Middling Crossword Clue

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Middling Crossword Answer

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SOSO

(4 letters)

SOSO

(4 letters)

MEDIUM

(6 letters)

MEDIOCRE

(8 letters)

FAIR

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adverb)
1. in a satisfactory or adequate manner
(verb)
1. give sanction to
(noun)
1. an endorsement
(adjective)
1. being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

Hint 2: Clue Definition

MIDDLING (adverb)
1. to certain extent or degree
MIDDLING (adjective)
1. lacking exceptional quality or ability
MIDDLING (noun)
1. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

SOSO
(4 letters)
Soso
(4 letters)
MEDIUM
(6 letters)
MEDIOCRE
(8 letters)
FAIR
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More The Atlantic Crossword (6/28/2026) Answers

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17. Observer with a phone, maybe

18. City of Paris?

19. Gross out

20. Like draft beers

22. Psy___ (military mental manipulations)

23. Juice in a cosmo

24. Region around T-Dot

25. Cry after a vending machine rejects your bill for the third time, say

27. Prefix used for Star Trek Starfleet crafts

28. 2025 Washington Wizards draft pick Johnson

29. Rory's mom, on Gilmore Girls

31. Night shift?

33. Where you might find rosé-colored glasses?

34. App-based worker often seen on an e-bike

35. Kris Jenner's role, notoriously

36. Largest U.S. labor union

37. Make a scene?

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41. Rank for pro wrestler Slaughter

42. Representative Ilhan of Minnesota

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44. Sign on an empty flat

47. Character from Hawaiʻi?

48. Gobsmacked

50. Hair-dye company founded in New York's East Village in 1977

52. Just

53. How long a ride-or-die has been there, typically

54. Suffix like -trix

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Down

1. Brief overview

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3. Staples of Venezuelan cuisine

4. Word with black- or -box

5. Stat for a quarterback

6. Sign on a supersecret lair, maybe

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8. Unrivaled team for Breanna Stewart and Allisha Gray

9. Sammy who once held the single-season home-run record for 43 minutes

10. ___3K (familiar name for a cult-classic comedy show)

11. Bug-finding field?

12. Half-measure solution

13. Greets

15. Hailee's Spider-Verse role

21. Keyboard suite from Bach

24. Contest a decision, as a union might

26. Insurer named for a volcano (that doesn't insure for volcanic activity)

28. Word on a marquee

29. Dillydallying, maybe

30. From the ___ (at the start)

31. Monsters of the desert

32. Nickname that might be rhymed with bear

33. "Our moment has finally arrived!"

34. Ethiopian chicken-and-egg stew

35. Drive-through coffee purveyor

37. "Songs in ___" (Alicia Keys album)

38. Woof woof animal

39. Crossed the line?

41. Complement to 16-Across

45. 🤯 or 😱

46. Tomb Raider's Croft or Doctor Zhivago's Antipova

47. Large, flat fish also called moonfish

49. Beats by ___ (Apple-owned electronics company)

51. Clock setting for Cubs games: abbr.

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