What may precede “Stay” Crossword Clue

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What may precede “Stay” Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. work or act as a baby-sitter
2. show to a seat; assign a seat for

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PRECEDE (verb)
1. be earlier in time; go back further
2. move ahead (of others) in time or space
STAY (verb)
1. hang on during a trial of endurance
2. stay the same; remain in a certain state
STAY (noun)
1. the state of inactivity following an interruption
2. a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
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More New Yorker Crossword (10/21/2025) Answers

Across

1. Sweet pea and sugarplum, e.g.

9. Trampled (on)

13. Stunt performer

15. “___ Man” (1984 cult classic)

16. Meeting point?

18. Like this clue's number

19. Picked up, in Britain

20. Taking home

22. Rapper ___ the Funky Homosapien

23. Somme summers

25. “That offer is laughable”

26. Arteries’ counterparts

28. Region home to Manhattan Beach and Newport Beach but not Manhattan or Newport, familiarly

30. Michelle ___ West (winner of five L.P.G.A. events)

31. Potentate

33. Sound of the Northwest

35. Citation phrase

37. Detective Jake played by Andy Samberg, on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”

41. Birth-related

43. Settled as a debt

44. 'However,' in a text

47. Fictional journalist from the “glorious nation of Kazakhstan”

49. Money-transfer app often used as a verb

50. Over there quaintly

52. Either of the title boys in a nineties Nickelodeon show

54. Hoped-for response to a request

55. Family-friendly features

57. Cosmetics powerhouse

59. Terse confirmation

60. Twisted sucker

63. Epitome of smoothness

64. What fashions and fads do

65. Golfer's pocketful

66. TV show based on a series of ads for NBC Sports

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Down

1. Smartphone predecessor: Abbr.

2. Asset for a birder, fittingly

3. Natural border on a mountain

4. 99 Luftballons singer

5. Sticker applied by a boxer

6. Signified

7. Messages with R.S.V.P. links

9. Style

10. Pan, e.g.

11. Creator of ChatGPT

12. Small hardware connector

14. Greta who starred in “Past Lives”

17. Person with talent

21. Therapeutic technique used in psychodrama to encourage empathy

22. Some bootlegged media

24. Saturate

27. Palindromic bread

29. Word with suction or sippy

32. Noisy weather events, for short

34. It’s often clear and sticky

36. Stick in a lock

38. What whistles may be attached to

39. Delays

40. Fusses

42. Trip around a track

44. One at a keyboard

45. Place in a real bind?

46. In the database

48. “I’m dying of suspense!”

51. Floppy __

53. Played (with)

56. [Error not mine]

58. Volcano said to be the site of Hephaestus’ forge

61. Fate

62. Concert-venue cheer

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