"Let me explain the reasoning …" Crossword Clue

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"Let me explain the reasoning …" Crossword Answer

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REASONING (noun)
1. thinking that is coherent and logical
REASONING (adjective)
1. endowed with the capacity to reason
EXPLAIN (verb)
1. serve as a reason or cause or justification of
2. make plain and comprehensible

More NYT Easy Mode Crossword (11/21/2025) Answers

Across

1. Fess up to

6. Relative of a gator

10. Apple computers

14. Actress who plays Rachel Berry on "Glee"

16. "Jane ___" (Charlotte Bronte novel)

17. Sits with extended legs, as a guy on the subway

18. Palindromic sound from a horn

19. Sneaky

20. Frog's best friend of kid-lit

21. Like an object that's unlikely to move, in Newton's first law of motion

23. Word under a velvet patch on a baby's touch-and-feel book

24. "Sorry, but yup, that's how it is"

25. Classic example of a complicated subject

29. Steer clear of

30. Jewish circle dances

31. Offer at an auction

34. Contents of a hidden treasure chest, you might hope

35. Actress Hunt or Mirren

36. "Umbrella" singer, to fans

37. "___ You Experienced?" (Jimi Hendrix song)

38. Gardeners may save them to plant in the spring

39. ___ wrap (alternative to foil)

40. Totally suspenseful

43. Gummies at a dispensary, say

45. Touch, as two sides

46. Names that might be italicized or enclosed in quotes

47. Gravelly stuff

48. Bone in a rack

51. "So funny!"

52. Sound from a sound machine

55. Chemical suffixes

56. Lucky shots in golf

57. Shopping convenience that's bigger than a basket

58. Four-digit number in a date

59. St. ___ and Nevis

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Down

1. ___ for the poor

2. One might be confirmed with a handshake

3. A lot of

4. Private communications on AOL

5. Crept quietly

6. Notecards used during a speech, say

7. Like an email you've already looked at

8. Ancient

9. The "C" of "C-section"

10. Decimal-based kind of measurement system

11. Emmy-winning actress of "The Bear"

12. Symbol associated with Christianity

13. Put at, as a specific time on a clock

15. Lara ___ (Tomb Raider heroine)

22. Sunbathes, perhaps

23. Snow bunny's equipment

24. Briquette lit with a match by a hearth

25. Traditional Indian music

26. "I'm so ___ it!" ("I don't even care any more!")

27. Flirtatious and inviting, as a gaze

28. They might leave you coughing and sniffly

32. Tehran's country

33. Sound from a doorbell

36. Totally enthralled

38. Event with discounts

39. World's first artificial satellite, launched in 1957

41. Online marketing tactic

42. Some New York City theater awards

43. Set of moral principles

44. Princess portrayed by Kristen Stewart in "Spencer"

47. ___ monster (only venomous lizard native to the U.S.)

48. Laugh-fest

49. Ain't formal?

50. Yellow and black buzzers

53. Gardening tool for breaking up soil

54. Demon in Japanese folklore

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