Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty" Crossword Clue

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Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty" Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. no longer sufficient
2. used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
(noun)
1. the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
2. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
(verb)
1. make a low noise, characteristic of bovines

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ACROSS (adverb)
1. transversely
GAUGE (verb)
1. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
2. adapt to a specified measurement
GAUGE (noun)
1. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
2. accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared

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More NYT Crossword (12/22/2025) Answers

Across

1. Deep sleeps

6. High-speed Amtrak train

11. Word with "punching" or "sleeping"

14. One of a battery's poles

15. Older but ___

16. Under the weather

17. Saxophone, trumpet, piano and bass, perhaps

19. Day-___ paint

20. 'Garfield' dog

21. 'It's freezing!'

22. Typical "Survivor" locales

24. Rapper ___ Uzi Vert

25. Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, for two

28. Fish that may have an electric charge

29. Stammering sounds

30. Indignation

31. What each U.S. senator represents

33. Raggedy ___

34. Breyers competitor

35. Some exams allow them

39. Cops, slangily

42. Rode the bench

43. Yoga pose

47. Enjoying great success

49. What electric cars don't use

52. Overly fussy

54. Bit of forensic evidence

55. Pink ___ (rock band)

56. Singer DiFranco

57. Bill

58. Mideast export

59. Cheat … or a punny hint to the four sets of circled letters

63. French "a"

64. Hearing-related

65. Playwright Chekhov

66. Kind of lamp that's energy-efficient

67. Easily irritated

68. Romeo and Juliet, agewise

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Down

1. Persuades with flattery

2. Doing keto, perhaps

3. Creator of Firefox and Thunderbird

4. Woodworking tool

5. Orderly arrangement: Abbr.

6. Oscars and Grammys, e.g.

7. Wispy clouds

8. Approx.

9. Harper ___, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

10. Monet or Manet

11. Don't blow it!

12. Reaction to pollen, e.g.

13. Shiny coatings

18. Lyft competitor

23. Heart attack risk factor

25. Cherokee maker

26. "The kissing disease"

27. Em, to Dorothy

32. Foot, in baby talk

33. Word after fire or carpenter

36. Actor Morales

37. Drug agent, informally

38. No sweat

39. Ball batted up and behind the catcher, say

40. Length of a pithy joke

41. Released from jail early

44. Pasta preference

45. Nine-sided figure

46. Stirs from sleep

48. Is over by

49. With a light touch

50. Suffix with problem

53. Gold standard

57. Scourge

60. Shade of color

61. Surgery sites, in brief

62. Beanie or bowler

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