More than a fad Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for More than a fad crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword April 8, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

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(noun)
1. a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
2. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

FAD (noun)
1. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
MORE (adjective)
1. (comparative of `much’ used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
2. (comparative of `many’ used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number
MORE (noun)
1. English statesman who opposed Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state
MORE (adverb)
1. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (4/8/2025) Answers

Across

1. Taylor Swift's ___ Tour, record-breaking series of 2023-24 concerts

5. Noodles that often come in a flat rectangular pouch

10. Instruction in a risotto recipe

14. Go it alone

15. Sánchez who wrote "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter"

16. More than a few

17. Treat from a recipe printed on a Nestlé package

20. Hit and run, but not error

21. Makes an analogy (to)

22. Bluffer's activity

26. Bad thing to spring

27. Shares one's ideas

28. Awards depicted by a winged woman holding an atom

30. Thrilled

33. "For shame!"

36. Before, in poetry

37. Contributes to a group gift … or a hint to 17-, 22-, 48- and 54-Across

39. Filmmaker Howard

40. Berlin article

41. Most popular sport in New Zealand

42. Ice cream base

43. Engagement, quaintly

45. Showy flower native to Central America

47. ___ Academy, source of free online courses

48. Crunchy Tex-Mex bowl

51. Eight fluid ounces

53. In the country

54. Office workstation

59. "Night" author Wiesel

60. "I'm willing to help"

61. ___ Alto, Calif.

62. Mean, median or mode

63. Elizabeth I's house

64. Rod between wheels

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Down

1. It's just a guess: Abbr.

2. Kanga's son, in children's literature

3. More than most

4. Having cash to spend

5. Corporate doings in which one's boss may change

6. Caribbean locale with the slogan "One Happy Island"

7. The Divine ___ (Bette Midler)

8. Scratch (out)

9. Table salt, to a chemist

10. Motown great Robinson

11. Wander through the neighborhood after dinner, maybe

12. Traditional way to sign a contract

13. Seeded loaves

18. "You are ___" (map notation)

19. T. Boone Pickens, for one

22. Like lots of Insta pics

23. Word after soap or before box

24. Awareness of body position, scientifically

25. Itsy-bitsy

29. Nintendo avatar

31. Strength

32. P.D. alert

34. Justice Sotomayor

35. Work with the hands

37. Modern pastry portmanteau

38. Unassuming home

42. Mexican dish made with fried masa

44. Hullabaloo

45. Type of window - not a student who lives in a college building

46. Immediately

47. Prepared to propose, perhaps

49. Traveled like a tossed ball

50. New York's Mario ___ Bridge

51. Poems that express approval

52. Grumpy face

55. Big Ten sch. whose main campus is in Happy Valley

56. Line near the bottom of a receipt

57. Right-angled bend

58. Common sushi roll topping

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