Sports setback Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
2. military personnel lost by death or capture

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SETBACK (noun)
1. an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating

Hint 3: Anagram

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More Universal Crossword (1/4/2026) Answers

Across

1. Event where one might work the knight shift?

16. Christmas carol that asks "Who wouldn't go?"

17. "Time's a-wasting!"

18. Understand?

19. 500 sheets of paper

20. Vietnamese New Year

21. Like the fish in crudo or poke

22. Watch intently

25. Chutzpah

26. Australian soccer star Sam whose surname is inside "locker room"

27. Continuity issue

29. Not most, but not none

30. Expose everything

32. “To ___ am I speaking?”

33. R&B singer Lennox

34. One side of South America's longest border

35. Attacked

37. 'Tude

39. "The Queen's Gambit" actress Taylor-Joy

40. Go figure!

43. "Bandidas" actress Cruz

44. Think ___ (not respect as much)

50. "Can't Hold Us" rapper

52. Former Egyptian president Sadat

54. Dish such as som tam

55. Process, as ore

56. Abode

57. $25 per hour, possibly

58. "___ an idea ..."

59. Place for a seaweed wrap

60. Dino such as Sue at the Field Museum

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Down

1. Pitmasters' spice blends

2. Blunt-ended fencing sword

3. A B or C but not X Y or Z

4. Little snack for an echidna

5. Do over ... and over ... and over

6. Sharp-toothed, worm-eating critters

7. "Super Monkey Ball" game company

8. [Clears throat]

9. Psych!

10. Magna ___ laude

11. Known by a special few

12. Indiana WNBA team

13. Up to one's old tricks

14. Charged particle

15. “World of Warcraft,” e.g. (abbr.)

21. Fundraiser involving miscellaneous items

22. Become destroyed

23. Palindromic poetic preposition

24. Score delineated by marks

25. Cry after many horrible "Family Feud" guesses

26. Hand-y way to cut wood?

28. Urgent request for help

29. "I should've known better"

30. Angels may circle them

31. Rap article spelled with an "a"

32. Dramatic change

36. Up to, informally

38. ___ Mae (loan company)

41. Snarfing syllable, or French for "name"

42. Tops to crop

45. 'Good thinking!'

46. Of the sun

47. Speak grandiosely

48. UPS rival

51. Hindu god of love and desire

53. NFL players who aren't on the left

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