Rose's defense Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
2. something that causes irritation and annoyance

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DEFENSE (noun)
1. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
2. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
ROSE (noun)
1. any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
2. pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
ROSE (adjective)
1. of something having a dusty purplish pink color

Hint 3: Anagram

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NORTH

More Universal Crossword (11/10/2025) Answers

Across

1. Dragon's friend in Disney films

5. Pet welfare grp.

10. Curly hairstyle

14. The "Toreador Song" from "Carmen," e.g.

16. Gloppy stuff

17. *State bird of Maryland (In this answer, note letters 7-8, 10-11 and 13)

20. Water vapor

21. Service charge

22. Poet Nash who wrote "I don't mind eels / Except as meals"

23. Fried tortilla dish

25. *Pans’ partners

27. *Just because (... letters 2-3, 5-6 and 10)

32. Say the same thing as

36. Mo. with no federal holidays

37. Strong wind

38. Huskies' sch.

39. Spooky season mo.

40. Ish

41. Clog, mule or brogue

42. Sound in a doctor's office or spa

43. Frat bash

44. *"Psycho" or "Night of the Creeps" (... letters 2-3, 5-6 and 8)

47. Like a cloudy day in London

48. Past its use-by date

53. 'Pose' actor Moore

56. Interminable card game

58. Sympathetic words

59. Follow-up wager depicted in the starred clues' answers?

62. "The Incredibles" couturier Mode

63. Test of endurance

64. Myanmar's continent

65. Prophet

66. Bewilder

67. Golf props

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Down

1. Blue Ribbon brewery

2. Muse of lyric poetry

3. Game pieces in Azul or Scrabble

4. Patronize, as a restaurant

5. Right now, in a text

6. Jewish ritual horn

7. Sponge opening

8. Give the heebie-jeebies

9. Year, in Brazil

10. "Whatever, they're paying me"

11. __ for thought

12. Part to play

13. Ajar, perhaps

18. Words of admiration

19. Dull way to learn

24. With 26-Across, end of Wikipedia's URL

26. See 24-Across

28. Cheesy chip

29. Yodeled, e.g.

30. Like some shoppes

31. At hand

32. Hurry

33. Say the same thing as

34. Impoverished

35. On-the-go snack

39. 'Goodness gracious!'

40. "That's all yours now"

42. It might follow you

43. Cereal since 1937

45. Kind of hygiene

46. Springy

49. Bygone messaging app

50. Word before "the stakes" or "the roof"

51. Muppet who summons the Boogie-Woogie Sheep

52. Edgar who painted dancers

53. 13th or 15th day of a month

54. Intersection point

55. Desert mound

57. Desert descriptor

60. H, to Hippocrates

61. Spanish cheer

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