Competitor suggested by 17-, 23- and 45-Across … or by the name of the inventor jumbled in the circled letters Crossword Clue

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COMPETITOR (noun)
1. the contestant you hope to defeat

More NYT Crossword (7/15/2026) Answers

Across

1. Bold way to go when bluffing

6. Blade brand

10. Mocked, in a way

14. One of approximately three million in Finland (for a population of less than six million)

15. Artery

16. Place for a hero

17. Giving up one's amateur status

19. Valhalla V.I.P.

20. Ben Jonson wrote one to himself

21. Name repeated in a hit 1963 rock song

22. Emulate Cicero

23. Frantic rushes

25. Apple variety named for the state it was developed in

28. Daffy Duck characteristic

29. Thing to rule, proverbially

30. Moon's path

33. Largest human cells

36. Rapper born Tracy Lauren Marrow

37. Good source of vitamin C

38. Thunderstruck

39. Ballpark fig

40. Liam Neeson action trilogy

41. Many a rosé wine

42. Budget airline of Ireland, informally

44. Word with college or message

45. Something it's good to pass with

50. Places for hot dates?

51. Moves pawn to e4, e.g.

52. "Hazy" drink

55. One flying in to the coast, maybe

58. Mortarboard wearer

59. Steve with nine N.B.A. titles as a player and coach

60. Island country that's an anagram of TAHITI minus T

61. Major export of Ghana

62. Brit’s exclamation

63. Thompson who plays Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Down

1. Regarding

2. "Hail!"

3. Draw

4. Days or Knights follower

5. Finger painting?

6. Many-eyed giant of Greek myth

7. Hot ___ (fast-fashion company)

8. Like triplets vis-à-vis twins

9. Botheration

10. Cute to the max

11. Standard bicycle propulsion

12. Upper echelon

13. Patronizes a four-star restaurant, say

18. Central point

22. Pass over

23. Atomizer output

24. Came to rest

25. The "E" in HOMES

26. Some comfy kicks

27. Spoken-word event

30. Mork's planet on an old sitcom

31. Narrator on "Euphoria"

32. Storage Container

34. Peddle

35. Tacks on

37. Vampire double feature?

38. What a pity

40. Catches some rays

41. Sour soup

43. Rates of return?

44. Whom Austin Powers parodies

45. Like San Francisco, frequently

46. Early 2000s first lady

47. Hangs in there

48. Work with a libretto

49. Distrustful

52. Sacred bird of ancient Egypt

53. Contents of some carriers

54. Highlight of a 48-Down

56. Word with run or lift

57. Burj Khalifa's home, in brief

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