Less specific Crossword Clue

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SPECIFIC (noun)
1. a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
2. a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease
SPECIFIC (adjective)
1. being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides
2. (sometimes followed by `to’) applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
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

More Missing Letter Crossword (4/27/2025) Answers

Across

1. ADJECTIVE: "tending to [evaluate] others harshly or critically"

6. Under, in poetry books

11. Angkor ___ (Cambodian temple)

14. Stadium's cousin

15. ADVERB: "used to express disagreement or the withholding of permission"

16. Oft-quoted boxer

17. NOUN: "the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context"

19. Cattrall or Kardashian

20. NOUN: "a long narrow cut or opening"

21. Share a border with

22. Goddaughter, often

24. Kitchen behemoth

26. 1980s fun spot

30. NOUN: "a fast natural usually 4-beat gait of the horse"

32. VERB: "to tremble or shudder usually from cold or fear"

33. Prefix with dynamic

34. Cartoon frame

37. Reveals the true identity of, as in many "Scooby-Doo" episodes

39. ADVERB OR ADJECTIVE: "in a restless...manner...used as a direction in music"

42. Before this moment

43. "Driving Miss Daisy" playwright Alfred

45. Soda fountain orders

46. Like people in a totalitarian state

49. NOUN: "a great quantity"

50. University founded in the year 1096

52. Its capital is Pierre (abbr.)

54. Frankie who sings the title song from the musical "Grease"

55. However briefly?

56. "Don't delay," briefly

60. Alanis Morissette's "21 Things I Want ___ Lover"

61. NOUN: "a situation in which one person or group can win something only by causing another person or group to lose it"

64. Remind someone over and over about something, e.g.

65. Animal often on the last page of learn-the-alphabet books

66. Long-term spies

67. Program file extension

68. Approvals

69. Many a Hollywood professional

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1. Improvises musically

2. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "river 1509 miles (2428 kilometers) long in Russia and Kazakhstan that...flows south into the Caspian Sea"

3. NOUN: "a store where ready-to-eat food products (such as cooked meats and prepared salads) are sold"

4. Annoying little buzzer

5. VERB: "to talk in a shrill insistent way"

6. NOUN: "a daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion who...is turned into a stone"

7. VERB: "to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion"

8. Have ___ to pick (quibble)

9. Prof. helpers

10. NOUN: "a collection of church [songs]"

11. NOUN: "something that serves to alert a person to a problem, danger, or need"

12. Wonderland girl

13. NOUN: "a device (such as a clock) that indicates by a sound the end of an interval"

18. Enthusiastic review

23. "Where did ___ wrong?"

24. Poetry often dedicated to someone

25. NOUN: "a [personal website] that contains video material"

26. Light blue hue

27. NOUN: "one of the crosspieces of a ladder"

28. NOUN: "concealment by means of disguise"

29. Letters before a pseudonym

31. "___ of Sunshine" (1983 Wham! song)

33. Arthur ___ Boulevard (Richmond thoroughfare honoring a native son)

35. Suffix with Smurf

36. NOUN: "an amount by which the cost of something exceeds its selling price"

38. NOUN: "a member of a pastoral and agricultural people who inhabit a plateau region in adjoining parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, and Azerbaijan"

40. "Things are going pretty well these days"

41. Tiny bit

44. Gain back, as lost trust

47. Former Cambodian prime minister Lon ___

48. ADJECTIVE: "(of hair): not smooth and neat because individual shafts are variably wavy and do not align together"

49. Honolulu's island

50. Sheep-related

51. TRADEMARK: "used for a preparation of...a benzodiazepine tranquilizer...used especially to treat mild to moderate anxiety"

53. Savory crepes

55. Spheres

56. In a state of eager anticipation

57. One-word sign in a store window

58. “You can say that again!”

59. NOUN: "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns"

62. Wide shoe size

63. Somewhat scary sport, for short

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