Elementary Crossword Clue

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Elementary Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
2. serving as a base or starting point
(noun)
1. (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
2. a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner’s all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

Hint 2: Clue Definition

ELEMENTARY (adjective)
1. of or being the essential or basic part
2. easy and not involved or complicated

More WSJ Crossword (5/4/2024) Answers

Across

1. Raging rants

8. Sweethearts

13. Embarrassing slips

19. Extreme greed

20. Elevate

21. Annual Le Mans contest, e.g.

22. Name often in the news?

23. Country estate

24. Suspiciously

25. Pro bono agreement?

28. Go team!

29. Nonflowering plant

30. Anna who’s name-checked in Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes”

31. Gangland guns

33. Gillette Stadium squad, familiarly

35. Saloon run by a Brady Bunch daughter?

41. Blonde shade

42. Pitching goal

43. Starsiak of HGTV’s “Good Bones”

44. Some sorority members

46. Certain detergent purchase?

51. Like the flavor of lapsang souchong tea

52. Sleep disorder

53. Lee of Marvel

54. "Enigma Variations" composer

56. Home in a cave, say

57. Critical hosp. area

59. Console with an optional Balance Board

61. Revealed to all

64. Items on Aristotle’s résumé?

70. Single individual

71. Alicia Vikander’s role in “Ex Machina”

72. Twisty curve

73. Do something

74. Diarist Nin

77. Girl’s name supplanted as most popular by Olivia in 2019

80. Light sprays

84. Duck down

87. Puts on a tight-fitting coat?

90. Ballerinas in “Fantasia”

92. Pristine

93. Coward knighted by the queen

94. Fury

95. Comment when crossing the Peace Bridge?

98. Spellbound

99. Strong hold

100. Broccoli ___

101. Animal on Jägermeister bottles

103. Tiny

104. Operative with a penchant for puzzles?

112. Like haters, often

113. Give the slip

114. Symbol of romance

116. Carts to a second site

117. Get a fresh crew for

118. Chinua Achebe’s home country

119. Yellow part of the eBay logo

120. Annual awards for athletes

121. Like a crummy review

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Down

1. Game with “freeze” and “shadow” variants

2. Novelist Turgenev

3. Like the slimmest of margins

4. Concert venues

5. Skip class

6. Outer: Prefix

7. Appear to be

8. Cuts corners

9. Dismissing abruptly

10. Vinegar variety

11. “___ Enchanted” (Gail Carson Levine book)

12. Ballpark figure

13. Invisible danger

14. Where Walmart began

15. Herr’s spouse

16. Bleachers bunch

17. "Behold!," to Brutus

18. Spot

21. Part of a desert landscape

26. Plainly obvious

27. PC panic key

31. Wildly enthusiastic

32. "Make it snappy!"

33. Nice round figure

34. Woe is me!

36. Chip in

37. Staircase support

38. Meas. of tempo or heart rate

39. Lacking feet, to zoologists

40. FALL guys

42. Younger sister of Barbie

43. Frenzied

45. End of an end-of-year song

47. “Hey! May I have some hay?”

48. Cut

49. Eye rudely

50. Indian flatbread

55. Solemn practice

58. Home of the NCAA’s Bruins

60. Fidelity offering

62. Woebegone

64. Milk-related

65. Armed and dangerous swimmers?

66. They're not free of charge

67. "I smell ___!"

68. Catering job

69. Blocks

70. Big celebration

75. Hogwarts librarian ___ Pince

76. More than suggested

78. Get by

79. Resting on

81. Winter getaway

82. Garr of “Young Frankenstein”

83. Flight component

85. Happy cry at a Greek wedding

86. Pitiable sort

88. Continuously striking out?

89. Boogie

91. Shoulder blade, to physiologists

96. Bottomless pit

97. Green

98. M&T Bank Stadium squad

99. Horror and humor, e.g.

102. From now until midnight

103. Club used in a sand trap

104. Be rife

105. 'That's funny!'

106. Flier with kosher meals

107. On this spot

108. World Cup Cheers

109. Bond villain with metal hands

110. Lo __: noodle dish

111. Pakistan’s place

112. Many PSAT takers

115. Word before worm or wax

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