Gender-neutral term in a family Crossword Clue

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Gender-neutral term in a family Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
2. a person’s brother or sister

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

NEUTRAL (adjective)
1. having no personal preference
2. having no hue
NEUTRAL (noun)
1. one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
GENDER (noun)
1. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
2. a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

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More NYT Crossword (1/2/2026) Answers

Across

1. Havanese greeting

4. Tolstoy book whose title asks a question

13. Reluctantly stoop

16. They rate up to 350,000 on the Scoville scale

17. H.S. class for tough life lessons?

18. "Just tell me when it's over"

19. Dance move also known as a backslide

21. Skims, as soup stock

22. Fig. that cannot start with 9

23. Org. for The Rock and Brock Lesnar

24. Tunnel-making machine

25. Not many

27. Windfalls

28. Keep coming up

30. One might lead to pay back

34. Make some introductions, say

35. The Cowboys of the N.C.A.A.

36. Word from the Lakota for "they dwell"

37. Emotional manipulation tactic

39. Meaty meal

40. Attraction on the western side of Carson Range

41. 'Oof!'

42. Seems less impressive, so to speak

43. Spray in the kitchen

44. German stock market index

47. Cumbrous

49. One-to-one relationship

51. Exchanges blows

53. Up to

54. Eggless bread spread

55. "A-a-a-and ___!" (improv show ender)

56. High-carb snack

57. May day celebrant

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1. President who wrote "Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it"

2. Default outcomes, perhaps

3. Kind of sequence that that proceeds 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...

4. Duration

5. Modern security threat

6. Org. with the Rule of Law Initiative

7. Cylindrical oven

8. Extremely well-liked?

9. Personal opinion?

10. Hooting and hollering

11. Part of an underground network?

12. Pithy put-downs

14. Main ingredient in an aviation cocktail

15. "I like the sound of that!"

20. "So adorable!"

24. Prepare to ship, say

26. Delivery means to a gas station

27. "Count" in the Blues Hall of Fame

28. On the ___ (frequently, informally)

29. Bird whose eggs are sometimes a canvas for Aboriginal art

30. Capotes are flapped at them

31. "Let's go, sleepyhead!"

32. Booking, for short

33. Server's obstacle

38. Word on the street is ...

41. ___ Brown, author of "The Da Vinci Code"

42. Night of lawlessness in a long-running horror franchise, with "the"

43. Try hard

45. Kind of acid

46. Stem component

47. Capitulate

48. Lender's security

49. Table outside

50. Big purveyor of health supplements

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