Cream of the crop Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for Cream of the crop crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Mini Crossword April 30, 2025 puzzle. This answer will help you finish the puzzle you’re working on.

Cream of the crop Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. selected as the best
(noun)
1. a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CREAM (noun)
1. toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
2. the best people or things in a group
CREAM (verb)
1. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
2. remove from the surface
CROP (verb)
1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
2. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
CROP (noun)
1. the yield from plants in a single growing season
2. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

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More NYT Mini Crossword (4/30/2025) Answers

Across

1. Picture holder

6. New spin on an old song

7. Cream of the crop

8. Hobbes in "Calvin and Hobbes," for one

9. Profit = revenue - ___

Down

1. Agonize (over)

2. Item in Indiana Jones's satchel, perhaps

3. 'Compadre'

4. Itty-bitty biters

5. Wield as influence