Longing Crossword Clue

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Longing Crossword Answer

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URGE

(4 letters)

DESIRE

(6 letters)

ACHE

(4 letters)

ITCH

(4 letters)

ACHING

(6 letters)

ICH

(3 letters)

WISH

(4 letters)

YEARNING

(8 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
(noun)
1. a yearning for something or to do something
2. the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen

Hint 2: Clue Definition

LONGING (noun)
1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

URGE
(4 letters)
DESIRE
(6 letters)
ACHE
(4 letters)
ITCH
(4 letters)
ACHING
(6 letters)
ICH
(3 letters)
WISH
(4 letters)
YEARNING
(8 letters)

More Universal Crossword (10/9/2026) Answers

Across

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11. 4,840 square yards

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16. Place to mind your own business

17. Not artificial in the slightest

18. Shell competitor

19. Split ___ soup

20. Aniston from "Friends," to friends

21. ___ Tar Pits

23. Form's first section

25. Speaks hoarsely

27. Mechanical tooth

28. Pastrami, for one

31. ___ Schwarz (toy brand)

32. Grotesque creature

34. Shed tears

35. Shining example of a baked good?

38. Circle segment

39. Iams alternative

40. Gasless cars, for short

41. "Mm-hmm, sure it is"

43. "Forgot About ___" (2000 rap hit)

44. Jordanian city that was once named Philadelphia

45. Animal that inspired the British term for a crosswalk

48. Hurdle for some HS seniors

51. Could

52. End of Wikipedia's URL

55. Annoying sound from a faucet

56. Splashy art forms?

59. What Tarzan swings from

60. "Not right now"

61. Snoop ___

62. Head games?

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Down

1. "NOW!"

2. Vex

3. "___ Enchanted" (2004 film)

5. Completely unrestrained

6. State

7. Nonverbal approval

8. Rowing implement

9. Squished circle

10. Boxing great Oscar ___ Hoya

11. Guru's retreat

12. Grotto for gouda, perhaps

13. "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in" speaker

14. Mini-albums

22. Food preservation liquid

23. Deserving one star

24. Commercial battery?

26. Bump treated with a warm compress

27. Vacationing in the Outback, say?

29. Flair

30. Actress Minnelli

31. Powered-up Nintendo character who shoots flaming balls (even in underwater levels)

32. Food, informally

33. Shrek or Fiona

35. Poet Angelou

36. Provide your two cents

37. "Juno" actor Michael

42. Panama's location?

43. Floor duster

46. Fix up, as a manuscript

47. Structures with haylofts

49. Take a dip

50. Novelist Hoag

52. Stench

53. ___ grrrl ('90s feminist punk movement)

54. ___ about (travels aimlessly)

55. Box set unit

57. Sn on the periodic table

58. Brooding music genre

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