"How will we ever get out of this mess?" Crossword Clue

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"How will we ever get out of this mess?" Crossword Answer

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EVER (adverb)
1. at all times; all the time and on every occasion
2. (intensifier for adjectives) very

More NYT Crossword (2/12/2025) Answers

Across

1. Mineral that shimmers

5. Bat around, as a kitten might

10. Composer Stravinsky

14. Like much graffiti: Abbr.

15. Belittle

16. Emperor named an enemy of the state in A.D. 68

17. Not admit

18. Aboveboard

19. Neighbor of Indonesia, on a Risk board

20. The

23. Knocked off

24. City that was a rival of ancient Sparta

25. Big mo. for eggnog sales

26. Cover story

29. Lee who directed "Gemini Man"

30. Talks frankly

36. Screen play?

37. Singsong refrain

38. Heating pad target

39. Lead-in to -gram or -graph

40. Pep rally cry

41. Cousin of Inc.

43. Doll who debuted in swim trunks

44. Success against all odds

48. Either of two for Mozart's Queen of the Night

49. Take that!

52. Flowing slowly

53. "Should that happen …"

57. Builders of 25,000+ miles of roads in South America

59. TV's DeGeneres

60. With 63-Across, where some journalism is located ... or how to interpret the ends of 20-, 30- and 44-Across vis-à-vis the shaded squares

63. See 60 Across

65. Exhaustion from work

66. Without much hope

67. Green sauces

68. Features of coins which make them harder to counterfeit

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Down

1. Road safety org.

2. "___ to Know" (1999 Marc Anthony hit)

3. Tells private things

5. Satirist Michael

6. Drive for, maybe

7. ___ gap

8. It's east of the Urals

9. Half of octo-

10. Presidential seal, for one

11. Lizard mascot with a Cockney accent

12. Some campus grilling events?

13. Spanish Steps locale

21. Small cut

22. Where a wedge may be used

26. Not to go

27. ___ flash

28. When to wave the white flag

30. Guideline, in brief

31. Big ___ (longtime Red Sox nickname)

32. Some looks into space

33. ___ cap

34. Sole one-named Best Actress Oscar winner

35. Wee

40. One leg curl, e.g.

42. CBS drama for 15 seasons

45. Realms

46. Ka ___ (southernmost point in the U.S.)

47. Sign of a hound's happiness

49. Kind of lettuce

50. Top

51. Shade in a barren landscape

54. Undependable sort

55. Gives up the goods?

56. "Above us ___ sky" ("Imagine" lyric)

58. Pesky little brat

59. Observed

61. Pop music's Wham! or Erasure

62. Email signs

63. Inexpensive beer, informally

64. Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala ___

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