Smooth-talking Crossword Clue

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Smooth-talking Crossword Answer

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GLIB

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SLICK

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(adjective)
1. having a sophisticated charm
2. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

TALKING (noun)
1. an exchange of ideas via conversation
SMOOTH (adjective)
1. (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
2. (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
SMOOTH (verb)
1. make (a surface) shine
2. make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing
SMOOTH (noun)
1. the act of smoothing

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GLIB
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SLICK
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More New Yorker Crossword (10/28/2024) Answers

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17. Film editors, in old industry parlance

18. Source of potential harm that’s now in nearly everyone’s bloodstream

20. Brief moment

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22. Tavern bill

25. Do for Angela Davis

27. Hawkish nationalist

30. Mens ___

31. Fraternity letters

32. Bit of fall footwear

33. "Showtime!"

35. They might be stressed by typists

36. Prizes awarded to Han Kang and Nihon Hidankyo in 2024

37. Physiques, casually

38. Midwestern summer setting: Abbr.

40. 2022 Best Picture winner

41. “Late Autumn” director Kim ___-yong

42. Pistol, to a hardboiled detective

44. ___ Boot

47. Attractive benefit?

53. Like refusing to provide certain necessary accommodations

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55. “The General” and “The Cheat,” for two

56. AriZona product

57. Conveniences enclosed by letter writers: Abbr.

58. Word with wine or bar

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Down

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4. Regatta leaders

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6. Sends out to viewers

7. French-Belgian river

8. More faithful

9. Students in studios, say

10. Director of “Atlantics,” winner of the 2019 Grand Prix at Cannes

11. Meeting that’s a make-or-break opportunity?

12. Buona __!

14. Cause for a blessing?

15. Wired internet letters

19. Stack of things to burn

22. Late start?

23. Quintet in so-called supervocalic words

24. 1968 Jane Fonda film, which she later said “could have been a feminist movie—and just as sexy”

26. Elizabethan interjection

28. Radner of early “S.N.L.”

29. Buenos Aires-to-Santiago dirección

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32. It shouldn’t be taken

34. Fans and followers

35. Haddock relative

37. ___ War (1899-1902 conflict)

40. Egyptian Christians

43. Some concerns for dermatologists

45. Right hands, maybe

46. Winter Olympics vehicles

47. ___ de deux

48. Ballpark figures?

49. Terse admission

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51. Movie ending?

52. French state

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