Near-failure Crossword Clue

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Near-failure Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

FAILURE (noun)
1. a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
2. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
NEAR (adjective)
1. with or in a close or intimate relationship
2. not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
NEAR (adverb)
1. near in time or place or relationship
2. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
NEAR (verb)
1. move towards

Hint 2: Anagram

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

More Newsday Crossword (12/27/2024) Answers

Across

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17. Accented approval

18. Stuff on a trunk

20. See 1-Down

21. Ring bearer?

25. Intentions

27. Maxim's significance (see 44-Across)

32. Office manager

34. "May I cut in?"

35. Not nerdy at all

36. Lots and lots

37. Old organizer

38. Opera with elephants

39. Store partner, perhaps

40. Department apart from others

42. Grimm brother

44. What the maxim was chosen for

47. Head out

48. Mean and nasty

51. 37-Across descendant

54. Not nerdy at all

56. Keep from streaming

57. Tidbit

59. See 15 Across

63. Room adjunct

64. Inauspicious

65. Attempts to influence

66. Set up a base

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Down

1. With 20-Across, possible pasta precursor

2. Bring up the rear

3. 'For example . . .'

4. Earlier

5. Past grads

6. Zip

7. Raiders of the Lost Ark set

8. When Super Bowl LXXXIV should be

9. "Precisely!"

10. Negation of 9-Down

11. Language of Lahore

12. Easy task

13. Word processor command

15. Curious surrounders

19. White House nickname circa 2010

22. Thereupon

23. About an hour flight from SYD

24. Union logo letters

26. "So good!"

28. With 33-Down, product of uranium decay

29. Boxing legend

30. Trend of events

31. Off-white hue

32. Residencia

33. See 28-Down

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38. Elizabeth I's mom

40. Caret key sharer

41. Symbols of winter

42. Something in pens

43. Sealed __ Corporation (BubbleWrap maker)

45. Home team of the oldest MLB stadium, since 1912

46. Newspaper piece

49. Pert blurt

50. Royal Navy designation

51. 51-Across sister brand

52. Riding game

53. Walrus predator

55. Slender aerophonic instrument

58. Second of all

60. Error acknowledgment

61. Pinch preceder

62. Pierre or Henri

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