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The Emory Wheel

crossword answers 08.22.2025

ACROSS 

1. OTS - Extra pds. 

4. ASSENTS - Agrees 

11. FAD - Short-lived trend 

14. MOM - Labor member? 

15. PIONEER - Trailblaze 

16. IRE - Wrath 

17. EXACERBATES - Makes even worse 

19. RYE - Rueben bread 

20. GILLS - Where some take a breath 

21. AMT - Qty. 

22. NEAR - Close by 

23. ACLU - First Amendment org. 

24. ELAPSE - Pass, as time 

27. BATTLEROYALE - Fortnite, e.g. 

33. ADA - Mathematician Lovelace 

36. LAA - Angels, on a scoreboard 

37. MENTAL - Relating to the mind 

38. LILNASX - "Old Town Road" musician 

40. FATCELL - Adipocyte 

41. ARTIST - Easel user 

42. UNI - The end of 17, 27, 44, or 59 across, e.g., for short 

43. RAE - Singer Carly ___ Jepsen 

44. STICKERPRICE - Car starting point 

48. TEASER - Short trailer 

49. DAMS - Beavers' buildings 

53. HOUR - Eleventh ___ 

55. PEC - Chest muscle, for short 

57. MALIA - Sasha Obama's sister 

58. ODD - Strange 

59. FALSEMEMORY - Problem for a witness 

62. LIE - Be deceitful 

63. ATATROT - Moderately quickly 

64. HES - "For ___ a jolly ..." 

65. INS - Connections 

66. BEYONCE - "Cowboy Carter" singer 

67. ADO - "Much ___ About Nothing" 

DOWN 

1. OMEGA - Alphabetic watch brand 

2. TOXIC - Brittney Spears hit with an iconic strings intro 

3. SMALL - "It's a ___ world" 

4. APES - Gibbons, e.g. 

5. SIR - Knight's title 

6. SOBA - Japanese noodle 

7. ENAMEL - Canine's outer layer 

8. NETTLE - Stinging plant 

9. TEE - Baseball stand 

10. SRS - Class of ‘26, this yr. 

11. FIREEATER - Hot carnival performer 

12. ARYA - Stark played by Maisie Williams 

13. DEER - A few bucks 

18. CLUB - Bash 

22. NSYNC - Justin Timberlake's boy band 

25. ARMANI - Italian fashion brand 

26. POETIC - Beautifully worded 

28. ALASKA - Denali's state 

29. TASTES - Tries a bite of 

30. TAX - Payment to the IRS 

31. LALA - "___ Land" (2016 film) 

32. ELLE - French fashion magazine 

33. ALAS - Dramatic word of woe 

34. DIRT - Earth 

35. ALTITUDES - Heights 

39. NICER - More kind 

40. FUR - Canine's outer layer 

45. REPLAY - Ref's help on a challenge 

46. PRESTO - Magician's word 

47. EDAM - Dutch cheese 

50. ALOHA - Hawaiian hello 

51. MIRED - Bogged down 

52. SAYSO - 2019 Doja Cat hit 

53. HOLI - Spring Hindu festival 

54. ODIN - Thor's father 

56. CERN - Large Hadron Collider org. 

57. METE - Dole (out) 

59. FAB - "Rad" 

60. ATE - Consumed 

61. MOC - Soft shoe, for short