Make like a ground-cover plant Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for Make like a ground-cover plant crossword clue, last seen in the Apple+ Crossword April 12, 2026 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Make like a ground-cover plant Crossword Answer

↓5.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. show submission or fear
2. to go stealthily or furtively
(noun)
1. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
2. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

GROUND (noun)
1. material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
GROUND (verb)
1. hit or reach the ground
2. cover with a primer; apply a primer to
COVER (noun)
1. a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else
2. a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink
COVER (verb)
1. form a cover over
2. clothe, as if for protection from the elements

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More Apple+ Crossword (4/12/2026) Answers

Across

1. Chelsea captain ___ James

7. Some laptops

10. Fishy offer

14. Friends to ___ (romance trope)

15. Starting line

16. Problem with a story or a sock

17. Word hidden in "Come, let's eat!"

18. Threefer

20. Pilates alternative

21. First name of the voice of Fiona in the Shrek movies

22. Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's The Monkey King, for example

25. Rally goal

26. Tile-placing board game whose name means "blue"

29. They're cut down after March Madness title games

31. Disenchantment voice actress Jacobson

35. Far from the coast

37. Recipe step that might involve a pinch

40. Chooses not to receive further marketing emails

41. Business VIP

42. Vegan-cheese source

43. Nail-polish brand with a Make 'Em Jelly! collection

44. Carnival carmaker

45. "Wanna grab a bite?"

47. Named names to Mommy

49. --> ____ Nails

51. "Hey, that's cool!"

54. Gives the runaround?

57. “You’ve got to be kidding me”

60. Sesame-oil amounts (Abbr.)

63. Southeast Asian language

64. "Let me give it to you straight ..."

66. Splendid

68. Digestive fluid

69. Uneven?

70. ___ form (questionnaire filled out before seeing a new therapist)

71. Avocado pit, for one

72. Neither's partner

73. Head abroad, for example — like five letters in this puzzle do?

All Answers

Down

1. Gooey lump

2. Ovoid tomato variety

3. "I'd be ___ so grateful!"

4. Sushi orders with unagi

6. Approx.

7. Lion relative lying in a basket of laundry

8. Latin word for "wax" found in the name of a popular skin-care brand

9. Be stingy

10. Members of a Himalayan people

11. Drag queen Miss ___ Peru

12. Sax type

13. Average in math class?

19. No-___ checking account

23. World-weariness

24. Bureaucratic hassle

26. "There's a foul plot ___!"

27. Lighter brand, or another word for "zero"

28. "___ You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"

30. Tea holders

32. Wrapper for a tamal oaxaqueño

33. Censoring effect

34. First part of a rhyming synonym for "small"

36. Just dandy

38. ___ ex machina

39. Puts on

46. Sports announcer's shout that might be transcribed with dozens of O's

48. Ate or drank

50. Like Sinners but not Wicked

52. Part of a winter wardrobe

53. Stocking fabric

55. Part of a winter wardrobe

56. ___-curious (reevaluating one's drinking habits)

57. Crushed cacao beans

58. "Wahhh, that hurt!"

59. Part to play

61. Pitchfork-shaped letter

62. Like the majority of Hadestown and Hamilton

65. Phrase that has a nice ring to it?

67. Company benefit whose "unlimited" version can be a mixed blessing

All Answers