Like a birthday candle prior to your making a wish Crossword Clue

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(adjective)
1. set afire or burning
2. provided with artificial light
(noun)
1. the humanistic study of a body of literature

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MAKING (noun)
1. the act that results in something coming to be
2. an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something
BIRTHDAY (noun)
1. the date on which a person was born
2. an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)

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More NYT Crossword (1/14/2025) Answers

Across

1. Ruling from a tennis line judge

6. Spelled-out chant at the World Cup

9. Home for Shrek

14. For the first time …

15. ___ Beta Kappa

16. Signature Caitlin Clark shot, informally

17. One in charge of a sting operation?

19. Vessel in a slip

20. Individuals

21. It locks locks into place

22. Lead-in to rock or weekly

24. Absolute champion

29. Head off

31. Make good as new

32. Cheer after a gooooooal!

33. Poorly behaved child

35. Parks who sparked a bus boycott

36. Publicity hound

40. News of an alien landing, probably

41. "Milk's favorite cookie" brand

42. Barnyard sound

43. Challenge for a person drawing lots?

45. Piece of equipment seen at the Paralympics

48. Person often flirting with disaster

51. Response in the game of Battleship

52. Org. that helped phase out CFCs

53. Jost's "S.N.L." Weekend Update co-host

54. Hardy and Petty

55. Friend of Flower and Thumper

58. Game that ends when the snitch is caught … and whose positions end 17-, 24-, 36- and 48-Across

60. Handbill

61. Chilly remark?

62. Home of the Craters of the Moon National Monument

63. Bit of snow

64. Posed

65. Question after a joke bombs

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Down

1. Emphasized, textwise

2. Like the yellow polka dot bikini, in a 1960 #1 novelty song

3. Popular Thanksgiving item

4. Types

5. Scientific Bill

6. Word before deck or hand

7. Prominent part of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume

8. The "A" of A/C

9. Choices at salons

10. "I like this so much!"

11. __ de Triomphe

12. "I wasn't impressed"

13. Rescue animal, maybe

18. Quadruple award achievement, informally

22. Supports illegally, in a way

24. Small brown songbird

25. Liquid-Plumr alternative

26. Attempted

27. Gaelic language

28. Back end

30. TV host who got asked a lot of questions

33. Labor day event

34. Pseudonym in a landmark legal case

36. Cries of understanding

37. Cause for a lawsuit

38. Vissi darte opera

39. Qatari leader

44. Enemy of the Rebel Alliance

45. Tournament ranking

46. Korean fermented cabbage

47. Remark while fanning oneself, maybe

49. Integra maker

50. Polo e.g.

54. It washes a shore

55. Closest pal, informally

56. Not just some

57. Hamm of soccer fame

58. Ones trying not to be sacked, in brief

59. Fossil hunters' project

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