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Descendant Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a descendent or heir

Hint 2: Clue Definition

DESCENDANT (noun)
1. a person considered as descended from some ancestor
DESCENDANT (adjective)
1. proceeding by descent from an ancestor
2. going or coming down

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (12/21/2025) Answers

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1. Some Arctic transports

10. S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short

14. 1950s hangout with a jukebox

20. Game piece made of four squares

21. "The Kite Runner" protagonist

22. Skulks

23. Joins gradually

24. 'Doggone it!'

25. Treatment

26. Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant

27. Wrangler alternative

28. Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers

30. Rap's Run-___

31. Course catalog?

32. When Aries transitions to Taurus

34. Sweetly, on scores

35. 'I'll pass'

36. Input of certain mining

38. Montalbán who played Khan in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"

40. Timer setting

42. Areas of influence

45. Mental health org.

46. Fraudulently make seem like

48. Covers completely

49. Wyoming peak

51. Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps

54. Comment from someone caught in the rain

56. Yellow avenue in Monopoly

58. A bit off, say

59. Hyatt alternative

60. Hard-boiled genre

62. TheForce.net for "Star Wars," for example

64. Dark side

65. Former big name in browsers

67. U.F.O.-watching org.

68. By way of, informally

70. Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger)

71. Sailor's patron

72. Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess

76. Daddy

79. Eponymous British financier James ___

81. By saying this you mean well

82. Wrap seller

83. Adopted, as a pet

85. Wasn't folded in a suitcase, say

87. Developed, as baby teeth

89. Sci-fi miniaturizer

91. Emanations

93. Boldly face

94. Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g.

95. Guardians, on a scoreboard

96. Bit of birdspeak

98. Damp, mildewy quality

99. They hold water

102. Silence!

103. Lying faceup

104. ___ Park, Calif.

105. Air

107. Disney subsidiary

111. A little help?

112. Evaded, as a sensitive issue

114. Some pings, in brief

115. "Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry)

116. Skips over

118. Few and far between

119. Regulars at parks with ramps, informally

121. Reply after having one's memory jogged

122. Some time ago

123. "What's done is done!"

124. Stick (to)

125. Garden interloper

126. Church parts crossing naves

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1. Make furious

2. "The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil ___

3. Tennis line judge's ruling

4. Duke Ellington classic with the lyric "That was my heart serenading you"

5. West side of L.A.?

6. "Is there still time for me to join you?"

7. 51 to the hour

8. Stage direction

9. Phillipa of Broadway

10. Grammy winner Erykah

11. ___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poet

12. Copy

13. Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshments

14. Spending romp

15. Output of certain mining

16. Counterpart of a sub

17. Fast start?

18. Father, familiarly

19. Mentally overpower, with "out"

28. Like most moccasins

29. Great Dane of cartoons, informally

33. More livid

37. Keister in Leicester

39. 2015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd

40. Symbolic for its time

41. Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design

43. Apple: Fr.

44. Is without

47. Rabid in appearance

50. Woman's nickname that sounds like two letters

51. Rice-A-___

52. "Borderlands" director ___ Roth

53. Hiding place

55. Gene pools?

57. Org. with its own alphabet

61. Abbr. not found on most smartphones

63. "Aren't ___ lucky one?!"

66. It has a lot of secretaries

67. Shirt collar stiffener

69. Where to find six "presents" in this puzzle?

71. Knock 'em dead

72. Coolidge who sang the theme for "Octopussy"

73. Just getting started with

74. Green shade

75. What Joe Montana was in the '80s

76. A TD scores six of these

77. "Fancy that!":

78. Prickly denizen of coral reefs

80. Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial

81. Most minimal

84. Some Korean exports

86. Calmed deceptively

88. Baseball slugger's stat

90. Bird used to deliver messages on "Game of Thrones"

92. Blueprints

97. Author Zora Neale ___

98. Noodled on, with "over"

100. Girlfriend in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

101. Informant

103. Ta-ta!

104. Tricky pool shot

106. Someone enjoying a walk in the park

108. Mentally with it

109. ___ four

110. Fits one inside the other

112. Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___

113. Essential

117. It might be good for a change

119. One who knows the drill?: Abbr.

120. Teslas, e.g., for short

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Descendant Crossword Clue Q&A

When was Descendant crossword clue used most recently?
- This clue was last seen in the December 21, 2025's NYT Crossword.
What was the most recent answer for Descendant crossword clue?
- The most recent answer for the clue is SCION
What is the 5-letter answer for Descendant crossword clue?
- SCION
When has Descendant crossword clue been used historically?
- NYT Crossword - December 21 2025
- Daily Commuter Crossword - October 23 2024
- WSJ Crossword - September 19 2024
- Newsday Crossword - September 1 2024
- NYT Crossword - July 15 2024
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