Proxima Centauri for one Crossword Clue

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Proxima Centauri for one Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. mark with an asterisk
2. be the star in a performance
(adjective)
1. indicating the most important performer or role
(noun)
1. a star-shaped character * used in printing
2. the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub

Hint 2: Clue Definition

PROXIMA (noun)
1. the nearest star to the sun; distance: 4.3 light years

Hint 3: Anagram

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More New Yorker Crossword (7/29/2026) Answers

Across

1. Feeling of internal turmoil

6. Best Picture winner about a rescue mission disguised as a film production

10. Fashion house where Emily works in “The Devil Wears Prada 2”

14. Spot for a bird to rest

15. Partner of gloom

16. Title heroine of a Jane Austen novel

17. Burrowing animal that’s actually a type of squirrel, not a canine

19. Canned meat whose name is spoken (and sung) repeatedly in a classic Monty Python sketch

20. Lawn material

21. Kept the engine running

22. In unison

23. Drifting mass of sea ice

24. Collapses on itself

26. Unappealing glop

28. Everglades predators, familiarly

29. Lounges around

30. Hercule Poirot or Benoit Blanc

33. ___ Eight (March Madness quarterfinals)

34. Abbreviation at the bottom of a cover letter

35. Color of the waves of grain in “America the Beautiful”

36. Put two and two together

38. Company with the loyalty program SkyMiles

39. N.B.A. crosstown rivals of the Clippers

40. Body parts affected by osteoporosis

41. Spots for hot pots

43. Ballet skirt

44. More ignoble

45. ___ acids (building blocks of proteins)

47. "Am I supposed to recognize that name?"

50. Memo abbreviation

51. View quickly and surreptitiously

53. In ___ of gifts . . .

55. Like many twelve-step-meeting attendees

56. Ore deposit

57. Moms mom

58. ___ Takedown (anti-Elon Musk campaign that stages protests at car dealerships)

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Down

1. Smartphone downloads

2. Infamous Roman emperor

3. Alum

4. Bio or chem

5. Adrenaline junkie

6. "Rumour Has It" singer

7. Travelled by horse

8. “Nice job picking up on that error!”

9. Texter's "Wow!"

10. What a waiter might bring at the end of a meal

11. "No way, no how!"

12. Yemeni's neighbor

13. Noodle soup sometimes topped with a soft-boiled egg and fish cakes

18. Celebrity with a giant fan base

22. Breakfast item stereotypically blamed for millennials’ financial woes

23. Manhattan thoroughfare that forms the eastern boundary of Central Park

25. Didn't go fast?

26. Song sung by a single singer

27. Neither rejected nor accepted, in college admissions

28. Fellas

29. Was in charge of

30. Start of a letter addressed to the North Pole

31. Pros at administering Lab tests?

32. Historical period

37. Encountered

40. Top or bottom preference in the bedroom, perhaps

41. Game for little sluggers

42. Student-teacher ___ (school metric)

43. Jewel-studded headpiece

46. Average of a set of numbers

47. They’re spun by spiders

48. Body part by which Achilles’ mother held him to dip him in the River Styx

49. Pod in Creole cuisine

51. Tax-form I.D.

52. "The Tell-Tale Heart" author

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