"Roots" surname Crossword Clue

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"Roots" surname Crossword Answer

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SURNAME (noun)
1. the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member’s given name)
ROOTS (noun)
1. the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage

More NYT Crossword (9/6/2025) Answers

Across

1. They help you see the big picture

13. Swing states?

15. Things you can't do without

17. Animal that's born with a full set of teeth

18. Actress Dawson of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay"

19. Sound from a chicken

21. Stop working, say

24. Bash

25. Half of a rhyming game name

28. Not from Scotland

29. A little husky?

30. One preparing eggs

32. 19th-century naturalist buried in Westminster Abbey

33. Bubble burster, perhaps

34. Delta hub, in brief

35. Nose (around)

36. Inits. in a job posting

37. Swellings in bodily tissues

39. Dignified and gracious sort

41. Checkers, e.g.

42. Nothing needs to be said to do it

43. First Nations people

44. Down Under colleges

45. Jazz fest?

48. Child support, in brief?

49. High-energy snack

50. "People are wrong when they say ___ is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it": Noël Coward

54. First science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship

58. Reflective period

59. Many TV panelists

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Down

1. Packs

2. Sea creature also known as a redfin ocean pan

3. Unseen wife on "Cheers"

4. It keeps things going

5. ___ Okafor, 6'10" Charlotte player who was the N.B.A.'s 2005 Rookie of the Year

6. Many lab instructors, informally

7. Org. whose logo includes scales and an olive branch

8. Reached the maximum

10. Polished off

11. Cry of relief

12. It's "wine-dark," in Homer's "Odyssey"

14. Pajamas

16. Free kick, e.g., in soccer lingo

20. Special delivery at a conference

22. Unites after a break

23. Rank above viscount

24. Subject of trade that gave rise to St. Louis and Detroit

25. Jazzed

26. Went at

27. Ones with big blocks?

29. Is worth the effort

31. Some farm sounds

32. Much "Real Housewives" doings

35. Bang the drum for

38. Makes some introductions, informally

39. Bread whose dough is rolled on a chakla

40. British royal Rod of Equity and Mercy, e.g.

45. Unprecedented

46. Lip

47. Be sassy, with "off"

49. — -Ball

51. Ancient home to many pre-Socratic philosophers

52. Verb before lips and palms

53. They may be fine

55. Small songbird

56. Directional suffix

57. Solicit

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