Paper clip alternative Crossword Clue

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Paper clip alternative Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
2. a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
(adjective)
1. necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
(verb)
1. secure or fasten with a staple or staples

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ALTERNATIVE (adjective)
1. serving or used in place of another
2. necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
ALTERNATIVE (noun)
1. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
PAPER (noun)
1. the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher
2. an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
PAPER (verb)
1. cover with wallpaper
2. cover with paper

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More Apple+ Crossword (10/17/2025) Answers

Across

1. Container with a pull tab

8. Mass-transit purchase

15. Digital avatar with options including Monkey and Unicorn

16. State capital sometimes called the Hollywood of the South

17. Rooted in the truth

18. Less than 0.1% of people are born on it

19. ___-weekly (type of newspaper)

20. Word after "printing" or "garlic"

22. Covers deployed during Wimbledon rain delays

23. Wage increase

25. Rowboat poles

27. Wych ___ (tree)

28. Word after "curling" or "waffle"

29. 2014 film starring David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr.

31. Excessively cutesy

32. Pugilistic "food" (Continued at 39-Across)

34. Holstein's hello

36. Appropriate filling for a 32/39-Across?

37. White part of an orange

39. See 32-Across

43. Something that falls in the fall

45. Pesse ___ (world's oldest known boat)

46. Cacophonous

48. Body part involved in plantar flexion

50. First man to achieve tennis's career Golden Slam

52. "___ to the Midwest" (Kevin Young poem)

53. Long-lasting hair treatment

54. "Move the robber when a seven is rolled" in Catan, for example

55. Spellcasters in Dungeons & Dragons

57. Like most Moroccans

58. Suffer the consequences

59. Transport by truck

60. Cheese named after the region of Italy it's from

62. Workplaces for some RNs

63. "The Prince isn't charming. The Princess isn't sleeping. The sidekick isn't helping. The ___ is the hero. Fairy tales will never be the same again." (2001 movie tagline)

64. Put right

65. Little kid

66. Fruit with Bartlett and Bosc cultivars

67. Restaurant

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Down

1. Trip whose name means "journey" in Swahili

2. For the fun of it

3. Enunciation

4. Quantity: Abbr.

5. Sporty-car style

6. Slightly open

7. Basis for the division of seasons in the ancient Egyptian calendar

8. Christmas candle scent

9. Colorado Native

10. Blind items?

11. "___ Don't Preach"

12. Scott who played the "hot priest" on Fleabag

14. “I’m telling you, that’s who!”

21. Lone

24. Short facial feature of some monkeys

26. Accessibility feature

29. Tilt

30. Like some characters in The Lord of the Rings

31. Carry around

33. Surrenders

35. Like skin in need of blotting paper

38. Spiteful "drink"

39. Plant on Arizona's state quarter

40. Data cruncher

41. Sinners writer and director Ryan

42. Lie low

44. Alexis Nikole Nelson (originator of the catchphrase "Happy snacking, don't die!"), for example

45. Red material at a film premiere

47. Bert and Ernie's street

49. Personify

51. Public persona

53. Palette filler

56. ___ farmer (someone constantly trying to seem cool)

59. Bunny's move

61. Mermaid's home

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