Shocker of sorts Crossword Clue

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Shocker of sorts Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

SHOCKER (noun)
1. a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
2. a shockingly bad person

Hint 2: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
ASTER

More NYT Crossword (6/13/2025) Answers

Across

1. Short shorts

9. Walk with attitude

15. Light shower?

16. Product whose slogans have included "Say hello to the future" and "Welcome to the big screens"

17. Aquatic eater of shellfish

18. Requirement for a triple play

19. They may be graphic

20. Becomes pendulous, say

22. Impersonate, with "as"

25. Apple field

27. Most desirable candidates in the dating pool, slangily

29. Add some fluff to, as an essay

31. It's cut and dried

33. "Messenger" in biology class

34. Ultimately succeeds

38. Runs wild, in gamer-speak

39. Cocktails that might make for poor nightcaps

40. Sugar substitute?

41. "Dear ___"

42. Soup served with sriracha, maybe

43. Nile nasties

45. Mariner

48. Like many a security guard

52. Fold (under)

54. Labor away

56. ___ Bush, Black Lives Matter activist who served in Congress

57. Copy

59. Majorly successful business start-ups

61. "Totally sick!"

62. Where an airport traveler might seek assistance

63. Feature of a May-December romance

64. Many of these begin with "E"

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1. Goes after

2. ___ cake, dessert with layers of sponge, buttercream and ganache

3. Milk sources

4. Gertrude Stein, for one

5. One who might have an objection: Abbr.

6. Drat!

7. Minister (to)

8. Twill suit material

9. "Some rise by ___, and some by virtue fall": "Measure for Measure"

10. Each

11. Relative of a stalk

12. Basic wine list offerings

13. Feelers?

14. "___, And?" (2024 Ariana Grande hit)

21. Go on a run, perhaps

24. Name of 11 pharaohs

26. Gesture of respect or recognition

28. Pitiful

30. Flotsam and jetsam

32. Japanese businessman Torakusu with an internationally known company named after him

34. What might be pinched for pennies

35. Artist who made a lot of good points?

36. Western Hemisphere grp.

37. Set of standards at a military academy, e.g.

38. Going dark on, as one's love interest, in modern parlance

39. "Huh?'

44. Scrawny sort

46. Emmy-winning Anderson

47. Making a certain metallic sound

49. Practices

50. Physicist Mach after whom "Mach numbers" are named

51. Plates, e.g.

53. Big Island bean variety

55. ... that's ___

57. The Dolphins, on scoreboards

58. Image, informally

60. Extra item that a hotel guest may request

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