Plot element? Crossword Clue

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ACRE

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

ELEMENT (noun)
1. an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
2. any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
PLOT (verb)
1. make a plat of
2. make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
PLOT (noun)
1. a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
2. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

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ACRE
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More The Atlantic Crossword (3/29/2026) Answers

Across

1. Handheld console of the mid-aughts: abbr.

4. Decentralized movement that opposes totalitarian oppression

10. Certain crypto collectible

13. Warming device at a restaurant

15. 'Big ___ Freak' (Megan Thee Stallion song)

16. Cocktail made with crème de menthe

17. Oodles

18. Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me co-host Peter

19. Response one might get when describing the intricacies of crossword construction

21. Tig ___: Boyish Girl Interrupted (HBO comedy special)

24. New York basketball team, casually

27. One side of the "Rumble in the Rockies" college-football rivalry

28. Win a Date With ___ Hamilton (2004 romantic comedy)

29. Amanda Nunes's sport: abbr.

30. Sheathed

31. Quinceañera honorees

34. Cutesy term for where you might hold a small, trouble-making pet

36. "You're looking at the wrong person"

37. Feeder to Chicago's Kennedy Expressway, say

38. Brew ___ (rhyming name for a liquor store with a drive-up window)

39. Americans With Disabilities Act, e.g.

40. Fell

41. One's bona fides, familiarly

42. Actor Redgrave, the only EGOT-nominated person to never have won any of the awards

43. Vulture fodder?

45. ___ yoga (exercise typically performed in a hammock)

47. "So. Much. This"

49. ___ yoga (exercise typically performed on a mat)

53. Former Bolivian president Morales

54. Content of some links?

56. French-cookbook component

57. Plumber's line?

58. TV program whose 50th-anniversary special was opened by Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter

59. Cc on an email, perhaps

60. ___City 2000 (computer game that was actually released in 1993)

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1. Legal precedent?

2. ___flation (economist's concern)

3. Residents of a city that has a famously leaning tower

4. "This is bliss!"

5. Like someone who was born yesterday, say?

6. Like the legs on Levi's 502 and 541 jeans

7. Networking specialists, casually?

8. You might doomscroll through one

9. Structure familiar to a computer scientist

10. "You're in the ballpark"

11. Person likely to appear in outrageous headlines due to his state's open-records law

12. Homes for Bedouin

13. Skylar Diggins and Kelsey Plum: abbr.

14. City that's home to the Munch Museum

20. Pig ___ (ecret-say anguage-lay)

22. ___ Bowl (American-football championship game played in the Netherlands)

24. "hahahaha"

25. "This is bliss!"

26. Flying maneuver that became a meme due to its inclusion in Star Fox 64

30. Bootlegger's device, for short

31. ___ B (Am I the Drama? rapper)

32. "Joy Ride" star Stephanie

33. Left in stitches?

35. Chewed (out)

36. Question one might ask before opening Google Maps

38. Output of some draining work?

41. Journalist Michael, who helped coin the term elevator pitch

42. Andean pack animals

43. Game with 16 men on each side

44. Pho herb

46. "There's nothing wrong with my throat—I'm just trying to get your attention!"

48. Cat, in Chihuahua

50. Desperate Housewives actor Hatcher

51. Indie-pop trio behind 2018's Sister Sister Sister Tour

52. ___ Z (everything)

55. ___ Z (post-Millennial cohort, casually)

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