Start of a request Crossword Clue

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START (verb)
1. get off the ground
2. bulge outward
START (noun)
1. the time at which something is supposed to begin
2. a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
REQUEST (verb)
1. express the need or desire for
2. ask (a person) to do something
REQUEST (noun)
1. the verbal act of requesting
2. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

More New Yorker Crossword (1/12/2026) Answers

Across

1. Manipulate with exorbitant displays of affection

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14. Test-taker

16. Arabesque relative

17. "Shucks!"

18. Inveigh (against)

19. Release to a limited audience

21. Cage onscreen, casually

22. Chest bump?

23. Prague’s kingdom, under the Holy Roman Empire

24. Ballot rosters

26. Where Frank O’Hara worked the front desk before becoming an associate curator, familiarly

27. Myrmecologist’s focus

28. Twerp

29. It’s often screwed up

30. Honorific in Hyderabad

31. Subject of discussion on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, say

34. Some corp. officers

36. Sierra Nevada offerings

37. Successor

40. Sony competitor

41. Matching tops and bottoms, e.g.

42. Like some hair extensions

44. Unbelievable!

46. Substance whose changeability Descartes cites as evidence that the nature of things can’t be understood through the senses alone

47. Big bother

48. Geopolitical backdrop in “1984”

50. Thunderstruck band

51. Follows

52. Showcase for Marian Anderson or Kathleen Ferrier

54. Neo-Impressionist painter fictionalized in a Sondheim musical

55. “The Black Jacobins” author, whom Edward Said called a “restless pilgrim between the West and its former colonial possessions in Africa and America”

56. Writing wrongs?

57. Disregards, in a way

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Down

1. Picks up

2. Main ingredients in a Jamaican stew

3. [___ City (place where A.T.M.s offer instructions in Latin)

4. Jannings who won the first Academy Award for Best Actor

5. One-eighth of a byte

6. Crosses to bear

7. Bordeaux wine region

8. Food eschewed by pollotarians

9. Reaction to a crack

10. Excessive

11. Neighbor of Thailand

12. Mushroom also called a penny bun

13. Item of beachwear

15. Capital city east of the Maldives

20. Letter-shaped fasteners

22. Best of the Beatles

25. ___ of Maine (health-store brand)

26. Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory

29. Patti LuPone, for one

30. Twist

32. Actress who once said, “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted”

33. Party mix cereal

34. Startup funding, colloquially

35. Couples (with)

38. Like the protagonists of “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” and “28 Days Later,” at first

39. Sphinx’s domain

40. Most widespread

41. File menu option

42. Philosopher who wrote the preface to Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth”

43. Free

45. Field for brainiacs, briefly?

46. 2008 animated movie that depicts “the broken promise of American life,” per the American Film Institute

49. Noncombatant mil. members who began serving in the forties (and a homophone of 46-Across)

50. With urgency

53. Some brunch bevs

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