Squash, e.g. Crossword Clue

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Squash, e.g. Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. your occupation or line of work
2. a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
(adjective)
1. willing to face danger
2. disabled in the feet or legs
(verb)
1. place a bet on

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SQUASH (verb)
1. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
SQUASH (noun)
1. a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
2. any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

Hint 3: Anagram

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MAGE

More NYT Crossword (7/26/2025) Answers

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13. Sautéing option with a high smoke point

16. Home, in slang

17. Poisonous plant rumored to have killed the emperor Augustus

18. Word with hot or double

19. Starting to move

20. What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively

22. Dictionaries have many of these: Abbr.

24. Underappreciated

25. Lots and lots

29. Enough!

32. Period coinciding with the growth of the internet

35. Chicken __ king

36. When you're in it, you're in hot water

37. Sch. that's home to the Mountaineers

38. Beast of burden

40. Peeps at

41. 'Come in!'

42. Leans (toward)

44. Alternative to a bow

47. Uppermost limit

48. Has only the best intentions

51. Feature of many a handbag

55. Running, but not moving

56. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan, to an economist

58. Eye of the storm

59. Plays dice with God, so to speak

60. Things on rings

61. Casual hangout

62. Composer Satie

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1. Rum-soaked cake

2. Times to look forward

3. Leave quickly

4. Overshadow

5. Button next to a suggested contact, maybe

6. Quarters

7. Possible indicator of construction ahead

8. Rishi Sunak was the first one to become a British prime minister

9. Play the fool

10. Smarts

11. They separate hands and handlebars

12. Give some immoral support, perhaps?

14. 'This is sooo frustrating'

15. Sprawled out, say

21. Same here

23. Street racer, usually

25. Billing line

26. "Well, as it happens …"

27. Sites of mutations on chromosomes

28. Flummox

30. Denizens of the Great Victoria Desert

31. Go like :O

33. Government policy bigwig

34. ___ Türeci, physician/scientist who co-founded BioNTech

36. Lawn recreation with a portmanteau name

39. Germs of ideas

40. Possible topic for a couples therapist

43. "Get your ___ first and then you can distort them as much as you please": Mark Twain

45. Pop flies?

46. Acceptances

48. Exploit over time

49. Common guacamole ingredient

50. Goes around, in a way

52. Vegan alternative to gelatin

53. ___ Institute, home to the Carl Sagan Center

54. Avenue for early learning, in brief

57. Unspecified term in a sequence

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