Contrition Crossword Clue

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Contrition Crossword Answer

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REGRET

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Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

Hint 2: Clue Definition

CONTRITION (noun)
1. sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

REGRET
(6 letters)

More Boston Globe Mini Crossword (8/5/2026) Answers

Across

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5. Sparks joy in

11. Fashionable

14. Each

15. Beverly Cleary title character

16. ___ you sure?

17. Secretary of labor, for example

19. Plumber's vehicle, perhaps

20. Plains tribe

21. Syllable of disapproval

22. Left

23. T. ___ Price (investment firm)

25. “Crocodile Hunter” Steve

28. Letter after Oscar in the NATO alphabet

31. Some sleeveless garments

35. Muslim leader

36. Singer Rita

37. Fish out of water

38. Like the Olympic cauldron, during the opening ceremony

39. Public place with Wi-Fi

41. Virtue for a musician

42. 4.2 years, on average, for American siblings

44. South in Spanish

45. Of sound mind

46. Cooking vessels also known as caquelons

48. Play thing

49. Yarns

50. Distribute, as cards

52. Major League Baseball All-Star Game's month

54. Prefix with conscious

56. Corn

60. Cable network with a patriotic name

61. Certain intersection ... and the second words in 17-, 31-, 39- and 46- Across, collectively?

64. Morning coat

65. Zealous

66. Sharpen

67. OR VIPs

68. Have a leisurely look

69. Harness for oxen

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Down

1. Home to Baylor University

2. Light-colored beers, for short

3. Noodles in a Japanese New Year's Eve dish

4. Brief and clever saying

5. Before, poetically

6. Creativity in a cup

7. Sound boosters

8. Accepted what one had coming

9. Lowest Navy officer: Abbr.

10. Rode the bench

11. "Rest assured"

12. 1979 revolution site

13. Cooped (up)

18. Prefix meaning new

22. Metaphoric marbles

24. ___ cushion (prank item)

27. Legal order

28. Middle Eastern rice dish

29. Buddy, in Bolivia

30. Intellectual property concerns

32. Rodeo rope

33. Baby grand e.g.

34. Throat ailment

39. Lug

40. Insulting remarks

43. Aussie greeting

45. Attention-grabbing

47. False start?

51. Poehler of “Parks and Recreation”

52. Wynonna or Naomi of country music

53. Type of error or interface

55. Flight staff

57. Langston Hughes classic

58. Crash, with "out"

59. Fencing blade

61. Dynamite

62. Hockey legend Bobby

63. Noshed

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