Playing for ___ (not messing around) Crossword Clue

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Playing for ___ (not messing around) Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

PLAYING (noun)
1. the performance of a part or role in a drama
2. the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
AROUND (adverb)
1. used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
2. in or to a reversed position or direction

Hint 2: Anagram

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More Missing Letter Crossword (8/9/2025) Answers

Across

1. NOUN: "a fast-growing Asian vine (Pueraria montana) of the legume family that is used for forage and erosion control"

6. NOUN: "any of various herons that bear long plumes during the breeding season"

7. Clumsy type

10. Put a big smile on the face of

11. Sassy waitress on "Alice"

12. NOUN: "a member of an Indigenous people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico"

13. VERB: "to put away for future use"

14. They issue nine-digit IDs

15. NOUN: "a precious stone"

16. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "capital of Ecuador, located on a fertile plateau just south of the Equator"

18. NOUN: "the short thick digit of the human hand that is analogous in position to the big toe and differs from the other fingers in having only two phalanges, allowing greater freedom of movement, and being opposable to each of them"

20. NOUN: "1,048,576 bytes"

23. VERB: "to express deep sorrow for usually by shedding tears"

24. VERB: "to convey to another"

25. NOUN: "intense and usually openly displayed anger"

26. NOUN: "cloth made of flax and noted for its strength, coolness, and luster"

27. COMBINING FORM: "guest; foreigner"

28. Steffi's husband and tennis partner

29. NOUN: "something on which something else is established"

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2. Jamaican fruits

3. NOUN: "a person given to often excessively emotional performances or reactions"

4. NOUN: "the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet"

5. Sport-___ (vehicle for outdoorsy types)

7. IDIOM: "not decided or certain about something"

8. NOUN: "any of a large genus...of succulent chiefly southern African plants"

9. NOUN: "a cock or hen of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus)"

13. Where a movie is made

15. I like the cut of your ___

17. NOUN: "an official in a sport who rules on plays"

18. Candy bar that becomes a breakfast cereal if you change its second letter

19. ADVERB: "at this place"

21. Roberta Flack's "The First Time ___ Saw Your Face"

22. Trait carriers

24. Actress Gershon or Rodriguez

26. Mad scientist's workspace

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