Fastener that's harder to remove when it's stripped Crossword Clue

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Fastener that's harder to remove when it's stripped Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. someone who guards prisoners
2. a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
(verb)
1. cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
2. have sexual intercourse with

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

STRIPPED (adjective)
1. having only essential or minimal features
2. having everything extraneous removed including contents
FASTENER (noun)
1. restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
2. a person who fastens or makes fast

Hint 3: Anagram

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CREWS

More Apple+ Crossword (3/25/2026) Answers

Across

1. Like a movie about filmmakers making the movie itself

5. Tennis shots with high trajectories

9. Stop by for a quick visit

14. People who are no longer together

15. Modern-day country where Mesopotamia used to be

16. One end of a battery

17. Sardine containers

18. List with "Starters" and "Mains" sections

20. Comedian with a signature bowl cut (whose first and last names use the same letters)

23. Numbers divisible only by one and themselves

24. "This ride is so much fun!"

25. Poppycock!

26. "Practice ___ perfect"

28. Government-benefits agency

31. Doesn’t rent

32. Ballet-shoe material

33. Like sugar in cotton candy

34. ___ feed (blog feature)

35. Dish often topped with a boiled egg

36. Nut of the oak tree

37. Trash-toting boat (whose first and second words use the same letters)

39. ___ boom (tech bubble of the late '90s)

40. Whirlpool

41. Outlander and The Crown actor Menzies

42. Pronoun paired with 50-Down

43. Los ___ Hermanos (chicken place on Breaking Bad)

44. Delivering a diatribe

48. Suffragettes who protested outside Wilson's White House (whose first and second words use the same letters)

51. Spot on a schedule

52. 'Just joking!'

53. "Don't Know Why" singer Jones

54. Units in cookie recipes (Abbr.)

55. Tuna containers

56. Bearded garden ornament

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Down

1. Comparison similar to a simile

2. Plane sections whose passengers might be asked to assist in an evacuation

3. They run high in emotionally charged situations

4. Believes without confirmation

5. Prom vehicles

6. Three-layered cookie

7. Robbery target in Bonnie and Clyde

8. Sounding like a parrot

9. Overtakes on the road

10. Exactly when expected

11. Meat from a pig

12. "I've got a better ___ ..."

13. Part of NY or NJ

21. Door unlocker

22. "What happened next was..."

26. Does a Cuban dance

27. First-string lineup

28. Squash or soccer

29. Sudden increase in voltage

30. Addition to a building

32. Like a remark of "Oh, great" when things are decidedly not great

33. Surgery memento

35. Distribute sparingly

36. Canceling, like a mission

37. Fancy drinking glasses

38. Something to RSVP to

39. Amount of mashed potatoes

41. Works hard

42. Pointers on an analog clock

43. 'Hey! Over here!'

44. Strap for directing a horse

45. Privy to

46. Emperor during the Great Fire of Rome

47. ___ rock (campy genre)

49. Music genre from Jamaica

50. Pronoun paired with 42-Across

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