Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters Crossword Clue

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Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the part of the earth’s surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
2. a facility that provides a source of water
(verb)
1. supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
2. fill with tears

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MOLECULE (noun)
1. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
2. (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound
COMPOUND (verb)
1. make more intense, stronger, or more marked
2. put or add together
COMPOUND (noun)
1. (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
2. an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
COMPOUND (adjective)
1. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
2. composed of more than one part

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (5/14/2026) Answers

Across

1. Cliff formed by a fault

6. Avoided a tag, say

10. Penultimate Greek letter

13. "My fault entirely"

14. Taste perception first identified in 1908

15. Physics unit named for a physicist

16. Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 1997

18. Confucian way

19. Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes

20. Impression on some fancy sheets

22. Puente of "The Mambo Kings"

23. Traveled path

24. At sea, say

27. Powerful fireboat gear

30. Rationalist's theology

31. Decree

32. Part of an analogy

33. "___'s da breaks!"

34. Lovestruck

37. Flesh and blood

38. Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword

40. Direction to bow, in music

41. Squeezing (out)

43. Gets bloated, say

45. Pair for a pool

46. Ruthless Athenian lawgiver

47. Tidy up, in a way

48. What collects in a puddle

49. Things often getting free refills

54. Simile segment

55. Broadcasting giant with hundreds of stations

57. ___ Friday

58. Origin of the words "sky" and "scrape"

59. Heather genus that's also a woman's name

60. Good periods

61. Former small-sized G.M. cars

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1. Anatomical containers

2. Thicken

3. Palindrome on an Italian restaurant menu

4. September to April, in the oyster industry

5. Alternatives to hourly wages

6. Ecological concern

7. Trellis piece

8. If u ask me

9. Gossip about, informally

10. A peeling that's appealing?

11. Prolifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism

12. Reassuring reply

14. "That … ain't it"

17. Essence

21. Certain tax-free bond, informally

23. Velocity, e.g.

24. Relatively unusual

25. Had to have right away

26. Races against the clock

27. Travel by pick-up?

28. "The Elder" or "The Younger" Roman

29. Strains to hear?

31. Hemlock relatives

35. Hand, at a hacienda

36. Group with a satellite truck

39. Palindrome on an Indian restaurant menu

42. Seven-stringed instrument that gave the guitar its name

44. Ancient book of divination

45. Member of a sluglike "Star Wars" species

47. Presaging disaster

48. Meaty pasta sauce

49. Long lunch?

50. Get ahead of

51. Cut and paste, e.g.

52. Force through a food mill

53. Go way up

56. Uprooting tool

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