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NEATER

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Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a preparation used in cleaning something
2. the operator of dry-cleaning establishment

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MESSY (adjective)
1. dirty and disorderly
LESS (adverb)
1. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
LESS (adjective)
1. (comparative of `little’ usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
2. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

NEATER
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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RECLEAN

More Universal Crossword (2/24/2026) Answers

Across

1. ___ KIDS

4. Prefix that sounds like a female relative

8. Skedaddle

12. Alley-___

13. One may be ajar

14. "Word" or "Google" follower

16. Batman's archenemy (In this answer, note letters 2-4)

18. Awoke

19. Me too

20. Tip container

21. Insult

22. Undercover govt. worker (... letters 1-4)

26. Ridicules

29. Kotex product

30. Stackable bed

31. Drop a bleat?

32. Father Christmas (... letters 6-9)

36. Fasten

39. "Hey now, we're all friends here"

40. Spot for a beginner swim lesson (... letters 2-6)

44. Novel

45. Suni of USA Gymnastics

46. ___Pen

47. App downloaders

49. "Star Trek" gesture (... letters 7-11)

53. NYC st. crosser

54. KIND bar morsel

55. Something unusual

59. Kept in check

61. Celebratory gesture ... and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme

63. Vice president in "An Inconvenient Truth"

64. Free to take a pass?

65. Jogged

66. 2024 Beyonce hit with a reduplicative name

67. Throw

68. Stackable music holders

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Down

1. Gold holders by rainbows

2. __ chic

3. Blueprint detail for short

4. Handsome guy

5. Finnish telecom giant

6. Place for a cat's "bean"

7. Write "mispelled" instead of "misspelled," say

8. OpenAI CEO Altman

9. Flexible loan

10. When Ophelia goes mad in "Hamlet"

11. The ones over there

14. Leave a mark on?

15. Otitis media symptom

17. Tool used to change a flat

20. Certain lightsaber user

23. Choose

24. Gold holder by a river

25. Mickey Mouse, e.g.

26. Some Wharton degs.

27. Hippocratic __

28. It might make you sneeze around a Siamese

32. "Shameless" network, briefly

33. Modern oil ingredient

34. Laptop maker

35. Stitches

37. Baldwin who voiced the Boss Baby

41. 270 degrees

42. Govt. org. whose logo is a two-leaved flower

43. Love : tennis :: ___ : soccer

47. Mitt Romney and others

48. Feudal peasant

49. Time to chillax

50. Soft palate part

51. In one's birthday suit

52. Impulses

56. Texter's "To my recollection ..."

57. Show disrupter

58. Desires

60. Constricting snake

61. *"Attractive!"

62. NYSE event

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