Escapade Crossword Clue

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Escapade Crossword Answer

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CAPER

(5 letters)

LARK

(4 letters)

ADVENTURE

(9 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. ludicrously odd
(verb)
1. act as or like a clown
(noun)
1. a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

Hint 2: Clue Definition

ESCAPADE (noun)
1. any carefree episode
2. a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

CAPER
(5 letters)
LARK
(4 letters)
ADVENTURE
(9 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
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More NYT Crossword (1/22/2026) Answers

Across

1. Purchase of ice cream or cream ale

5. Cognac label letters

14. Goddess depicted with cow's horns

15. "Hey, look who's here!"

16. Film without much wardrobe, informally

17. Watch sound

18. Happens

20. Left in

22. Ingredient in a zombie

23. Late __

24. Anxious

25. Francis Ford Coppola's alma mater, for short

26. Org. that watches television

27. Tackling the task at hand

31. Dump

32. Unceasingly

33. Hotel room coolers, for short

34. Band with the 2008 platinum single "Electric Feel"

35. Cut (in)

38. Flabbergasted feeling

40. Prefix meaning "heavens," as the name of a planet suggests

42. Low

45. Result of missing the boat

49. Activist who was Time's 1963 Man of the Year, familiarly

50. Sweeping

51. Seth of Apple TV's "Platonic"

52. Furious feeling

53. Rescue squad pro

54. Country whose seven-letter name can be spelled using only one-point Scrabble tiles

56. Striking through

59. "___ what I'm talkin' 'bout!"

60. Standard

61. Lead-in to -drome

62. Oversupply

63. Full of energy

64. ___ Mix

65. Catch a glimpse of

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Down

1. Tools requiring two people

2. "Am I wrong about that?"

3. "Please, I know better than that"

4. "You know better than that"

5. Sotto __

6. Sporting flats, say

7. Omega, in physics

8. Approximately 84% of American women have at least one

9. Early ancestor

10. (The) OK

11. With 42-Down, they tell you when to stop and go … as seen in this puzzle's theme

12. Bees, but not birds

13. Trig ratio

19. Kick butt, so to speak

21. Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, say

25. Buffet table item

28. ___ de plume

29. Increase one's intensity

30. 'Hard pass!'

34. Mal de ___

36. Channel with the longtime slogan "We Know Drama"

37. Legal setting

38. 37-Down order

39. Roused

41. Turn to mush, maybe

42. See 11-Down

43. Loved every second

44. The New York Islanders in the early 1980s, e.g.

46. Early pop music's ___ Brothers

47. Honorific title

48. Pestering type

49. Minor snafu

54. Mark's successor

55. Put away

57. Space between here and there

58. French word between two surnames

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