Skirt, as an issue Crossword Clue

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Skirt, as an issue Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
2. declare invalid

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SKIRT (verb)
1. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
2. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
SKIRT (noun)
1. informal terms for a (young) woman
2. (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
ISSUE (noun)
1. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
2. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
ISSUE (verb)
1. circulate or distribute or equip with
2. come out of

More NYT Crossword (10/13/2026) Answers

Across

1. ___ classic ("The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "Pulp Fiction," e.g.)

5. Spongy wetlands

9. Titleholder

14. Engrave

15. Dirt pie ingredient

16. Greek goddesses of the seasons

17. Optional mission in a video game

19. Gradually eat away

20. Selfless sort

21. Shindig for someone to announce whether they're having a boy or a girl

22. Blank clue (22-Across)

23. Lie next to

25. Show on which Tina Fey and Seth Meyers have worked as head writers, in brief

26. Tropical cocktail with bananas, strawberries, rum and coconut cream

31. Go downhill fast

34. Feedbag contents

36. Shindig for someone settling into a new home

37. Blank clue (37-Across)

40. Flips, say

43. Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad"

45. Auction unit

46. Cowboy's kerchief

48. Show stoppers?

51. Goes bad

52. Shindig for someone who's about to tie the knot

56. Blank clue (56-Across)

60. Like a dish of veal or chicken dipped in egg and breadcrumbs, then fried in butter

62. Surfers ride them

63. Lunchroom

64. Wolf in "The Jungle Book"

65. Initials on a map until 1991

66. Shindig for the cast and crew after filming is done … with a hint to entering this answer and three others in the grid

67. Blank clue (67-Across)

68. Boxing stats

69. Jazz singer Sylvia

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Down

1. ___ Millan, celebrity dog trainer

2. Handy

3. High-def flat screen, for short

4. "Ay, ___ the rub"

5. Broth that might come from a dissolved cube

6. Magnetite and bauxite

7. Whole that's greater than the sum of its parts, from the German

8. Barfly

9. Spotted African sprinters

10. Car's honker

11. Longtime Yankee slugger, familiarly

12. Earned

13. Member of a jury

18. Ke Huy ___, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" actor

21. Boss, in Britain

24. Major Iraqi port city

27. Adversary

28. Quiet period

29. Scandinavian capital

30. Toward sunset

31. Mop, as the deck

32. Polynesian brew

33. Smooth out, as a wrinkled shirt

35. Talent broker

38. Mediocre, in modern slang

39. "’Tis entirely likely"

41. Those going along with others' unhealthy habits

44. Item worn with a hazmat suit

47. Negative connector

49. "Curses!"

50. Fibrous connecting tissues

53. Second-largest city in Northern Ireland

54. "Take me ___"

55. Bounds

56. Substitute

57. Ceremonial Maori dance

58. Done

59. Mark left by a whip

61. "Should that be true …"

63. Word before "one's losses" or "both ways"

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