Opposite of follow Crossword Clue

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Opposite of follow Crossword Answer

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LEAD

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(verb)
1. be earlier in time; go back further
2. move ahead (of others) in time or space

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

OPPOSITE (adverb)
1. directly facing each other
OPPOSITE (adjective)
1. characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
2. of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
OPPOSITE (noun)
1. a contestant that you are matched against
2. a relation of direct opposition
FOLLOW (verb)
1. be later in time
2. follow in or as if in pursuit

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

LEAD
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More NYT Crossword (4/10/2025) Answers

Across

1. Bub

4. Rapper with back-to-back triple-platinum albums in 2000 and 2001

10. Meas. that becomes a third of its size if its second letter is removed

14. Hundredths of a Swedish krona

15. It might drip onto an urban sidewalk, informally

16. What a spooked horse might do

17. "To ___ is human, but it feels divine": Mae West

18. Shoveling?

20. Show-stopping device

22. Godmother in Guatemala, perhaps

23. Space for venting?

24. Martini?

28. Ancient speakers of Nahuatl

29. Tie score ender

30. Steamed

31. Country known as the "Land of a Million Elephants"

32. Ear piece?

34. Farm mother

35. Bandito?

39. Letters aptly missing from "d_ _a_ state"

42. Like many an atrium

43. Button often pressed moments before noticing a typo

46. Mound stat

47. Limo passenger, perhaps

48. Following

49. Sublet?

53. Reversal

54. Fair-hiring inits. since 1964

55. Some victories, for short

57. Rockette?

61. Parisian boulevard

62. Ursula's lackeys in "The Little Mermaid"

63. Cry of joy

64. "What's the ___?"

65. Jet stream direction

66. 'my bad'

67. ___ E. King, "Stand by Me" singer

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Down

1. ___ Hennessy Louis Vuitton, French luxury goods holding company

2. What a car service might await

3. Corona o Dos Equis

4. Jacksonville N.F.L. player, familiarly

5. Vinegary

6. Testy chance encounter

7. Remove some metadata from, on social media

8. Diminutive, diminutively

9. Bastille Day season

10. Gospel

11. It might be pushed back by "just one more story"

12. Michigan city in Simon & Garfunkel's "America"

19. It dissolves in H2O

21. Good way to come out

25. Member of the South Asian diaspora

26. Tabloid talk show host Povich

27. International grocery chain founded in Germany

32. Moves in a left-left-right-right footstep pattern

33. Norse god of war

36. Brand that rhymes with what it helps remove

37. Internet equivalent of an R rating

38. Understand?

39. Asylum seeker

40. Country whose name comes from the Latin phrase for "Red Sea"

41. Cars with clutches

44. Act of pleasant stress relief

45. Titular solver of many a medical mystery in 2000s TV

47. ___ diagram

48. Hebrew for "My Lord"

50. Grain milled into flour

51. Fabled storyteller

52. Gets warmer

56. In view

58. Well, well, well!

59. Rock's ___ Fighters

60. New do hue?

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