Playfully pick on Crossword Clue

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Playfully pick on Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. be silly or tease one another
2. tell false information to for fun
(noun)
1. a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
2. soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat

Hint 2: Clue Definition

PICK (noun)
1. the quantity of a crop that is harvested
2. the person or thing chosen or selected
PICK (verb)
1. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
2. pay for something

More WSJ Crossword (9/17/2026) Answers

Across

1. Full of guile

5. Bit parts?

9. Miles per hour, e.g.

14. 1973 French Open champ Nastase

15. Openly state

16. Egg producer

17. Celebrated Southern chef Lewis

18. “State Fair” setting

19. Ring around a watch face

20. Magnet for controversy

23. Sought after

24. Animated greetings, often

29. Eight, to Augustus

31. Deposit in some banks

32. Important acid type

35. A+ student

37. Brother of Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael

38. Having a faraway dreamy look

39. Campbell of "Scream"

40. Rainbow-colored treats

42. Acclivities

43. Academic extension

44. Flight records

45. Close-mouthed

46. 2022 World Series champs

48. Overcome, as an upsetting experience

52. Spy satellites, and a hint to 20-, 35- and 40-Across, given their second halves

55. Somewhat

58. Ammonia feature

59. Redecorate

60. Bolt with speed

61. Exclusion anxiety, briefly

62. Gendered suffix

63. What you might go out with

64. Bass line?

65. Hockey fake-out

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Down

1. Catch flies, say

2. “My Girl,” e.g.

3. Places for peds

4. “So you’ve said”

5. Made headway

6. Duck, say

7. Promgoer’s purchase

8. Gala giveaway

9. Titular 1987 cyborg

10. Vegan cosmetics brand

11. Whirling Looney Tunes character, for short

12. Seething state

13. Olive with a skinny shape

21. Rush, e.g.

22. Take another crack at

25. Ring borders

26. Ambition

27. French Open champ of 1990, 1991 and 1992

29. Some native Nebraskans

30. Recycling bin items

32. Befuddled

33. Pays attention to

34. Words after slug, spit or sweat

35. “My Girl,” e.g.

36. Like an aerial view

38. Cause of hundreds of collisions in Alaska annually

41. Sickly sweet

42. Namesake of baseball’s postseason MVP award

45. Chevy subcompacts discontinued in 2001

47. Sticky stuff

48. Garden figure

49. United

50. Real stinker

51. Melville’s first novel

53. Remote location, perhaps

54. Revered one

55. Sine __ non

56. Charger standard

57. Help for some breakdown sufferers

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