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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