"Put your phone down" Crossword Clue

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"Put your phone down" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

DOWN (noun)
1. English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
2. soft fine feathers
DOWN (adjective)
1. understood perfectly
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
DOWN (adverb)
1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
DOWN (verb)
1. eat up completely, as with great appetite
2. cause to come or go down
PHONE (noun)
1. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
2. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
PHONE (verb)
1. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

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More LA Times Crossword (5/17/2025) Answers

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38. Take into account

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Down

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8. Plus or minus

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10. Folks who tend to give things away

11. Payment guarantee?

12. Navel type

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15. Small inheritance?

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25. Sigh of woe

26. Teeming (with)

27. Journey in a relocation

28. Devotion

30. Overarching

32. Timothée Chalamet epic set on a desert planet

33. Petri dish gelatin

35. In the minority?

36. Crude, slangily

41. CT scan kin

42. Fail big-time

43. Former Minneapolis NBA player

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47. New ___

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53. High deg.

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