Safe and boring Crossword Clue

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Safe and boring Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. correct by punishment or discipline
2. make less strong or intense; soften
(adjective)
1. brought from wildness into a domesticated state
2. very docile

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BORING (noun)
1. the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
2. the act of drilling
BORING (adjective)
1. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
SAFE (noun)
1. contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
2. a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests
SAFE (adjective)
1. financially safe
2. free from danger or the risk of harm

Hint 3: Anagram

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More New Yorker Crossword (5/20/2026) Answers

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18. Fervent requests

20. Possesses

21. Untidy state of affairs

22. Grinding tooth

24. Poem of praise

25. Blood-drive attendee

26. Protest whose participants don’t stand for something?

27. Actress Viola or Geena

28. “This just ___ add up”

29. Muppet who sings “It’s Not Easy Being Green”

32. “Who knows the answer?”

33. Goes on a tirade

34. Kamala Harris and Al Gore, informally

35. Member of the violet family

36. "Murder, ___ Wrote"

39. Congers and morays, for example

40. Stovetop-oven combo

41. Kind of plush carpeting popular in the sixties and seventies

42. Slugger's stat

43. Dog from Down Under

44. “Brick,” for “very cold”

45. Tissue connecting muscle to bone

47. Fifty-fifty chance

49. Turns up one’s nose (at)

50. Contents of a cookbook

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52. What a trainee is shown, with “the”

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Down

1. Read carefully (or casually)

2. Helps with a heist, maybe

3. Larger-than-___

4. Make a mistake

5. Go faster

6. Academy Award statuette

7. Puts on TV

8. Black, Red, or Coral

9. 'Oh really?'

10. More than just mad

11. Sped

12. "It's been too long!"

14. Agreement

15. Print designed to blend in, for short

19. Musician's asset

22. Silver-screen production

23. Layers of a wedding cake

25. Consigns to hell

26. Pushover

27. Releases, as a new album

28. Thick, as fog

29. Squatting exercise

30. Makeup often applied before mascara

31. Day-after-drinking woe

32. Manages to avoid, as disaster

35. Scathing review

36. Sunglasses

37. Time indicators on an analog clock

38. Ingredients in a soufflé or a strata

40. Clean with water

41. Bunny ___ (beginner’s skiing spot)

43. Nerd

44. Sound of scissors

46. Agency that carries out the Controlled Substances Act, in brief

48. Lead-in to friendly or conscious

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