Trade gibes or jabs Crossword Clue

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Trade gibes or jabs Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
2. any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
(verb)
1. box lightly
2. fight verbally

Hint 2: Clue Definition

TRADE (verb)
1. engage in the trade of
2. turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
TRADE (noun)
1. an equal exchange
2. steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator

Hint 3: Anagram

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PARS

More WSJ Crossword (10/23/2025) Answers

Across

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9. Quartet with an acronymic name

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15. Its highest point is Huascarán

16. Apt to spill the beans

17. Song character who “waits at the window”

19. Novak Djokovic, e.g.

20. Sophocles tragedy

21. Strapping

23. Saw things?

25. Deborah’s co-star in 1956’s “The King and I”

26. 1982 film with 2010 and 2025 sequels

28. Outfield material

30. Pulitzer-winning Ferber novel

34. Bridge need

36. B.B. King’s first Top 40 hit

38. Dominate, in sports slang

39. Prenatal test, familiarly

41. High return

42. Entertainer who was 25% owner of the Pirates for 30 years

45. Move into position

48. Couturier’s specialty

49. Diminish

51. Game with armies

52. Hollywood's Lupino

54. Canada’s westernmost territory

56. Tick off

59. Drugstore chain that closed its last store in 2025

63. Socially inept

64. Visiting, and a hint to what we’re doing in five Across answers

67. Parting tool

68. Somber wind

69. Married name of Maria Sklodowska

70. Be sickeningly sweet

71. Overflowing

72. Get rid of

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Down

1. Sister brand of Slush Puppie

2. High pitch, e.g.

3. Duel tool

4. Caterpillar product

5. Herring kin

6. Apiece

7. Eddington director Aster

8. Sport in which a try scores five points

9. Son of King David who sought to overthrow him

10. Squandered, as a lead

11. Stock holder

12. Elliott of “The Bear”

14. Objective

18. Assay target

22. Twice-baked bread

24. “The Way It Is” singer Bruce

26. Namely

27. Like an undercooked egg

29. 2009 hit for Luke Bryan

31. Time-tellers at sea

32. Apple laptop nicknamed “Clamshell”

33. Hoffmann of “Transparent”

34. Watch chains

35. Laugh sound

37. Fish stick fish

40. Bartender voiced by Hank Azaria

43. Elapse smoothly

44. Hand over

46. Steamy

47. Pesto bit

50. Strength-training exercise

53. Disney+ series set in the “Star Wars” universe

55. Currency of Laos

56. End of the 17th century, on a cornerstone

57. Missing at roll call, maybe

58. Work an expo booth

60. Rural prefix

61. Symbol of Thoth

62. Salon stock

65. Stat for Staub

66. “Oh, that musta hurt!”

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