Slow on the uptake Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for Slow on the uptake crossword clue, last seen in the NYT Crossword August 25, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Slow on the uptake Crossword Answer

→67.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

OBTUSE

(6 letters)

THICKWITTED

(11 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. hard to pass through because of dense growth
2. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

UPTAKE (noun)
1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
2. a process of taking up or using up or consuming
SLOW (verb)
1. cause to proceed more slowly
2. become slow or slower
SLOW (adverb)
1. of timepieces
2. without speed (`slow’ is sometimes used informally for `slowly’)
SLOW (adjective)
1. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
2. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

OBTUSE
(6 letters)
THICKWITTED
(11 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (8/25/2025) Answers

Across

1. Trendy

4. Remove as pencil marks

9. Goes past 21 in blackjack

14. Commotion

15. "___ Mia!" (2008 film)

16. How ballerinas perform

17. Fish commonly caught in the Upper Midwest

19. Squandered, as a big lead

20. Now and __

21. Goof

22. Spooks

23. Arrange numerically, perhaps

24. Player protecting a QB's blind side, often

26. Cafeteria carrier

28. Despise

29. Follows orders

31. Second-largest island in Hawaii

33. Govt.-issued identifiers

37. Saudi Arabian export

38. Household chore traditionally done on Mondays

41. Dessert often filled with fruit

42. Spanish greeting

44. Certain arm muscles, for short

45. Make into law

47. The Lion King lion

49. Word after root or draft

50. Salesperson making unsolicited phone contact

55. Banned substances in sports, for short

58. Tips off

59. Kitchenware brand

60. Focus of J. Robert Oppenheimer

61. YouTube medium

62. At stake ... or where you may find 17-, 24-, 38- and 50-Across

64. Water brand whose natural spring was discovered by a French nobleman

65. Many a summer TV airing

66. Modern vaccine component

68. Boasts

69. Unit of corn

All Answers

Down

1. Stops

2. State whose panhandle touches British Columbia

3. A smile, perhaps

4. Ambulance worker, for short

5. Only once in a while

6. Love, in Italy

7. Blue creature of kids' movies

8. Put away, as dinner

9. Ohio University athlete

10. Loosens, as a shoe

11. Baby deliverer, in folklore

12. Dry (off)

13. Have a feeling

18. ___-level job

22. Part of a flight

25. Sounds of heavy things hitting the ground

27. Silent way to communicate, in brief

29. "___-la-la"

30. Science class, for short

31. Many a public artwork

32. Singer DiFranco

34. Fifth wheel?

35. Actor Cage, informally

36. Part of a tennis match

39. Mythological Titan who bore the weight of the heavens on his shoulders

40. ___-haw

43. San __ Fault

46. Country holding one side of Mount Everest

48. Start of a play

49. Greeting between buddies

50. Capitulated in negotiations

51. Shade of green

52. Opposite of ushered out

53. Unsociable type

54. When repeated, an old newsboy's cry

56. Prima ___

57. Mascara mishap

62. Sphere

63. Nav. rank

All Answers