"Man, that's hardly fair!" Crossword Clue

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"Man, that's hardly fair!" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

HARDLY (adverb)
1. almost not
2. slowly and with difficulty
FAIR (adjective)
1. (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
2. very pleasing to the eye
FAIR (adverb)
1. without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner
2. in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
FAIR (noun)
1. a sale of miscellany; often for charity
2. a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
FAIR (verb)
1. join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly

Hint 2: Anagram

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COWMAN

More NYT Crossword (8/25/2026) Answers

Across

1. Sharpened point of a quill pen

4. One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter"

8. South Asian royals

13. Actress Longoria

14. Free-spirited style, informally

15. *6th

16. Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero

18. Paradise

19. Musical flutter

20. Billion years, astronomically

22. __ skirt

23. "Miracle on Ice" foe, for short

24. Smart set

26. To, informally

27. "___ it!" (shout in a game of tag)

28. *2nd

30. Arouses, as an appetite

32. Captivate

34. *1st

36. Settled on the ground, say

38. Something told with two hands?

39. Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe

42. Hosp. recovery area

46. Great divide

47. Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean

49. Gamer's "off-line"

50. Kool-Aid competitor

51. *3rd

53. McEntire of country music

54. Some Monopoly properties: Abbr.

56. Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler

57. Commence

58. Mexican beer brand

60. "I'd love to go"

62. *7th

63. Bygone Russian leader

64. Pad

65. Baker's glassware brand

66. "Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson

67. "Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish

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Down

1. *8th

2. Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P.

3. One known for the morning grind?

4. Second-born son in the Bible

5. ___ pond

6. “Wowza!”

7. Tiny, biting insect

8. Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection

9. Focus of some physicists

10. *5th

11. Desert quality

12. Epitomes of slowness

15. Symbols of fair weather

17. Mirror-and-prism camera, for short

21. Arrival of symptoms

28. Fullness, in hairstyling

29. The Little Mermaid prince

31. Shades

33. *4th

35. Kelly of morning TV

37. Neon ___ (aquarium fish)

39. Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically

40. Raceway speed setter

41. Mull over

43. Reason to go into penalty kicks

44. Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle

45. Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent

46. Flirt with, in a way

48. Are you sure?

52. Spellbinds

53. Sunburned, perhaps

55. Reasonable

57. Reveal

59. Black-and-white wedding rental

61. Gullible sort

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