Word after "fine" or "applied" Crossword Clue

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Word after "fine" or "applied" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

APPLIED (adjective)
1. concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles
WORD (noun)
1. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
2. information about recent and important events
WORD (verb)
1. put into words or an expression

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More USA Today Crossword (7/5/2026) Answers

Across

1. Where "The Late Late Show" aired

4. With 58-Down, nickname for a crustacean that resembles an abominable snowman

8. "Finally done!"

13. ___ spot (touchy subject)

14. Dutch cheese

15. Employee's compensation

16. Stay with a host of hosts, say

18. Worshipped ones

19. Big Japanese dogs

20. Frosted ___ (spiked hairstyle)

22. Golf peg

23. Recycling container

24. Podcaster's need

26. Squirrel's snack

27. Completed the Badwater Ultramarathon, say

28. Casual meeting?

30. Momofuku specialty

32. Vinyl record shape

33. Musical performance with a libretto

35. Currency in Nepal

36. "Sleep tight!"

39. "Run it back"

41. Class that isn't hard to pass

42. Lacking heat

43. Passport mark

45. Drains of energy

49. Soapmaking ingredient

50. As well

51. Supporting

53. Cube used in tabletop games

54. Six-pack units

55. Channel for Mina Kimes

57. Four-player trick-taking game

59. "Call" or "fold" alternative

61. Series of wins

63. ___ Day ("American Idiot" band)

64. Goals

66. Joan Didion piece in "The White Album"

67. Group of three

68. Wasp's friendlier cousin

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Down

1. Treat sometimes dunked in milk

2. Boston NHL team

3. Breakaway group

4. 'You betcha!'

5. End of Vanderbilt's URL

6. Sour

7. "Not to worry"

8. "The ___ You Can't Resist"

9. Owned

10. Vanity-driven "journeys"

11. Launch, like a new album

12. Magazine with an annual music festival

13. Scrape protectors

17. Spider-___ (Peter Porker's alias)

21. Many a dad joke

25. What shouldn't be put before the horse

29. "America's Got Talent" personality Mandel

31. Titular Tyler Perry character

32. “The Three Musketeers” author

34. Write, formally

35. X-___

36. "OMG, literally me also"

37. Highway entrance

38. Coffee drink in a Sabrina Carpenter song

39. On the loose

40. Places to be out for drinks?

43. Distress signal

44. Tall piece of headwear

46. Stick

47. Download illegally

48. Searches for

50. Wee

52. Not at home

56. Black, in French

58. See 4-Across

60. Toadfish habitat

62. "You didn't have to share that detail"

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