With 16-Across, author of “The Housemaid” Crossword Clue

We have the 6-letter answer for With 16-Across, author of “The Housemaid” crossword clue, last seen in the Vulture Crossword December 23, 2025 puzzle. This answer will help you finish the puzzle you’re working on.

With 16-Across, author of “The Housemaid” Crossword Answer

↓18.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definitions

HOUSEMAID (noun)
1. a female domestic
ACROSS (adverb)
1. transversely

Hint 2: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
FAIRED

More Vulture Crossword (12/23/2025) Answers

Across

1. Marge Simpson’s hairstyle

5. Bluey’s little sis

10. “___ Street” (Sinclair Lewis novel)

11. Hangry, perhaps

12. “Don’t go!” or “Don’t do it!”

13. Sat in traffic, say

14. Painter played by Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller in a 2022 biopic

16. See 18-Down

20. Important artery

21. Recede like the tide

24. Makes like Rip Van Winkle

26. Compete to win

27. Fish you can see at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

28. 20-seconds-on, 10-seconds-off workout format

30. Sturm ___ Drang

31. Uses Python or Perl

32. Ad with Smokey Bear, e.g.

33. “___ Lives” (2023 Celine Song film)

All Answers

Down

1. Tennis official, for short

2. Coach Beard, to Ted Lasso

3. “A Good Day to ___ Hard”

4. Out with a hottie

5. Play with LEGOs, say

6. Film shown at Sundance

7. Group that includes Falcons and Eagles

8. Well I'll be!

9. “The Fairly ___Parents”

15. Change with the times

16. Prepare to perform surgery, in a way

17. Punctuation in many franchise movie titles

19. Where Bryce Harper and Andre Agassi were born

22. Mouthfuls

23. Disney character who sings “If I Can’t Love Her”

25. ___ fly (baseball strategy, for short)

29. Pretty much any Janet Jackson song, for example

All Answers