Word used to describe wit or wine Crossword Clue

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Word used to describe wit or wine Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. become dry or drier
2. remove the moisture from and make dry
(noun)
1. a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
(adjective)
1. lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
2. humorously sarcastic or mocking

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DESCRIBE (verb)
1. give a description of
2. identify as in botany or biology, for example
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

More New Yorker Crossword (1/7/2026) Answers

Across

1. Buddy

4. Little quarrel

8. Washboard ___ (well-defined core muscles)

11. Vows exchanged at the altar

13. “Well, ___ you look at the time!”

15. Baby's bed

17. Square root of eighty-one

18. Deed holder

19. Song

20. “We shook on it, and that’s all there is to it”

23. Government org. headquartered in Langley, Va.

24. Part of an airport where a plane might wait to depart

25. Least wild

27. Total clown

28. Express disapproval toward, as a referee

32. Nuts and ___

33. Looked up using a certain search engine

35. Be overrun (with)

36. “I could have predicted that”

40. Goes (for)

41. Playground fixtures that go up and down

42. Stools and chairs, for example

44. __ drum

45. Like votes represented in blue on U.S. election maps, for short

48. Baseball goofs

50. Make safe

52. Mouth piece?

53. Speech that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered at the 1963 March on Washington

57. Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan

59. Vast body of water

60. Additionally

61. Building that might have a hayloft

62. Place for a bracelet

63. Oktoberfest beverage

64. Government org. that employs cybersecurity experts

65. One-named Irish singer

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1. Item that’s a smash hit at a birthday party?

2. Athletic-apparel company with a three-stripe logo

3. Solitary types

4. Tall order at an ice-cream parlor?

5. Neighbor of Nebraska

6. Provide money for

7. Skedaddle

8. Make a scene?

9. Martial-arts icon who starred in “Enter the Dragon”

10. Evil

12. Stitched line

14. Fiddlesticks!

16. "I dunno ... "

21. ___ of love

22. Dog breed with a chocolate color, informally

26. Cousins of butterflies

29. Beasts in some fairy tales

30. Extraterrestrial

31. Thompson who plays Bianca in the “Creed” movies

33. Get-up-and-go

34. Beginning of a Christmas wish list

36. Rhinoplasty, familiarly

37. Adam Sandler “S.N.L” character who delivered the news in the form of arias

38. Franchise set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”

39. Woolen suit fabric

43. ___ Lanka

45. Fought like Hamilton and Burr

46. One end of a pencil, typically

47. Computer’s temporary-storage capacity

49. Sitcom, e.g.

51. Crustacean that walks sideways

54. Unit of land measurement

55. Artery counterpart

56. Piece of cake!

58. Genetic-code carrier used in some modern vaccines

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