Make smoother, in a way Crossword Clue

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(verb)
1. rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
(noun)
1. food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SMOOTHER (noun)
1. a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor
MAKE (verb)
1. put in order or neaten
2. eliminate urine
MAKE (noun)
1. the act of mixing cards haphazardly
2. a recognizable kind

Hint 3: Anagram

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RUPEE

More New Yorker Crossword (3/2/2026) Answers

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16. Fur baby’s caretaker

17. “Tornado!,” “Flood!,” and “Fire!”

19. Graduation garland

21. Furnish with funding

23. Desire, personified

25. Tugs on the line

27. ___ d’Italia (one of the races in the cycling Triple Crown)

28. Yellow Magic Orchestra instrument

30. Blendtec alternative

32. “I expected better”

33. Grounds for taking some time out?

35. Not just borrow

37. Abbreviation in a rave review?

40. Moment of bad judgment

42. Brushes away

46. Animal’s flyswatter

48. Island where Italian was once an official language

50. Thickener in some Cajun cuisine

51. One of many in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

53. Loop around again?

55. Hole creator

56. Line of credit?

59. Pontificate moralistically

60. Wig type named for its letter-shaped top

61. Assembly tool with a hexagonal cross-section

62. Crowded

63. Something celebrated during Pride

64. Fizzled out

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Down

1. Birthplaces, metaphorically

2. Articles with varying degrees of opacity

3. Response that skirts the question, say

4. 99 Luftballons singer

5. Understanding

6. Phrase used to call out hypocrisy

7. Convention center event

8. Fast-travelling effect of an earthquake, for short

9. Begetting

10. Gimme!

11. Blacks out, maybe

12. East, in Essen

14. Floppy toppers

16. Celebrations meant to destigmatize the onset of menstruation

18. Big popcorn container

22. Pan often used with a spatula called a chuan

24. Dump

26. Match in poker

29. Nickname in the Henriad

31. In medias ___

34. Male merino

36. Soup served with lots of fresh herbs

37. “What’s your ___? Everyone else is here”

38. Brazilian singer Mercury

39. To a small degree

41. Like a slimeball

43. “Sure, but why should I care?”

44. “. . . if we’re lucky”

45. Acknowledged with a gesture

47. Authority figures in “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

49. Not feel a hundred per cent

52. Director of “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

54. Skill-sharpening piece

57. Cartridges’ contents

58. Sign in a window

59. Show some slack

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