Reward for a hero Crossword Clue

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Reward for a hero Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

REWARD (verb)
1. bestow honor or rewards upon
2. strengthen and support with rewards
REWARD (noun)
1. benefit resulting from some event or action
2. a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
HERO (noun)
1. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
2. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More Daily Pop Crossword (4/26/2026) Answers

Across

1. "You can't mean me!?"

4. Cleaned with a broom

9. Swiffer WetJet, e.g.

12. Play a role in a play

13. "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" host Aisha

14. Yale's URL ending

15. 2011 novel by 28-Across that was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction (3 wds.)

18. Setting of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"

19. 1923 Literature Nobel Laureate William Butler ___

20. "Midnight in the Garden of Good and ___"

21. Took a load off

24. Skin soother

25. One-named "Chandelier" singer

26. Like some Friday work attire

28. 15-Across and 43-Across writer who won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for "Bel Canto" (2 wds.)

32. "Law & Order" actor Jerry

33. "Summers at Shea" sportswriter Berkow

35. This Old House master carpenter Abram

38. ___ Lanka (island country in the Indian Ocean)

39. Apple store patron

40. Heist mastermind Danny played by George Clooney and Frank Sinatra

42. Selling point

43. 2019 novel by 28-Across that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (3 wds.)

47. Cape ___, Massachusetts

48. "The Godfather" writer Puzo

49. In one ___ and out the other

50. Pile by a pitchfork

51. "The Pianist" and "The Brutalist" Oscar winner Adrien

52. "Harriet the ___" (children's novel by Louise Fitzhugh)

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Down

1. "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled ___ yearning to breathe free" (excerpt from the poem on the Statue of Liberty)

2. Science fiction writer Butler who won two Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards

3. Dante's language

4. Champagne flute part

5. Cheyenne's state (Abbr.)

6. "The ___ on the Shelf" (Christmas book sold with a toy)

7. Church bench

8. City tricked by a wooden horse

10. Keats's "___ a Nightingale" (2 wds.)

11. Pocketbook

16. ___ Aviv, Israel

17. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" writer Zora ___ Hurston

21. Swedish autos

22. "___ Is Born" (2018 Lady Gaga film) (2 wds.)

23. Actor Stanley of "The Lovely Bones"

26. Lifesaving skill for short

27. Spa sigh

29. One without a permanent address

30. Cold sufferer's boxful

31. Tapped maple fluid (2 wds.)

34. Major road

35. "Kick it up a ___" (Emeril Lagasse catchphrase)

36. Astronaut Ellen who was the first Latina in space

37. Like the sound of bagpipes

39. Group that entertains the troops (Abbr.)

41. Feeling nothing

42. ___ matey!

44. Road crew's supply

45. ___-Magnons (early humans)

46. Kept out of sight

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