Rule the ___ Crossword Clue

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Rule the ___ Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. sit, as on a branch
2. settle down or stay, as if on a roost
(noun)
1. a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
2. a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds

Hint 2: Clue Definition

RULE (noun)
1. (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice
2. measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
RULE (verb)
1. exercise authority over; as of nations
2. decide with authority

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More LA Times Crossword (8/6/2025) Answers

Across

1. Huge volume?

5. Animated pic

8. Model Delevingne

12. Cameo shape

13. Obama-era legislation, for short

14. Canary melon kin

16. Professional who makes a lot of scents?

18. Lion or tiger

19. Pt. of some gender-affirming care

20. "The Circus" painter Georges

22. "The Elephants" painter Salvador

23. Puma rival

25. Professional who sniffs out crime?

27. Chorus section

29. Make the cut?

30. Novelist Patchett

31. Cape Cod Bay mammal

32. Mayberry boy

35. Donkeys

37. Professional who helps you breathe easy?

40. Dahi-based drink

43. Clarinet insert

44. Oklahoma city

48. Poet Limon

49. Mega Man platform letters

51. Like plants that grow at high elevations

53. Professional who stops to smell the rosés?

57. Cravat alternative

58. "You got that right!"

59. Color on the Qatari flag

61. Afore

62. Inspire 34-Down

64. Rhinoplasties, or an apt description of 16-, 25-, 37-, and 53-Across?

66. More treasured

67. "Kind of" suffix

68. Textbook section

69. Old-timey television feature

70. GPS approximation

71. Understands

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Down

1. Tall headgear

2. Supervise

3. Tennis great Hingis

4. Pixie

5. Ready to dive in

6. Get a winter coat?

7. Grain that may be cooked like risotto

8. Preserve

9. Off-mic comment

10. Open-sided shelters

11. Rock-clinging gastropod

14. Screened porch for an indoor pet

15. Sets straight

17. Former country that included five -stan countries, for short

21. Make a claim

24. Sugary drinks

26. Filing pros

28. La Tierra's star

33. Region in the Achaemenid Empire

34. Heated anger

36. Pedometer units

38. Request from an underprepared actor

39. Ore. neighbor

40. Endured

41. Covered in tinsel, maybe

42. Katana-wielding fighter

45. "You nailed it!"

46. Circling

47. Loathes

50. Bull on a glue bottle

52. Pool division

54. "The Stiller and __ Show"

55. Bert's roommate

60. Dept. of Labor div.

63. Mani-pedi polish option

65. Instrument that might be played alongside spoons and a stovepipe

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