You need 10 for a first down Crossword Clue

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You need 10 for a first down Crossword Answer

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DOWN (noun)
1. English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
2. soft fine feathers
DOWN (adjective)
1. understood perfectly
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
DOWN (adverb)
1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
DOWN (verb)
1. eat up completely, as with great appetite
2. cause to come or go down
NEED (verb)
1. have need of
2. require as useful, just, or proper
NEED (noun)
1. anything that is necessary but lacking
2. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

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More USA Today Crossword (10/25/2026) Answers

Across

6. Start to matter?

10. "Right now!"

14. Social event you hope to get out of?

16. State home to the first Arby's and Wendy's

17. "Now, that's some good thinking!"

18. "Good Grief" singer-songwriter Bareilles

19. They're often heading for the hills

20. Shifted down on the sofa

22. "Breaking Bad" network

24. "Just a ___!"

26. Like a raucous cafeteria

27. Starting squad

29. Makes one's room look somewhat inhabitable, say

32. Quad site

34. Muscat's country

35. Plopped down

38. Some locks

40. Give someone a ring, say

42. National Poetry Slam champion Beau

43. "See you around!"

45. Spend an evening at home playing video games, say

46. Mexican dish named for its boatlike shape

49. Slowly eat into

50. Praline morsel

52. Many an Uncrustables sandwich

54. Song for two

55. Mingling with

58. Song for one singer

60. Extol

61. "Frankly . . ."

66. "I call dibs!"

67. "Don't even TRY to test me!"

68. Inc., in England

69. Payment in Monopoly

70. Hangs in the balance

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Down

1. Tree that sounds like a pronoun

2. Baseball bat wood

3. Record label for Shakira

4. Restrictions to cellphone use

5. Reach across

6. Up and about

7. Agree silently

8. Low digits?

9. Desktop Apple product

10. "Leaving already?"

11. "Couldn't be more on-brand!"

12. Buenos ___

13. Sycophant

15. Docs that treat vertigo

21. Hardly versatile

22. Console for Adventure gaming?

23. Social media profile with funny images

25. Big cheese

27. Makes a move

28. Title character in "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," e.g.

30. Volume booster

31. Besmirches

33. Wax job?

36. "Step ___!"

37. Core value

39. "Rugrats" dad who once made chocolate pudding at 4 a.m.

41. "Sorry about that!"

44. CapCut or Threads, e.g.

47. Even-___ (fair)

48. Away

50. Tree in an oasis

51. Inbox delivery

53. Legend in the music industry?

56. Hullabaloo

57. Scholarly volume

59. Roller coaster part that pulls Gs

62. Recycling container

63. That's quite a stretch!

64. Ground cover

65. QB's successes

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