It may have a hard or soft shell Crossword Clue

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It may have a hard or soft shell Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent
2. a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HARD (adjective)
1. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
2. unfortunate or hard to bear
HARD (adverb)
1. with firmness
2. slowly and with difficulty
SHELL (verb)
1. remove the husks from
2. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
SHELL (noun)
1. hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
2. the exterior covering of a bird’s egg

Hint 3: Anagram

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COAT

More NYT Crossword (9/21/2026) Answers

Across

1. Where Mongolia is

5. Scaredy-cat

9. Leafs (through)

14. Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize

15. Berry at a smoothie shop

16. Company behind the game Pong

17. Mentally pooped

20. 1960s service site, informally

21. Common injury site for a basketball player, informally

22. Thick, as plant growth

23. Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam

28. Commercial that may come with a jingle

29. Took a chair

30. Eager

31. Hair parter

34. Continue a subscription

38. Barely passing grade

39. Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across

41. Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate

42. Sometimes-floral organic compound

44. Draped Indian garment

45. ___-X (computer command to cut text)

46. Crosses (out)

48. Conjures up, say

50. "... if i'm being honest"

54. Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna

55. Opposite of 'neath

56. Fools' mo.

57. "A fight requires more than one person"

63. "I'm available to help"

64. Modern note-taking aid

65. Plant in a marsh

66. Spanish babies

67. What a paper airplane icon may indicate

68. Thing in a grove

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Down

1. Big letters in home security

2. ___ Paulo Brazil

3. Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks"

4. Relief for an upset stomach

5. Simple two-player card game

6. Drink cooler

7. Angry with

8. Throw from a mound

9. Butter square

10. Any Olympian

11. First name of Julius Caesar

12. Artist Max

13. Worshiper in a turban

18. Texter's qualifier

19. Cries in a fútbol stadium

23. Barter

24. Roof overhangs

26. Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons

27. Paves the way?

32. N.Y.C. subway letters

33. Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper

35. Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery

36. Spearfishing bird

37. People of SW Britain

39. Without charge

40. The Emerald Isle

43. Like skydiving or cliff-diving

45. Dashboard or bumper

47. Place to put a coin

49. Coup d'___

50. Joke with

51. Like some wine barrels

52. ___ and Clark

53. Familiar narrative device

54. Leave dumbfounded

58. French possessive

59. Catch some rays

60. Bizarre

61. "Golly!"

62. Poetic tribute

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