Own ___ (action that backfires) Crossword Clue

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Own ___ (action that backfires) Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
2. the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

Hint 2: Clue Definition

ACTION (noun)
1. a military engagement
2. a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
ACTION (verb)
1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
2. put in effect

Hint 3: Anagram

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More Apple+ Crossword (8/22/2026) Answers

Across

1. Woman at a square dance

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12. Sweet potato–shaped wind instruments

15. Ready to go out

16. “Now listen up, everyone”

18. Some bank claims

19. Businesses with a focus on net sales?

20. Common name for a tuxedo cat

21. “Ooh, sex-x-y!”

24. Life of Pi director Lee

25. “Love ya, babe, bye!”

28. “___ it down, would ya?”

29. Bingo

30. Lets up

32. Held great expectations

33. Passes down lore, for example

35. Reunion-weekend attendee

37. Light a fire under

38. Cleaner with a coniferous scent

42. “Unless …?”

43. Prerolled grass

44. Bonobo or gibbon

45. Ballroom dancer Goodman

46. “Just wait!”

48. Elevated parts of dessert cases

54. Possesses

55. “Everything OK here?”

56. Squeal of enjoyment

57. Question at a 20-year reunion

58. Tony-winning actor Ramirez

59. Long, frivolous conversation

60. Bit of work initially kept under wraps

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Down

2. Many a Chow Yun-Fat or Michelle Yeoh character

3. I'm outta here!

4. Cest la vie

5. Part of an undesirable restaurant chain?

6. Port ___ (city at the north end of the Suez Canal)

7. Portion out

8. What i think is …

9. Business with steep operating costs?

10. Short records

11. Bread used to make the Latvian dessert rupjmaizes kārtojums

13. Surrealist Magritte

14. Bring comfort

15. Pet-advocacy organization

17. Unspecified ordinal

22. Number of people to both run a sub-four-minute mile and summit Everest

23. “The Man With the Golden Voice” Williams

24. Senior-advocacy organization

26. Easy-access bathing spots

27. Good thing to have

31. Drains of energy

32. $100 bill in slang

34. Curses warded off with hamsas and nazars

36. Proverbial place of danger

39. "Huh?'

40. Tennis period that began with the British Hard Court Championships of 1968

41. "Dinner's ready!"

47. Does AAA-quality work?

48. Actor Elwes

49. About 8.5 million square kilometers, for Brazil

50. Shawn ___, former NBA star nicknamed Reign Man

51. The times of your life?

52. Onigiri wrap

53. “___ arigato”

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