Earnest Crossword Clue

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Earnest Crossword Answer

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KEEN

(4 letters)

SERIOUS

(7 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
2. open and genuine; not deceitful

Hint 2: Clue Definition

EARNEST (adjective)
1. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
2. not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
EARNEST (noun)
1. something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

KEEN
(4 letters)
SERIOUS
(7 letters)

More Apple+ Crossword (8/17/2026) Answers

Across

1. Point between 3 and 1 in 3.14

8. Pooh and Paddington

13. National anthem sung in Ottawa

14. Curiously strong mint

16. Kind of pipe that once had kernels on it

17. "These low prices won't last!"

19. Sinister smile

20. Projects saliva

22. Dove's call

23. "Parks and Recreation" character Swanson

25. Blackjack card that can be 1 or 11

26. Tear down, in home-remodeling lingo

27. Bit of moisturizer

30. Possesses

32. Not at all interested

33. Unit equal to 4,840 square yards

35. Seven on a grandfather clock

36. Brought onto the payroll

37. Messaging platform with more than 3 billion global members

39. Flavored-water brand whose last letter is “dotted” with a leaf

40. “Awesomesauce”

41. Misdirecting basketball moves popularized by non-American players

46. Luke Skywalker, to Anakin

47. Spanish for "mother"

49. Shrek, for example

50. “Evil” or “identical” sibling

52. Composer Stravinsky

55. “I haven’t ___ all day!”

56. Prepare coffee beans

57. 'That ___ to do it'

59. Dutch cheese

60. Up-tempo jazz style hinted at by this puzzle’s three sets of circled letters

64. Early ___ (person who might wake up at 5 a.m. every day)

65. Basically

66. Contest submission

67. More than a few

68. At Last singer James

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Down

1. Medical pros

2. College course covering consumerism, for short

3. Self-___ (restorative routine)

4. ___ tube (lazy river floatie)

5. Prefix that means “large-scale”

6. Commotion

7. Places where scientific experiments are run

8. ABCs

9. Tickle pink

10. Off-road four-wheelers

11. Fish eggs

15. Left to perish

18. Alder, ash, or acacia

21. Spherical Indian street food often filled with chutney

24. Stellar explosion

26. Cool Ranch snack chip

27. Sunups

28. Sound followed by “Bless you!”

29. Top group of advisers

31. Completely exhausted

32. Implicit ___ training

34. And so on and so forth

36. The Gilded Age network

38. School of theology

42. On the ___ (often)

43. Easter activity with hidden treats

44. Safeguard

45. Word between "ready" and "go"

48. 'Your point being . . .'

51. Like the Panama Canal compared to your ear canal

53. My mistake!

54. Massages

56. "How's it ___?"

58. Extreme happiness

59. Test that might be required when applying to a master’s program

60. The Dark Crystal codirector Henson

61. ___ vez más (Spanish for “one more time”)

62. Boyz II ___

63. The Mediterranean, for example

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