*Fruit whose name is also a synonym for a grouch Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms
2. any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

GROUCH (verb)
1. show one’s unhappiness or critical attitude
GROUCH (noun)
1. a bad-tempered person
SYNONYM (noun)
1. two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context

More NYT Crossword (7/1/2025) Answers

Across

1. Potato chip, to Brits

6. Boxing call, informally

9. Award you can wear

14. Tower of ___ (mathematical puzzle with disks)

15. Cash in Kyoto

16. Deliver a TED talk, say

17. "Stop!," during roughhousing

18. Something found in a plum, but not a pear

19. Situated long-term

20. *Most "wasabi" at sushi bars, in actuality

24. Said "speaking of which," say

27. Held office

31. Take a seat unceremoniously, with "down"

32. Hoagie

35. Contest before a final, informally

36. Bathroom, to Brits

37. Handle, as a tough piece of information

41. Domain suffix that most civilians can't register

42. "___ a free country"

43. Omnivorous fish of the Amazon

44. Info from someone who's on the way

45. Like Nickelodeon's Mutant Ninja Turtles

47. Widens, as a pupil

49. Make yawn, say

50. Concluding part

51. Electronically produced echo effect

53. "Fine, I guess"

55. Ripped

56. "Dead serious," in modern lingo

58. __ of the valley

60. Rapper ___ Sweatshirt

61. Bring together

62. Pacify

63. Counterpart of Dreyer's east of the Rockies

64. Actress Thompson of "Selma" and "Creed"

65. Powdered sugar, for a gingerbread house

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Down

1. Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. ___

2. 1985 Kurosawa epic that is a retelling of "King Lear"

3. Creep (along)

4. Beverage holder that's typically red

5. Capital of South Dakota

6. Characteristically laid-back

7. Actress Knightley

8. Dispensed from a keg

9. Like some homes and phones

10. Items on a blackboard tray

11. Recipe smidgen, as of salt

12. Supped

13. Was ahead in a race

21. Down

22. They result in two baseball outs, for short

24. Divorce

25. Mexican dish of corn on the cob with toppings

26. *Fruit from a bush, much used in pies and jams

28. Like the foods that answer the starred clues, despite how their names start

29. Be overdramatic

30. High-maintenance stars

32. Ticked off

33. "Gattaca" co-star Thurman

34. Word after wedding or rubber

37. Tire on the back of a jeep

38. *Little tuber used to make Spanish horchata

39. *Garbanzo, by another name

40. Heavenly headwear

46. "Great Expectations" and "The Great Gatsby," for two

48. Grown-ups

51. There might be a fork in it

52. Barbecue discard

53. "Overnight" breakfast option

54. Muppet who posts on social media in the third person

55. Stand next to a club?

57. Gender prefix

59. Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun

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