Force that holds an airplane up Crossword Clue

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Force that holds an airplane up Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
2. the act of raising something
(verb)
1. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
2. fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

AIRPLANE (noun)
1. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
FORCE (noun)
1. (of a law) having legal validity
2. group of people willing to obey orders
FORCE (verb)
1. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
2. force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

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FLIT

More New Yorker Crossword (10/15/2024) Answers

Across

1. Turn up as promised

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9. Creator of some pools

13. Place to do remote work for an afternoon, say

14. Number of volumes in Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”

15. Singer who owns a castle in Ireland

17. Understood why something shouldn’t have been done

19. Noise picked up by a baby monitor

20. Paint sloppily

21. Guiding beliefs, collectively

22. Take a bunch of easy A’s, maybe

24. Delight

26. It’s longer than a pair of shorts

29. Pergamon ___ (structure described at the beginning of Peter Weiss’s “The Aesthetics of Resistance”)

30. About, on a memo

31. Animal that hangs upside down

33. Movies full of hot shots?

34. Begin to take effect

35. U.K.-based online fast-fashion retailer

37. K’Nex connector

38. Agcy. with a fall-prevention campaign

39. “Cosmogramma” musician, to fans

40. “. . . and that’s an understatement”

43. M.L.B. career strikeout leader Ryan

44. History-making conductor Marin

45. Post-bath wrap

47. Marx who wrote, “Theory itself becomes a material force when it has seized the masses”

49. Tree painted by John Constable

51. Dojo move

53. Without delay briefly

54. Polymath Khayyám

55. Law of ___ (trigonometric rule)

56. Pizza order specification

57. Speck on a globe

58. Droops

59. Undated?

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Down

1. M.L.K., Jr., was its first president

2. Hue of a do

3. “Run along now,” in Britain

4. Just painted, perhaps

5. Diner handout

6. Comment following some reflection

7. London botanic-gardens site that sounds like a Londoner’s word for “line”

8. Without a single loss

9. Ones suspended for playing blacktop games?

10. “I’m ___ it” (“Sounds promising”)

11. Substances that can come from animals, vegetables, or minerals

12. Folded part of a Scottish Fold cat

14. Move like the Kraken

18. Question in “Julius Caesar”

20. Pro’s camera option

23. Computing product that’s no longer supported by its publisher

25. Lasso

26. Greeting seen in “Da 5 Bloods”

27. Claudia Sheinbaum’s party?

28. “Careful—don’t rush this”

32. Lineup of booths on the road

34. Utterly dead inside

36. Tofu base

39. Sate

41. Footwork artist?

42. Stains and scars

45. Highland caps

46. Administered with a spoon, maybe

48. Valuable pair

50. Video’s file extension

51. Pond swimmer

52. South Korean automaker with an angular logo

53. Word after smart or kick

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