Miss identification? Crossword Clue

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Miss identification? Crossword Answer

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(pronoun)
1. This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

IDENTIFICATION (noun)
1. the act of designating or identifying something
2. the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
MISS (verb)
1. fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
2. fail to experience
MISS (noun)
1. a young female
2. a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More WSJ Crossword (6/17/2026) Answers

Across

1. Consoles with Nunchuks

5. Lawn material

8. “Live long and prosper” speaker

13. Where el sol comes up

14. Thurman of “Pulp Fiction”

15. Occasion for donning a cucumber eye mask, perhaps

16. King Agnarr’s heir, in a 2013 Disney movie

17. Superficial stereotype of the 1980s (or the opposite of 23-Across?)

19. Singer LaBelle

21. Narrowest of margins

22. Kitty feed

23. Old-time trapper (or the opposite of 17-Across?)

26. Pod predators

27. Phanerozoic, e.g.

28. Bus. bigwig

31. Brunei’s Hassanal Bolkiah, for one

33. Ethel Mertz on “I Love Lucy” (or the opposite of 38-Across?)

35. List shortener

36. Remote

37. Sixth-largest lake in North America

38. Team assistant (or the opposite of 33-Across?)

41. Kin of a crepe

44. Dipstick drips

45. Play to the nosebleeds

46. Amazonian superhero (or the opposite of 55-Across?)

49. Call from a catamaran

52. Start for space

53. Polite denial

55. “That’s rough, brah” (or the opposite of 46-Across?)

58. Leave the gate, say

59. “Anchors Aweigh” org.

60. Golf tee, e.g.

61. Fateful time for Caesar

62. Belonging to thee

63. General on Chinese menus

64. Lose color

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Down

1. Turn on the faucets, so to speak

2. Kaaba visitor’s faith

3. “Well, you should’ve gotten here sooner”

4. Crush or Squirt in “Finding Nemo,” e.g.

5. Tiguan or Trax

6. Missouri River basin natives

7. ___ Lama

8. Austin Powers, for one

9. Wicca follower, e.g.

10. God who rode the eight-legged horse Sleipnir

11. Common e-commerce icon

12. Phillies slugger Schwarber

15. Delivery from the pulpit

18. Straight

20. Machu Picchu resident

24. Khaki kin

25. Plus

28. Topping for San Diego-style fries

29. Make publishable

30. ___ Project (internet Supreme Court archive)

31. Joins a quilting bee

32. Jazz home

33. Put down

34. The shark’s two-note theme in “Jaws,” e.g.

36. Got out of hand?

39. Milne marsupial

40. Offering two options

41. Munich-based automaker

42. Bird on Canadian coins

45. Eats dirt?

46. Bill of the Rolling Stones

47. Blow one's top

48. Vetoed

49. Border

50. “Can it!”

51. Upscale hotel chain

54. Levitate

56. Notable night

57. Braggart’s display

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