Silver back? Crossword Clue

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Silver back? Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. spend extravagantly
(noun)
1. commodities offered for sale
2. articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware’, `software’

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SILVER (noun)
1. silverware eating utensils
2. a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition
SILVER (adjective)
1. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
2. of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver
SILVER (verb)
1. coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam
2. make silver in color
BACK (noun)
1. a support that you can lean against while sitting
2. the side that goes last or is not normally seen
BACK (verb)
1. give support or one’s approval to
2. establish as valid or genuine
BACK (adverb)
1. in or to or toward a past time
2. at or to or toward the back or rear
BACK (adjective)
1. located at or near the back of an animal
2. of an earlier date

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More New Yorker Crossword (5/26/2025) Answers

Across

1. Mustachioed figure in many Picasso paintings

10. Discipline used in clinical-trial design

14. Covertly

15. Locale of Umbria’s Temple of Minerva

16. Parent of Phobos

17. Antiquity, to poets

19. Oaxaca hundred

20. Hungers

22. Call from home?

23. Queen ___ lace (plant also known as wild carrot)

25. Peas' keeper

26. Source of some prosciutto

27. Montreal’s Place ___ Arts

28. ___ Mountains (range whose highest peak is Mount Narodnaya)

30. Went for a drive?

31. Typed one’s name into a form, perhaps

33. Arrangements of seven

34. Red dwarfs, scientifically speaking

35. Pack, as espresso grounds

36. Pass letters

37. Henry’s project, in “Pygmalion”

38. Carl Maria von Weber’s “___ Freischütz”

39. BP gas-station brand

41. Scholar Vaidhyanathan who wrote “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy”

42. Runs into

44. “In Principio ___ Verbum” (Hindemith motet)

45. Chemical suffix indicating a carbon-carbon double bond

46. Escape slowly, with “out”

47. Watches for

49. Pseudonymous author who wrote, “Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity”

52. Buttonwoods, by another name

53. Met habitué

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1. “Zero Day” actor Matthew

2. Functions

3. Deprive (of)

4. “Shifting Gears” actress Dennings

5. Fuel option

6. Like a wedding cake or a wedding dress

7. “Ginger Pye” author Eleanor

8. Some J.F.K. guesses

9. Tease

10. They’re used to make work calls

11. Without caring about how others feel

12. Presumptive winner

13. Forgoes a prescribed course of action?

15. Talk in class?

18. They have no bars

21. One might be kept in a folding case

22. It can be used to preserve food

24. Jazz composer who claimed to have been born on Saturn

26. “Big ___” (Notorious B.I.G. song)

29. Thing, in legal terms

30. Aquamarine, for one

32. Khan Younis’s territory

33. Symbol on the Irish Presidential seal

35. Painting medium used in Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”

38. Needing

40. More ignoble

42. Abraham who served as mayor of New York in the seventies

43. “Madonna of the Harpies” painter Andrea del ___

46. Breeze

50. Earth-friendly, informally

51. Gas-pump spec

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