Quick on the uptake Crossword Clue

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Quick on the uptake Crossword Answer

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KEEN

(4 letters)

APT

(3 letters)

SMART

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

UPTAKE (noun)
1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
2. a process of taking up or using up or consuming
QUICK (adjective)
1. apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
2. accomplished rapidly and without delay
QUICK (adverb)
1. with little or no delay
QUICK (noun)
1. any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

KEEN
(4 letters)
APT
(3 letters)
SMART
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More New Yorker Crossword (12/10/2025) Answers

Across

1. Beachside shade structure

7. Surprising plot developments

13. Eloquent speechifying

15. Devitalize

16. Like wine bottles that don’t require corks

18. Phenomenon responsible for some aberrant West Coast weather

19. Blemish

20. Was a good fit for

22. Mixologist's workplace

23. Mental spark

25. Former cable-news anchor Joy

26. "Please leave a message after the ___"

27. Option alongside “Home” and “Work,” on a contact form

28. Glossary entry

29. Imitates an owl

30. Quantities indicated by radical signs

33. Uses deliberately ambiguous language

34. Punctuation mark after the penultimate item in a list

35. One of Bolivia’s two capitals, along with Sucre

36. With 47-Across, get cold feet

37. Facts and figures casually

41. Unidentified author: Abbr.

42. ___ walk (police-orchestrated photo op)

43. Not worth debating

44. Slumber party attire for short

45. Venetian Renaissance painter with a namesake orange-red color

47. See 36-Across

48. Like many laundromats, briefly

50. Monty Python member who co-created “Spamalot”

54. Person who indirectly encourages self-destructive behavior

55. Analyzed in a lab, say

56. Glue brand with a bull mascot

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Down

1. ___ dust (tiny particles floating in space)

2. Pinball parlor

3. Container for aging wine

4. Had a meal

5. These days

6. The "A" of B.A.

7. Stereotypical jacket material for a professor

8. Fuse pieces of metal together

9. With 29-Down, portrayer of Bilbo Baggins in “The Lord of the Rings”

10. Footwear for some Winter Olympians

11. Apartment residents

12. Jokingly conveys boredom, perhaps

14. “That couldn’t be more wrong!”

17. Scientist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife and Henri Becquerel

21. What speedy exam-takers finish with

24. Unsuccessful political contestant

26. Targeted, with "at"

28. Brass instrument that makes an oom-pah band’s “oom-pah” sound

29. See 9-Down

31. Interactive offering from BuzzFeed or Cosmo

32. Super Bowl LVI winners over the Bengals

33. Additions to a bank account

34. Largest city in Silicon Valley

35. Kitty that’s easy to pet

38. Lo-mein tidbit

39. More vile-smelling

40. Furry, web-footed mammals

42. Suddenly spoke (up)

45. Reusable shopping bag

46. Number of fielding positions in baseball

49. Bolt's counterpart

51. Berkeley school, familiarly

52. Tech company nicknamed 'Big Blue'

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