Shoestring Crossword Clue

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Shoestring Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. add alcohol to (beverages)
2. spin, wind, or twist together
(noun)
1. a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
2. a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SHOESTRING (noun)
1. a lace used for fastening shoes
2. a small amount of money

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
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More Newsday Crossword (10/20/2025) Answers

Across

1. Wild guess

5. Pass out playing cards

9. Theme park shuttle

13. Excessive publicity

14. Prom queen's crown

15. Residence

16. Whitish gem

17. "__ to you" (common toast)

18. Smooth out

19. Volume with global maps

21. Ship off

22. Very strict

23. Couch in a den

25. Potato's covering

28. Pasta toppings

32. Leaky faucet's sound

36. Periods of history

38. Swap

39. Per Person

40. Ten-cent coins

42. Strongly suggest

43. Small stream

45. Chair or pew

46. Child's snow vehicle

47. Sport played at Wimbledon

49. Speak unclearly

51. Garden in Genesis

53. Actress Keaton or TV journalist Sawyer

57. Thick slice

60. Volume with definitions of words

64. Folded Mexican food

65. Sneeze sound

66. Eat in style

67. Rebound of a sound

68. Squads of athletes

69. Wicked

70. Seven-day span

71. Makes a blunder

72. Ooze slowly

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Down

1. Any TV program

2. Keyboard mistakes

3. Take __ (disassemble)

4. Charming Southern woman

5. Weight loss plan

6. __ Grey tea

7. Neighborhoods

8. Rodeo ropes

9. Volume with synonym lists

10. Wander around

11. Prayer's last word

12. Darn with thread

14. Showed gratitude to

20. Physicians: Abbr

24. Skim milk's lack

26. Colorful part of the eye

27. Specifies, as a person

29. Science author Sagan

30. Sharp part of a razor

31. Bit of bird food

32. Money owed

33. Very uncommon

34. Clickable phone image

35. Yellow Pages, for example

37. Emblem of approval

41. Small apartments

44. Baby goat

48. Serene

50. __ de Janeiro

52. More pleasant

54. South American mountain range

55. Overly trusting

56. Bert's 'Sesame Street' pal

57. Slow-cooked beef meal

59. Muscle soreness

61. Burn slightly, as a steak

62. Male cats

63. High-pitched bark

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