"Why ___ the chicken cross the road?" Crossword Clue

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"Why ___ the chicken cross the road?" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

ROAD (noun)
1. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
2. a way or means to achieve something
CHICKEN (noun)
1. a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
2. a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
CHICKEN (adjective)
1. easily frightened

More NYT Midi Crossword (9/30/2026) Answers

Across

1. School stat

4. Gently apply

7. Hawaiian neckwear

8. Gardener's watering aid

9. Screw up

10. Like a tooth that's barely attached

11. To the ___ degree

12. "Baseball is 90% mental. The ___ half is physical" (quote attributed to Yogi Berra)

13. Whiskey barrel material

15. Org. with auditors

16. To the point

19. Signs, as an important document

20. "Only playing with you!"

22. Dessert slice that a Trivial Pursuit game token resembles

23. Big name in jeans

24. Muddy enclosure

25. Observed

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Down

1. Powell of 2025's "The Running Man"

2. Cheeky

3. Tabletop game with a plastic puck

4. Thingamajig

5. Not shy about speaking one's mind

6. Sudsy six-pack

8. Like a ghost pepper

10. Mischievous Norse god ... or a homophonic hint to the ends of 3- and 4-Down

14. Cooling appliances: Abbr.

16. Nurses, as some 6-Down

17. Absolute ___ (slang term for an exceptionally muscular person)

18. River in Egypt

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