Theater backdrop Crossword Clue

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Theater backdrop Crossword Answer

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SETS

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SCRIM

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(noun)
1. an unofficial association of people or groups
2. several exercises intended to be done in series
(verb)
1. get ready for a particular purpose or event
2. disappear beyond the horizon
(adjective)
1. set down according to a plan
2. (usually followed by `to’ or `for’) on the point of or strongly disposed

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BACKDROP (noun)
1. scenery hung at back of stage
THEATER (noun)
1. the art of writing and producing plays
2. a region in which active military operations are in progress

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

SETS
(4 letters)
SCRIM
(5 letters)

More NYT Easy Mode Crossword (7/24/2026) Answers

Across

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15. Chocolaty cookies with "stuf" in the middle

16. Like albums on which you can hear the crowd cheering

17. Painters making counterfeit Cassatts or sham Chagalls

19. Tech review site

20. Red sphere with a hole for your real schnozz

21. "Doe, a ___, a female ___!"

22. French wine cocktail

23. Relative of "lo-fat"

24. Color of royalty and eggplants

26. Beat the other team

27. 'However . . .'

28. ___ Howard, "Apollo 13" director

29. Streaming a whole season in one sitting, say

33. "OK, so, I gotta say …"

34. "No one has time to worry about that!"

35. What was ___ do?

36. Many a food drive donation

37. St. crosser

38. Place to get a drink on a train

40. Boarding pass info that could potentially change

42. Org. for roadside help

45. Line up the side of a skirt

46. People who might geek out about etymology or syntax

48. Foul mood

49. Red-skinned tropical fruit that's completely unrelated to the orange tropical fruit found at the beginning of its name

50. State of intense anger

51. You don't have to tell me!

52. Word after 'fairy' or 'folk'

53. Frankenstein assistant whose name is sometimes spelled with a Y

54. Country singer Rimes

55. Person downloading an app

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Down

1. Sound of a kiss or a slap

2. ___ Lloyd, icon who scored a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final

3. Broadway or Hollywood star

4. Letters on an email you shouldn't open in the office

5. Big name in veggie burgers

6. Jargon

7. Farm birds sometimes confused with ducks

8. What Oliver Twist famously asks for

9. Donkey

10. Canker sore, e.g.

11. Important thing to read when you're signing a contract

12. Excessively drawn out

18. Fake shopping site or phishing email, e.g.

21. Thick-walled cast iron pots

24. Drop it!

25. The "E" of E.S.L.: Abbr.

26. What an informant might secretly wear

27. Modern sweeties

29. "Oh, one final thing …"

30. British boarding school attended by Prince William and Prince Harry

31. "What person do you mean?"

32. Bring on staff

33. Ran into one minor issue

34. Abbreviation in equal rights movements

39. Handle the food for a party, say

40. "I'm ___ tell Mom!!"

41. Most abundant noble gas on Earth

42. Regions

43. One-named "Rolling in the Deep" singer

44. Ed who plays Santa in Elf

46. Stop sleeping

47. "Even you!?," to Julius Caesar

48. ___ Lanka

49. End of a soldier's email address

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