Lieutenant in "Catch-22" Crossword Clue

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Lieutenant in "Catch-22" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. Canadian hockey player (born 1948)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

LIEUTENANT (noun)
1. an officer in a police force
2. an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
CATCH (verb)
1. reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
2. perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
CATCH (noun)
1. the act of catching an object with the hands
2. a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident

More NYT Crossword (4/18/2026) Answers

Across

1. "The Jeffersons" or "The Simpsons," notably

8. Team with the mascot Big Al, familiarly

12. In time

14. Dish purportedly invented in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo neighborhood

15. New York's ___ Valley

16. Thawing

17. TREAT

18. New outfit or accessory for a character, in video game-speak

19. Things that shouldn't be hidden

20. Non-eco-friendly refrigerant

21. Term in the bedroom, maybe

23. Unite

24. Two-pronged

26. Metros in the 1990s

27. "Wait just a sec"

29. Cowboy's friend, informally

30. Name that spiked in popularity following a 2013 Disney movie

31. Finalized

34. "You've got nothing to worry about"

36. All-time scoring leader for the Miami Heat, familiarly

38. Routine surfaces

39. Browns, on a scoreboard

40. Mathematics writer Gardner

41. Words of endorsement

43. Arrived

44. Make-believe sorrow

46. Cause of amusement to a vet, maybe

47. Daredevil's calculation

48. Some fairy tale characters

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Down

1. Did business with, in a way

2. Blowgun projectile

3. Words before "a penny" or "a treat"

4. Fifth-most abundant element in the universe

6. Into

7. Breakfast dish that might go over well?

8. How people get into a swimming pool, typically

9. Yom Kippur observers

10. Like the cheese in fondue

11. Backdrop for many van Gogh paintings

12. Blitzed

13. ___ pull-downs (exercise)

14. Item in a list on the fridge, maybe

17. Texas air hub, for short

18. Silky-haired toy

21. Start to give

22. "Hey, no backing out now!"

25. Still waffling

27. Relatives of ottomans

28. Texter's affectionate sign-off

29. It's not fit for human consumption

31. Cutting stuff

32. Cuts a line?

33. It takes two hands to show

34. Musketeer's tool

35. Nissan model

37. Brings about, as havoc

38. Less than milli-, more than nano-

40. Paint option

42. Metric for a venture capitalist, in brief

43. Play with

45. Calc calculation

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