Driving force? Crossword Clue

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Driving force? Crossword Answer

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MOTOR

(5 letters)

IMPETUS

(7 letters)

ENGINE

(6 letters)

THRUST

(6 letters)

EGO

(3 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with’)
2. buying and selling; especially illicit trade
(verb)
1. deal illegally
2. trade or deal a commodity

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DRIVING (noun)
1. hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
2. the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
DRIVING (adjective)
1. having the power of driving or impelling
2. acting with vigor
FORCE (noun)
1. (of a law) having legal validity
2. group of people willing to obey orders
FORCE (verb)
1. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
2. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

MOTOR
(5 letters)
IMPETUS
(7 letters)
ENGINE
(6 letters)
THRUST
(6 letters)
EGO
(3 letters)

More The Atlantic Crossword (10/12/2025) Answers

Across

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8. Put the kibosh on

9. It’s a gas

10. 😠 feeling

11. It might have a crawl space

13. School subject with proofs

15. The unquestioning masses

19. Some protective eyewear

20. King George III, according to Thomas Jefferson

21. A in German class?

22. ___ Knight & the Pips ("Midnight Train to Georgia" group)

24. Fire proof

29. Plant stalk

30. Lindy West book with the subtitle Notes From a Loud Woman

31. Mind reading, for short?

32. Wednesday's kin

35. Jet, e.g.

37. Associates

39. Modular digs

40. Flower also called bitter button

41. Apple's first user?

42. "Baby Cobra" comedian

46. Magazine that featured its first transgender model in 1991

47. Socialist philosophy associated with the Balkans

48. Bullish, in a way

49. Gets to

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Down

1. Sound from a sheep

2. Prefix that means one

3. Game plan

4. Part of an apartment complex

5. Virtual assistant who sometimes answers to "Seriously"

6. C-suite member

12. With 38-Down, cataclysmic event that some suspect was planned by George Washington

13. Additive synthesized in an attempt to replicate the taste of kombu: abbr.

14. “Cat on ___ Tin Roof”

16. Pattern on many a flannel shirt

17. Comedian Bruce

18. ___ Park (Colorado resort town)

22. Horns in on?

23. Hesitant

24. F1 additive

26. Delicacy usually made by gavage

27. Don't worry about me

28. Sleepy still, perhaps

32. Juggalo's fandom, for short

33. Pasta whose name means "little cake"

34. Scorsese biopic that features the Spruce Goose

36. They might wind up in a slush pile: abbr.

38. See 12-Down

42. Stacked quarters, for short

43. Bye lines?

44. Like someone likely to ignore an MYOB request

45. Where sweaters might hang?

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