Hook or Cook: Abbr. Crossword Clue

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Hook or Cook: Abbr. Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

COOK (verb)
1. tamper, with the purpose of deception
2. prepare for eating by applying heat
COOK (noun)
1. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
2. someone who cooks food
HOOK (noun)
1. anything that serves as an enticement
2. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
HOOK (verb)
1. make off with belongings of others
2. approach with an offer of sexual favors

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More NYT Crossword (10/28/2025) Answers

Across

1. Six years, for a U.S. senator

5. Portable speaker?

9. Is behind

13. ___ jelly, popular boba tea topping

14. Beginning

15. Orbit, e.g.

16. Little guys in striped coats

18. What a booth in a recording studio shouldn't have

19. Build-your-own breakfast spot

20. Tattoo artist

21. $$$ set aside for old age

22. Child's living room hideaway

24. Leftover piece

28. Santa __ Calif.

29. ___ Max, singer with the 2018 hit "Sweet but Psycho"

30. Vessel with a spout

37. Alternative cut to a bob

39. Comedian Margaret

40. Style of a room

41. Word before chance or pickings

42. Plea before an impulsive act

44. Singer Grande, to fans

45. Plop yourself down

47. Melodramatic crying

49. Beverage containers for people on the move

54. A/C measure

55. Adam of "The O.C."

56. Reason why

61. Eight in Spain

62. Personal treasure chest ... or what each of the five groups of shaded letters illustrates?

63. Tandoori-baked bread

64. Businesswoman Lauder

65. German-based international supermarket chain

66. Twilight vampire Cullen

67. General ___ shrimp

68. Russian denial

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Down

1. Tea brand once owned by Starbucks

2. Kind of sch. for grades one to six

3. Bit of spa attire

4. Magician of Arthurian legend

5. Sort who's too good for everyone else

6. Cuba y Puerto Rico

7. Fashionably old-fashioned

8. “___ a date!”

9. Like some sandwiches

10. Super-silly sort

11. Thin air

12. Brief

14. It may be in the low 90s

17. Make fizzy

20. McKellen who played Gandalf

23. The 2% in 2% milk

24. Performs like Playboi Carti, say

25. The dark side

26. Longer than midi

27. Diplomat's skill

31. Vietnamese soup

32. "That was clumsy of me!"

34. Smoothie superfruit

35. NSFW stuff

36. Calc prerequisite

38. Get me out of here!

40. Person who's in the red

42. Good name for a chef?

43. Hanging over a baby's crib

46. Very cold and wet

48. John who wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress"

49. Certain steak

50. Deep-sea predators

51. Give extreme effort, in slang

52. "Any ___ is good ___" (public relations saying)

53. Managed

57. Informal shirts

58. With dexterity

59. Ore deposit

60. Opposite of entrance

62. Hot tub nozzle

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