Not as vivid as before Crossword Clue

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(adjective)
1. having lost freshness or brilliance of color
2. reduced in strength

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

VIVID (adjective)
1. evoking lifelike images within the mind
2. (of color) having the highest saturation
BEFORE (adverb)
1. earlier in time; previously
2. at or in the front

More New Yorker Crossword (5/5/2026) Answers

Across

1. Handle clumsily?

6. Tense moments in tennis

15. Feudalist bigwig

16. Bowlful often topped with Gruyère

17. Chose poorly

18. Work as a contractor

19. Alter

20. Maker of Butterscotch Krimpets

21. Reprobate

23. ___ student

24. Ivy Leaguer who might join the Whiffenpoofs

25. Nearly perfect games for pitchers

30. Ease the severity of, as a policy

33. Muscle-to-bone connector

34. Climb by hugging

36. Theatre backdrops

39. Turn things around, maybe?

41. Amount consumed

43. Discharges from military service

47. Many wedding guests

48. Mary ___ Evans, a.k.a. George Eliot

49. Permission

52. Holders of tablets

57. Producer of Preludes

58. Company that trademarked the phrase “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

59. “Inside Out” emotion whose head bursts into flames

60. Go into further detail

62. Metal inset that amplifies sound on a Dobro guitar

63. Clichéd story element

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Down

1. Begged earnestly

2. Rewards earned by travelling

3. Lottery winners’ exclamation

4. Star's representative

5. He’s an animal in bed

6. Not stern enough with

7. Sends into a fury

8. Affiliations

9. Writer of verse

10. Members ___ jacket

11. "Babette's Feast" author Dinesen

12. Far from famous

13. Car designer Preston or comedian Chris

14. Blender settings

22. Feel-good film’s opposite

26. “The Horse and ___ Boy” (C. S. Lewis novel)

27. Provoke

28. Seabird with a black cap

29. Doofus

31. Organizational aid for Santa

32. Prefix with chamber or diluvian

35. R.S.V.P. option

37. Managing despite substandard conditions

38. On the surface

40. “2666” author Bolaño

42. Duellist’s cry

43. Envelope that might be lined with bubble wrap

44. Disentangle from a messy heap

45. Major bungles

46. Overcoat named for a historical Irish province

50. Blaxploitation film scored by Isaac Hayes

51. Technology whose development was prompted by submarine threats during the First World War

53. Popular style for N.Y.C. architecture of the thirties

54. Mark of ___ (sign mentioned in Genesis)

55. Alan who started the podcast “Clear+Vivid” in his eighties

56. One saved by friends?

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