Competence Crossword Clue

We have the 7-letter answer for Competence crossword clue, last seen in the New Yorker Crossword September 1, 2026 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Competence Crossword Answer

↓18.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
2. the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

Hint 2: Clue Definition

COMPETENCE (noun)
1. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

More New Yorker Crossword (9/1/2026) Answers

Across

1. Round fruits with yellow rinds

13. From Guyana or French Guiana

14. Everything, with “the”

15. Targeted, with "at"

16. Person skeptical of others’ good intentions

17. Arrive with all of one’s stuff

18. Prince ___ (false identity adopted by Aladdin)

21. Fill a space

22. Urgent smartphone messages

23. Routes known to locals

25. Org. that made helmets mandatory in 1943

26. ___ v. Arizona (1966 Supreme Court case for which a law-enforcement warning is named)

27. Crude transports

30. Like a work that makes fun of another work

31. Legal org. headquartered in Chicago

34. Low wall that’s high up

35. Edward R. ___ (newscaster who hosted the fifties radio show “Hear It Now” and its TV adaptation “See It Now”)

38. “WTF with ___ Maron” (long-running interview podcast)

39. For instance

40. Like much of Arnold Schoenberg’s music

41. Photographer Adams

43. Holey kitchen tools

44. Was in charge

48. Author of the 1928 memoir “20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship”

49. House committee responsible for tax bills

All Answers

Down

1. Rice-___

2. Café specification

3. Oktoberfest souvenirs

4. Subtle warning sound

5. Forbid

6. Major movie-theatre chain

7. Lukewarm response

8. Actor and comedian ___ André

9. Leaves painted by Monet

10. National anthem with both an English and a French version

11. Lowest points

12. Appetite suppressant

13. One with its head in the sand, maybe

14. “To the Lighthouse” author Virginia

15. Financial-crimes investigator, in old slang

19. Bit of a song

20. Modern-day location of Persepolis

24. Unified

26. Tragic heroine of a Euripides play

27. Bill who coached the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories

28. Older brother of George Gershwin

29. Catches the eye

30. Herb in gremolata

31. “The Lego Movie” voice actor Will

32. Tusked animals

33. Cobbler's tools

34. ___ hat

35. “Only When I Laugh” actress Mason

36. J. Willard Marriott or Donny Osmond, by birth

37. Turbine parts

38. Bird that can crack open Brazil nuts with its beak

42. “Aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper?” speaker

43. Richard who co-starred with Diane Lane in “Unfaithful”

45. Martial arts rank

46. "Ideas change everything" org.

47. Unsubtle actor

All Answers