"If you want me to be honest ..." Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

HONEST (adjective)
1. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
2. not forged
WANT (verb)
1. have need of
2. feel or have a desire for; want strongly
WANT (noun)
1. anything that is necessary but lacking
2. a state of extreme poverty

More NYT Crossword (11/17/2025) Answers

Across

1. Vegas attraction, with "The"

6. Bitter-smelling

11. Cell signal unit

14. Pleasant smell

15. Heavyweight African animal, informally

16. Application

17. Circle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle

19. So-so, in modern slang

20. Scrapes (out), as a living

21. Mental slip-up

22. Univ. degrees for executives

23. Many a prom tuxedo

25. Train track part

27. Airheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers

33. Growth in a fish tank

36. Steaming mad

37. Girlfriend or boyfriend, informally

38. Gruesome

39. Cooks just the outsides of

40. Nuisance

41. A narcissist has a big one

42. Giving the go-ahead

43. Keto and paleo, for two

44. Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof

47. In one's birthday suit

48. Skeptic's remark

52. Home of a "500" race, familiarly

54. Great ___ National Park (Nevada attraction)

58. Shoe's bottom:

59. Play-__

60. Andrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall

62. Musical Yoko

63. With everything on the line

64. Like a pyramid or sphere

65. Femur and fibula site

66. Not sharp, as a pencil

67. Vulgar

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Down

1. Less risky

2. Tot's three-wheeler

3. Comic actor Seth

5. Golfing standard

6. Region

7. Intel product

8. Makes unfair, in a way

9. Receives from a will

10. Nickname for Dorothy

11. Insect that stings

12. Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong

13. Cincinnati team

18. ___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist

22. Sch. with a T station

24. Amazement

26. Lumberjack's tool

28. Letters before "And on that farm ..."

29. The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+

30. Platoon V.I.P.

31. Sunrise direction

32. Ping-Pong dividers

33. Like most cheeses with rinds

34. Nike's Swoosh, e.g

35. Punxsutawney Phil, for one

39. Classic arcade game with bull's-eye rings

40. Strongly desires

42. Like a centenarian

43. "For suresies"

45. Purchase

46. Bottle served at a trattoria

49. Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat

50. The King of Rock and Roll

51. Marsh plants

52. Object of adoration

53. Zero

55. Rights advocacy org. since 1920

56. Dermatologist's focus

57. "It ___ that simple ..."

60. Quick punch

61. Foreign policy grp.

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