Reason for overtime Crossword Clue

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TIEGAME

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Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a social or business relationship
2. a fastener that serves to join or connect
(verb)
1. finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
2. create social or emotional ties

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

OVERTIME (noun)
1. playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
2. work done in addition to regular working hours
REASON (verb)
1. present reasons and arguments
2. decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
REASON (noun)
1. a rational motive for a belief or action
2. the state of having good sense and sound judgment

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

TIEGAME
(7 letters)

More New Yorker Crossword (9/21/2026) Answers

Across

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16. "Let me show you how it's done"

17. Copacetic

18. Against

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21. Intro course?

23. Amount in a chemistry lab report

24. Body of water bordering Sudan

27. Ready to go out

30. Tisane, a.k.a. herbal ___

31. Ncuti Gatwa's Sex Education role

33. Having sex, maybe?

35. Texter’s “Assuming my memory serves . . .”

37. 'South to America' author Perry

39. Risktaker’s shout

40. Successfully lure

42. Soccer-video-game franchise

44. Generative A.I. trained on text: Abbr.

45. Snow-clearing tool

47. Championships

49. City where James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” is set

51. The Browns, on a scoreboard

52. Stawamus Chief and El Capitan, for two

56. Write with acid

59. Compliment to a tenor

60. Go beyond the assignment in English class

63. Tree with thin, white bark

64. Ceremonially burned wood with a Spanish name

65. Take off?

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Down

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2. Greek letter sometimes used to denote the imaginary unit, in math

3. Stacy who takes on the alter ego of Spider-Woman

4. The deadly sins, for example

5. Gad about

6. Providers of non-specialized care: Abbr.

7. Bollywood actress Bhatt

8. Intense way to be in love

9. Shadow realm?

10. Street that cuts diagonally through midtown Manhattan

11. Trickster of Norse mythology

12. “This Is How You Lose the Time War” co-author El-Mohtar

13. “No Broke ___” (2025 hit by Disco Lines and Tinashe)

15. Word after tattoo or pizza

20. More than good

22. Spicy sauce with a reduplicative name

24. Guiding straps

25. It’s destroyed at the beginning of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

26. Intention

28. Wide scarf

29. Makes one’s voice heard

32. Hospital lunchroom, for short

34. Sub seeker

36. Annual Barbados festival marking the end of the harvest

38. Minor concern

41. Island associated with Morgan le Fay

43. Greater than or equal to

46. Genre for the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” books: Abbr.

48. Median ___ dose (toxicity measure)

50. Take a warm coat off?

52. Degrees that some aspiring corporate lawyers pursue jointly with J.D.s

53. Ballpark phrase

54. Common kimchi cabbage

55. Hawker’s success

57. Wrestler-turned-actor John

58. Birthday party handouts

61. Doomed to fail, for short

62. Sound accompanying a facepalm

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