Gibbon or gorilla Crossword Clue

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Gibbon or gorilla Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. someone who copies the words or behavior of another
2. person who resembles a nonhuman primate
(verb)
1. represent in or produce a caricature of
2. imitate uncritically and in every aspect

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

GIBBON (noun)
1. English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
2. smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
GORILLA (noun)
1. largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa

Hint 3: Anagram

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More Newsday Crossword (12/17/2025) Answers

Across

1. Quick haircut

5. Fit for a royal ruler

10. Con game

14. Reduced-price event

15. Stood up

16. Part of TLC

17. Pop singer Tori

18. Carryall bags

19. Himalayas continent

20. Top-class student

25. Eve's first home

26. Tubular pasta

27. Greet informally

29. Salt Lake City collegian

31. Rowboat implement

32. Cunning action

33. Mouths, informally

37. Designation for a 20-Across

41. Never ever

42. Gain altitude

44. Pregrown grass

47. __ Faire (jousting venue)

48. Flows slowly (through)

49. Veal cuts

51. Practice boxing

54. Explosive initials

55. What a 20-Across receives

59. Actress __ Rae

60. Glaringly vivid

61. Clumsy person's comment

64. Ocean's cousins

65. Treat poorly

66. Creative thought

67. Ration (out)

68. Newspaper's papers

69. Finish a flight

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Down

1. Passenger-screening org.

2. Lamb's father

3. Valentine message

4. Flat-topped hill

5. Evaluated

6. Wear away

7. Was accepted

8. "Hold on __" ("Be patient")

9. For fear that

10. Frighten

11. Gambling establishment

12. Singer star Grande

13. More cruel

21. Luau neckwear

22. Drama with singers

23. Nile snake

24. Good buddies

28. Choir music

29. Semper Fi org.

30. Prefix for scope

33. Handbag designer Spade

34. Clickable picture

35. Solar system center

36. 'Of course!'

38. Tapped-out "code" codeveloper

39. Low-cal fizzy beverage

40. 'SportsCenter' airer

43. Superlative suffix

44. Factional rift

45. "Aha, understood"

46. Watched Fido

48. "Sold out" theater letters

50. Lunar view stage

51. "I don't know" gesture

52. Coolheadedness

53. South American range

56. Open-handed hit

57. Large brass instrument

58. Irritate

62. Farm enclosure

63. Sorrowful

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