Fight back against, in a way Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
(verb)
1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

AGAINST (preposition)
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; in this sense often preceded by over.
FIGHT (verb)
1. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
2. make a strenuous or labored effort
FIGHT (noun)
1. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
2. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

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More New Yorker Crossword (9/29/2025) Answers

Across

1. Centerpieces of many sixties protests

11. Proposes as a price

15. Phrase of self-acceptance

16. Singular bird that’s a plural bird spelled backward

17. Occasion for some summer parades

18. Alien’s adjective for an earthling, perhaps

19. Apt scoreboard abbreviation for the Mariners

20. Name shared by a human and a nonhuman in a 1988 heist comedy

21. Firm cherries

22. Foundations

23. Adult-hits radio network

24. Nickname for one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

27. Up to

29. Take requests?

34. “You can’t just say stuff”

38. What’s earned during a revolution

39. Org. whose trustees include Halle Berry and James L. Brooks

42. Tip

43. Copy that

44. Aesthetic exemplified by Hello Kitty

46. Plenty

49. Statement from a quitter

50. Eddy

51. Gil-galad or Galadriel

54. Change-maker

55. Tegan, to Sara

57. Punishments for trolls

58. Bra with a horizontal cut

59. Super Cream brand

60. Finally!

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Down

1. Descents

2. Like black-swan events

3. Philosopher Srinivasan who wrote “The Right to Sex”

4. Subject line abbreviation

5. “Speaking personally . . .”

6. Traditional staple plant for the Nez Perce

7. Right a wrong

8. Orange discards

9. Phone-plan component

10. “What is this world coming to?,” online

11. Dish that jiggles when prodded

12. Mephitic animals

13. Highlight of many Lau Kar-leung films

14. “I’m telling you, that’s who!”

21. Ability that might be shown off in passing

22. Hardly stiff

23. Leaves in the lurch at a church

24. Do a summer chore

25. CNBC news item

26. Drink with a royal version

27. Hawk often seen in the air

30. Subject of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq

31. Enthusiast

32. Friend

33. Structures that might have ladders on the outside

35. Cannonball Adderley’s cornettist brother

36. Test administered by E.T.S.

37. Concept artist Mead who designed the worlds of “Blade Runner” and “Tron”

39. With hands on hips.

40. Spa-day booking

41. Lemme do it!

45. Constantly bouncing, maybe

46. Slop

47. Quince fraction

48. Bad lighting?

50. Sharp blow

51. __ Is Betta Than Evvah!: 1976 album

52. 'Sure'

53. Lose sleep

55. “Check back later” letters

56. Seasoning for pommes frites

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