Shriek Crossword Clue

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YELL

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(noun)
1. a joke that seems extremely funny
2. sharp piercing cry
(verb)
1. utter a sudden loud cry
2. utter or declare in a very loud voice

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SHRIEK (noun)
1. sharp piercing cry
2. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
SHRIEK (verb)
1. utter a shrill cry

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

YELL
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More New Yorker Crossword (7/14/2025) Answers

Across

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18. Singer who released the album “Love for Sale” at the age of ninety-five

19. Lifted

21. Faddish nineteen-nineties collectible

22. Carmaker Bugatti

23. Daily in New York or London

28. People with talent?

29. Word with new or blue

30. Diggs of “Rent”

31. Clear

33. Wabbit hunter Fudd

35. Hot spot

36. Some corp. officers

37. Good graces’ opposite

39. “___ clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less”: John Donne

40. Masculine “they,” in French

41. “Et tu, ___?”

42. Literary classics, with “the”

44. Note for TikTok, e.g.

46. Takeout menu possessive

47. Champagne pop?

48. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, or Zeppo, in the seafaring comedy “Monkey Business”

52. What Sigmund Freud called “the hero alike of every day-dream and of every story”

53. House of cards?

54. Steak-house staple

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61. Winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best International Feature Film

62. "___ Como Va"

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Down

1. They could be worse

2. Diagram used to assess correlation

3. Monopoly prohibition

4. Fairy tale ending?

5. Face down

6. Lady bird

7. Felipe VI, e.g.

8. Planet, poetically

9. Enhanced, in a way

10. Lead-in to a backup plan

11. Karaoke encouragement

12. ___ de la Cité

13. Genre qualifier

14. It’s used in much of the Midwest: Abbr.

20. Nonprofit?

23. Author who “seems able to read the minds of different people as certainly as we count the buttons on their coats,” per Virginia Woolf

24. “Rollin’ with My ___” (Coolio song)

25. Theatrical heartthrob, in old slang

26. Avenger’s credo, perhaps

27. Radially symmetrical marine creatures

29. Of whom Hélène Cixous wrote, “She’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing,” in a 1975 feminist manifesto

32. Coastal retreat?

34. Letter of ___ (part of an app)

38. Certain culturati, collectively

43. Mortgage figs.

45. Has as a result of

49. "Encore!"

50. Wolf (down)

51. One with major aspirations, say

54. Opposite of trans

55. Denomination founded in Philadelphia, for short

56. Key used to make an exit

57. Mercedes models

58. Sigh of satisfaction

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