Like some socks and chess players Crossword Clue

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Like some socks and chess players Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. occurring in pairs or as a pair
2. mated sexually

Hint 2: Clue Definition

CHESS (noun)
1. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
2. a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent’s king

Hint 3: Anagram

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TAMED

More NYT Crossword (4/24/2025) Answers

Across

1. "Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns"

6. "Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap"

14. Like some experimental music

16. Deferential

17. Valentine's Day sentiment

18. More than a mere grudge

19. They might be all over the map

21. Animal known for freezing under pressure

22. Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017

25. Locale for a cochlea

28. Deadpan

29. "You Come ___" (Robert Frost collection)

30. ___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator

31. Kind of cucumber that isn't a vegetable

33. Dither

35. "Lady Bird" and "Stand By Me"

39. Actress ___ Taylor-Joy

40. Bundle of paper or grain

41. Some

44. - (44 Across)

46. Eponymous Italian designer Mario

47. Prefix with soul or classical

48. Spanish letter before te

50. One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt

51. Atlanta sch.

54. “Get that away from me!!”

56. Grid lines, perhaps

58. Mythical forge locale

60. Get

62. Second calling?

65. Items that gather lather

69. Person with the shift after a long one of yours

70. 1980s New York mayor

71. - (71 Across)

72. - (72 Across)

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Down

1. Dollop

2. Verb that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward

3. CD follower

4. Potato turnover

5. - (5 Down)

6. “Outta my way!”

7. Overly big

8. One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr.

9. Josh

10. Put to work?

12. Return to a PC keyboard?

13. - (13 Down)

15. Sprang (at)

20. "Nice one, you got me"

22. Singer James

23. Selection at the butcher's

24. "The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Killer Sundae"

26. Cher's catchphrase in "Clueless"

27. The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in "Star Wars"

32. Food thickener

34. One-named singer who's a former member of One Direction

36. Poetic contraction that omits a "v"

37. Might, to Shakespeare

38. - (38 Down)

40. Stash

42. Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022

43. Jokesters

45. Go out with

46. "Downton Abbey" and "Shogun"

49. Far from fresh

51. Mixing thematic elements and tropes … or a feature of this puzzle?

52. Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays

53. Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre

55. People celebrated worldwide on March 8

57. Skinny white mushroom

59. Similar

61. Floating mass

63. Subject of Homer's loathing on "The Simpsons"

64. Bird-related prefix

66. One of "them"

67. Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough

68. "There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's)

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