On one’s guard Crossword Clue

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On one’s guard Crossword Answer

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ALERT

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Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
2. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

GUARD (noun)
1. a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
2. the duty of serving as a sentry
GUARD (verb)
1. watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
2. protect against a challenge or attack
ONE (adjective)
1. (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
2. having the indivisible character of a unit
ONE (noun)
1. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
2. a single person or thing

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ALERT
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
AWRY

More WSJ Crossword (1/30/2025) Answers

Across

1. Monarchs, presidents, prime ministers, etc.

11. Letter after Oscar

15. Semisweet British biscuits

16. Full-range

17. Airs

18. Fast time

19. Makes out

20. Pop singer ___ Apollo

21. Appropriate

22. Flying into a rage

24. Comes by

28. Nondairy milk choice

29. Settled matter in wine tasting

30. Lot site scheduled for demolition?

33. Typical number of troubadours?

36. Down downtown, maybe

37. Take in

39. You can cast this

40. Screwdriver part

41. So last year

42. It may be trite and true

43. Like some tips

45. Oscar-winning role for Anthony Hopkins

50. Superman, e.g.

51. Research sites

52. Makeup of some ladders

56. Fan mag

57. Sticking out, in a way

59. End for who, what, when or how

60. Nothing to be afraid of

61. Excluding

62. Some Pilots, and a hint to five squares in this puzzle

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Down

1. Natl. economic stats

2. Italian bread, once

3. Fancy molding

4. They keep performers on their toes

5. Legal conclusion?

6. When shadows are shortest

7. Shrugged off

8. Aquafina alternative

9. Corp. makeover

10. What a phisher may be phishing for

11. Most likely to burn, perhaps

12. Wiped out

13. Eponymous fraudster Charles

14. Tlatelolco resident

21. Where Anna Leonowens taught

22. USO audience

23. Swell!

24. Flake

25. Vivacity

26. Digs in the woods, maybe

27. Time of your life?

31. Bourbon barrel material

32. Law in its earliest stage

33. Stabilizing agent

34. Keister in Leicester

35. Changed the locks?

37. Deliberately underestimate

38. No longer is

40. Like Narcissus

41. ___ favor

42. Insolent looks

44. Close again, as a purse

45. Greenish brown

46. Still in it

47. Front and back, at a golf course

48. She sits between Samuel and Brett

49. It may have locks on it

52. Popular Persian poet

53. Lena of "Alias"

54. What hot dogs do

55. Fractions of joules

57. Trivia host, maybe

58. Sign of a successful show

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