Key with one sharp Crossword Clue

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Key with one sharp Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SHARP (adjective)
1. (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
2. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
SHARP (adverb)
1. changing suddenly in direction and degree
SHARP (noun)
1. a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
2. a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
KEY (noun)
1. a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
2. (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
KEY (verb)
1. identify as in botany or biology, for example
2. harmonize with or adjust to
KEY (adjective)
1. serving as an essential component

Hint 2: Anagram

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MERINO

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Across

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4. Rebound, as a pool shot

8. Requirement for domestic air travel starting in 2025

14. Body part that might "pop"

15. Words of understanding

16. ___ State, nickname for New York

17. Soften, as a message

19. Kitchen strainers

20. Don't go!

21. Appear gradually from the black, as a film image

23. Industrialist Lilly

24. Native led by Montezuma

26. A very high price, so to speak

28. Cereal variety from Switzerland

30. Lead female character

31. Summer temp, say

34. River's bottom

35. Dentist, colloquially

38. Actress Long of "Boyz N the Hood"

39. Gets back together

40. Shipped without prepaid postage, for short

42. Much of Mauritania and Mali

47. Japanese stadium that has hosted M.L.B. and N.F.L. games

50. Martian explorer

51. Last number in a countdown

52. Surgical stitch

54. Used a loom

55. Related to spiritual cause and effect

57. Collection of tasks … or what 17-, 26-, 35- and 47-Across comprise?

59. Timeless, to a poet

60. Small vortex

61. Thanks, Captain Obvious

62. Best-of-seven games, say

63. Make airtight

64. Fancy hotel amenity

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1. Material that's been deliberately thrown overboard

2. Philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching"

3. Fancy and elaborate

4. Auction action

5. Since

6. Just getting started with

7. Martial art with bamboo swords

8. Places to live

10. Subject of much Jane Goodall research

11. More alert and energetic

12. Limerick's locale

13. Fancy!

18. They wink and blink

22. Filmmaker Nora

25. Advertising award

27. Southwestern wolf

29. Presents

32. Punctual people are said to arrive on this

33. End of an academic address

35. One fiddling around in a workshop

36. Like granola bars, typically

37. Onetime leader in St. Petersburg

38. Newborn child

40. Excites

41. Trigonometry ratio

43. Coyote's cry

44. Steers clear of

45. Excites

46. First name of the "Queen of Soul"

48. Quiets on Zoom

49. Wear away

53. Classic Icelandic saga

56. Scanner whose field strength is measured in teslas, for short

58. Toondom's Olive

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