Inventor’s acquisition Crossword Clue

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Inventor’s acquisition Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
2. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
(noun)
1. an official document granting a right or privilege
2. a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
(verb)
1. grant rights to; grant a patent for
2. make open to sight or notice

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

INVENTOR (noun)
1. someone who is the first to think of or make something
ACQUISITION (noun)
1. an ability that has been acquired by training
2. the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

Hint 3: Anagram

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PATTEN

More WSJ Crossword (6/17/2025) Answers

Across

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10. Yay team!

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16. ___ Emu (insurance ad mascot)

17. Greek goddess of wisdom

18. Chiding sound

19. Sharp-witted

21. Battery partner

23. “Blues in the Night” composer

24. ___ avis

26. Borrowing figure

27. Trivial Pursuit piece

28. Pediatric patient

30. Huevos rancheros topping

31. Like the Marianas Trench

33. Season opener?

34. Many an online meme

35. Attraction at a Disney park, and what you need to do to fill each set of circles

40. Tiny amount

41. Genetic messenger

42. 1982 Jeff Bridges sci-fi film

44. Yearn for

47. Deliberately taunts

49. Vowel’s value, in Scrabble

50. D-dog link

51. 'If it __ broke . . .'

52. Schoolyard comeback

54. Chrysler Building’s area

56. Archery range sight

58. Before before

59. Prejudices

61. Kerfuffles

63. Kia subcompact

64. Black Friday customers at opening time, e.g.

65. Greedy request

66. Braying quadruped

67. Nile Delta site

68. Grammy-winning Irish singer

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Down

1. Solidify

2. Some zoo enclosures

3. Dreamy state

4. Cruel sort

5. The Big Dipper, e.g.

6. Indefinite degree

7. "Rumor has it ..."

8. High-IQ society

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10. Ceremonial practice

11. Full price payers, usually

12. Pour from a pot

14. Dig in

20. Chapel Hill sch.

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23. Do some basic math

25. Person who might ask for a recount

29. Take notice of

30. Canine command

34. Flying pest

36. Purr producer

37. Coder’s evaluation of an individual module

38. Like some patches

39. “Nothing to see here” occasion

43. Fresh start

44. Mathew Brady apparatus

45. God of 67-Across

46. YouTube postings

47. Twofold

48. Television part: Abbr.

51. Impressing immensely

53. Best effort

55. Tony’s kin

57. Fire remnant

60. “What’s happ’nin’?”

62. Halibut’s home

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