Cry like a banshee Crossword Clue

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WAIL

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Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. emit long loud cries
2. cry weakly or softly
(noun)
1. a cry of sorrow and grief

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BANSHEE (noun)
1. (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
LIKE (verb)
1. prefer or wish to do something
2. feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard
LIKE (adjective)
1. resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
2. conforming in every respect
LIKE (noun)
1. a similar kind
2. a kind of person

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

Wail
(4 letters)

More New Yorker Crossword (6/9/2026) Answers

Across

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17. Reason to eschew cashews

18. Tripod's trio

19. Name that's a synonym of "eat" backward

20. “Some assembly required” purchases

21. Work the catwalk

22. The first officially recorded one was 055-09-0001: Abbr.

23. Brand of Canadian gas stations

24. Ball carrier on a football field

25. Rhetorical term that comes from the Greek for both “sharp” and “dull”

27. Biblical name meaning “my God”

28. Savory jelly

30. Rapper Lil ___ X

32. Advice to someone experiencing an anxiety attack

34. Stymies, as a plan

36. Polish Nobel Prize winner Wałęsa

37. L’___ du Peuple (magazine from the French Revolution)

39. Scold

40. Edebiri of “After the Hunt”

41. Competition show on which Bobby Flay controversially stood atop his cutting board

43. Handout at a sexual-health clinic

45. ___ down (tuck into a meal)

46. Common recyclable

49. Props for a job well done

50. Surface for a frog to cross in “Frogger”

51. "Get lost!"

52. Title for the leader of Bahrain until he changed it to “king,” in 2002

53. Run-time error?

55. Pull on sharply

56. Stalinist’s ideological foe, in Soviet Russia

57. Trying hard to shock

58. Humans who can transform into fierce scavengers, in African mythology

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Down

1. Governess Grey in an Anne Brontë novel

2. Bed-and-breakfast, for example

3. Was waved through by the bouncer

4. Blast from the past

5. Response to a funny D.M.

6. Down-to-earth appeal

7. Type of discrimination whose name was coined by the gerontologist Robert Neil Butler

8. Many a YouTube Kids video

9. Dairy-aisle purchase with no dairy

10. Planetary-rotation period

11. Shows off one’s pipes

12. Listened in on, perhaps

13. Video-game subgenre that includes Hades and Balatro

14. Widely spaced features of a hammerhead shark

21. Source of some flares

23. Sign above a door

24. Beginning-of-the-month observance, in Judaism

25. Round, brightly colored fish

26. Pest-control target with a long tail

28. Question to someone giving the silent treatment

29. Backing up at a meeting

31. Dickensian child

32. Souvenir from a boxing match

33. Genre in which Rites of Spring was a pioneering band

35. That was exhausting!

38. Like most TV shows, by the seventies

41. Platform with AssistiveTouch

42. Sexless

44. Dweebish

46. Store with multiple locations

47. It connects to the left ventricle

48. “Too many ___” (Joseph II’s criticism of a Mozart opera, in “Amadeus”)

50. Not at all ordinary

51. Annoyance treated by an optometrist

53. Celebratory initialism, online

54. Overhead expanse

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