"It was nice while it lasted" Crossword Clue

We have the 3-letter answer for "It was nice while it lasted" crossword clue, last seen in the Boston Globe Mini Crossword July 26, 2026 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

"It was nice while it lasted" Crossword Answer

→104.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
(verb)
1. take without the owner’s consent
2. tear or be torn violently

Hint 2: Clue Definition

NICE (adjective)
1. done with delicacy and skill
2. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
NICE (noun)
1. a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

More Boston Globe Mini Crossword (7/26/2026) Answers

Across

1. Smallest prime

4. Laptop brand

8. Percussive shakers

15. Take the bait

19. Online aesthetic created as an antidote to doomscrolling

21. Country that turned 250 this month

22. Soon, to the Bard

23. Footwear holder with a conveyor belt?

25. Dirty Harry's grp.

26. Natural hairdos

27. Celery servings

28. Wedding attendant

30. Gillette razor

32. World Cup cheer

33. Dorm helpers: Abbr.

35. French farewell

38. Nielsen numbers

40. Little bits of rubber on your paper?

44. Put out

45. Fertile soil

47. Hoops great Ginóbili

48. "Wait a sec!"

49. Big Apple tabloid, briefly

51. Where Help can be found?

53. When you expect to get in, briefly

54. Common ramen topping

56. Writing a zero-star review of a bakery café?

60. Standard and Poor's alternative

62. Abbr. before a year on a cornerstone

63. May decline to

67. Lament

68. Back of the neck

69. Horsehair source

72. Strainer

73. Informal alliance

75. Lonely number

76. Kid raised in the '80s

77. Naked in a downpour?

82. Pull-up muscle, informally

83. Many a youth sports coach

86. Space station components

87. "Yeah?"

89. Like a messy bed

92. Linda of "Jekyll & Hyde"

93. Compared to

94. Fizzling sound

97. Bureau in charge of yolk-based paints?

100. Center forward, in soccer

102. Packs down

103. Exploit

106. Spoof

107. Sorrow

109. This Is __ Tap

112. Checkout count

113. "Flashlight" author Susan

115. Antonio on parade?

119. Singer Tori

120. Unexpectedly gone

121. Free

122. Phone setting

123. On the line

124. How music was sold in the '90s

125. Lil ___ X

All Answers

Down

1. West End industry

2. Tungsten, by another name

3. Performing plein-air surgery?

4. Is part of the cast of

5. "__ blimey!" (mild British oath)

6. Goddess of discord

7. Odd-numbered book page

8. "Symphony of a Thousand" composer Gustav

9. Out Of Control

10. Filmmaker Dee

11. Part of 53-Across: Abbr.

12. Jack Ryan's org.

13. Point the finger at

14. ___ Fifth Avenue

15. Having as a headquarters

16. Encroach (upon)

17. With 18-Down, high-quality

18. See 17-Down

20. Sustainable settlement

24. Peabody Essex Museum city

29. "lol 2 funny"

31. Domed homes

33. Lead-in period

34. One of the ABC islands

36. Four-honor achievement

37. Annapolis sch

39. Baseball's Slammin' Sammy

41. Modify

42. Performed in choir

43. Second-smallest prime

46. On the ocean

50. Hester in "The Scarlet Letter"

51. Tiny bit

52. Poet Bradstreet

54. Model who hosted "More to Love"

55. "Continue"

57. Baker's amt.

58. Take exception to

59. Game point after deuce

61. Took a card

64. Actor Culkin's forthcoming film?

65. “Again!”

66. Actress Hatcher

68. Infamous Emperor

69. Mineralogist with a namesake hardness scale

70. Stout alternative

71. Cambridge-to-Somerville direction

74. Lion __ (circus act)

75. Serious

76. Super Bowl or World Series champions in 2012

78. Thoughts

79. Light prod

80. Giddy joy

81. Sounds of clicking?

83. Purebred's antithesis

84. Draft-eligible status

85. Line of Campbell's soups?

88. Banned baseball pitch

90. Inform

91. "Lucy and ___" (2022 documentary)

93. Lacing up

95. Musical hold sign

96. Locks

98. Conversant (with)

99. React to awkwardness

101. Ransacked, as a fridge

105. Picasso of painting

108. Thompson of "Cruella"

109. Majority branch of Islam in Iran

110. 2026 Tony Awards host

111. Reclined

113. Zoom accessory

114. Medical insurance grp.

116. Blog feed format

117. Winter hrs. in OKC

118. Olympics broadcaster

All Answers