Purchase on an island? Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes
2. a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
(verb)
1. show off
2. attack with gas; subject to gas fumes

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PURCHASE (noun)
1. the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
2. a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage
PURCHASE (verb)
1. obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
ISLAND (noun)
1. a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
2. a zone or area resembling an island

Hint 3: Anagram

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AGS

More NYT Crossword (11/9/2024) Answers

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18. Domaine d'Agnès Varda

19. Making a car payment, dusting the living room, scheduling a doctor's appointment, etc.

21. Sea shrunk by Soviet siphoning

22. British sci-fi novelist McDonald

24. Place for a mind or a ball

25. Antacid brand

27. Wrinkle of time?

28. Moniker for 6'9" N.F.L. star Ed Jones

30. Behold, in Latin

31. It's a hole thing

34. Get hot and bothered

36. Work whose first installment spanned 352 pages and ended with "ant," in brief

37. Guinness of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

39. Fish in the flounder family

41. Like i, say

43. Professor Xavier's students, e.g.

47. Accomplish with precision

49. Character name in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Downton Abbey"

50. Of the land

52. Nearly-round figure

53. Falsify, in a way

54. Very short story?

58. With faculty

59. To-do following a business meeting

60. Unit equivalent to one-thousandth of an inch

61. Stadium section

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Down

1. Ride arranged on one's own

2. Mononymous baseball star who played 28 seasons professionally

3. Body-related

4. Pray in front of, as an altar

5. Abbr. in many French church names

6. Sin/cos

7. Letters before a handle

8. "King Lear" part

9. In knots

10. Something the floundering are said to be on

11. Party person

12. Height

13. "Per our negotiations ..."

15. Spill

20. Tyronn ___, N.B.A. champion as both player and coach

22. Modest reply to a compliment

23. So much cheaper than expected, say

26. Greek island south of Naxos

27. Accord alternative

29. What "tutti" means on scores

31. Producer of black-and-white footage?

32. Indian dish of potatoes and cauliflower

33. Landlord's register

35. Dirt road hazard

38. Deep and hoarse

40. Tex-mex casserole

42. Middle ___

44. Replace with a new contract, in legalese

45. Like scents and stencils

46. "___ Lot"

48. Creatures in God's third plague in Exodus

51. Musical counterpart of pizzicato

55. "___ geht's?" (German "How's it going?")

56. Shot one waits to knock back

57. 1975 TV debut, in brief

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