Delay Crossword Clue

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Delay Crossword Answer

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DEFER

(5 letters)

LAG

(3 letters)

POSTPONE

(8 letters)

STALL

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a pretext for delay or inaction

Hint 2: Clue Definition

DELAY (verb)
1. cause to be slowed down or delayed
2. slow the growth or development of
DELAY (noun)
1. time during which some action is awaited
2. the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

DEFER
(5 letters)
LAG
(3 letters)
POSTPONE
(8 letters)
STALL
(5 letters)

More NYT Crossword (10/27/2024) Answers

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1. Exams first administered in 1926

5. View from St. Moritz

9. "I thought you were my friend!?"

13. Load of laundry

17. Jeweler’s unit

19. Complete journey … or what 84-Down makes in this puzzle?

21. Woodworker's spinner

22. Like Yeats, but not Keats

23. Aids in car buying

24. Remove from packaging

25. Complete some reps

27. In the Red?

28. "Do"-to-"do" delivery

29. Joan Cusack and Robert Downey Jr. each spent one season on it, for short

30. Certain court documents

33. In which 1 + 1 equals 10

36. (Former senator Kennedy)

37. Completing a cycle, like 84-Down in this puzzle?

40. "Battle Hymn of the Republic," for one

42. Borrower's note

43. Like many verification codes

46. Impressively tough, in slang

47. Crocheting template

50. Re-lease?

52. Nickname for a 2000s Yankee slugger

53. Montreal hockey player, to fans

54. Check scanner, for short

56. A.P.R.-lowering option

57. A.P., Reuters, etc.

59. Hudson Bay or the Caspian

63. Hair-lightening brand

64. Sherlock Holmes, e.g.

66. Apt central entry for this puzzle

67. The Lone Ranger, to Tonto

69. Gender-neutral possessive

71. Possesses

72. Office message

73. Millimeter-wide photo used for conveying secret messages

77. Pants, informally

81. Roofed porch

82. Late-night sub, say

86. Garfield's predecessor

88. Weary cry

90. Company whose name ends in an exclamation point

91. Steak option in northern Canada

93. Celebrity chef Hussain who won "The Great British Bake Off"

94. 'However . . .'

95. Fit to serve, in a way

96. Ireland, poetically

97. Newlyweds' booking

104. Behind

105. Gives a lot of attention, with "on"

107. Old ___, Conn.

108. Supermodel with a palindromic name

109. ___ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state

110. What have we here?

111. "They'll grow out of that" … or a description of eight squares in this puzzle

115. Every member of the C.I.A.'s K-9 unit

116. "___ Affaire de Femmes" (1988 French classic)

117. It can be quite sappy

118. Half of an exchange

119. "Let's do it!"

120. Texter's "As I see it"

121. Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons

122. Means of getting unstuck

123. Black ___

124. Margaret Thatcher, e.g.

125. Chiding sound

All Answers

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1. Hits a rough patch, perhaps

2. Judge seen on a bench

3. Major ordeal

4. Lip

5. Constellation in the southern sky

6. Reed or Rawls

8. Sledder's outfit

9. Color named for a famed prep school

10. Oh-so-regrettable

11. What's mined in a stannary

12. Big name in shipping

13. Wish list item

14. Time "up"

15. Act rudely in a crowd

16. Did some spelling?

18. Jersey-born rock icon, familiarly

20. Roman numeral that anagrams to part of the eye

21. "Charlie's Angels" actress

26. Charlie's Angels and others

28. Their dorsal fins can reach six feet in height

31. Stopover

32. Vessel for an omelet

34. Diminuendo al ___ ("fade to nothingness," on a score)

35. Slot machine lever

37. Marked

38. Property unit

39. Europe's highest volcano

40. Nintendo antagonist in purple overalls

41. Decorate

44. First name on the Supreme Court

45. Lifesaving device, for short

46. Cry loudly

48. Skilled

49. Symptom of an allergic reaction

51. Fork part

53. Mob enforcer

55. Add milk to a customer's coffee, in diner lingo

58. Feature of James Earl Jones's voice

60. That hits the spot!

61. Gun lobby org

62. Some N.F.L. linemen, in brief

63. Gave a big kiss

65. Big name in experimental music

68. CPR expert

70. Insignificant amount

72. "___ Robinson" (Simon & Garfunkel hit)

73. Cookies made with ground almond or coconut

74. Highly agitated

75. Ain't that the tooth!

76. Crime novelist Josephine

77. Sound from beneath a sheet

78. Skywalker portrayer

79. Guesstimate

80. Elite naval groups

81. Nearly succeeded … but there's a catch!

83. Green-light

84. This puzzle's subject

85. Places for grilling

87. Horned antelope of southern Africa

89. Cry of frustration

92. "You follow?"

98. Elizabeth of WandaVision

99. A.F.C. East player

100. Bird that's incapable of walking backward

101. Ballpark figure

102. Cry in a laser tag arena

103. Spanish I love you

106. Jedi foe

109. Nonsense word in a playground rhyme

112. Prefix with glyceride

113. Gentle attention-getter

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