Answers to 48 Hardest Clues
Below are the answers to what I consider to be the 48 hardest clues in what I consider to be the hardest New York Times crossword puzzle ever
published (at least since 1972).
If you don't know how you got here, go here first.
- If you're sure you don't want to work
the puzzle, go ahead and scroll down to see them.
- But before you do, see the sidebar at right about the single most baffling clue, not listed below, that I found in the Hardest NYT puzzle,
and what happened about it.
- And while you're on that subject, read
more about this whole puzzle from someone whose opinion is better-informed than mine.
| Levantine coffee cup |
ZARF |
| Coloratura Mills |
ERIE |
| Vale of ----- |
TEMPE |
| Lavabo |
RITE |
| Hills |
MOTES |
| Midianite ruler |
EVI |
| Oswego tea |
BALM |
| Direction from Levine |
ARIOSO |
| Defunct Russian parliament |
DUMA |
| Prada offering |
ARTE |
| Beanie |
DINK |
| He was: Lat. |
ERAT |
| Kepi part |
VISOR |
| The Cornish Wonder |
OPIE |
| Trammel of baseball |
ALAN |
| Catfish |
DORAS |
| English river |
NENE |
| Georgian Aryan |
OSSET |
| Thessaly peak |
OSSA |
| Rigoletto's forte |
JEST |
| Leaflet-base appendage |
STIPEL |
| Buddhist sect |
BRUNEI |
| Schoenberg's "Moses und -----" |
ARON |
| High fashion |
TON |
| He played Big Daddy |
IVES |
| Abstract being |
ENS |
| Japanese kombu ingredient |
KELP |
| Annuli |
RINGS |
| Father of King Hadad: Gen. 36:35 |
BEDAD |
| He, in Tarantao |
ESSO |
| Dispatch boat |
AVISO |
| Great Wall town |
LINYU |
| A U.N. member: Var. |
KATAR |
| The raisin capital of the world |
FRESNO |
| Remnants, in Roma |
RESTI |
| Author of "The Augustan Ages" |
ELTON |
| Honshu port |
KOBE |
| Cubiti |
ULNAS |
| Portuguese dollar |
ESCUDO |
| Rosary bead |
AVE |
| Eastern Roman |
ZENO |
| Roman family group |
GENS |
| Poetry of a people |
EPOS |
| Sights on the Atl. |
STRS |
| One-man shows |
SOLI |
| City having a casbah |
ORAN |
| Ancient wall word |
MENE |
| Have, in Haddington |
HAE |
How many of these 48 hardest clue-and-answer relationships in this Hardest
NYT puzzle did you get right?
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Trilbies
The clue that used up pretty much all of my day after Christmas in 1987, a day I should have been outside playing with my new sled, was 13-Down.
The clue for 13-Down is the single word "Trilbies," and the answer is FEET.
Do you know why that answer is right? I didn't until January of 1999, over a decade later, when I got help from people who stumbled onto this page
and researched the question. Ain't the Internet grand? I'm now quite sure their
explanation about trilbies is correct.
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