You might say "Hmm" when something is this Crossword Clue

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(adjective)
1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
2. of the remaining member of a pair

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SOMETHING (noun)
1. An indeterminate or unknown event.
2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified.
MIGHT (noun)
1. physical strength

More NYT Crossword (1/17/2026) Answers

Across

1. Expressions of disbelief or exasperation

10. What "margarita" means in Spanish

15. Reputable, in a way

16. What Anora and Vanya do in 2024's "Anora"

17. Too late, say

18. Advocate for the political mobilization of the proletariat

19. People often manage with them, in brief

21. Toppings blended with ice cream

22. Anti-troll measure

23. Tchotchke

25. Protection from drops

26. With 27-Down, fateful time for a sorority pledge

28. City in Illinois's "Little Egypt" region

30. Demure

31. Plant with psychoactive leaves

32. Offload (on)

33. Famous monogram found backward in the alphabet

34. Tall and thin

35. Revel (in)

36. One of five in a typical big band

37. Archetypes

38. "All that really matters is if your rhymes was ___" (MF Doom lyric)

39. Artificially unsophisticated

41. Units for a high-resolution camera

43. Interval

46. Setups for some elaborate group pictures

47. Subject to careful appraisal

48. Lawyer’s assignment

49. Not budging

50. Ones running along a road

52. Bracket contents

53. Where someone's height may be stretched?

54. With 39-Down, pretentiously creative

55. What antiperspirants can prevent

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Down

1. Crude thing to drop, familiarly

2. Westernmost territory of the Netherlands

3. Board game with resources

4. Grandson of Eve

5. Many an attachment

6. ___ Carlos Jobim, father of the bossa nova

7. Made, as an easy basketball shot

8. Longest number writable in standard Roman numerals

9. Spy

10. Use a roller on, as a jacket

11. Digital assistant

12. In which opposites attract

13. Flashy taekwondo moves

14. Cravings

21. "All right," folksily

23. Super Mario ___

24. Eccentric

25. Cybersecurity assessment

27. See 26-Across

28. Worker who's the subject of the song "Sixteen Tons"

29. Cabin choice

31. Baby rhino

32. Part of the D.O.J.

33. So-called "Valley Isle"

34. Writer Lowry

36. Good marks?

37. Egg cream alternatives

39. See 54-Across

40. Quaint contraction

42. Gentlemen, jocularly

43. Korean barbecue rib dish

44. Greet hospitably at the door

45. Dough at a taquería

46. Servant in "The Handmaid's Tale"

48. Beloved, in Italian

50. Product with the additive zinc dithiophosphate

51. Like the weather in much of Equatorial Guinea

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