Shade source Crossword Clue

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Shade source Crossword Answer

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TREE

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
2. any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SOURCE (noun)
1. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
2. someone who originates or causes or initiates something
SOURCE (verb)
1. get (a product) from another country or business
2. specify the origin of
SHADE (noun)
1. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
2. a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
SHADE (verb)
1. represent the effect of shade or shadow on
2. cast a shadow over

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

TREE
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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MEL

More WSJ Crossword (4/21/2025) Answers

Across

1. Nightclubs

9. Darkly gloomy

15. Words on a Valentine

16. Speak highly of

17. They may be marked with x’s

19. Feel bad about

20. Peach center

21. Worry

22. Sings like Ella Fitzgerald

25. Sun Bowl setting

27. Dishonorable fellows

28. Burden for an ant

32. Paris pal

33. Back end

34. Drive forward

35. Checkers side

36. Mag workers

37. Rock's ___ Leppard

39. ___ Lanka

40. Disconcert

42. The Persistence of Memory painter

44. Witnesses to an event

47. Word on an octagon

48. Flutist’s neighbor, in an orchestra

49. Classroom challenges

50. River of Spain

53. Outdo

54. Solemn promise

55. AND, OR or NOT, in mathematical logic

61. Having more customers, say

62. Oscar nominee for “Tootsie”

63. Coldly determined

64. Keyboard key, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme

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Down

1. Spying org

2. Completely

3. Marshy area

4. Turns aside

5. Picture puzzle

6. Jane of English literature

7. One ___customer

8. More limber

9. On-air campaign expense

10. — -Ball

11. Shape badly

12. Support for a casket

13. Farmer Hoggett’s wife, in “Babe”

14. Take a breather

18. Kelly of morning TV

22. Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt

23. Managed to acquire

24. Maker of Samba sneakers

25. Important times

26. Genre for Ursula K. Le Guin

28. Dream location

29. Sports shockers

30. Cabernet sauvignon alternative

31. Zeppelins’ kin

33. Amy Winehouse song

37. Move swiftly

38. Golfer Ernie

41. Police informer, informally

42. Tyrants

45. Official witness

46. Songstress Celine

47. Smelly flow

49. Shaped like a doughnut

50. Recedes

51. Boxing ring event

52. Flower on a Valentine

54. Designer Wang

56. Snaky fish

57. Vitality

58. Key beside Q

59. British singer Rita

60. Basic education trio, humorously

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