"It is what it is" Crossword Clue

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"It is what it is" Crossword Answer

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CONFIGURE (verb)
1. set up for a particular purpose
WALKOVER (noun)
1. any undertaking that is easy to do
2. backbends combined with handstands

More The Atlantic Crossword (12/21/2025) Answers

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1. Palindromic family nickname

5. Island province that introduced a tourist tax in 2024

9. Massive and colossal, e.g.

14. "About me" blurbs

15. It's celebrated with a flag that's light blue, pink, and white

17. Something taken on the way into the office?

18. You know it!

19. Charting artists?: abbr.

20. Assata Shakur's place of exile

21. Get the soap off of

22. Utter malarkey, for short

24. Half of a Disney duo

25. Sights in some midwestern skylines

26. Try to be friendly, maybe

30. Bird that's an Aboriginal culture hero

31. Getting chips, maybe?

32. Slaughterhouse-Five subject

33. Element next to carbon on the periodic table

34. It's inspired

35. Downward dog, for one

37. "What ___ we?"

38. Ride in the desert, maybe

40. Alphabetical middle of seven

41. 2021 memoir by Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

43. Good name for a lion?

44. Tañón or Tokarczuk

45. Chips whose concept is rumored to have originated at Disneyland

47. Used the five-finger discount

49. Russian no

50. 'Could you repeat that?'

51. Apt play for the 49ers?

53. "Dame un ___" (Selena song)

55. Part of a neck

56. It might get lost

57. "The World We ___ Is Us" (Alice Walker poem)

58. Charges

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1. Call off

2. Key part of a movie?

3. Person who creates conflicts of interest

4. Makeup of some crosses

5. "While we're on the subject ... "

6. Many residents of Dearborn, Michigan

7. Shadow of the Tomb Raider protagonist Croft

8. The Stonewall ___

9. "Plug your ears if you haven't seen the ending"

10. Type of patch

11. What Charles Schulz called "the worst name for a comic strip since Peanuts"

12. Gaylord Phoenix author Fake

13. C-SPAN abbreviation

16. Opportunity to demand fair wages, maybe

20. School you might get a full ride to ... a very full ride

23. ___ paratha

24. Tag—you're it!

26. Word after push or riding

27. "You didn't see me!"

28. "Is it not obvious?!"

29. Chapter of one's life

31. Where the faʻataupati was developed

33. Dismissive interjection

36. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Lee

39. Heavenly name

42. Feet that go "clip-clop, clip-clop"

43. Who ___?

45. Bladeless-fan company

46. Small drinks taken in big gulps, maybe

47. Branch of Islam predominant in Iran

48. Sundubu-jjigae ingredient

49. Org. that developed memory foam

51. Setting of a Real Housewives installment, for short

52. For the love of God, get on it!

53. Person you might get a matching tattoo with

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