Ctrl-V action Crossword Clue

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Ctrl-V action Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
2. an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard
(verb)
1. join or attach with or as if with glue
2. cover the surface of

Hint 2: Clue Definition

ACTION (noun)
1. a military engagement
2. a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
ACTION (verb)
1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
2. put in effect

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More WSJ Crossword (4/23/2026) Answers

Across

1. Pickup in an alley

6. Like water in a hot tub

13. It leaves some floorboards visible

15. Nutty confection

16. Join the choir

17. Buyer’s problem, at times

18. Not well

21. Enjoyed immensely

22. Blondie drummer Burke

24. Cruiser crew

25. Load from a lode

26. Spring dinner

28. Strongbox

32. Was dominant

34. Practice product

35. Austria’s currency before the euro

39. Purity unit

40. Effervescent brew

41. Approached

45. Sneaks, say

47. Four Corners tribe

48. Sign of freshness

50. Corner

51. Is really awesome

54. Seat of California’s Mendocino County

56. Co.-ending letters

57. Like the 1939 film’s Oz but not Kansas

59. Print type, and what’s been done to four Across answers before they were clued

61. Song honoring “the True North strong and free”

62. Indicator of online shouting

63. College governing bodies

64. Unavailable for appointments

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Down

1. Made airtight

2. Afgh. neighbor

3. Not give ___ (be indifferent)

4. Charge

5. Spider's pouch

6. Lodge activities

7. Before, poetically

8. Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous With ___”

9. Heaps

10. Grow bored with

11. Guarantee

12. More profound

13. Reebok rival

14. Items in paint stores and hair salons

20. Team taunts

23. “I can go for this!,” informally

27. Kidney-related

29. Sledding spot

30. Seasoned stews

31. Sign of guilt, perhaps

33. Skin, in combinations

36. Poetic pauses

37. Like some Spanish Harlem residents

38. Become verdant, as a landscape

41. Knickknacks

42. Without delay

43. Native of a city whose population triples for a time every year

44. President Lai Ching-te’s nation

46. Small denominations

49. Painter Veronese

52. Coffee harvested on the slopes of Mauna Loa

53. Blinds piece

55. Former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester

58. Poetic piece

60. 601, in letters

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