Speller’s phrase Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for Speller’s phrase crossword clue, last seen in the New Yorker Crossword March 9, 2026 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Speller’s phrase Crossword Answer

↓51.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. the seventh month of the Hindu calendar

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SPELLER (noun)
1. someone who spells words
2. an introductory textbook to teach spelling
PHRASE (noun)
1. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
2. a short musical passage
PHRASE (verb)
1. put into words or an expression
2. divide, combine, or mark into phrases

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More New Yorker Crossword (3/9/2026) Answers

Across

1. Series opener

6. Cero

10. ___ free (label on some bottles)

13. Polish city where Copernicus was born

14. __ college

17. Ones giving daring, full-throated performances?

19. Shade throwers?

20. Connect with

21. 'The Bear' actress Edebiri

22. Noun that becomes a related verb when an “H” is added to the front

23. Breathing noisily

25. Realized

27. Chess rating system

29. Decree

32. ___ Symphony (orchestra created for Arturo Toscanini that gave weekly radio concerts)

33. Buffoon

34. New York Times book critic who stepped down in 2017, after more than thirty years in the role

38. 'Oh, sure!'

39. Word that might follow you

40. “The Barrel-Organ” poet Alfred

41. Media mogul Turner

42. Enterprise, for example

45. Member of the weasel family

47. Synonym of 12-Down

48. Erykah Badu’s “Didn’t ___ Know”

51. Civil War general Doubleday

52. Events with countdowns

54. Conversation facilitator

57. Cookie cutter?

58. After

59. Gov. Kathy Hochul's domain

60. For two voices

61. The “Life of Pi” character Richard Parker, for one

All Answers

Down

1. Befuddled

2. Humble

3. ___ code

4. Smart

5. Surname associated with a driving passion?

6. Something said to be ushered in

7. “I know what the caged bird feels, ___!”: Paul Laurence Dunbar

8. Word in some Hispanic surnames

9. Focus of a sports-medicine MRI

10. Connector between a house and a garage

11. Official stance

12. Synonym of 47-Across

15. Lugged

16. Booboo

18. Part of a pair of pants

23. League for the L.A. Sparks

24. "Gosh darn it!"

25. Feel compassion for

26. Refiner of pencil sketches, in the comic-book industry

28. "These Arms of Mine" singer Redding

29. Send out

30. Divorce from corporeal existence

31. Choreographed Olympic routines

33. Roof option for a Pontiac Firebird

35. Petruchio’s wife, in “The Taming of the Shrew”

36. Algerian port city

37. Secessionist’s opponent

42. Fender’s signature Eric Clapton guitar, e.g.

43. Home for a pinto or a palomino

44. Happy __

46. Control, with “in”

48. Michael who won the 1989 French Open at the age of seventeen

49. Therefore

50. Flower in a fall bouquet

52. Festivity for some Hawaiian weddings

53. 202, classically

55. Actress Williams who played Wallis Simpson on “The Crown”

56. TV screen choice

All Answers