Sink-or-swim competition? Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

COMPETITION (noun)
1. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
2. the contestant you hope to defeat
SINK (verb)
1. fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
2. appear to move downward
SINK (noun)
1. a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
2. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

More NYT Crossword (4/28/2026) Answers

Across

1. Sore

5. Nail polish brand

8. Some cantina fare

13. "Hip hip hooray!," e.g.

17. Handles a few unresolved issues

19. Like tears

20. Site to build on

21. Gossip, slangily

22. Build on

24. Welcome at the door, say

27. Linguist's concern

30. Serious in manner

31. Bagel topping

32. Not perfect, but acceptable

36. Bickering

38. Blade that's pulled

39. Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin

40. Station set up in a kitchen

45. Bit of intel

46. Coins of Cuba

47. Ingredients in some tropical smoothies

49. Foreign Service assignments

50. Madrid mister

51. Church seat

52. Promise to pay

54. Journalist, informally

58. Like children, ideally, in an old adage … or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across

62. Rigorous

63. Astronomer Carl

64. Irritable

65. [As written]

66. Civil rights activist Parks

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Down

1. Play parts

2. Kind of seed or pet

3. Sometimes-raised part of a shoe

4. Emphatic confirmation

5. Nocturnal hooter

6. Painter Veronese

7. Langston Hughes Poem

8. ''Due'' + 1

9. Mimic

10. Script supervisor's concern

11. __ days

12. Slugger Sammy

14. "Raising Hell" rap trio

16. Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project)

18. Part of a piano or loom

23. Boots on the ground

25. Rep.’s counterpart

26. Ray of McDonald's

27. Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally

28. Naan alternative

29. Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II

30. Mexican wrap

33. Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail

34. Greek goddess of the Earth.

35. Brewing need

37. They help you drive farther

41. Ballpark fig

42. Snooping (around)

43. "___ thou not minister to a mind diseased …?": Macbeth

44. Significant periods

48. Overdue debt

49. Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney

50. Islam’s largest branch

51. Alternative to a tap on the shoulder

53. Works of praise

55. Othello villain

56. Some supports

57. ___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking"

59. Minor complaint

60. Unspecified amount

61. Not Rx

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