"Please be serious" Crossword Clue

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"Please be serious" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SERIOUS (adjective)
1. appealing to the mind
2. completely lacking in playfulness
PLEASE (verb)
1. give pleasure to or be pleasing to
2. be the will of or have the will (to)

More LA Times Crossword (12/31/2025) Answers

Across

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5. Crockery flaw

9. Paper or plastic items

13. Microbiology lab gel

14. '___ that the truth!'

15. "At your earliest convenience," less politely

16. Intentionally delaying, or a punny title for this puzzle?

19. Error message?

20. NYC nabe near the Bowery

21. Added to the team

22. Kicking sport

24. Actress Palmer

25. The Queen of Pop

27. Network featured in "Good Night, and Good Luck"

30. Low voices in a women's choir

33. Lav

34. Sailor's assent

35. Shabby

36. Rare opening in 54-Across

37. Screen writing?

38. Squeak (out)

39. Tom, Dick, and Harry, for example

40. Name after peach or before toast

41. Mom to Auntie

42. Be glad to

44. Image file format

46. Like the pick of the litter?

49. Beefy, casually

51. Move like a hummingbird

52. D-backs, in box scores

54. Constant reshuffling of one's schedule, or what's depicted in this puzzle's circles

57. Shawkat of "Search Party"

58. Team with a red-tailed hawk mascot named Swoop

59. California county with a wine train

60. Ran in the wash

61. __ there tiger

62. Gender-fluid pronoun

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Down

1. Slurps (up)

2. Uniq fruits

3. Body shop franchise

4. Ask too much, say

5. Paddled about

6. One regularly experiencing bettor days

7. IT part

8. Vacay from work

9. Patterned fabric that originated in Indonesia

10. "If memory serves ..."

11. Up for a challenge

12. Went a mile a minute, maybe

17. Quechua speakers who didn't have a written alphabet

18. Seehorn of "Pluribus"

24. Twist into a pretzel

26. Sounds like a you problem

28. Notation on an invite

29. Sonic the Hedgehog developer

30. Leaves speechless

31. Norse god of mischief

32. Ooh-la-la!

36. Self-satisfied

37. Good start?

40. Low-gloss

42. Checked (out)

43. Bow alternative

45. Be appealing

47. One of the Torah's four matriarchs

48. Type of offal

49. Sign of healing

50. Muralist's canvas

51. Target of some mining

53. "My word!"

55. Expected any minute

56. Explosive used in some mining

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