Series starter Crossword Clue

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Series starter Crossword Answer

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OPENER

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

STARTER (noun)
1. an electric motor for starting an engine
2. a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
SERIES (noun)
1. a periodical that appears at scheduled times
2. a serialized set of programs

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

OPENER
(6 letters)

Hint 3: Anagram

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OPERANT

More WSJ Crossword (4/17/2026) Answers

Across

1. Creator of Moonbeam McSwine and Earthquake McGoon

7. Great Red Spot location

14. Nation in the Persian Gulf

16. In the dark

17. Nation in the Horn of Africa

18. Tabloid talk show until 1998

19. Draw on

20. Stalwart

22. Machu Picchu people

23. Early law school course

24. Olympic swimmer Thorpe

25. Female surfer

28. Doughboys’ helmets, in military slang

32. Common compound in the Earth’s crust

33. Omani money

34. Cobbler's tool

36. Mouselike rodent

37. Beta follower

38. Perlman of "Cheers"

39. Conclusion

40. Some are induced

41. Holders for hens

42. Wood shop waste

44. Reno and Jackson, e.g.

45. Superlative suffix

46. Last name of Sasha and Malia

48. “Halt!” from a salt

51. Sitarist’s snippet

52. Burger base

55. Aloof

58. He sang with Plácido and José

60. John of “Moonstruck”

61. First name in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame

62. Willowy

63. From the Eternal City, quaintly

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Down

1. Help in a heist

2. "Tomb Raider" heroine

3. China flaw

4. Critic’s concern

6. Second-least populous state capital, after Montpelier

7. Container for wine

8. French article

9. Outcasts

10. “Please? Pretty please?”

11. Mineral with a greasy feel

12. Goddess in “Das Rheingold”

13. Early autos

15. Like a capt.’s charts

21. Insurance worker

23. Ocean motion

24. On Santa Monica Blvd., say

25. Made baskets

26. There are billions of them in the human brain

27. Former labor secretary Solis

29. Brand with a paw print logo

30. Sierra Nevada lake

31. Did some housework

33. SoFi Stadium squad

35. Highlands girl

37. Woe in a toe

38. Author Jaffe

40. Music holder rarely seen anymore

41. Boxer Hector

43. Photographer Edward

44. Mayan symbol of power and ferocity

47. Soothing stuff

48. USN bigwigs

49. Lab container

50. 1975 Wimbledon champ

52. Resort along the Coral Triangle

53. Aussie colleges, informally

54. Webster who created a dictionary

56. Born, in Paris

57. Norse war god for whom a weekday is named

59. Conclusion for Descartes

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