Puny Crossword Clue

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Puny Crossword Answer

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MEASLY

(6 letters)

TEENY

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. not large but sufficient in size or amount
2. lowercase
(noun)
1. a garment size for a small person
2. the slender part of the back

Hint 2: Clue Definition

PUNY (adjective)
1. (used especially of persons) of inferior size
2. inferior in strength or significance

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

MEASLY
(6 letters)
TEENY
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
MALLS

More New Yorker Crossword (3/25/2026) Answers

Across

1. Something delivered by a politician or a valedictorian

7. Wipes down the countertops, dusts the shelves, etc.

13. Components of a student’s schedule

15. First name of Snoopy’s owner

16. Language in which “do svidaniya” means “goodbye”

17. Pasta dish beloved by Garfield

18. Home of the Himalayas

19. Edited differently, as a film

21. Matching groups

22. ___ protein

23. Story

24. Take this

25. Line from a song

27. Affectionate term for a child

29. Bed-and-breakfast relative

31. Not remain taut

33. Structure extending from a beach

34. "Without further ___..."

35. Stephanie Foo memoir about healing from complex P.T.S.D.

40. Lithium-___ battery

41. Sports reporter Andrews

42. Ballpoint, for example

43. Woman in a religious order

44. Plunders

46. Car window decoration

50. ___ out (get to the bottom of)

52. White part of an orange

54. What ___ is new?

55. Squad

56. Word that might describe red hair or a spicy dish

57. A “manicured” one is mown

58. Like the calendar whose months include Rajab and Ramadan

60. Looks up to

62. Columns

63. Line removed with an iron

64. Pop star Harry

65. Devils’ counterparts

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Down

1. Write illegibly

2. Comfortably soft

3. ___ said than done

4. Writer of short nonfiction pieces

5. CBS police procedural that ran for fifteen years

6. Tender center of an artichoke

7. Make small talk

8. The “L” of U.N.L.V.

9. Remove from a whiteboard

10. Resident of Africa’s largest country by area

11. Company behind the Game Boy, the Wii, and the Switch

12. Large bodies of water

14. Go stealthily

15. Gave the 411

20. Piece of neckwear that comes pre-knotted

24. ___ around (played roughly)

26. Animal crackers with humps

28. Profound

30. This instant

32. Greek wrap?

35. Come out on top

36. Watch someone’s place while they’re out of town

37. Every year

38. Movies about the lives of real people

39. In position to propose

45. Item from a boba-shop dispenser

47. “Game of Thrones” star Emilia

48. In addition

49. Parts of glasses and telescopes

53. Many-headed mythical monster

55. Contents of a jar near a cash register

56. Some Christmas trees

59. Sallie ___ (big name in student loans)

61. Opposite of max.

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