Unexpected hit Crossword Clue

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Unexpected hit Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a rester who is sleeping
2. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

UNEXPECTED (adjective)
1. not expected or anticipated
HIT (verb)
1. drive something violently into a location
2. kill intentionally and with premeditation
HIT (noun)
1. a conspicuous success
2. (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together

Hint 3: Anagram

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More WSJ Crossword (6/25/2025) Answers

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19. Mocking words of sympathy

21. Cyclotron particles

22. Oscar night dress

23. Bring in

29. Take out

31. Miss in Mex.

32. Scoring result?

35. Relay segment

36. Alluring trait

39. Brick oven residue

42. Big name in life insurance

43. Freeway entrance

46. They have big shoes to fill

48. Brews from the leaves of rooibos shrubs

51. Roman wrap

52. Slightest trace

54. Otherwise

55. Brown v. Board of Education, for one

59. Have exactly the wrong effect, and what 17-, 19-, 36- and 55-Across all have

62. Come a little closer

63. “Me, me, me” trait

64. Comparable

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66. Original content creator?

67. Hi-___ images

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Down

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2. Updates, as a factory

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5. 1,000 times giga-

6. Hardly lenient

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26. Knob for string tension

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30. Virtual greeting

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47. Go on strike

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50. Handled

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53. Comet’s appearance, perhaps

56. Way out there

57. Parent company of Converse

58. Makeup of underwater forests

59. Seek a treat, maybe

60. In the past

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