Govern Crossword Clue

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Govern Crossword Answer

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RULE

(4 letters)

REIGN

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. watch and direct

Hint 2: Clue Definition

GOVERN (verb)
1. exercise authority over; as of nations
2. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

RULE
(4 letters)
REIGN
(5 letters)

More New Yorker Crossword (10/6/2026) Answers

Across

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10. Celebrity with high view counts

12. Person surfing while lying down, maybe

14. Two-door cars

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17. Flower with a sutra named for it

18. ___ in life (fate)

21. Words to one’s hijo

22. Having scaled

23. Plural noun in the titles of plays by Shakespeare and Molière

25. “Oh, really?”

26. Word after guess or Doctor

27. Get-togethers where friends hold hands

29. Action that asserts dominance

30. Comedic metric that’s notably high for “30 Rock” and “Veep”

33. Boy after a bar mitzvah, so it’s said

36. S.V.U. part

37. Specs

38. Something to turn in “The Turn of the Screw”

39. Freebies taken when leaving a restaurant

41. Pint-sized

42. Item in a quiver

43. Platform for Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics

45. Bless with oil

46. “You gotta be kidding me!”

50. Bashes with boatloads of bubbles

51. Pale in comparison?

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Down

1. Confine to a small space

2. Some Winter Olympics sleds

3. The Temptations founding member Williams

4. Act litigiously

5. ___ and flow

6. Opposite of paleo-

7. Those, in Spanish

8. Walk like you own the place

9. Satirical name for a joyless, taupe aesthetic

10. Awkward accidental response to a waiter saying “Enjoy!”

11. Discuss ad nauseam, say

12. Nineteenth-century assassin who’s one of the assassins in “Assassins”

13. Mail in, as payment

14. Stuffed-animal grabber at an arcade

16. Parts of umlauts and ellipses

18. Used—not that you can tell

20. Morsel for an aardwolf

23. Knocked the socks off

24. Little brats

27. Vessel for peas or escapees

28. Creeping or climbing plant

29. Quibble over minutiae

30. Get high for a very short time?

31. First ingredient after oil in a sauté pan, often

32. “I guess you could say that”

33. “A Heart So White” novelist Javier

34. Ecstasy’s counterpart

35. “She turned me into a ___” (witch-trial accusation in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”)

38. Miles ___ a.k.a. Tails (“Sonic the Hedgehog” character whose name, when said aloud, puns on his speediness)

40. Chapter of the Quran

42. Soul singer Stone with the 1999 single “No More Rain (In This Cloud)”

44. “Didn’t you get the ___?”

45. Prefix with pope or Christ

47. High-level H.S. classes

48. Kit ___ bar

49. ___ meetup (event organized by online friends, familiarly)

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