Metaphor for something messy or complicated Crossword Clue

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COMPLICATED (adjective)
1. difficult to analyze or understand
METAPHOR (noun)
1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

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More New Yorker Crossword (7/22/2025) Answers

Across

1. Three of a kind, in poker slang

6. "___ boy!"

9. Paramour

14. Description of what happened

15. Licenses, etc.

16. Tantalizing smell

17. "It matters to me"

18. Nickname for a white-coat wearer

19. Implied

20. Before being retired, they were frequently re-tired

23. No worries

24. Member of a “Star Trek” race whose home world has a sister planet named Remus

25. Vast time span, in Britain

26. Ingredient in many dispensary products, briefly

28. Diplomatic, perhaps

29. “The ___” (TV show with a “Generation Q” sequel)

31. Stunned states

32. Source of joy for an autistic person

37. Out of this world?

38. Contact, in a way

39. Authored

41. Winter clock setting in D.C.

42. Cookie mogul Wally

46. Skier’s final attempt

48. Patio relative

50. … never mind then

52. ___ León (Mexican state)

53. Indefinite article in Spanish

54. Celebrity chef Hall

55. Word that can refer to a West African oral historian or a Haitian pork dish

56. Component of pewter

57. One side of some contract negotiations

58. '. . . if that makes ___'

59. ___ be an honor

60. Contacts, in a way

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Down

1. Activity that might include a music round

2. Rattle off

3. Retort to a doubter

4. Singer with the 1967 album “Hello, I’m Dolly”

5. Give a talk

6. Place to lie low

7. Trash-can emanation

8. Trash-can-dwelling Muppet

9. Recently manufactured

10. Prophetic

11. Say aloud

12. Kuwait and Sharjah, for two

21. See 47-Down

22. Regular sight for a New York City subway rider

27. Embezzlement, e.g.

29. Bit of writing on a record sleeve

30. Polymer with a helical shape

32. Small trees

33. “How can any deny themselves the ___ of my company! It’s beyond me”: Zora Neale Hurston

34. Genius, so to speak

35. Hundredths of a peso

36. ___ test (procedure to assess immunity levels)

40. FLOP

42. Mysterious to all but a few

43. Mathematical array written in square brackets

44. Spotted wildcat

45. Coupe alternatives

47. With 21-Down, “Doctor Who” and “Sex Education” star

49. Edit for a new release, as a movie

51. “Gonna do that right now!”

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