Follow behind Crossword Clue

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TAIL

(4 letters)

SHADOW

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. to lag or linger behind
2. go after with the intent to catch
(noun)
1. evidence pointing to a possible solution
2. a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BEHIND (adverb)
1. of timepieces
2. in debt
BEHIND (noun)
1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
BEHIND (adjective)
1. having the lower score or lagging position in a contest
FOLLOW (verb)
1. be later in time
2. follow in or as if in pursuit

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

TAIL
(4 letters)
SHADOW
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (11/8/2026) Answers

Across

1. Home of India's most-visited monument

5. Ending with hard or soft

9. "___ girl!"

13. Indian silk region

18. Company whose name took off as a verb in the 2020s

19. SoCal N.F.L.'er

20. Letters of qualification

21. "Bumping," as a party

22. Confidential scoop

24. Like threat advisories, typically

26. See 27-Across

27. Potatoes, e.g. + Soothe

29. French stew whose name sounds like an Italian sauce

31. "In case you didn't hear me …"

32. Impaler of note

33. The Great Lakes, e.g. + Computer gurus

36. See 33-Across

39. Encounter virtually, in slang

40. All-star lineup?

41. Internet chuckles

42. Makeup, mainly, of the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office

43. German article

44. Athlete's "juice"

46. Take an inch from a yard, say

47. McDonald's McFlurry flavor

48. More than might

50. Petty cash holder?

53. Habitual overdrinker

55. See 58-Across

58. Remark + Gripping tool

63. Detach, as a gate

64. It's heard during cold season

65. Chart showing almost a third of the world's land

66. Totally over it + Still woolly

68. See 66-Across

69. Pro tip?

70. Washington, but not Lincoln

71. Davis of "Thelma & Louise"

72. Washington or Lincoln

75. One might be "great"

76. Places for shots

77. Morning cuppa

80. Air force hero

81. Squashable, say

83. Life-and-death

86. Bring forth

88. See 90-Across

90. Gym weight + Counted (on)

93. Dregs in a wine cask

94. Colonial-era Indian soldier

95. It's not a one-off

96. Online broadcasts + Obvious

100. See 96-Across

103. Attempt at a royal flush?

104. Meme throwing shade on seemingly attractive boyfriend candidates

106. Like Yves Saint Laurent's "trapeze" dresses

107. Tubelike articles of apparel

108. Author Calvino

109. Exile isle

110. Dangerous places to seek harbor

111. Home of the first family?

112. Place for a window display

113. Astromancer, e.g.

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Down

1. Ansari of "Parks and Recreation"

2. No longer around

3. Handful of prayers?

4. Query upon entering a packed conference room, perhaps

5. Crumples, as before tossing

6. Certain queer identity, for short

7. Transfixed

8. Honorary title holders

9. Patriots' group, in brief

10. Third-rate

11. Like many New York subway stations

12. Missing tour dates?

13. Remote power sources

14. Bratislava resident

15. Service entrance, often

16. Claim

17. Bathroom cabinetful, for short

19. Reveal

23. Shirk one's responsibilities

25. Approach in quality

28. Draws on

33. "I'm done explaining myself!," to a mathematician

34. Actress Thurman

35. Outdated

36. Render speechless, perhaps

37. Initials for one OPEC member

38. Call from a ref who doesn't count?

41. ___ Lightfoot, former mayor of Chicago

44. 2013 Eminem hit that tops out at 9.5 syllables per second

45. Actress/sibling Mary-Kate, Ashley or Elizabeth

46. Bean or gourd

47. Capital in, but not of, Ontario

48. Reedlike

49. C-note

50. Yemeni port with a namesake beverage

51. Complaint during the dog days of summer

52. Mold source

53. Get-togethers, slangily

54. Main ingredient in a German Zwiebelkuchen cake

55. Dubious, in modern lingo

56. Primer número

57. Jon M. ___, director of the "Wicked" movies

58. Social grouping

59. Device in a hydrogen atomic clock

60. Brooding offshoot of punk music

61. Service that hosts the U.K. Space Command, in brief

62. Letters read on a beach

67. Award for an outstanding play

71. Really puts off

72. Elevator unit

73. Place for intubators and incubators, for short

74. Fabulate

75. Director Lee

76. Luv

77. Worthy of some time?

78. Be in for

79. A dead one has a single outlet

81. Breaks through

82. Wipe from visual memory, facetiously

83. Source of a nicotine hit

84. Flatten, in a way

85. "Here's something that might work ..."

86. Golfing boo-boo

87. Des ___ (Chicago suburb)

89. Not pass

90. Stump

91. Come upon

92. Mythological lyrist

94. Wasn't overturned

96. Fight (with)

97. Lacking any suntan, say

98. Long (for)

99. Field of inquiry that so far has not had any provable success

101. Garage job

102. Whose name goes first

105. Nickname for Sarah

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