Fishing spool Crossword Clue

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Fishing spool Crossword Answer

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REEL

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REBEL

(5 letters)

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(noun)
1. an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
2. a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
(verb)
1. revolve quickly and repeatedly around one’s own axis
2. walk as if unable to control one’s movements

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

FISHING (noun)
1. the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
2. the occupation of catching fish for a living
SPOOL (noun)
1. a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
SPOOL (verb)
1. transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage
2. wind onto a spool or a reel

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

Reel
(4 letters)
REBEL
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
LEER

More NYT Easy Mode Crossword (7/10/2026) Answers

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6. Suffix with serpent or elephant

9. Leafy side dish

14. Mr. Coffee product that might be steam-driven or pump-driven

17. Calls to the authorities about early-morning lawn mowers or late-night dance parties, e.g.

18. Long-running show created by Lorne Michaels, in brief

19. Toiled

20. Apt rhyme for squeak and shriek

21. Long, skinny swimmers

23. What fillies will grow up to become

24. Feathery accessories

25. Brain diagnostic, for short

27. Hi-___ graphics

28. Neat and skillful

29. Gives authority to, as a minister

32. Smudged

35. Home entertainment area with drinks and a sink

36. Muralist Diego twice married to Frida Kahlo

37. Make clearer, as video footage

39. Insolent sort, rudely

40. Exam

41. To the ___ degree

43. Title for a married woman

44. Yellow vehicles lined up at an airport

45. Laughing syllables

47. Opposite of harsh, in makeup or lighting

50. Cry at a bullfight

51. Strapless shirt style

53. Unused

54. "Wow, that's hard to fathom"

57. Ruling after a spectator interacts with a baseball in play

58. "Not kidding," online

59. __ Moines Iowa

60. Barely beat out

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Down

1. All wound up

2. United

3. Told a secret, idiomatically

4. Hosp. areas with triage centers

6. Weather map lines whose name comes from Greek for "equal" and "weight"

7. That's enough!

8. Catherine the Great, for one

9. Whole slew

10. Tuna in many a steak

11. Logical sequence that connects evidence to a conclusion

12. Mammals that can consume up to 30,000 insects a day

13. Things booked at coworking spaces

15. Phishing email, e.g.

16. Some pints at a pub

22. Chilean fish

24. Semiaquatic rodents whose lips can close behind their teeth, enabling them to gnaw on wood underwater

26. Enormous

28. Religious belief for Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin

29. The "o" of i.o.u.

30. Expense for someone flying into a city without good public transportation

31. Reactor safety org.

33. Medical scan that can be unsafe for people with metal in their bodies

34. "___ Boot" (1981 W.W. II thriller)

38. Turned on, as a setting

39. Unknowns, informally

42. "And ___ off!"

44. Elaborate updos, e.g.

45. Take a bow and arrow into the woods, maybe

46. More than none

48. On the ___ (still undecided)

49. Hefty fabric for a suit

51. One of twelve for which "Schmigadoon!" was nominated on Broadway

52. Remove the skin of

55. Zip, nada, etc.

56. Equivalent of a H.S. diploma

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