Finest setting on a hose nozzle, say Crossword Clue

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(verb)
1. become covered with mist
2. make less visible or unclear
(noun)
1. a thin fog with condensation near the ground

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

NOZZLE (noun)
1. informal terms for the nose
2. a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
SETTING (noun)
1. the context and environment in which something is set
2. arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

Hint 3: Anagram

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SMIT

More NYT Easy Mode Crossword (5/2/2025) Answers

Across

1. Massachusetts city whose Wikipedia page has a subsection titled "Witch-related tourism"

6. Not now

10. Crustacean associated with grouchiness

14. Fictional protagonist who eventually undergoes great suffering

16. Strauss who was the first manufacturer of blue jeans

17. Hole-some deep-fried appetizer

18. "I'm ___!" ("Pass me the ball!")

19. Group of whales

20. Charged particles

21. Deeply respects

23. "Bad way to "run," usually

24. Vegetable sometimes eaten with raisins and peanut butter

25. "Wow, that's so tempting!"

29. Disney princess whose best friend is a fish

30. Meerkat voiced by Nathan Lane in 1994's "The Lion King"

31. Ho ___ Minh City

34. Give temporarily

35. Like most baskets

36. Ride on a yacht, say

37. Pocket watch attachment

38. Bird sometimes confused with a crow

39. Regularly reads a comments section without posting, informally

40. "I don't think I need to explain more"

43. More in the mood for loafing

45. State on the northwest coast of Malaysia

46. Little drinks

47. Yellowfin tuna

50. Young Frankenstein lab assistant

51. Without surprising anyone

54. Item on a to-do list

55. Classify too restrictively

56. Alternatives to lagers

57. Part of a constellation

58. Posts, as a letter

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Down

1. Don't do it

2. River that passes through Florence

3. Deposited, as an egg into a nest

4. Sense of self-importance

5. Barely enough

6. "Take a little time to decide"

7. Chicks' mamas

8. Tiny unit of work

9. Nibbles at

10. Dolly the sheep and others

11. List of grades broken down by class and quarter

12. Name that, when parsed as two words, could fill in the blank "I hope you have ___ good day!"

13. Places to toss trash bags

15. Sing like Frank Sinatra

22. Actress Lena of "Chocolat"

23. Excelled on, as a test

24. Truck seen on a construction site when a foundation is being poured

25. 2/4 or 3/6

26. Cookie with a The Most Stuf variety

27. Cross the finish line first, but ju-u-u-ust barely

28. Metal nubbin on a pair of jeans

32. Do some walking on a trail

33. Ingrid Bergman's "Casablanca" role

35. Differences in earnings

36. Set of clothes often worn with a tie

38. Totally destroy

39. Reduces

41. Missouri mountain range

42. Third-largest land mammal, after the elephant and rhino

43. Within the law

45. Middle Eastern flatbread with a pocket

46. Video game company behind Sonic the Hedgehog

47. So much

48. Had in one's hands

49. The ___ of March (fateful day in ancient Rome)

52. "Use this chair!"

53. Revolutionary Guevara

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