Opposite of surplus Crossword Clue

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DEFICIT

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(noun)
1. an obligation to pay or do something
2. money or goods or services owed by one person to another

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SURPLUS (adjective)
1. more than is needed, desired, or required
SURPLUS (noun)
1. a quantity much larger than is needed
OPPOSITE (adverb)
1. directly facing each other
OPPOSITE (adjective)
1. characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
2. of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
OPPOSITE (noun)
1. a contestant that you are matched against
2. a relation of direct opposition

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

DEFICIT
(7 letters)

More NYT Crossword (11/24/2025) Answers

Across

1. Pop music's Lady ___

5. Kid

10. Sandwich shop

14. Nerve fiber

15. Product of a grapevine?

16. Company bigwig

18. Kind of acid that is the building block for a protein

19. Something you click that starts "http"

20. Comfortably well-off

23. Dashboard reading, for short

25. Top color in a rainbow

26. Pecan or pistachio

27. Rub out

29. What you might drive while your car is in the shop

32. Cereal with "marbits" and a leprechaun mascot

35. Above poetically

38. Like pen smudges

39. Wall for an outdoor maze

40. Italian volcano

41. A white one is a wardrobe staple

42. Toy that comes out of a spray can

44. Horse with a spotted coat

46. What The Week puts out once a week

47. Result of putting two and two together

48. Off-roader, in brief

50. What Bart Simpson sometimes calls Lisa

51. Fowl play? ... or words that can follow the starts of 20-, 32- and 42-Across

57. Universal building block

58. 'Nuh-uh!'

59. Enclose in fancy paper, say

62. Root vegetable used for poi

63. Playing card better known as a jack

64. Classroom helper

65. [I'm standing right here]

66. Went downhill or cross-country, say

67. Cat call

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Down

1. Gallivant, with "about"

2. Tool for Paul Bunyan

3. Flabbergasted

4. Not pro-

5. Dog-napping spot?

6. Muggy

7. Let's do it!

8. Yearn for

9. Casually talk about one's connections to celebrities

10. Backspace, maybe

11. On a plane, keep in mind that the nearest one might be behind you

12. Given for a time

13. 'Gross!'

21. Three-point hoops shot

22. Trains for a marathon, e.g.

23. Ignited again

24. It's plum dried out!

28. "The Brain - is wider than the ___" (Emily Dickinson poem)

29. Stew server

30. Bacchanalian party

31. Cooking appliance with a rotating spit

33. Alvin and his backup singers

34. Dante divided it into nine circles

36. Ho-hum feeling

37. Reacts with violent anger

40. Triage sites for short

42. Tater

43. DVR pioneer

45. Dad's noncommittal response to a kid's request

48. Desert plant with many uses

49. Played (with)

51. What some tech companies mine

52. Home of Canyonlands National Park

53. Planks strengthen it

54. Fall asleep, with "out"

55. "The Bridge on the River ___"

56. Did some laps

60. Hoopla

61. Place to pray

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