Eccentric sort Crossword Clue

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Eccentric sort Crossword Answer

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ODDBALL

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(noun)
1. a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
2. large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ECCENTRIC (noun)
1. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
2. a person with an unusual or odd personality
ECCENTRIC (adjective)
1. not having a common center; not concentric
2. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
SORT (noun)
1. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
2. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
SORT (verb)
1. arrange or order by classes or categories
2. examine in order to test suitability

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ODDBALL
(7 letters)

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More NYT Midi Crossword (5/4/2026) Answers

Across

1. Original airer of "Mad Men"

4. Word that rhymes with "crude," aptly

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11. State bounded by the Missouri and Mississippi rivers

12. Drain pain

13. Bundle of papers

15. Like the sky on an overcast day

17. Garden tool for weeding

18. Wilt

23. Alley-___

24. Lines that join the center of a circle to its circumference

25. Government org. with codebreakers

26. It is "not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength," per Betty Friedan

27. Door opener

28. Like some detected battleships, in the game Battleship

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Down

1. Comedian Wong

2. Sound from a 3-Down

3. Animal with a four-chambered stomach

4. Shoestring

5. Jazz legend Fitzgerald

6. Sound from a 7-Down

7. Animal with a unique nose print, similar to human fingerprints

9. Org. featured in "Gravity"

14. Jellyfish-like creatures named for a figure in Greek mythology

15. Animal that can migrate up to 1,500 miles in a day

16. Square up, as a debt

17. Sound from a 15-Down

19. Brand of tomato sauce

20. Norse god of war

21. Sound from a 22-Down

22. Animal who relies on mud to stay cool

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