Small inheritance? Crossword Clue

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GENES

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(noun)
1. (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity

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INHERITANCE (noun)
1. any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
2. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
SMALL (adjective)
1. not large but sufficient in size or amount
2. lowercase
SMALL (noun)
1. a garment size for a small person
2. the slender part of the back

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GENES
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More New Yorker Crossword (4/13/2026) Answers

Across

1. Serving of gumbo or gazpacho

9. Dish cooked in a large pan

15. Shaped like an eagle’s beak

16. Napoleon’s relative

17. Encounters

18. Company for which Jessye Norman débuted as Cassandra in “Les Troyens,” in 1983

19. Polymath from Königsberg

20. Buckle

22. Not even worth discussing

23. Weapon depicted in Manet’s “Child with Sword, Turned to the Left”

25. “Andor” actor Diego —

27. Air

30. Gut reaction?

31. Still cold, maybe

34. High schoolers often put them on

36. “O patria mia” singer

37. Straitlaced middle manager?

39. Lead-in to -phobia or ‑polis

40. Latecomer’s admission

41. ___-haw

42. Aware of

43. Most-wanted groups

44. Get the ball rolling, in a way

45. “Ugh, seriously!?”

46. Character flaws?

49. ___ Spring

55. Peppers with zingers

57. Make a mess

59. Goes along

60. Remain dry?

61. French physicist and chemist Curie

62. Subj. of the Seventeenth Amendment

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Down

1. “The ___ Ascending” (idyllic Ralph Vaughan Williams composition)

2. Water color

3. Brooks’s singing partner

4. Heeds

5. "The Misfits" actor Wallach

6. Personal impression?

7. Loosen

8. Byzantine emperor with a seven-year reign

9. Dino, to the Flintstone family

10. Strained, maybe

11. “___ of Avalor” (Disney series)

12. Monastery figure

13. House-sale complication

14. Contents of the Museo del Prado

21. Brooklyn-born comedian Boosler

24. Cuban currency

26. Breaks, as a code

27. Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean

28. Pulitzer-winning author Walker

29. Mother-of-pearl

30. Conductor Järvi

31. Small hills

32. Capable

33. Penn and del Toro’s “21 Grams” co-star

35. Sinatra’s portrayer in the 1998 TV movie “The Rat Pack”

36. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier site

38. City whose Frogner Park is home to more than two hundred sculptures by Gustav Vigeland

42. Expulsion

44. Wannabe

45. Promontories

46. Capture

47. Ranger Smith’s foil, in cartoons

48. Cut

50. Tetrad after “Q”

52. Bluesy James

53. Fun

54. “House of Frankenstein” director ___ C. Kenton

56. Dallas-to-Houston dir.

58. Took courses from a chef?

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