What-___ (hypotheticals) Crossword Clue

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Across

1. Flower whose name ends with a metal

9. Elevation

15. Spelling rule disobeyed by 9-Across

16. Uninterrupted by commercials

17. Only on the menu during a certain part of the year

18. Start of the workday for some office jobs

19. For ___ times’ sake

20. Inferno author

22. “Little darlin’ / It ___ like years since it’s been here” (Beatles lyric)

23. Nonhuman social-media presences

24. Movies, informally

26. Trigonometric function whose reciprocal is secant

29. Fragments

30. One-named singer of “Skyfall” and “Easy on Me”

31. Dead-end streets

34. ___ I.D. (T.S.A.-approved document)

35. Things metaphorically crossed during a misunderstanding

36. Side that’s often cabbage-based

37. The “E” in E.T.A.

39. Sacred building in Islam

40. ___ pajamas (garments that cover the toes)

41. “I beg your ___?”

42. Unit of time that contains all the letters in “unit”

43. Small horse

44. ___ bear (apex predator of the Arctic)

45. Horses’ fathers

47. “I like the cut of your ___”

50. Decouple

52. In the same boat as others

54. Counterpart of mono, in audio recordings

55. Toll road

56. Torn to ___

57. Long voyages, like the one in a 2026 Christopher Nolan blockbuster

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Down

1. Paste in a Japanese soup

2. Brother of Cain

3. Devour “The Grapes of Wrath,” say

5. “Funny joke!”

6. Elaborately decorated

7. Tilts

8. Shoulder muscle, briefly

9. “Star Wars” character Solo

10. Stately building

11. Should the need arise

12. First course with feta and Kalamata olives

13. Gets well

14. One-named singer of “Free Mind” and “What You Need”

21. Submitted a tax return online

23. Person who might gain more net worth in an hour than the median U.S. worker earns in a year

25. Energy-efficient bulbs

26. Give a damn

27. Lyrical homages

28. One assigned to occupy an empty chair during an awards show

29. Make the consistency of baby food

31. Listings on a performer’s tour schedule

32. Mexican tourist destination, familiarly

33. Graceful waterbird

35. Unit of power for 25-Down

38. Grieved

39. People from Topeka or Wichita

41. Art form that includes haiku and sonnets

42. One of twelve in a year

43. Far from ashamed

44. ___ in Boots (cat in the “Shrek” universe)

46. Passionate about

47. ___ de vivre

48. Like pen smudges

49. Hive dwellers

51. M.M.A. endings

53. Full albums on vinyl, for short

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