Reasons for acting Crossword Clue

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ACTING (noun)
1. the performance of a part or role in a drama
ACTING (adjective)
1. serving temporarily especially as a substitute

More WSJ Crossword (1/14/2026) Answers

Across

1. Poor support

5. Boston-to-Washington speeder

10. Word of surgical urgency

14. Unruffled

15. Pierced place, perhaps

17. “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” star

19. Long and limp, as hair

20. Bags

21. Gillette offering

23. Reason for a tenth inning

24. You may get down from them

25. Identified

28. Hockey Hall of Famer with a career 741 goals

32. Retired music player

33. Customize for

34. Heroic role for Keanu

35. Low extremity

36. Rafters and gondoliers, and a punny category for 17-, 28-, 41- and 54-Across

37. McKellen of “Gods and Monsters”

38. They stop at stns.

39. In back

40. Noah’s messenger

41. Nobel-winning physicist who was nominated 82 times

43. Doomed fellow

44. New York Public Library benefactor

45. Sandy color

46. Pan, perhaps

48. Foundation figures

53. River on the Brandenburg border

54. Utah senator who was president pro tem in the 2010s

56. Alexa alternative

57. Wake up

58. Artsy NYC neighborhood

59. Coop group

60. Reflex test sites

61. Shoelace problem

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Down

1. Massage target

2. Bird on a Canadian dollar

3. Cuts the hay

4. Like italics

5. 76ers center Drummond

6. Birthday treat

7. Preceding nights

8. “Clockers” director

9. Words from Mom after applying a bandage

10. Cannonball sound

11. Teamsters, e.g.

12. — premium

13. Chiding clicks

18. Foray

22. Divulge

24. Tübingen tongue

25. Booming stuff

26. Left, on liners

27. Where Homer drinks a Duff Beer

28. Person with a bond

29. Critic, at times

30. Head out

31. Solitary sort

33. Stopped dawdling, maybe

36. Treat the turkey

40. “You wouldn’t believe it if I told you”

42. Father of Horus

43. Deep cut

45. Prepares for playing, in a way

46. ___ Hashana

47. Falco of 'The Sopranos'

48. Faithful

49. Upward slope

50. School along the Thames

51. Sonar comeback

52. No longer usable

55. Darling of the Mets

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