"Hmm, I'm thinking …" Crossword Clue

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"Hmm, I'm thinking …" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

THINKING (adjective)
1. endowed with the capacity to reason
THINKING (noun)
1. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

Hint 2: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (7/22/2026) Answers

Across

1. Object of an extensive search

6. Regional life forms

11. Lead-in to destination and determination

14. Cry after an accident

15. Take over

16. Deli supply

17. With 60-Across, invitation to play 38-Down

19. Seller's bottom lines, for short?

20. Mister

21. Victorian or Edwardian

24. Privy to

26. Qualified, say

28. Some STEM degrees

29. Ace, e.g

31. Wild ___

33. "You are correct about that"

34. Hawk's hook

36. It doesn't include the Apocrypha

38. Tall-eared cats from Devon or Cornwall

39. It's a celebration

40. Toxin in castor beans

41. Surname that derives from the Sanskrit word for "lion"

42. Actor Eric of "Troy"

43. Get in bad with?

45. Raises the temperature of

49. Many a tech alum: Abbr.

50. Wood sculptor's tool

52. Pop top?

53. Organic chemistry experiment?

56. ___ Maria, dark coffee liqueur

58. Exec overseeing A.I. integration

59. Annual video game competition, for short

60. See 17 across

63. __ Miserables

64. Keep busy

65. Israeli politician Dayan

66. Some people doing residencies: Abbr.

67. They're typical

68. Handful in a beer garden?

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Down

1. Spread dirt

2. Corkscrew-shaped pasta

3. Orange-colored liqueur served in a namesake spritz

4. Means of making some connections, for short

5. Relative of a harp

6. Pet peeves?

7. Estimation suffix

8. Power source

9. "You are correct about that"

10. Calendar notation: Abbr.

11. Prize dangling from a 38-Down booth

12. Voluntold, say

13. More than necessary

18. Something you might put stock in, for short

23. Risqué game that teenagers might give a whirl?

25. Memory jogger

27. PC hookup

30. Cab

32. Digitize, maybe

35. Dunham who wrote the memoir "Famesick"

37. I'm so frustrated!

38. Carnival game depicted in this puzzle

39. Brief bathroom breaks, slangily

40. Trampled

41. Habitat with a wet floor

42. Eyeballed

44. Ice cream eponym

46. Play the blame game with

47. Chinese martial art

48. Not sung, say

51. More, musically

54. Abbr. atop a memo

55. Charlie's Angels or the Chipmunks

57. Body parts linked in a square dance, maybe

61. "Tasty!"

62. Auction offering

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