Provide support for something crooked? Crossword Clue

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Provide support for something crooked? Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PROVIDE (verb)
1. give something useful or necessary to
2. supply means of subsistence; earn a living
SOMETHING (noun)
1. An indeterminate or unknown event.
2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified.

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BATE

More NYT Crossword (8/28/2025) Answers

Across

1. "Table" for one's TV dinner, perhaps

4. Messy abode

10. Texting format, in brief

13. Period that begins with a day of pranks: Abbr.

14. Weakness

15. ___ Highway (Maui tourist attraction)

17. Recently dated

19. Many a citizen of Abu Dhabi

20. It's used for wrapping up a film

21. Gained a wider following

22. Riddled (with)

23. Top up

25. No guts

27. Where someone might ask for a screwdriver

29. Early tech giant

31. Fair Deal prez

32. Like Frodo at the end of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy

34. Chaps

37. Poem that's typically unrhymed

41. Battle carriers

44. Mythological beast able to regenerate its heads

45. Commuter option

46. Non-fruit ingredient in a green smoothie

47. One of three in the Domino's logo

49. Syllable akin to "Tsk!"

51. Audiophile's collection, for short

52. Packed lunch

57. Wail

59. Shade in a picturesque island scene, maybe

60. Follower of Joel

62. Here's the scoop!

65. Colossally bad consequence, as with finances

66. Feature of the clues for 17-, 25-, 41- and 52-Across

68. Wizard

69. Some underground networks

70. "Kapow!"

71. Fleur-de-___

72. Follow, with "to"

73. "Come ___?" (Italian for "How are you?")

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Down

1. Problems with a livestream, maybe

2. For one

3. Mark one's words?

4. Rice dish seasoned with saffron

5. Stop for the night, say

6. Social studies subj.

7. Resident of a hidden mushroom village

8. Go-getter

9. Hebrew name for God

10. Reality show whose contestants give pitches

11. Red-clad brother of 54-Down

12. Major mess

18. "___ ever!"

24. Take it easy

26. First Black male tennis player to be ranked #1 globally

27. ___ party (pre-wedding activity, informally)

28. Ghostly in appearance

30. The Batcave, for one

33. They might have their noses turned up

35. Basis for how you're wired, so to speak

36. Bit of camp entertainment

38. "That one's mine!"

39. Member of a marine "forest"

40. Functions

42. Innocent sort

43. Mess up

48. Kind of TV

50. Gay ___, author of "Honor Thy Father"

52. Stable environment?

53. Like 4! and 24

54. Green-clad brother of 11-Down

55. Psyched

56. John Lennon had one that sold for more than $31,000 at a 2011 auction (fittingly, to a dentist!)

58. Word with price or proxy

61. Ticked off

63. It's partly an assessment of logical reasoning, for short

64. ___ D'Arcy, co-star of HBO's "House of the Dragon"

67. Conjunction used in logic

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