Scholarship criterion Crossword Clue

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MERIT

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(verb)
1. have need of
2. require as useful, just, or proper
(noun)
1. anything that is necessary but lacking
2. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CRITERION (noun)
1. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
2. the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
SCHOLARSHIP (noun)
1. profound scholarly knowledge
2. financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit

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MERIT
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More New Yorker Crossword (8/3/2026) Answers

Across

1. Indicator of a pause

6. Piece of work

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14. Maker of some trailers

15. Mediterranean peak

16. Rules infraction

17. Classroom in which one might use an oscilloscope

19. “Whole” thing

20. Emphatic response to “¿Quieres más?”

21. Dashingly?

23. Poet Chen with the 2010 collection “Juvenilia”

24. Standup comedian with a bit about the snacks at Trader Joe’s that only women can see

27. Curl targets, briefly

30. Weapons related to rapiers

31. What Ras al-Khaimah is part of, for short

32. “But that’s enough of that . . .”

34. “The Sirens of ___” (Kurt Vonnegut novel)

37. Philosopher Daniel who co-edited the 1981 anthology “The Mind’s I” with Douglas Hofstadter

38. Minister and advocate ___ A. King

40. Long-winded stories

41. Like summer days in Spain?

42. 'Oh, also . . .' in a text

43. Sequence of three nucleotides

44. Meier who created the Civilization video-game series

45. Very short stories

49. Suggestion, in brief

50. Busybodies

51. Wastes

55. Members of the beech family

57. “No one to blame but myself”

59. Motivate

60. Clutter-free

61. Horse girl?

62. Spot

63. “O.K., you make a good point”

64. Big name in pads

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Down

1. Coffeehouse supply

2. "Didn't expect to see you here!"

3. Giant with a legendary over-the-shoulder catch in the 1954 World Series

4. “How sour sweet ___ is / When time is broke and no proportion kept”: Shakespeare

5. Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-___

6. Most prone to annoyance

7. Cartographic collections

8. Gobbles down

9. World capital where Pashto and Dari are spoken

10. Certain digital asset, briefly

11. Reusable metal containers

12. Poet who wrote “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

13. Word following string or tag

18. Form a layer over

22. By-product of beta decay

25. “Let me spell it out for you”

26. Only monosyllabic U.S. state

27. Offers

28. Creative spark

29. Provide supportive notes?

33. Midges and blackflies, e.g.

35. It follows a curtain’s rise

38. Cardinal sin of aesthetics

39. Bookish Bridgerton sibling

41. “Le Livre Blanc” author Jean

43. Remnant in a fireplace

45. Slushy wine-based beverage

46. Bounds

47. Deceptive maneuver

48. Boyfriend, to Bad Bunny

52. Sensed

53. Document, e.g.

54. Mythical river

56. 'my b'

58. Sixties U.S. senator whose middle name was Francis, not Fitzgerald

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