Defended oneself like a skunk Crossword Clue

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SKUNK (noun)
1. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
2. a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
SKUNK (verb)
1. defeat by a lurch
ONESELF (pronoun)
1. A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one’s self.

More New Yorker Crossword (8/26/2026) Answers

Across

1. Pokes or encourages

6. Use an e-cigarette

10. Pop idol with a larger-than-life persona

14. Chats on Zoom or FaceTime

16. ___ coffee (beverage for a summer morning, maybe)

17. Balderdash, to a Brit

18. Fat similar to shortening

19. Released, as a statement

20. Basic forward move, in fencing

21. Round metal instrument struck with a padded mallet

24. Malevolent magic spell

25. Opposite of former

26. Regretting

30. “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” star Bassett

32. At __ soldier!

33. Short records, for short

36. Animal that’s simultaneously alive and dead, in a thought experiment named for its originator

39. Complete collection

40. Low-frequency audio component

41. Light-sensitive part of the eye

42. Displayed bad posture

45. Term of endearment akin to the Spanish papi

46. Items for drying off after a shower

48. “Junior” or “senior” politician: Abbr.

50. Orange pekoe, matcha, etc.

51. “Sherlock Holmes” character Adler

52. Take a stand against

54. Sounds from sheep

55. Person who tends to wreak havoc

59. Diminutive suffix with kitchen

60. Dish with skewered cubes of meat

61. Nickname for Theresa

62. Periodic sea-level fluctuation

63. Incorporate into a blog post, say

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Down

1. Plastic-pipe material, briefly

2. __ de Janeiro

3. Not divisible by two

4. Fashion-line creator

5. Boars' mates

6. Core ___ (parts of a personal belief system)

7. Like some trips won on game shows

8. Trudge

9. Supposed psychic ability, familiarly

10. Weaken by adding water to

11. “It’s so hard to choose”

12. “Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown” (Pedro Almodóvar film)

13. Variety of viper

15. Paper money

20. Dressed appropriately for changing weather

21. “The ___ is always greener”

22. Sixteenth of a pound

23. Menopause symptom that might lead to soaked sheets

25. ___ gun (weapon said to make a “pew pew” sound)

27. Small, round drop

29. Cloth used to apply furniture polish, e.g.

31. Surname of the second and sixth U.S. Presidents

34. Bear that subsists almost entirely on bamboo

35. Doesn't leave

37. Type of co. that offers web connectivity

38. Topaz, for Utah, or Lake Superior agate, for Minnesota

43. What the rims of eyeglasses hold

44. Oust from office

46. Lhasa is its capital

47. Deliver a speech

49. Snack

52. Distracted or surprised greeting

53. Japan’s national beverage

55. Chi-town clock setting in the winter

56. ___ and flow

57. Negative word in Scotland

58. Abbr. meaning “We haven’t figured it out yet”

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