Symbol of authority Crossword Clue

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THEMAN

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(noun)
1. an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.)
2. any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank)
(verb)
1. put a badge on

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

AUTHORITY (noun)
1. official permission or approval
2. an administrative unit of government
SYMBOL (noun)
1. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
2. an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

THEMAN
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (10/30/2025) Answers

Across

1. Place for a pencil sharpener

5. Argentine plain

10. Prayer leader

14. Droves

15. Disney princess who longs to be "part of that world"

16. Come to

17. Either acting sibling Andrew or Elisabeth

18. What pulls out all the stops?

19. Food generally known outside the U.S. as "lady's fingers"

20. Start illegally, say

22. What every baseball inning starts with

24. "Kind of" suffix

25. Shore up the ranks

27. Little pest

28. Animal with a white rump

30. Highlands hat

31. Epitome of simplicity

33. Binge

35. "I'll ___ you!"

36. Pop-pop

39. Country sharing the world's longest international border

41. Showed great pride, in a way

42. Desirable Vegas couple?

43. Lake in the homeland of the Washoe people

47. ___ Blaster (toy)

48. Inconsequential

49. Journeys by foot

50. Ones eliciting knee-jerk reactions, informally?

51. Exemplar

53. Having a strong sense of direction?

57. Likely oriented toward platonic relationships, in brief

58. Members of the dolphin family that prey on dolphins

63. Like a revving engine

64. Skater Midori

65. Words after "ding, ding, ding"

66. With 68-Across, "Wicked" song suggested by the answers to the seven starred clues (and whose singer is spelled by the circled letters reading from left to right)

68. See 66-Across

70. Bronzed

71. Not just yet

72. Abjures

73. Target of urban renewal, say

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Down

1. Soup stock in Japanese cuisine

2. The ones over there

3. Washington, Jefferson or Madison

4. Already heard, say

5. *One selling commercial time, informally

6. Takes in

7. The Marlins, on scoreboards

8. Lewis Carroll or George Orwell

9. *It's used to scrub in the tub

10. Jubilant postgame report

11. Show up unannounced?

12. *Some Scandinavian money

13. Indicated

21. Irritated

23. Old enough

26. Symbol for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius

29. *Stand before a meeting

32. *Genre for Aretha Franklin or Usher

33. One might start "Your Social Security number has been compromised"

34. Rate

37. Chicago exchange, for short

38. Certain attachments

40. Flour used in Indian flatbreads

41. Kiss in a telenovela

44. Calls to court

45. *Your home

46. Voice command to an Android device

51. Fools gold

52. Write, as music

54. Small dessert sandwiches

55. Left of center?

56. Get ready to have one's tonsils checked, perhaps

59. Wanders

60. World capital on the world's longest river

61. Family name with an eponymous Row, Court, Place and Avenue in New York City

62. Composer Jule

67. Slangy refusal

69. Fish also known as a batomorph

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