Long-___ squid Crossword Clue

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Long-___ squid Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination
2. (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SQUID (noun)
1. (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
2. widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
LONG (adjective)
1. good at remembering
2. planning prudently for the future
LONG (verb)
1. desire strongly or persistently

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
DERMA

More NYT Crossword (8/15/2026) Answers

Across

1. Began

7. Show faces?

15. Bring back into the fold, so to speak

16. Worth looking back on

17. One from "Japan's kitchen"

18. Appeal

19. Bit of ceramic ware

20. Cast off

22. #7

23. "Lovely" and "wonderful" food, per Monty Python

25. Rose Bowl Stadium athlete

26. Big ring

27. Patient privacy law, in brief

29. World Cup team nicknamed "The Three Lions": Abbr.

30. Say "Hey," say

31. Speak up?

34. Intermezzo and trou normand dishes, essentially

38. Hoedown get-down?

42. "Wayne's World" exclamation

43. Christina of "Buffalo ’66"

44. Ring location

45. Oil wells?

47. Nickname for Eleanor

48. Eye-catching stage prop

49. "Got it"

51. Thru

52. Underlining, e.g.

54. Classical figure in an 1898 Gustav Klimt oil

56. Some back-and-forth

57. Big name in fashion

58. Go in the wrong way?

59. "I beg you . . ."

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Down

1. Cut out the middleman, for delivery

2. Fabulous collection

3. “You’re the best!”

4. No-good ending?

5. Diamond figs.

6. Leftmost star of the Summer Triangle

7. Classic 1926 novel often published with a bull and matador on its cover

8. Dressing group

9. Gamgee player in "Lord of the Rings"

10. ___-C

11. The second one on the Statue of Liberty is longer than its first one

12. Toothache care option

13. Communion, e.g.

14. Charybdis' man-eating opposite, in myth

21. Upper regions of forests

24. Sea cow

26. French Baroque artist Nicolas

28. Challenged on X, say

30. Scout's follower?

32. Bad spell

33. Partner of "pitch" and "roll"

35. ... you get the point

36. Kicks back, in a way

37. Crime writer Mickey who created the Mike Hammer stories

39. Prince of Monaco beginning in 2005

40. Certain tenant

41. French soccer superstar Kylian

45. Some bow ties

46. Where roots take hold

49. Complain

50. Citation shortener

53. Tricks

55. Orange or lime

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