"Oh no, a mouse!" Crossword Clue

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"Oh no, a mouse!" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

MOUSE (verb)
1. to go stealthily or furtively
2. manipulate the mouse of a computer
MOUSE (noun)
1. a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
2. a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad

Hint 2: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (8/20/2026) Answers

Across

1. Sound like heaven

5. Game of observation for travel

11. Ad free

14. Brief in pants

15. Correct thoroughly

16. Bad feel

17. Try to place connoisseurs?

19. Cells in compound

20. Checks with style

21. To cop

22. Competition, for starters

24. York ___

26. Place recording

27. Signals over game

29. Maturity approaching

31. Crows to relatives

32. Free booze

33. Confidentiality of letters?

37. "Done well"

38. Short for "info flight"

39. Sponge bath

40. Nothing doing?

41. Say "minus C"

42. Set off

43. Practice Japanese

45. Equal roughly

46. Into light

49. Nags about noise?

51. Land of Spot

52. On-off signs

53. Lines some over draw

57. For repentance some feel

58. Details insignificant contests

61. Spending limits it

62. Forum discussion, popular once

63. Cut short

64. Rock __

65. Out with ate, ate, ate

66. Website gift custom

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Down

1. URL starter

2. Asian sea currently undergoing replenishment efforts

3. Civil rights icon Parks

4. Shift the gears of, in a way ... or a hint to this puzzle's Across clues

5. ID in some data breaches

6. Elite H.S. class covering the Constitution

7. Visionary … or what you'll need to return to when solving this puzzle's Down clues

8. Loads

9. Babe in the (Hundred Acre) Wood

10. One advocated for by the National Prison Project

11. Whittled (down)

12. Biblical mount

13. It's worth remembering!

18. 'No idea'

23. Distinctive expression ... or a hint to this puzzle's Across clues

25. Feature of San Francisco's Lombard Street

26. Mole, e.g

27. Firm

28. Like many cricket fields

30. Plan to contribute to, for short

31. One of 1,909 for Willie Mays, for short

34. "___ the Explorer"

35. Some distance away

36. Declare

39. What the second number indicates in men's jeans sizes

41. Univ. with an annual Mystery Hunt

42. Eager response to "Wanna join?"

44. Goes nuts for

46. Around

47. Garden variety?

48. Wasn't paying attention

50. Lauder of cosmetics

52. Designer Cassini

54. "I don't really care / If ya think I'm strange / I ___ gonna change": Joan Jett

55. N.F.L. commentator Collinsworth

56. Arthur Ashe Courage Award e.g.

59. Letter after chi

60. The "S" of E.S.T.: Abbr.

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