Running ___ (ongoing joke) Crossword Clue

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Running ___ (ongoing joke) Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. prevent from speaking out
2. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
(noun)
1. restraint put into a person’s mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
2. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

RUNNING (noun)
1. the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
2. the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
RUNNING (adjective)
1. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
2. measured lengthwise
ONGOING (adjective)
1. currently happening

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

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11. Pieces of china that sit on saucers

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14. “And then...”

17. Opposite of difficulty

18. Rogers who sang “Islands in the Stream” with Dolly Parton

19. Industry that encompasses crypto and A.I.

20. Danced to bounce music, maybe

24. Water filter brand

25. Concealed oneself

26. Sprayer attached to a hydrant

28. Digitally capture, as a fingerprint

30. “Casino Royale” or “Goldfinger,” e.g.

31. Baby ___ (Kimora Lee Simmons brand popular in the early two-thousands)

32. Snoozefests

33. Department-store section with ties and boxer briefs

34. Poems such as Edward Lear’s “There Was an Old Man of Thermopylae”

36. Floating ice mass

37. Gives an update to

38. 2022 Telugu-language blockbuster with the Oscar-winning song “Naatu Naatu”

39. Abbr. before op or admin

40. Hair-styling goop

41. Daphne du Maurier novel whose title character is dead before the story begins

45. Contents of a U.S.P.S. bag

47. It might be staked or filed

49. Injure, as a puma might

50. Liberty taken by authors

53. Like a poundcake or the population of Manhattan

54. Dwells

55. Dispatch, as a D.M.

56. Critic’s pieces

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Down

1. Halt

2. “Catch you on the flip side, loser!”

3. “___ kann nicht anders” (Martin Luther’s “I cannot do otherwise”)

4. Shook in one’s boots

5. ___ the ante (raised the stakes)

6. Channel that airs the W.N.B.A. draft

7. Straps used to hold nametags

8. Nametags, for example

9. Not a great impression?

10. Occasion to play Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

11. Move from the freezer to the fridge, say

13. Not requiring attendance from

14. Sopping ___

15. Automobile parts that might purr or roar

16. “Bad things come in ___”

21. Relatives, collectively

23. Emerald or ruby

26. Tine-y utensils

27. Many a hiccup “cure”

28. Place where boats are built

29. Areas for pitching tents

30. Italian tenor Andrea

31. Fluid donated at a blood bank

32. Halved

35. Fix, as an outcome

36. Texters Hang on a sec

38. “I’d be ___ not to mention . . .”

41. Stirs up

42. Candy ___ (holiday treats)

43. Give a damn, maybe?

44. Taproom beverage

46. Fine-___ tattooing (practice that uses a small needle)

48. Property size unit

51. Input on an I-9 or a 1040

52. Org. in many a spy movie

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