Shortage of a sort Crossword Clue

We have the 3-letter answer for Shortage of a sort crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword October 2, 2025 puzzle. This answer will help you finish the puzzle you’re working on.

Shortage of a sort Crossword Answer

→22.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SHORTAGE (noun)
1. an acute insufficiency
2. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
SORT (noun)
1. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
2. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
SORT (verb)
1. arrange or order by classes or categories
2. examine in order to test suitability

More NYT Crossword (10/2/2025) Answers

Across

1. "That so?" or "Uh-huh, that's so"

5. Abbr. that often follows a comma

8. Hardly anyone counts on this anymore

14. Shakespearean villain

15. Zip

16. Wine and dine

17. How something distinctive appears

19. Any member of a band dubbed "The President's Own"

20. Leveled the playing field, say?

21. Fight night sites

25. Cardinal's honorific

27. Suppose

29. Feel 41-Across

30. ___ Summitt, legendary women's basketball coach

33. Asian city one can view within Instagram?

34. Among others, for short

37. Well-informed

39. Writer Zora __ Hurston

41. See 29-Across

42. Its hands might be near one of yours

43. Common daytime spots for first dates

44. Part of a list at an awards show

46. Biker's selection

47. Doc seen for sinusitis

48. Austin summer hrs.

50. Board meeting handout

52. Discusses at length

55. Pin number

56. Literary detective whose final case is in 1975's "Curtain"

59. Sounds heard in haunted houses

61. What might prompt someone to close a window

62. Classic computer game whose players avoid hazardous items in a grid … as suggested by this puzzle?

66. Eye slangily

67. Actress Long

68. "You'll ___"

69. Sabotage

70. Lift a finger, so to speak

71. Output of a social media algorithm

All Answers

Down

1. Sound from a puppy

2. Balance aid

3. What might come after many years?

4. Ad __

5. Interweave

6. Scrabble rackful

7. Half of a noted crime duo

8. Renowned house at Milan Fashion Week

9. Cousin of a Danish

10. Match, as subject and verb

11. Biblical person who says "My punishment is greater than I can bear"

12. Bone with a radial notch

13. Candy company known for its chocolate and butterscotch

18. Neighborhood in N.Y.C. or L.A.

22. Home of the most Literature Nobelists in history

23. Greece's largest airline

24. Only video game to sell 300 million copies

26. Selfish cry before an evil laugh

28. Moolah

30. One of four awarded to Bill Nye

31. Crane's place, maybe

32. Where the film "Argo" is set

35. Features of some windows

36. Spanish phone greeting

38. Job listing info

40. Moped alternative

45. Erode

49. Figure (out)

51. Out of the park

52. Certain Kool-Aid flavor

53. On the horizon

54. Polite refusal

56. ___ platter (Chinese restaurant offering)

57. Doing business

58. Carded

60. The "s" in the acronym "scuba"

63. Pizza, e.g.

64. Christmas ___

65. Like Malbec wine

All Answers