Tell tale item Crossword Clue

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Tell tale item Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a mark to indicate a direction or relation
2. a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

TELL (verb)
1. give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
2. give evidence
TELL (noun)
1. a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son’s head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
TALE (noun)
1. a trivial lie
2. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

More WSJ Crossword (11/12/2025) Answers

Across

1. Tops

5. Cabo setting

9. Weisshorn, Matterhorn and Breithorn, e.g.

13. Damage control, say

14. Tequila plant

16. Contemptible creep

17. Email app folder

18. Dotty character?

20. Give a shot

23. Night vision?

25. Singh in the World Golf Hall of Fame

29. Road rescue

30. School near Sunset Blvd.

31. Piazza treat

32. Before, poetically

34. Bear in the sky

36. Park paddler

37. Month between avril and juin

38. Cartography collection

39. Strange

40. Cops, colloquially

41. In need of charging

42. Time off, for short

43. Tears of Joy and Flexed Biceps, e.g.

45. After the bell

47. Word with black, psy and photo

50. Carrier in “Catch Me If You Can”

51. In a difficult position

53. Inferior

55. Go by

56. "Forget what I just said"

60. “Mary Poppins” prop

61. Much of the Earth's core

62. Brand whose website claims “every product is sheep approved”

63. Geraint’s love, in Arthurian legend

64. Hitching hope

65. Regrets

66. Some LAPD figures

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Down

1. Any of over 11,000 for LeBron James

2. Accepting of, as new ideas

3. Shuriken, e.g.

4. Reply to rapping

5. Second avenue on a Monopoly board

6. In the past

7. Indias first prime minister

8. Head off

9. WNBA great and author of 2024’s “Dear Black Girls”

10. Guitarist Paul

11. Historic start?

12. Go for a run, perhaps

15. Misspeak

19. Pirate's place

21. This is not a helpful example (or is it?)

24. Muscle targeted by squats

26. Spectacular, or a feature of four long Down answers

27. Somewhat

28. Over there quaintly

31. Fastball, in baseball lingo

33. Dry Spanish export

35. Camp David Accords figure

37. Cultural institution on 53rd St.

38. Features of streamers’ cheaper tiers

40. Verve

42. Film unit

44. Reassuring words after a fall

46. Angle symbols, in trig

48. Sticky note

49. Knights' mounts

51. Economist Emily

52. Sushi bar sips

54. Hi-___ graphics

56. Polite address

57. Half of hex-

58. Retinal cell

59. Processed food

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