Main greeting Crossword Clue

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Main greeting Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

GREETING (noun)
1. (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)
MAIN (adjective)
1. (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
2. most important element
MAIN (noun)
1. any very large body of (salt) water
2. a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

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More NYT Crossword (1/24/2026) Answers

Across

1. Used as a rendezvous point

6. Put to rest

12. Hangouts for golden agers

14. Feeling that a new haircut or a new set of clothes might bring

15. Child support?

16. "The Addams Family" member voiced by Snoop Dogg in 2019

17. ___ Ivanovic, former #1-ranked female tennis player

18. Copa Mundial chant

19. Afghans, e.g.

21. Empty vehicle weight

23. Horn-heavy genre

26. Practice

27. Very flimsy, as an argument

29. What a stein might hold

30. How change comes in the Baltics

31. Bevy

32. Enough already!

34. Knocks the top off of

35. Not remain loose

36. 1960s protest singer Phil

37. It may wind up at the top of one's head

39. “Again!”

40. Home for the winter, say

41. Approx. 25% of it consists of national forests

42. Penultimate film in a series of 23

48. Scene for a skeleton crew?

49. Where one might hope to find good deals on the internet?

50. Chucked, informally

51. Roll over, in a way

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Down

1. Course catalog?

2. Means of closing up a vent

3. Some joint promotions

4. Conduit from a ventricle

5. Four minus one

6. Really, really regrets

7. Remedy for some intake problems

8. Skip it!

9. Suddenly pay attention, with "up"

10. Native American people known as the "Nation du Chat"

11. Exam on which 44-Down got a near-perfect score

12. Furniture that's designed to break down?

13. One breaking a 108-year drought in 2016

14. Catches on

15. Australian singer with the 2014 #1 album "1000 Forms of Fear"

20. Prefix with piracy

21. Staple vegetables in Hawaiian cooking

22. Each

23. Puts on a big display

24. Fan group that often wears black-and-white face paint

25. "The Dove and the ___" (Aesop fable)

27. Charlie with the 2016 hit "We Don't Talk Anymore"

28. God who rides in a chariot pulled by two giant magical goats

29. It'll-never-fly

30. Forwent

33. Dad-blasted

34. Pedestrian

37. Split component, at times

38. Called on one's birthday?

39. Dark

40. Like tungsten

43. Pointer that changes with the weather

44. Filmdom's Woods who took the 11-Down

45. ___ League

46. Scorch

47. Swell!

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