Fall back Crossword Clue

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Fall back Crossword Answer

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RETREAT

(7 letters)

LAG

(3 letters)

RECEDE

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
2. the outward flow of the tide
(verb)
1. flow back or recede
2. fall away or decline

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BACK (noun)
1. a support that you can lean against while sitting
2. the side that goes last or is not normally seen
BACK (verb)
1. give support or one’s approval to
2. establish as valid or genuine
BACK (adverb)
1. in or to or toward a past time
2. at or to or toward the back or rear
BACK (adjective)
1. located at or near the back of an animal
2. of an earlier date
FALL (verb)
1. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
2. come into the possession of
FALL (noun)
1. the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
2. when a wrestler’s shoulders are forced to the mat

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

RETREAT
(7 letters)
LAG
(3 letters)
RECEDE
(6 letters)

More New Yorker Crossword (12/31/2024) Answers

Across

1. Untrustworthy, briefly

4. Beginning

9. Souls on the road

13. Swim-cycle-run race, for short

14. Smart as a whip and tough as nails

15. Surreptitious “Hey!”

16. Believer's suffix

17. Sommelier’s choice between a fortified wine and an inexpensive red?

19. Stylist’s choice between a tidy appearance and a more casual look?

21. Stiff ___ lip

22. Rainy-day sighting

25. Historic start?

26. Forerunner of Lloyd and Rapinoe

27. “Yep, on it”

30. Style of leather jacket

31. Memorable line

33. “A crown she could have had to bind each ___ / Of hair”: William Faulkner

35. Thrill seeker’s choice between a cliff dive and a zip line?

37. Uses a sickle, say

38. Dog in the Dreamtime tradition of Indigenous Australians

39. Caboose, so to speak

40. Selection from Virginia Woolf’s “The Common Reader,” for example

42. Smear

46. Gig gear

47. Snake depicted on a pharaonic crown

48. Pathway dreaded by a commitment-phobe

49. Rings

51. Vacationer’s choice between a country bed-and-breakfast and a downtown hotel?

55. Detective’s choice between following a suspect and establishing a stakeout spot?

57. Not the crushing type, in brief

58. Fulham F.C. goalkeeper Bernd

59. Specialties

60. Opposite of oui

61. Paradise that was lost

62. “___ Cold in the D” (T-Baby song about Detroit)

63. &

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Down

1. Bit of textile crafting

2. Witch voiced by Pat Carroll in a 1989 film

3. “30 Rock” or “3rd Rock from the Sun”

4. Stink

5. “Goodfellas” star Robert De ___

6. Acronym for an annual Presidential speech

7. Expressed oneself

8. Co. acquired by Wizards of the Coast in 1997

9. Blackpink’s genre

10. 'If you say so'

11. States

12. Sound system

14. Erstwhile MP3 player

18. Center

20. Citrus fruit with an edible skin

24. Field full of plants?

27. Groves

28. From ___ B

29. Candies that come in a “dual-chamber box”

30. Like a catchy tune

32. Someone working at home?

34. Much-memed Justice in the twenty-tens, familiarly

35. Departure vehicle for John Denver

36. "The Bourne Identity" org.

37. Like the stories on the podcast “Normal Gossip”

39. Many an action-packed “Star Wars” scene

41. Phantasm

43. Seoul-based airline

44. Title robot in an Avengers film

45. Past

47. Syst. in which finger spelling may be used

48. Synagogue features

50. Zootopia’s mayor, for one

52. Quest-giving villagers in World of Warcraft, say: Abbr.

53. Casual refusals

54. Black-and-white sandwich cookie

56. Demon of Japanese folklore

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