Contend Crossword Clue

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Contend Crossword Answer

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VIE

(3 letters)

COPE

(4 letters)

HOLD

(4 letters)

AVER

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. state categorically
2. insist on having one’s opinions and rights recognized

Hint 2: Clue Definition

CONTEND (verb)
1. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
2. have an argument about something

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

VIE
(3 letters)
COPE
(4 letters)
HOLD
(4 letters)
AVER
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More WSJ Crossword (4/20/2024) Answers

Across

1. Sought, politically

7. Menacing look

13. Ridges on glaciers

19. Pythagorean squares?

20. Gorge

21. Counting everything

22. Tarp that doesn’t remotely protect the baseball field?

24. “Great comeback!”

25. Dah’s counterpart

26. Chest protector

27. Avoid a sentence

29. Gaping mouth

30. Namesake of the ATP’s humanitarian award

32. Some deliveries

33. Cotillion honoree with a great manicure treatment?

36. Take up the slack

38. Strait-laced sort

40. Coordinate, as phone and tablet settings

41. Shipping inquiry

43. Be an inconvenience

45. Source of the meteors in a meteor shower

48. Table talk at the bridge tournament?

51. Hawaiian goose

53. “The Every” author Eggers

54. Adjust to new conditions

55. Stew bit

56. Ovine mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels

58. List header

59. Some lighting fixtures

63. Anchorman Díaz-Balart

64. Fourth-yr. group

65. Deep hole in a floe?

69. Sheet edge

72. Agricultural laborer

73. Like planners that can be sold year after year

74. Fraternal order founded as a club for minstrel show performers

78. "Presumably..."

80. High rollers, of a sort

81. Spiral shell dweller

82. Jab

83. Head line site

86. Person who buddies up to folks with opulent lifestyles?

89. Florists trim them

91. Pantry’s kin

93. Requiring less travel time

94. Phone fillers

96. Heat energy unit

97. In layers

99. Chocolate-flavored chew?

102. Commando action

104. Musher's vehicle

106. Broad st

107. Cant stand

109. Powerful bunch

110. Japanese sea bream, on a sushi menu

111. Like lasers and pianos

114. Dispensary wares imported from all over?

119. Wife or mother, in slang

120. Facilitate

121. Ben who won a Tony for “Pippin”

122. Jah worshipers

123. Fixes a shoelace

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Down

1. “Children of a Lesser God” director Haines

2. Targeted by AARP, perhaps

3. Better than expected

4. Do that may be picked

5. Bumbler

6. Like hearts

7. Board feature

8. Bleating babes

9. Lacto-__-vegetarian

10. Hockey position

11. Became, ultimately

12. Used as a base

13. Checks for freshness, perhaps

14. Series finale?

15. Sturgeon yield

16. Quantity measured in daltons

17. Lock setting

18. Large quantities

21. Dope

23. Pressing person

28. Taking Ozempic, maybe

31. ABBA’s music

32. Small denomination

34. MoMA location

35. Battery part

37. 1920s chief justice

38. Cute Pokémon creature

39. Apt. ad listing

42. Swindle

44. Coat, as with chocolate

46. At all times

47. Julia Roberts’s “Ocean’s Eleven” role

48. Heater

49. Commotion

50. Bearer of Lincoln’s likeness

52. Moved cautiously

57. La Baltique, par exemple

59. Exorbitant

60. Stock holder

61. Poet’s nightfall

62. Like Steve Cishek’s pitching

63. Surname of toons George, Jane, Judy and Elroy

66. Kinda sorta

67. Ref’s ruling

68. Millennials’ moms, maybe

69. Hula swayers

70. Elton John accomplishment of 2024

71. Atone

75. What Daphne turned into, to escape Apollo

76. Creme de cassis cocktail

77. Guileful

79. Playing speed

81. Confident

84. Door feature

85. Longtime store proprietor on “Sesame Street”

86. Pricing word

87. Sexology subject

88. Put down

90. Lotion letters

92. LOVE

95. Brings close to boiling

98. Deck worker

99. University of Florida athlete

100. Soft palate projection

101. Abide by

102. Rummage (through)

103. Hand costs

105. Failed to

108. “Now, nurse!”

112. Key close to Z

113. Flock sound

115. Kimono clincher

116. Mendes of “Ghost Rider”

117. "Asteroid City" director Anderson

118. Surgery sites for short

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