Sheriff's backup Crossword Clue

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Sheriff's backup Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a temporary police force

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SHERIFF (noun)
1. the principal law-enforcement officer in a county
BACKUP (noun)
1. a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
2. (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (4/15/2026) Answers

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1. Playbill groups

6. "He's very modest - he has a lot to be modest about," e.g.

10. Like an enthusiast

14. Tokyo-based brewery

15. Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments

16. Snackable seaweed

17. Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

19. Aussie greeting

20. Paper view?

21. One reason to pucker up

22. Its antlers can grow up to an inch per day

23. Cheese tested as cannon ammunition on "MythBusters" (it didn't work)

25. How two people might walk

29. Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

32. Get into a get-up

33. Mama's boy?

34. Gold, at the Milano Cortina Olympics

35. Dagnabbit!

38. Tech review site

39. "I love," in Italian and Spanish

40. Veg out in a spa?

41. Works out, say

43. Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

46. Russian revolutionary of the early 1900s

47. Longtime Yankee nickname

48. "___ to the West Wind"

49. Isle in Scotland's Inner Hebrides

51. "It's fun to stay at the ___" (1978 lyric)

55. Presidential power

57. Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

59. Blizzard ingredient

60. English singer Parks

61. Potato-based Hanukkah serving

62. Heartfelt, say

63. Cat's cry

64. Parts of a copse

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1. Hunter's attire, informally

2. "Like … NOW!"

3. Drink that's often served hot in the winter

4. When and where, in slang

5. One-named singer with the 2022 hit "Unstoppable"

6. The moment of truth

7. Bird with a long, downward-curving bill

8. Brest besties

9. "Holy cannoli!"

10. Geometers' calculations

11. Clear cocktail often served with lime

12. Apt letters missing from ret_ _ement pl_n

13. Like some remodels, for short

18. Genre for Blink-182 and Sum 41

22. Toy inventer Rubik

24. Bit of Morse code

26. Completely beat

27. Like a glassy lake

28. Puts on display, with "out"

29. Tumult

30. Big name in plumbing

31. Photographer Adams

32. Woodworking or glass blowing

37. "All right, I'm convinced"

38. Milky Way or Mars

40. Suit, e.g.

42. Indian P.M. of the 1990s

44. Destination for Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings"

45. Tried not to draw attention

50. Letter between Juliet and Lima

52. Dole out

53. Order for a wedding reception

54. One of the Twelve Olympians

55. Promise

56. Pitching stat

57. Comic book onomatopoeia

58. Music genre prefix

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