chariot

18. Precious self-reference

19. Name shared by the singer of the #1 hit "Rock Me Gently" (1974) and the first Korean American elected to the U.S. Senate (2024)

21. Double-___ cassowary (bird of Indonesia and Australia)

22. Matches with forensics

24. Occasions to relax and recharge

25. Obama's third secretary of defense (2013-15)

26. Gasoline brand that offered the Torch Club credit card

27. Aid in making salsa

28. Operculum, e.g.

31. Capital of Greenland

32. They're hard to pull off

33. Spa service, in brief

34. Up to snuff, facetiously

35. Trickles

36. Cup holders

37. Many a Porsche 911

38. Practical types who are often perfectionists, it's said

39. "Don't start with me"

43. Difficult effort

44. Cut out

46. Setting for Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

49. 7 up, perhaps

50. Gulf of ___, waters that abut Djibouti and Somaliland

51. Vanilla units

52. Spouts

53. Romp

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Down

1. Victor over Washington on 11/12/1955 in "Back to the Future, Pt. II" - and in real life

2. Cattle call

3. Went wide or long, as a tennis ball

4. "No closer!"

5. Takes off

6. Wind pipe?

7. Blight

8. Getting a break on Broadway?

9. Medleys

10. Marriott property with the slogan "Whatever Whenever"

11. Triumphs smoothly

12. ___ Brickowski ("The Lego Movie" protagonist)

13. "What this country ___ …"

16. Certain volleyballer

20. Deck

23. Once-popular terra-cotta figurine

24. Trigger hair

27. State in which Gulliver is discovered by the Lilliputians

28. Combo meal upgrade

29. Going back ages

30. ___ track

32. Folks who enjoy a well-aged beef?

33. Borderline

35. Echolocation systems

36. Element between copper and gallium on the periodic table

37. Spelling combinations?

38. They're concerned with feeding kits

39. Pharyngeal woe

40. Cynthia ___, Tony winner for "The Color Purple"

41. Buckled

42. Extend in a way

45. Chilly and damp

47. "___ noticed"

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