Hook’s helper Crossword Clue

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Hook’s helper Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

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
HELPER (noun)
1. a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)
2. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

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More WSJ Crossword (4/9/2025) Answers

Across

1. Preach!

5. Competent

9. Set follower, in volleyball

14. Shower affection (on)

15. "Here's the thing ..."

16. Sleeveless garment worn in gym class scrimmages

17. *Munchkin, e.g.

19. Title musical character who lives a hard-knock life

20. “The Transporter” star Jason

21. Some family emblems

22. Truck make with a horned logo

23. Job benefits

25. *Common peanut butter go-with

30. Burglar’s take

31. "___ and the Last Dragon" (2021 Disney film)

32. Birthstone for many Libras

34. Dulles or O’Hare, e.g.

35. Pec pic

36. Wild blue yonder

38. W.C. in the U.K.

40. Baseball’s Terry Francona, to fans

44. Make believable, as a performance

45. *Veggie brined in a fruity drink mix

48. Student of Socrates

49. Surname of Chinese menus

50. With 58-Across, predicament, and a description of both halves of the starred answers

53. Subsumes

57. Porch with a roof

58. See 50-Across

60. Left on the liner

61. Singer-songwriter Tori

62. James of jazz

63. River features

64. Hoity-toity

65. Sound hoarse

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Down

1. Does sum work?

2. Not worth arguing about

3. Peak that grew 100 feet in 2021

4. The N in PRNDL

5. Islamic palace in Granada, Spain

6. Period of prosperity

7. Not quite ROFL

8. Squeeze (out)

9. Pass muster, for Marie Kondo

10. Pitch kin

11. Some B&Bs

12. Join together, as bones

13. Focus group?

18. Lessening of tensions

21. Let it all out

23. Act the snoop

24. Wiped clean

25. “This is the quiet car!”

26. Not saggy

27. Cube creator

28. Bothers

29. He plays Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody”

33. Recline

35. Hammer's home

37. Found ways to pass the time

39. Cheer for cape-waving

41. It’s turned over after the deal, in Uno

43. Mine, in Milano

44. Segway’s ZT3 Pro, e.g.

46. Make eggs?

47. Rae of "American Fiction"

50. Thick chunk

51. Crime scene boundary

52. A party to

53. Gobs

54. EGOT winner Moreno

55. Fake social media users

56. Express appreciation at a poetry slam

58. Didnt play

59. Online “If you ask me...”

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