Simple math problems Crossword Clue

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Simple math problems Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SIMPLE (adjective)
1. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
2. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
SIMPLE (noun)
1. a person lacking intelligence or common sense
2. any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
MATH (noun)
1. a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

Hint 2: Anagram

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MUSS

More NYT Easy Mode Crossword (9/18/2026) Answers

Across

1. Comment on a sweltering day

7. Transitioned conversationally (into)

13. One might be scanned to see a menu, in brief

14. In a manner of speaking

15. Feel intense anger, idiomatically

16. Insects named for the month in which they're the most active

17. Comes to a close

18. River-blocking structures

19. Folk singer Guthrie

20. ___ Young, N.B.A. star whose first name is found in "extra effort"

21. Apple computers

22. How checks must be signed

23. Love is in the ___!

24. Covering that is papery on birch trees

25. Grp. for Arnold Palmer and Rory McIlroy

26. Organization with the motto "Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet"

30. Heroic football defense when one's opponents are on the verge of a touchdown

32. Outcome of a boxing match when the judges disagree

34. Apt name for a socialite?

35. Olympic figure skater Nathan

36. Sky safety org.

37. Black-and-white ocean predators

40. Enemies

41. Fast food restaurants with buckets of poultry

42. Featherlike plant that reproduces with spores

43. Northern ___ (freshwater fish)

44. Unlimited thing included in many cellphone plans

45. Individually, at a restaurant

47. Challenge after "You think I'm chicken?!"

49. Shade-providing structures that might be octagonal

50. "Gimme a moment"

51. Gave a once-over

52. Playground retort

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Down

1. Numbers included in a Mensa application

2. One of the concentric circles indicating the yearly growth of an oak, e.g.

3. Potential situations

4. Large crowd

5. Poems of praise

6. TV's "___ Lasso"

7. Roughly half of babies, to their parents

8. Summer, in French

9. Flip out

10. Take inappropriately, as a throne

11. National bird for the U.S. and Mexico

12. Big name in vacuums and hair dryers

16. Two-ingredient cocktail with Tennessee whiskey

18. "Shucks!"

20. Letter after sigma

21. Story where you might need to fill in the blanks with adjectives and nouns

22. Excited cry after hearing back from college admissions

24. Real beauties

25. Zodiac sign after Aquarius

27. Did some snazzy toe-clicking moves

28. Giggle syllables

29. What you might perform to see if milk is fresh

31. Appear briefly on film, as Stan Lee or Alfred Hitchcock

33. Lil ___ X

37. No longer a minor

38. Race with batons

39. Viral trend, say

40. 'If the shoe ___ . . .'

41. Drumming Carpenter in the Carpenters

43. Yorick's skull in "Hamlet" or the handkerchief in "Othello"

44. Carvey of "S.N.L."

46. Aladdin's monkey companion

47. What's up __?

48. Prefix with friendly or tourist

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