Sherlock’s assignment Crossword Clue

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Sherlock’s assignment Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a specific size and style of type within a type family
2. an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
(verb)
1. enclose in, or as if in, a case
2. look over, usually with the intention to rob

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SHERLOCK (noun)
1. someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
ASSIGNMENT (noun)
1. a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
2. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

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More USA Today Crossword (9/19/2025) Answers

Across

1. I want to be on that email

9. Nebraska city home to America's largest indoor rainforest

14. Frozen precipitation

15. Black gem

16. Manis' partners

17. '__ all work out'

18. Skin condition

19. Amanda Gorman and Mary Oliver

20. Really stand out onstage

23. Significant time period

24. What have we here?

25. Jump to conclusions

29. Smoothly, on a score

31. Style between mini and maxi

33. Bean in shoyu sauce

34. "Now I've ___ it all!"

35. Ready for business

37. Feature of some crosswords

39. Protest like Colin Kaepernick in 2016

42. Phony-baloney sort

45. In addition

46. Electric instrument's booster

49. That's cold!

50. "Did you ___ me?"

52. Nurture's counterpart

55. "Give Me One ___" (Tracy Chapman song)

57. U.S. tax ID

58. Coral or Caspian

59. Be frugal

63. "The Great Muppet ___"

66. Liquid precipitation

67. Peak

68. Girl who fell down a rabbit hole

69. Brewpub bevvies

70. Hammer target

71. Buildings where dough is stored?

72. Animal that aptly rhymes with "hole"

73. Fútbol chant

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1. Michelangelo's tools

2. Structure that may include a scratching post

3. Odometer reading

4. Jazzy Fitzgerald

5. Place to hang a parka, say

6. Dried chili pepper

7. Auld Lang __

8. Former partners

9. Small, to large

10. Catty remarks?

11. Sports drink suffix

12. Batter’s goal

13. Animal that says 'hee haw'

21. Parking spot?

22. "You __ to be there"

26. Employ

27. Lisa Bonet, to Zoë Kravitz

28. LASIK ___ surgery

30. Initial poker stake

31. Breakfast and lunch

32. Calligrapher's supplies

36. Veggies in a pod

38. Spiciness

40. Tall wardrobes

41. Balderdash!

42. Festive evergreen

43. Card up one's sleeve, in an idiom

44. Mauna ___ (Hawaii’s highest peak)

47. "Six" or "& Juliet"

48. Baby born early

51. Traveler’s lodging

53. Author Patchett

54. Artist's stand

56. Spot of paint

57. Sales pitch

60. Jam-pack

61. Beyonce song with the lyric 'I got my angel now'

62. Teeny-tiny prefix

63. Taxi

64. Boeuf ___ mode

65. Donkey's tail fastener in a game

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