Unexpected roadblock Crossword Clue

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Unexpected roadblock Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an unforeseen obstacle
2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
(verb)
1. catch on a snag
2. get by acting quickly and smartly

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ROADBLOCK (noun)
1. a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
2. any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
UNEXPECTED (adjective)
1. not expected or anticipated

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More New Yorker Crossword (8/25/2025) Answers

Across

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5. Alternatives to overhead lighting

10. Stat!

14. World capital situated on a fjord

15. Architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid

16. Unleavened Indian flatbread

17. Material for some delicate scarves

18. Like soy milk or cashew cheese

19. Ink stain

20. Arabic term of endearment

22. Dark and depressing

24. Winding tales

26. Suck down some soup, say

27. Co. behind the Watson supercomputer

29. Sets on fire

31. Tear

34. Noncommittal R.S.V.P.

36. Knives Out actress de Armas

37. ___ were the days!

39. Ish

40. In-your-face, informally

42. Letting a sliver of light through, say

43. Like many high-ceilinged New York apartments

45. “Whatever you want, just say the word”

47. Fish in a caterpillar roll

48. One raising capital for a startup

52. The N.C.A.A.’s Golden Bears, familiarly

53. Government org. created to support basic research

54. Most optimistic

55. “Love is my sin, and ___ dear virtue hate”: Shakespeare

56. Christmas movie starring Macaulay Culkin as a kid who foils two burglars unassisted

58. “___ of nothing . . .”

61. Inch, vis-à-vis a foot

65. Ample

66. Ego who plays Lisa from Temecula on “S.N.L.”

67. Like cliff faces

68. Onesie fasteners

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Down

1. Have a light bite

2. Landmass on one side of the Bering Strait

3. No. 2 hit for Céline Dion that begins, “When I was young / I never needed anyone”

4. Major mobile company of the pre-smartphone era

5. With 9-Down, Queen Latifah sitcom from the nineties about a group of unpartnered friends

6. Protestant denomination founded by the freedman Richard Allen: Abbr.

7. Fuel-efficiency inits.

8. Thing in a pod

9. See 5-Down

10. Ann __ Michigan

11. Venture undertaken after leaving the band . . . or an apt description of each of the works with italicized clues

12. Component of a molecule

13. "So sad"

21. Baguette spread, perhaps

23. Strong desire

26. Word before crossed or studded

27. "Pass it to me!"

28. Handrails in ballet studios

30. End of a gerund

32. Bible book before Jeremiah

33. With a bit of sass

35. Present decoration

38. Option at the deli counter

40. With 41-Down, essay in which Virginia Woolf asserts that women need privacy and independence in order to write fiction

41. See 40-Down

44. Genre for Miriam Makeba or Angélique Kidjo

46. Publication that covers exhibitions and gallery openings

49. Functions

50. "Candyman" director DaCosta

51. Something next to a trap?

56. Helpful item for washing a car

57. North Carolina university that bears no relation to the billionaire of the same name

58. Lou Gehrig's disease, for short

59. Poker prize

60. G.P.S. suggestion

62. Medication-approving agcy.

63. Piece of advice

64. Abbr. that begins the names of Royal Navy vessels

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