Lead-in to "except after C" Crossword Clue

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Lead-in to "except after C" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

LEAD-IN (noun)
1. the introductory section of a story
2. wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line
EXCEPT (verb)
1. take exception to
2. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

More NYT Crossword (9/14/2026) Answers

Across

1. Cherokee or Wrangler

5. Omelet ingredients

9. Big noisy fight

14. Cornfield measure

15. Little flying pest

16. Dale who sang "Happy Trails" with Roy Rogers

17. Crew building

19. Assigns stars to, as on Yelp

20. "Spare" things at a barbecue

21. Stately tree

23. Before, in poetry

24. Atlantic City attraction

27. "Is it bigger than a ___?"

29. 911 respondent, in brief

30. Latina toon explorer

32. Beatles song with the lyric “She promises the earth to me”

33. Pinocchio's are easily exposed

35. "Absolutely, amigo!"

37. The White Stripes and the Black Keys, for two

39. Close boxing match outcome

42. Picket line crosser

43. Silverstein who wrote and illustrated "The Giving Tree"

44. Contacted on Instagram, informally

46. Bills typically found in a tip jar

48. Mallorca or Menorca, por ejemplo

50. Place for a piercing or a plug

51. All-out boxing match

54. Sarcastic

56. "Hamilton" composer ___-Manuel Miranda

57. Singer/actress Rita ___

58. It's "smashed" in a particle accelerator

59. Playful aquatic mammal

61. Flip out … or a hint to the beginnings of 17-, 27-, 39- and 51-Across

66. Word said while pointing

67. "Never Have I ___" (sleepover game)

68. Coldest possible temperature on the Kelvin scale

69. Informal hoops game

70. Winter road application

71. Rams' mates

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Down

1. Quick boxing punch

2. Prefix with friendly or warrior

3. Slice of history

4. ___ dish (lab item)

5. Self-esteem builder

6. African antelopes

7. Something an electric car doesn't use

8. Have the reins

9. Disney's Ariel and her sisters

10. Youngest of the Gabor sisters

11. One slow to develop

12. Beginning of el año

13. English county NE of London

18. Female red deer

22. "Break a ___"

24. "The Simpsons" collectible

25. Out of place

26. Pedometer

27. Single, double or triple

28. Ancient Celtic priest

31. Clears (of)

34. Word hidden, aptly, in "teen's language"

36. Completes, as a cake

38. Move stealthily

41. "Let me go first"

45. Like some humor and wine

47. To be, in Barcelona

49. Soon, in poems

51. Animal that sleeps upside down

52. Certain art print, informally

53. Wise sorts

55. Astound

58. Brother of Cain

60. TV medical drama settings, in brief

62. Things traveling through fallopian tubes

63. Previously unseen

64. "Rules ___ rules!"

65. Abba title sung after the line "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me"

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