"Let me try to explain …" Crossword Clue

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"Let me try to explain …" Crossword Answer

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EXPLAIN (verb)
1. serve as a reason or cause or justification of
2. make plain and comprehensible
TRY (verb)
1. melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
2. test the limits of
TRY (noun)
1. earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

More NYT Crossword (6/5/2026) Answers

Across

1. Adjusts, as text

7. Get away

10. Lecture setting

14. "Can anyone explain this?!"

18. Gal pal

19. Appeal in defense

20. Coat on a tip?

21. Round striker

22. Where 22-Across is

23. Pilots' tools

26. Grocery stores

30. Seaweed-based gels

31. Strikes out on one's own

32. So-called "Champagne of Spain"

33. ___ Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Prize-winning chemist

34. Fuss

35. Targets of some regulations

37. Something a toddler might grow out of

38. Fuji, e.g.

39. Energizes

40. Something you can see right through

41. Not so rich, so to speak

42. Remit, say

45. New wave band with the 1979 album "Duty Now for the Future"

46. Destination

49. Provide proactive help, in a way

52. "Keep me out of it"

53. Opposite of "stay silent"

54. "___ y Plata" (Montana's motto)

55. Southwestern dwellings

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Down

1. Triage pros

2. Dorado fish, informally

3. Scrapes (out)

4. Just out

5. Attire that may snap on

6. Does up, in a way

7. Big do

8. Studio behind "Notorious" and "Nocturne"

9. Came out of bankruptcy, say

10. What might give a hand in a casino?

11. Opposed

12. Deity with a temple in Pompeii

13. Actor Gilliam of "The Wire"

15. Attitude

16. Some athleisure bottoms

21. Modern water sport

22. Summons

23. 500 competitor

24. Top form

25. Biblical shepherd-turned-king

26. Kind of figure

27. I I I

28. ___ Neal, co-star of TV's "The Hughleys"

29. Painful spots

31. People not to argue with, they say

33. Forcibly halve

36. Dash

37. Small marsupial whose name is spelled using only the letters of TROP

39. Biblical verb

41. Blue side, with "the"

42. Med. diagnostics

43. Maker of the Q3

44. "__ a secret!"

45. Movie villain who is a member of SPECTRE

46. Pioneering civil rights activist ___ Arnold Hedgeman

47. Forbidden subject in Islamic art

48. Row houses, to Brits

50. Canal entry

51. Med. diagnostic

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