Long Crossword Clue

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Long Crossword Answer

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ACHE

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PINE

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Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
2. desire strongly or persistently

Hint 2: Clue Definition

LONG (adjective)
1. good at remembering
2. planning prudently for the future
LONG (verb)
1. desire strongly or persistently

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ACHE
(4 letters)
PINE
(4 letters)

More The Atlantic Crossword (1/4/2026) Answers

Across

1. Small time regulator?

11. Secretly sends: abbr.

15. Cry after discovering a conspiracy, maybe

16. Errant tuba sound

17. Trouble with one's locks?

18. Drink that uses caramel coloring

19. Blu's home, in a 2011 animated film: abbr.

20. Victim of many a Bart Simpson prank call

21. Crafty

22. Namesake of the Sports Illustrated Legacy Award

23. Stress

27. Keeps an eye on

28. One might release a trailer?

30. Cocktail made with an Asian tropical fruit

36. "You're going to have to try harder than that to spook me!"

37. Neck accessories

38. Chip with a Fuego variety

39. Like many jingles

43. Boy band that sold out the 40,000-plus-seat Citi Field in minutes

46. Relative of Wednesday

47. Health in Her ___ (digital platform for women of color)

48. Go bad, maybe

49. One of Africa's Big Five

51. 1980s British pop group

55. Cool with a suggestion, colloquially

56. One who might loiter outside a bar

57. Parisian Mayor ___ Hidalgo

58. Purchase for someone avoiding a game-time decision?

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Down

1. Zodiac sign represented by scales.

2. Online commerce

3. 'Samesies!'

4. Oom-___ (non-errant tuba sound)

5. Gives a terrible review

6. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” poet

7. Nursing-home employee, maybe

8. "The beach that makes you ___" (2021-movie meme)

9. Director DaCosta

10. "Who ___?" (Cincinnati Bengals chant)

11. "Doctor Who" network: Abbr.

12. "They almost had us!"

13. Indicator of who your friends are?: abbr.

14. Doesn't hit?

24. Max

25. Roth ___ (savings plans)

26. Worker who might be about to go bust?

27. Instant-ramen instruction

29. It runs the L

30. Spot

31. Site of a famous Revolutionary War battle

32. Masala ___

33. Subject of some ACT UP activism

34. Apple desktop once marketed to schools

35. This, in Spanish

38. Doctor Strange actor Swinton

40. Overtoasts a marshmallow, for example

41. Bill with Franklin, informally

43. "You go, girl!"

44. Heavy subject matters?

45. Sky lights?

50. Direction opposite SSW

51. Vehicle driven by Ms. Frizzle

52. Character in the "Old Man Yells at Cloud" meme, familiarly

53. Largest labor union in the U.S.

54. Tear

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