Key ingredient in concrete Crossword Clue

We have the 6-letter answer for Key ingredient in concrete crossword clue, last seen in the USA Today Crossword June 14, 2026 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Key ingredient in concrete Crossword Answer

→42.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
2. a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
(verb)
1. bind or join with or as if with cement
2. cover or coat with cement

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

INGREDIENT (noun)
1. food that is a component of a mixture in cooking
2. an abstract part of something
CONCRETE (noun)
1. a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
CONCRETE (adjective)
1. capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary
2. formed by the coalescence of particles
CONCRETE (verb)
1. cover with cement
2. form into a solid mass; coalesce

More USA Today Crossword (6/14/2026) Answers

Across

1. Submarine's measurement

6. Pure happiness

11. Suspect's story

12. Manage tons of responsibilities simultaneously

14. *Challenge for a great employee's successor

17. Send help

18. "Are you ___ to help?"

19. Inbox contents

21. Points per game, e.g.

22. Things to drive on: abbr.

24. Might

25. Legal rights org.

28. *Matchup scheduled after a rainout

31. Spanish saffron rice dish

33. Jazz composer Sampson

34. Cliché

35. "The Bear" star Edebiri

36. Expenses

40. More than enough

43. *Annual campaign run by Comic Relief

47. ___-bitty

48. Bitter brew

49. Put the kibosh on

50. Fit of irritation

52. Grave danger

54. What a snake sheds

55. Pi, rho, sigma, ___

58. *Hit song from Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music," and a hint to this puzzle's theme

62. One way or another

63. All by yourself

64. Ease off the gas

65. Affirmatives

All Answers

Down

1. Little globs

2. Pixar boy who travels to the "Communiverse"

3. Oinking animals

4. Channel with many sitcom reruns

5. Drum kit part

6. Sonos competitor

7. Ignited

8. Who am __ judge?

9. Place that welcomes vulnerability

10. Like long odds

12. Letter after gamma

13. Animal that communicates with humans by humming

15. President No. 44

16. Name that anagrams to a country

20. Caustic cleaner

21. Ruler hypnotized by Jafar in "Aladdin"

22. Second chance

23. Really liked

25. Like the surname Park for a valet

26. Volvo or VW, e.g.

27. Garland that might be made of kukui nuts

29. ___ up (high-energy)

30. "Wallace & ___" (claymation duo)

32. Yellow-green Gatorade flavor

35. Rock climber Honnold

37. Complete collection

38. Palindromic explosive

39. 3-Down's home

41. Trident-shaped Greek letter

42. Jaded person

43. ___ to shreds

44. Olympic fencing sword

45. Mends, like a sock

46. Lopsided

51. Woodworker's design

53. Adored figure

54. "Celebrate" Black Friday

55. Lowest cards in Texas Hold 'em

56. Oscar winner Hathaway

57. Applications

59. Butterfly catcher's tool

60. Day before Fri.

61. Flamenco shout

All Answers