When a plane is due in, in brief Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain’s western Pyrenees
2. the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PLANE (noun)
1. a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
2. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
PLANE (verb)
1. travel on the surface of water
2. cut or remove with or as if with a plane
PLANE (adjective)
1. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
BRIEF (noun)
1. a document stating the facts and points of law of a client’s case
2. a condensed written summary or abstract
BRIEF (adjective)
1. (of clothing) very short
2. concise and succinct
BRIEF (verb)
1. give essential information to someone

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (8/26/2025) Answers

Across

1. Something tapped at a bar

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8. Go caroling, say

12. British weekly on business, politics and culture, with "The"

15. Devils' center, appropriately

16. Ones taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe

18. Stead

19. University just north of Harvard

20. Overall impact

22. Like drone photography

23. "Look here!"

24. Study of the mind, for short

29. Tavern owner who's often prank-called by Bart Simpson

31. Attire for a contemporary dancer

33. Source of a certain essential oil

37. R, as in a Rolls-Royce?

38. Hush-hush

39. What the shepherd heard, perhaps

40. Highest level of minor-league baseball

42. They spike during the holidays

43. Apt name for a socialite?

45. Some pre-streaming music purchases

47. Goose of Hawaii

48. Global movement to end violence against women

51. “That’s unbelievable!”

53. “That’s unbelievable!”

55. Fish that can burrow into the seabed

56. Subtle acknowledgment

57. Carpenter or plumber's kit

60. Fruit traditionally eaten with the fish it's named for

63. Toilette water

64. Like goods bought before they hit the shelves

65. Alternative to AOL

66. Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle

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1. Didn't tell, as a secret

2. Light beige

3. Blooper

4. Combatants in the Titanomachy

5. Teacher's pest

6. Former NPR host Hansen

7. In line with

8. Beginning of consciousness?

9. Group of elite colleges

10. Mother's daughter's daughter, perhaps

11. Largest human muscle, informally

13. Little fastener

14. Comic actor Jacques

17. Sailors

21. A&W specialties

22. Broadcasts

24. Where the sidewalk ends?

25. First-year legal student, informally

26. Donate

27. Like a good sharpshooter's hand

28. A la ___

30. Renewable gasoline additive

32. Anti-trafficking org.

33. ___ Hall ("The Wind in the Willows" residence)

34. Cry to a captor

35. Idyllic spot

36. Ultimatum word

41. ___ in the hole

44. Marilyn Monroe or Britney Spears

46. Cutlass, e.g.

48. Italian scooter brand

49. Darlings

50. Spot for cats and rats

52. "My gut says …"

54. Today, in Tijuana

56. What you'd expect when you're expecting?

57. Shot that made its N.B.A. debut in 1979, slangily

58. Big ___ (college conference)

59. Common sushi fish

61. Certain parent

62. Make a typo, say:

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