Here are all of the NYT Crossword hints for April 21 2024 to help you finish it up!
By: Christine Mielke - Published:
Our NYT Crossword Hints for April 21, 2024 puzzle will help you move through the grid if you’ve found yourself stuck on a clue. The NYT Crossword is a daily crossword that tests solvers’ knowledge and vocabulary. It’s one of the most popular crosswords in the world, known for its challenging clues and clever wordplay. The puzzle is published in the print edition of the paper and is also available online.
NYT Crossword Hints, April 21, 2024
You’ll find hints for all of the crossword clues for the NYT Crossword on 4/21/24. The clues are listed below, and you can click/tap on a clue to go to its page for more detail, including definitions, but if you don’t want to be immediately spoiled, you can reveal letter by letter to still offer yourself more of a challenge before revealing the full solution.
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- 1A. Staff symbol
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- 6A. Items on the backs of some Jeeps
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- 13A. Test pilot's attire
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- 18A. Bedridden
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- 20A. Creditor, in legalese
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- 21A. Champion boxer Errol ___ Jr.
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- 22A. Once or twice
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- 23A. Like Mary Shelley when she wrote "Frankenstein"
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- 24A. Marketing expenditure
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- 25A. Bearing
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- 26A. Natural source of rubber
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- 27A. County that's home to the White Cliffs of Dover
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- 28A. 'Unimpressed'
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- 29A. Sheet under a tent
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- 30A. Sharp pain
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- 31A. Major vessel
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- 32A. Chinese ___ (bonsai choice)
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- 34A. Rhyme for "away" in "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
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- 35A. Agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre's org. in "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
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- 37A. No. on a résumé
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- 38A. Ewes' guys
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- 40A. "Invisible hand" subj.
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- 42A. Quattro e quattro
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- 44A. President during the Mexican-American War
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- 45A. Ice cream shop employee, e.g.
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- 47A. Shakespearean misanthrope
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- 51A. Small Southwestern birds of prey
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- 53A. "The Harlequin's Carnival" painter
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- 54A. Nickname for a British relative
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- 55A. Brouhahas
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- 56A. Buds
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- 59A. Ben who starred in Broadway's "Dear Evan Hansen"
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- 61A. Role for Michelle Williams in "The Fabelmans"
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- 65A. Wordle player's pride
- 66A. Who, me?
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- 67A. Partner ship?
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- 68A. Belief
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- 69A. "___ magic!"
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- 71A. Title pig of kids' TV
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- 74A. Schmear topper
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- 75A. Annoying bot
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- 79A. They have the Guinness distinction of Longest Running Fan Club for a Group
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- 80A. Work like the devil?
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- 84A. "Who, me?" response
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- 86A. Pixy Stix containers
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- 88A. Carpentry vise
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- 91A. ___-service
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- 92A. Percival of legend, for one
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- 93A. Mystical Buddhist text
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- 97A. Minecraft material
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- 98A. Cooper's tool
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- 100A. Folder flap
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- 102A. End of a sports movie, often
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- 103A. Advance
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- 104A. Block up
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- 105A. Some four-year degs.
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- 107A. Letters that sound out a sentence
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- 108A. First-rate
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- 109A. Playful hit
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- 111A. Speculative fiction subgenre that envisions a sustainable energy future
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- 115A. Limited number
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- 116A. Bitter-tasting salad ingredient
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- 119A. Fun facts
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- 120A. Sophisticated
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- 122A. Farm machine
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- 123A. French form of "Stephen"
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- 124A. Area 51 sighting
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- 125A. "C'mon, you'll love it!"
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- 126A. And ___ …
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- 127A. Celebration in late January or early February
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- 128A. Tweaks
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- 1D. Ascends with one's hands and feet
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- 2D. Escalade, e.g.
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- 3D. Blanks' opposite
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- 4D. Shangri-las
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- 5D. Hair of the dog
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- 6D. "See ya later!"
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- 7D. Not normal
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- 8D. Like beach towns in the winter
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- 9D. Cannes subject
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- 10D. Tennis great known as "The Punisher"
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- 11D. Former name of the electron
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- 12D. Ignore, as a shortcoming
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- 13D. Application fig.
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- 14D. Casio rival
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- 15D. Shore hazard
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- 16D. "That much is obvious"
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- 17D. Speeches with an 18-minute limit
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- 19D. Channel with on-air fund-raising
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- 21D. Mole, e.g
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- 33D. Taunt
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- 36D. Shout at an auction
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- 39D. 1916 battle site, with "the"
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- 41D. Boast
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- 43D. Blue-green
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- 44D. Hypothesize
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- 46D. City on the Arno
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- 48D. Taking the place (of)
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- 49D. "Here's looking at you, kid"?
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- 50D. Like old audiobooks
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- 52D. Why some app users check their notifications constantly, for short
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- 56D. Several CBS dramas
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- 57D. Link letters
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- 58D. __ Major
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- 59D. Classroom surprise
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- 60D. Passage of a planet across a star, e.g.
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- 62D. Noted export of Portugal
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- 63D. Common field trip destinations
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- 64D. "Need You Tonight" band, 1987
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- 70D. Blubber
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- 72D. Stew tidbit
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- 73D. E.M.T.'s technique
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- 76D. One-named singer on 1998's "Ghetto Supastar"
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- 77D. "Distracted boyfriend," e.g.
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- 78D. One of Eleven's powers on "Stranger Things"
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- 81D. __ milk
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- 82D. Gift on the seventh day of Christmas
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- 83D. Mr. Burns supposedly received the second one ever on "The Simpsons": Abbr.
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- 85D. What Tom and Daisy embody in "The Great Gatsby"
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- 87D. Gift for an aspiring conductor
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- 88D. Last name in late-night
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- 89D. Ol' Blue Eyes, e.g.
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- 90D. Quadrennial occurrence
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- 94D. District attorney-turned-Batman foe
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- 95D. Ethylene gas, to tomatoes
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- 96D. Key components
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- 98D. Some batteries
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- 99D. Ginormous
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- 101D. ___ choy
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- 105D. Throw in the towel
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- 106D. Didn't save
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- 110D. Appliance that may self-clean
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- 112D. Renaissance instrument
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- 113D. ___ Reader
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- 114D. Kind of tradition
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- 117D. N.Y.S.E. debut
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- 118D. Afore
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- 120D. Letters on the Saturn V rocket
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- 121D. Protester's word
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