Inflates the word count of Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

WORD (noun)
1. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
2. information about recent and important events
WORD (verb)
1. put into words or an expression
COUNT (verb)
1. put into a group
2. show consideration for; take into account
COUNT (noun)
1. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
2. a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl

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More New Yorker Crossword (3/24/2026) Answers

Across

1. “Echar una ___” (“Lend a hand,” in Spanish)

5. Leg-revealing cut

9. Clock setting for Rose Bowl games: Abbr.

12. Tapenade-making discards

14. Pâtisserie enticement

16. North ___ (Skopje’s country)

17. One of four on a quadcopter

18. Birds known for impaling their prey

19. Store where you might get a chopped cheese

20. Fragrant compound

21. Site of a cathedral painted more than thirty times by Monet

22. Civil-rights leader who convinced 3-Down not to quit “Star Trek,” for short

23. Vessels for frying okonomiyaki

24. Pull to the impound lot, e.g.

27. It may poke at someone in a seat

32. Sierra Nevada product

33. “Help my post do numbers, y’all!”

34. Martial-arts weapon wielded by the Ninja Turtle Raphael

35. June 6, 1944

36. Late spy novelist Deighton

37. Inform

39. Literary ___ (set of books conventionally agreed to be important)

42. City where Jafar Panahi’s 2025 film “It Was Just an Accident” is set

44. Punk band whose members share an assumed surname

46. “It wasn’t my day”

47. Average contributor in baseball?

49. God prayed to during salat

50. Weird Al single that’s an ode to lunch meat

51. Three-letter palindrome that’s a nine-character palindrome in Morse code

52. Obstacle at the end of a course?

53. Where HOG refers to Harley-Davidson: Abbr.

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Down

1. Barbara, to Margaret, in “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”

2. 'That's too bad'

3. Actress who wrote the memoir “Beyond Uhura”

4. Detachable layer for a versatile wedding dress

5. Bike-wheel part used as a lockpick in the M. Night Shyamalan film “Trap”

6. Trash can insert

7. That so?

8. Org. that uses X-ray scanners

9. What a stretched spring or a drawn bow has, in physics

10. Pollution portmanteau

11. U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Famer Lipinski

13. Polish language

14. States of excitement

15. Took the L, say

19. Art form in which yamadori trees are prized

21. Ellison with the posthumous novel “Juneteenth”

22. Jason who played Duncan Idaho in “Dune”

23. ___ line (possible result of wearing leggings)

25. Synthetic fibre trademarked by DuPont

26. Be a bawler

28. Brad Garrett sitcom whose title is part of a wedding vow

29. Cabin-bound, perhaps

30. Game with settlements on a hexagonal board

31. Nickname for the mobster John Gotti, with “the”

38. Minor name in astronomy?

39. Major sources of pre-race fuel

40. "You're wrong about me"

41. Oasis songwriter Gallagher

42. Aunts, in Acapulco

43. Greeting for a guv’nor

44. 2025 Best New Artist Grammy nominee with the song “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!”

45. Circumbinary planets orbit two of them

47. Fire-department job, briefly

48. Not, to a Scot

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