Something to use on your break? Crossword Clue

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Something to use on your break? Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a stimulus that provides information about what to do
2. evidence that helps to solve a problem
(verb)
1. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SOMETHING (noun)
1. An indeterminate or unknown event.
2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified.
BREAK (noun)
1. (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
2. breaking of hard tissue such as bone
BREAK (verb)
1. enter someone’s (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
2. be released or become known; of news

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (1/25/2026) Answers

Across

1. Baggage accessory

6. Apple TV comedy that received 20 Emmy nominations for its first season

14. In which baby spiders develop

20. Home of Diego Velázquez's "Las Meninas"

21. "I want to hear about that!"

22. Makeshift replacement for a Kleenex

23. "That cabinet with plates looks awfully full"

25. Triangular Sail

26. Food court pizzeria

27. Some M.I.T. grads, for short

28. Resort amenity

30. Bob who hosted "America's Funniest Home Videos"

31. A noble gas

33. It's good for the long haul

36. Sphere of creativity

38. Private investigator, informally

41. Cheese in a wax coating

43. "It's saying you completed the marathon in under two hours, which can't be right"

45. Persian Gulf nation

47. Sneaker brand that popularized cantilever heels

49. Mix up

50. Actress Edebiri of The Bear

51. "Is that a cough I hear?"

54. Event for V.I.P. customers

58. The planets in our solar system, e.g.

59. Sci-fi princess

60. Stretchy material

62. Freight barge

63. Not fantastical

65. La Città Eterna

67. Haunted house sound

70. "Sorry, we'll have to put the old panes back in"

75. GROU(P) OF HUM(P)BACKS

76. ___ Bora (embattled Afghan region)

77. Tel __

78. Designer Saint Laurent

79. Little bits of energy

81. New Zealanders, familiarly

84. Color of undyed linen

86. Course that doesn’t require much studying

89. "Gimme, gimme!"

91. "Those pancakes are piled way too high!"

94. Boxy transport

95. Part of a bouquet, in Bogotá

96. Like close-fitting clothes

97. It's just under a foot

98. "Your emery board will never fit in this tiny toiletry bag"

103. Undesirable roommate

105. Word found in all but four state constitutions, but not the U.S. Constitution

106. Part of M.O.

107. Symbol of transformation in "The Silence of the Lambs"

109. Isn't feeling great

111. Large flightless birds

112. National Poetry mo.

114. "That ship ___ sailed"

116. Beverage brewed outside using natural heat

120. __ beef

122. "Your waiter's nowhere to be seen!"

126. Passes

127. Chips may go into it

128. Jane who received a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

129. Have no stomach for

130. Doesn't care for

131. Unexpected jerk

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Down

1. Major N.Y.S.E. events

2. Beat handily

3. "See ya later!"

4. Deck out

5. Walk

6. Cable co. that was purchased by AT&T in 1999

7. What __?

8. William, Edward and Harry, e.g.

9. To a ___ degree

10. Stage booster

11. Domain for salty dogs

12. Urges to attack, with "on"

13. What this hand has: AAKQ6

14. Fluency-building subj.

15. Prosthetic facial feature of Peter Falk

16. Convey

17. Pete who co-wrote "If I Had a Hammer"

18. Skin care company

19. Football snapper

24. Thingamabob

29. Either side of a cheerleader's "A"

32. Kind of orange

34. It's not optional

35. Silicon Valley giant

37. Easily detached

38. Pioneering DVR brand

39. George Orwell's first name at birth

40. Purchase for the Atari 2600

42. One cutting corners

44. Neat

46. One of Adolf Anderssen's sacrifices in the "Immortal Game" against Lionel Kieseritzky

48. "Trade discount" quintet

52. German for "city"

53. Something to pitch

54. Univ. worker

55. Site-seeing list?

56. Forte

57. Animal whose name sounds like a pronoun

61. V-shaped designs

64. Visit, as for a safety check

66. Mathematician Lovelace

68. Human organ with the ability to regenerate itself

70. Frayed

71. Court order

72. With, in Oise

73. Exam marks

74. N.H.L. team with the longest Stanley Cup drought, familiarly

75. Smallest Canadian prov.

80. Canning package?

82. Mallorca por ejemplo

83. Reason for turbulence

85. Anatomical appendage that only humans and gorillas have

87. Modern "seize the day"

88. Stunned

90. Computer model inputs

92. Ship that transported the Golden Fleece

93. Hardly a team player?

95. Betrays, in a way

98. Like an unnatural smile

99. Tech debut of 2007

100. Examine creepily

101. ___ Mae Brown (Whoopi's role in "Ghost")

102. World's most-produced organic compound

104. Puts up a false front

108. Property of curium, but not cerium

110. Eavesdrop, e.g.

113. Surrealist Magritte

115. Fit of irritation

117. Fish in niçoise salad

118. Cuts off

119. Actor Brody of "The O.C."

121. "Spring forward" hrs.

123. Illegally interfere with, as an election

124. Remote abbr.

125. Special ___

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