Start of many band names Crossword Clue

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Start of many band names Crossword Answer

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(definite article)
1. A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
(adverb)
1. By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; used before comparatives.

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MANY (adjective)
1. a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as’ or `too’ or `so’ or `that’; amounting to a large but indefinite number
NAMES (noun)
1. verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

Hint 3: Anagram

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More WSJ Crossword (2/12/2026) Answers

Across

1. Later

5. Sharp cry

9. Battery components

14. "The Time Machine" people

15. Sweet treat since 1912

16. Foppish accessory

17. *Be romantically involved with

19. Knightley of "Atonement"

20. Greatly hinders

23. Bass part

24. It’s opposite the ballroom on a Clue board

25. *Get over a bad habit

27. 'Hear, hear!'

29. Whirlpool subsidiary

30. *Tilt, like a plane

33. Skeletal pair

37. End of a dean’s address

38. Unsure utterances

39. He wears very little clothing

40. Sched. placeholder

41. Six-pointer from a QB

43. Wallop

45. Feels for

47. Stable particles?

48. *Through, as a relationship

51. Chews, in slang

53. Woman in la familia

54. Pre-album albums, for short

55. Light punch

58. Colonel in a 1960s sitcom

60. Good deal, like the answers to the starred clues

62. Lawn sign verb

63. Art Deco artist

64. Company whose work is picking up

65. Hard-to-find game cards, in collector's lingo

66. Hindu funeral structure

67. Terrarium creature

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Down

1. Apple field

2. Potatoes in Indian cuisine

3. “Grow a spine!”

4. Dive shop buy

5. Tyrolean trill

6. Times worth naming

7. Service call?

8. Burns books, e.g.

9. Go to great lengths

10. Jargon suffix

11. FX-heavy genre

12. Like bagels

13. Played pitifully

18. “___ It Happens to You” (Lady Gaga song)

22. Juicy gossip, slangily

25. Lentil dish

26. “The Americans” org.

27. Look out for, perhaps

28. Anti-DUI org.

29. Org. with Fire and Earthquakes

31. Some hospital workers

32. "You're embarrassing me!"

34. “There’s no alternative explanation!”

35. Kinda

36. H.S. exams since 1926

39. Autobahn units: Abbr.

42. Boston Marathon mo.

43. Bishop’s base

44. Dinger

46. Like a good marching band

48. Different

49. "Twelfth Night" heroine

50. Motivated

51. Credit card incentive

52. Lacto-__-vegetarian

55. 2000s film trilogy, familiarly

56. Fresh

57. Fresh

59. True Value rival

61. Ironic

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